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Standish, Miles

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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One of the Puritan fathers, of Lancashire birth, and a cadet of a family of knightly rank in the county; served in the Netherlands as a soldier, and went to America in the Mayflower in 1620, and was helpful to the colony in its relations both with the Indians and the mother-country; is the hero of a poem of Longfellow's.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Standish, Miles'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​s/standish-miles.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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