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248 Whilin_ Family.
ancestors were Miles Standish, John Alden,*'
Robert Watson (who was a descendant of
John Rogers, the martyr), Richard Warren,
Robert Bartlett, Dea. John Cooper, Sarah
Bradford (sister of Gov. Bradford), Rev. J'ohn
Prince (rector of East Stafford, Berkshire
Eng.), John Oxenbridge, Rev. Peter Thacher
(of Old Sarum, Eng.), and Gov. Winslow.
The descendants of Miles Standish have
begun to erect a monument to his memory.
The following truthful and graphic sketch of
his life and character is from " The Boston
Daily Advertiser" of August i6th, I871 :--
"THE STANDISH MEMORIAL.
"To-morrow, at Duxbury, the ground for a
soldiers' monument is to be consecrated,--a
monument not to the men whom we knew,
whose faces we still miss, for whom hearts are
still aching; not to the heroes who died in our
war for the Union, but to one who lived an he-
See Longfellow's poem on Miles Standish's Courtship.