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Dear Parents,
How are you? I am fine. We really miss you. Sorry about sending you a letter late. Life here is hard; we all have faced many problems thru out the journey and in the colony such as diseases, religious rights, surviving, etc.
We left England to escape the persecution and moved to Netherlands, they welcomed us and let us practice our religion freely but our little kids, Ben and Hana have to learn the Dutch Language and Culture and we want them to learn our Culture and Language. So we went on to the Mayflower with more people to start a new colony where we can practice our Culture and Religion freely. The person in charge of the Mayflower was William Bradford. The journey was 2 months long. We had no problem on the ship; we had enough shelter and food and had a fun time during the journey. Although the journey was nice we also faced some difficulties with sea storms. We finally landed on Plymouth Rock. Over there it was we landed on heaven so we got on our knees and blessed the God of Heaven that he brought us here.
Well about the colony, we all struggled to build a colony and most of the people died form cold and sickness during the first winter. We faced many difficulties making the colony because we didn’t have skills so we made friends with English speaking Patuxet Indian named Squanto. The American Indians thought us how to farm, hunt, build shelter, and how to survive. When the colony was built we had already picked Captain Miles Standish to help organize the defense of our colony. Now life in the colony is better because we got more farming rights. Woman over here have more rights then they did in England. We also provide our kids with Education. Women generally cook, spun and wove wool, sewed, looked after the house, and take care of kids, as well as men do all the physical work.
Our expectations for the future are high. We are looking forward to more rights and defenses systems for the colony. Ok Mom and Dad, we really miss you.
Love
William Charles
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