Mutiny

[novangla]

A man named Stephen Hopkins was my first ancestor to arrive on American shores. The family history mainly points to his trip over on the most famous of ships that landed on New England shores in 1620 and settled in the Plymouth Colony, where he ran a tavern side-business was chided for extortionist prices and letting his servants get too drunk,

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[bluestalking]

AHA you got your name change! I think the mutineers sound very sensible. I might look this book up.

[novangla]

It is good! Except that Jamestown, unlike my dear New England colonies, was a very gruesome place where people ate rats and their shoes and people-corpses and their wives and got skinned alive by Indians (though that was Ratcliffe-- whom you may remember as the Fat Douchey Antagonist from Disney's Pocahontas), and other Not Very Nice things.

Other than all that, though, it's been pretty good.