1870 PILGRIMS SETTLE NEW ENGLAND. Unpublished MSs Poem by Presbtyerian, M. A. Depue. Evangelical My Bootmaker and I on

My Bootmaker and I on Modes of Baptism

When the poor and needy seek water

or he would likely not have been teaching at the College they ran together

and not oppress herself with too much labour

and I suppose this is tooting his "Horn" just a bit

1870 PILGRIMS SETTLE NEW ENGLAND. Unpublished MSs Poem by Presbtyerian, M. A. Depue. Evangelical My Bootmaker and I onA fine five stranza unpublished manuscript poem on the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in 1620. Written by Presbyterian divine, M. A. Depue [d. 1872], it seems likely to have been composed in 1870 as part of a Sesquicentennial celebration of the arrival of the Mayflower. Depue himself was a prominent Presbyterian who exercised his ministry during the Civil War, seemingly as a chaplain, and was then Assistant to the eminent John Gray at New