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it is tern' ?f oflice ?* Wili^ tliutiiislrate, a-fK he'* without an aasistunt, was ?! ?rt i!' i?U\>n.
tn >.?ur months anJ tweLty drv? the iiiiK- k'Iod>. April t>. 1621, vrs t.> i-nfo with i i;c who haj endearf-i unnivlf v every aet t.> a). ?arroUL'linr him. Tbt "Ki-od estat< In. bpi' iu Ko^lo^d was spent ii hil migration to ilollnud :.u3 America.? Hi bad rone band in band with ibe Fil grims t*. all their sorrows, borue the bee t and burden of the day when the neieasities of the situation called him from affairs cf state to work in the field foi the means to sustain life.
The Goyernor must fit sr. cm.ii'ple, Wad, not follow, is fi eat* n- ncio ^hicli were pressing ao hard upon them.
The fatal first sickness. ao much aa tie was part of It, waa telling seriously upon hi? strength. Work must be done, but the hands to do It were lessening, and those, left were weak and nerveless.
Whatever Got. Carver's pbyaical condition, ?he was one of the foremost in action, ,|Mtd bore a large ahare of the anfferings of ,Jtts colony.? Tine to his life record, his waa caused by overwork and exposure Is the fields, where, aide by side with the humblest of them all, the Governor bore his part, asking no exemption by virtue of _>ls office and age, and when the end came, stricken at his post, ?he was seized with that species of apoplexy which in advanced superinduced by great bodily fatigue t?n<J exertion.?
HIS BURIAL.
' .ii*0ov. Carver?s remains were consigned 4ft* <bo earth with all the affectionate so-rdnanlty which circtunstancea at that time ?JWMld permit, and with the discharge of . '?il thelr firearms."
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cri?vr, i>it.d lium his l-oors, k?.'n they mt tuned and missed him history h;%? not failed to record. He bad suf-?c*l all tlic privations uncomplainingly, n-. ver too wrsr*- listen to their coiiti-douect anil pi\e of 1)1* ab'.inueut *yuii>ikihy In all times of trial. J?crYij-.s L. r*,ali*?*d front the I ;-t of hi' e rrival thnt the pri vstkms w'Vb were int vitablc woul' v.-beyond b's power* cf enUurauo J b> eude-;vorcd to make his i"?j :??(>* of character and unselGshness as poicnt as pos-aib'.e to buoy up their flagging spirits. - -Their testimony as to his worth was un-.easing, telling that Gov. Carver was a /?renflffman of slnpul: r piety and tare for humility, aa appeared by liU grunt eonde-acendancy when, aa this poor people were In great sickness and weakneas, he shunned not to do very mean service for them. ore*, the meanest of them."
No one appreciated Gov. Carver?a worth more than Gov. Bradford; he recognised his true character and npbeld his every act.
WESTON.
Hie trust placed in Weston aa principal in their final contract with the adventurers waa of short duration.
He was speedily tired of the slow returns he received from his investment, and complained that the colonists represented by Gov. Carver had not exerted themselves to ?end back in their cargo just tribute money to the adventurers.
Gov. Bradford, cognisant of aH.that had gone before, realizing that the sick and dying had required their care, answered Weston, telling him*,with touching pathos, "He is departed this life and la. now at rest tn the Lord from all these trouble* and encumbrances with which w* are yet to strive.
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Gov. Carter gu.ve 1.U line tv Lit ccuct-y and i?oor Catherine I'.oMnkoi. Canrer, ?bc wap aup;*ose<l to be a sl'ter of Tofto. Kob iiiHc.n, of Leyden, and fife of ih< first Gov-iruor of riymouth C0I019, n ':nna-d btr d^Sil and would not b>	X
Krui! of coi.8titutioi b ;r irn-it sorrow ui*on her, the strugC?> f <t L5c was ?opc than she could boar, lh future had no bop? str\>nr etiei.jb to rnua 1 her failing faculties, claim;
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isolation was only c eLrth struggle, she. ?weary ' it life,? simply lingered uni thin lay don.. KkiJt her ?*?.?<?n-' >'ee|i whkL knows hi CH1LURK5I.
Bradford's journal. If accepted without any search into a posaiMe meaniuf. would dispose of the bope that Acv. Carver lef.1 descendants, still ibe pcwar of tradition.?, the universal statements of early historian/1 are so strong that, whlk ^er* are not absolute record ^uoft. (the eonvlctkw which no one nfll fart wfth lightly seems* reasonable that iGo*. BnxSTord only meant \ descendants bearing Ibe ?sia>e of Carver. 7
The presence ?f hth<r rCanrers La the1 colony, who perhaps mate ?o^>e ebnoxions claim of relationahip and (anaaqaent rigbta, | may have induaad the af^rtiao that Gov. { Carver?s family - tfed Vr^ ! him. little j Elizabeth Tilley's #atu?c[ ?r^a fixed, krr mother had lonf aiaee idtpsrKt this )tf? and was never k part ol Ike Pilgria eoic* pany, Bradford was ss?ulssat tjf.	i ?
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