STANDISH, MILES, or MYLES (c. 1584-1656)

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STANDISH, MILES, or MYLES (c. 1584-1656) , American colonist, was born about 1584 in Lancashire, probably of the
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Duxbury

Hall

branch of the family. Nothing definite is known of him before 162o, when with his wife, Rose (d. 1621), he emigrated to New England in the " Mayflower." He became the military leader of the Plymouth colony; was sent to London in 1625 on an unsuccessful mission to secure the intervention of the Council for New England in the affairs of the colony; and in 1628 was one of the eight members of the colony who pledged themselves to pay 180o and thus buy out the merchant adventurers. In 1631 with William

Brewster

and others he settled at Duxbury, where he died on the 3rd of October 1656, and where on " Captain's Hill, " near the site of his home, there is a monument to him, consisting of a stone shaft, Ito ft. high, and a bronze statue of him. Longfellow's Courtship of Miles Standish apparently has no basis in fact; Standish's second wife,

Barbara

BARBARA, SAINT

, a sister of Rose, must have been summoned to Ply-mouth a year before the

marriage

MARRIAGE

of John Alden to Priscilla Mullins.

Lowell

's Interview with Miles Standish misrepresents him: he was not a typical Puritan.
See William Bradford's History of Plimouth Plantation. Tudor Jenks's Captain Myles Standish (New

York

, 1905) and Henry Johnson's Exploits of Myles Standish (New

York

, 1897) are popular sketches.

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