Noelle A Granger

The Last Pilgrim: The Life of Mary Allerton Cushman captures and celebrates the grit and struggle of the Pilgrim women, who stepped off the Mayflower in the winter of 1620 to an unknown world – one filled with hardship, danger, and death.  The Plymouth Colony would not have survived without them. Mary Allerton Cushman was the last surviving passenger of the Mayflower, dying at age 88 in 1699. Her unusually long life and her relationships with important men – her father, Isaac Allerton, and her husband, Thomas Cushman – gave her a front-row seat to the history of the Plymouth Colony from its beginnings as the first permanent settlement in New England to when it became part of ...