Chief of the Pilgrims - Or the Life and Time of William Brewster, Ruling Elder of the Pilgrim Company That Founded New Plymouth, the Parent Colony of New England, in 1620 #223745

That full and just delineation, however, did not appear. And that generation passed away, and the next; and with them perished valuable letters and records, with the knowledge of many things which would give life and freshness to the history. Still, no other hand undertook the task. A brief and worthy sketch, indeed, along with Sketches of other worthies, was afterwards drawn by the pen of Dr. Belknap yet the life or biography proper was never written. The causes of Such neglect or delay at the time were, doubtless, the cares, labors, and incessant occupations of mind and body, incident to the settlement of a country strange and new; where.