The Memorial
to the
Pilgrim Women
On the corner of North Street and the Water side, not far from Plymouth Rock, is a small park enclosed by hedges of box and privet; in the center against a background of lilac trees, a tall granite fountain supports on the front, a standing figure representing a Pilgrim woman.
Capable, courageous and devoted, steadfast in her faith and to her duties though a life-long exile from the home of her birth, through dangers and privations she made possible the domestic comfort and the permanence of the Pilgrims’ homes in the wilderness.
On the curb of the pool an inscription reads:
“Erected by the National Society
Daughters of the American Revolution
In memory of the heroic
Women of the Mayflower
1620–1920”
and on the back of the fountain:
On the shaft is given the names of the women who came in the Mayflower.
- “Mary Norris Allerton
- Mary Allerton
- Remember Allerton
- Eleanor Billington
- Mary Brewster
- —— Chilton
- Mary Chilton
- Sarah Eaton
- Susannah Fuller White
- Dorothy Bradford
- Katherine Carver
- Maid servant of the Carvers,
- name unknown
- Humility Cooper
- —— Martin
- —— Fuller
- Elizabeth Hopkins
- Constance Hopkins
- Damaris Hopkins
- Alice Mullens
- Priscilla Mullens
- Elizabeth Tilley
- —— Tilley
- Desire Minter
- Ellen Moore
- Alice Rigdale
- Rose Standish
- Ann Tilley
- —— Tinker
- Elizabeth Winslow”