Quote #1587 about colonial children by Alice Morse Earle
"There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New Amsterdam, and Boston, and the infancy of those born in the first years of colonial life in this strange new world."by Alice Morse Earle
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