_About the Author and the Book_
Sydney V. James was born in Chicago in 1929 and graduated from Harvard
College in 1950. Specializing in the American colonial period as a
student of Professor Samuel Eliot Morison, he worked intensively on the
history of the Plymouth Colony. He was awarded the degrees of A.M.
(1951) and Ph.D. (1958) in history at Harvard University. Mr. James’
thesis, written under the supervision of Oscar Handlin, has been
published by the Harvard University Press as _A People Among Peoples:
Quaker Benevolence in Eighteenth-Century America_. He has authored
articles for the Bulletin of Friends Historical Association and the
William and Mary Quarterly.
Mr. James is presently an Assistant Professor at the University of
Oregon, having taught previously at Kent State University and Brown
University. In 1950, he married Jean Wooster Middleton. They have two
children: Samuel, 10, and Catherine, 7.
THREE VISITORS TO EARLY PLYMOUTH was designed and printed by The
Stinehour Press of Lunenburg, Vermont for Plimoth Plantation, Plymouth,
Massachusetts. The type used is Monotype Bulmer and the paper is
Warren’s Olde Style.