CAPTION:

THE FULLER CRADLE IN WHICH WAS ROCKED
PEREGRINE WHITE WHO WAS BORN
ON THE MAYFLOWER
1620.

1. Who was Peregrine White? How do you think his name got attached to this cradle?
   http://www.pilgrimhall.org/whiteprecords.htm
   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/whitewill.html


2. Look at the cradles at Pilgrim Hall Museum.
   http://www.pilgrimhall.org/collects.htm


3. Look at the history paintings at the museum. How did later artists portray Pilgrim cradles?
   http://www.pilgrimhall.org/collects.htm


4. The cradle appears in other views of the exhibit. (From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Historical Register of the Centennial Exposition 1876. New York, 1877.):
   
   1. Interior of the New England log cabin:
      http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/fnart/fa267/1876/1876_kitchen_int.jpg
   
   
   2. Silk Weaving in Log Cabin
      (from facsimile, p. 265, Image in Slide Carousel)


5. Did many inventories in early Plymouth list cradles?
   http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/users/deetz/Plymouth/probates.html


6. Now take a look at a 1928 photograph of an exhibit at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford . Does the cradle in this picture look familiar? It was collected by Wallace Nutting, who in a book on New England furniture wrote: "The cradle here set forth has a remarkable history. The owner is Mr. Chancey C. Nash. The writer can vouch for the fact that he obtained it from the Cushman family, who in their turn had it through inter-marriage with the Fuller family of Mayflower fame. It is an undisputed tradition that it came down from Dr. Samuel Fuller who was the physician of the Mayflower."
   
7. Another more recent view of that cradle