Standish
MYLES, an American soldier; born in Duxbury, Lancashire, STANHOPE about 1584; served in the Netherlands; and, though not a member of the Leyden congregation, sailed with the "Mayflower" colony to Massachusetts in 1620, and became the champion of the Pilgrims against the Indians. During the first winter his wife died, and the traditional account of his first effort to secure another partner has been made familiar by Longfellow. In 1622, warned of a plot to exterminate the English, he enticed three of the Indian leaders into a room at Weymouth, where his party, after a desperate fight, killed them, and a battle that followed ended in the flight of the natives. Standish was the military head of the colony, and long its treasurer. A monument, 100 feet high and surmounted by a statue, has been erected to him on Captain's Hill at Duxbury. In 1632 he settled at Duxbury, Mass., where he died, Oct. 3, 1656.