Newlyweds Robert and Joanna Hale, the great-great-grandparents of the Revolutionary War martyr Captain Nathan Hale, sail from Bristol, England to Salem in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 on the “Lyon”, an English galleon commanded by Master William Peirce. Passing the time during the two-month voyage, their fellow passengers relate the adventures of their predecessors. Will Robert and Joanna learn from the experiences of the courageous settlers who braved the American wilderness before them: John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, Isaac Allerton and the gun smuggler, Edward Astley? What was the special mission of this particular voyage? What was it like traveling in a hundred-foot ship with eighty passengers and twenty crew for nine weeks? A work of historical fiction, this book is about real people, who sailed on a real voyage. They tell us the events that led up to the settling of Maine and Massachusetts.