by Alice V. Flanders and Martha C. Taylor
(Booklet #7, November 2000)

Alice Flanders served as a New Hampshire legislative attaché in the position of House stenographer from 1919 to 1969. Before and after retirement she devoted much time to historical research. She wrote this Ocean Born Mary article in the late 1960's to clarify the relationship between fact and fiction. She died in 1986 at the age of 91 years. Her daughter, Dorothy Greenly, of Henniker has given us permission to reprint the story.