Standish, Miles, one of the Puritan fathers, of Lancashire birth, and a cadet of a family of knightly rank in the county; served in the Netherlands as a soldier, and went to America in the Mayflower in 1620, and was helpful to the colony in its relations both with the Indians and the mother-country; is the hero of a poem of Longfellow's.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Standing Stones * Stanfield, Clarkson