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==Name== The alternative name '''''Sarah Constant''''' has been cited, and is shown as being the name noted on the earliest document,<ref name="jstor1">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1925278 JSTOR: “The Susan Constant and the Mayflower”, by Minnie G. Cook]</ref> leading to a belief that Samuel Purchas<ref name="jstor2">[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1920592 JSTOR: “Sarah versus Susan”, by Gregory Robinson, Robin R. Goodison]</ref> had the name wrong in his ''Pilgrims'' book.<ref name="purchas">Samuel Purchas (1575?–1626): Purchas His Pilgrimes, In Five Books</ref> There is growing support for the name ''Sarah Constant''.<ref>[http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=124435&ran=165659 “Decades of work will see a ship’s story honored today” | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070926234004/http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=124435&ran=165659 |date=2007-09-26 }}</ref> The article that cites ''Sarah Constant'', presumably written by Sir [[Walter Raleigh]], is as follows: {{quote|He told me of three barques on route to the New World, those whose names are, as he told me thereon, be consisted of ''Godspeed'', ''Discoverie'' or ''Discovery'', and one whose name split twice, I think was ''Sarah Constant''.}}
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