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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
winter, amidst storms and losses, passed from port to port on the southern side of Cuba, where the experienced Miruelo was engaged as his pilot. In the spring of 1528. 1528, he doubled Cape San Antonio, and was stand- April. Cabeza de Vaca. published by Geo. W Riggs, Jr. ing in for Havana, when a strong South wind drove his fleet upon the American coast, and on the fourteenth of April, the day before Good Friday, he listed anchored in or near the outlet of Tampa Bay. On the day before Easter the Governor landed, and in the name of Spain took possession of the floating peninsula of Florida. The natives kept aloof, or if they drew near, marked by signs their impatience for his departure. But they had shown him samples of gold, which, if their gestures were rightly inter- Chap. II.} 1528. May. preted, came from the North. Disregarding, therefore, the most earnest advice of Cabeza de Vaca, he directed the ships to meet him at a harbor with which the pilot pretended acquaintanc
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
., in a public state paper, avowed his purpose of reigning without a parliament, the broad seal of England was put to the letters patent for Massachusetts. The charter, which was cherished for more than half a century as the most precious boon, constituted a body politic by the name of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New England. The administration of its affairs was intrusted to a governor, deputy, and eighteen assistants, who were annually, on the last Wednesday of Easter term, to be elected by the freemen or members of the corporation, and to meet once a month or oftener for despatching such businesses as concerned the company or plantation. Four times a year the governor, assistants, and all the freemen were to be summoned to one great, general, and solemn assembly, and these great and general courts were invested with full powers to choose and admit into the company so many as they should think fit, to elect and constitute all requisite Chap. IX.} 1629.