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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
Few as were their numbers, they had struck deep root, and would have outlived every storm, even if they had been followed by no other colonies in New England. Hardly were they planted in America, when their enterprise began to take a wide range; before Massachusetts was settled, they had acquired rights at Cape Ann, as well as an extensive domain on the Kennebec; and they were the first to possess an English settlement on the banks of the Connecticut. The excellent Robinson died at 1625 Mar. 1. Leyden, before the faction in England would permit his removal to Plymouth; his heart was in America, where his memory will never die. The remainder of his people, and with them his wife and children, emigrated, so soon as means could be provided to defray the costs. To enjoy religious liberty was the known Chap. VIII.} end of the first comers' great adventure into this remote wilderness; and they desired no increase, but from the friends of their communion. Yet their residence in Holla
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
tately scheme of government, with deputies and counsellors, a marshal and a treasurer of the public revenue, chancellors, and a master of the ordnance, and every thing that the worthy old man deemed essential to his greatness. Sir Ferdinand1642. Mar. 1. had travailed in the cause above forty years, and expended above twenty thousand pounds; yet all the regalia which Thomas Gorges, his trusty and wellbeloved cousin and deputy, could find in the principality, were not enough for the scanty furniture of a cottage. Agamenticus, though in truth but a poor village, Winthrop, II. 100. soon became a chartered borough; like Chap X.} 1642 Mar. 1. another Romulus, the veteran soldier resolved to perpetuate his name, and, under the name of Gorgeana, the land round York became as good a city as seals and parchment, a nominal mayor and aldermen, a chancery court and a court-leet, sergeants and white rods, can make of a town of less than three hundred inhabitants and its petty officers. Yet t