Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Massachusetts” in entry gorton-samuel of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
... (1642) to a spot on the west side of Narraganset Bay, where he bought land of Miantonomoh and planted a settlement.
The next year inferior sachems disputed his title to the land; and, calling upon Massachusetts to assist them, an armed force was sent to arrest Gorton and his followers, and a portion of them were taken to Boston and tried as damnable heretics.
For a while they endured confinement and hard...
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† | Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) | 30,598 | 2,310 | 0 | 0 | 0 user votes |
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