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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
s, in majestic bays and rivers. The first Virginia colony, sailing along the shores of North Carolina, was, by a favoring storm, driven into the magnificent Bay of the Chesapeake; the Piigrims, having selected for their settlement the country near the Hudson, the best position on the whole coast, were conducted to the most barren and inhospitable part of Massachusetts. After a 1620 long and boisterous voyage of sixty-three days, during which one person had died, they espied land, and, in Nov. 9. two days more, were safely moored in the harbor of Cape Cod. Yet, before they landed, the manner in which their government should be constituted, was considered; and, as some were observed not well affected to unity and concord, they formed themselves into a body politic by a solemn voluntary compact:— In the name of God, amen; we, whose names are Nov 11 underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign King James, having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the