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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
st volume of Hening's Statutes at Large proves, beyond a question, that assemblies were convened, at least, as often as follows:— 1630, March,Hening, i.147—153. 1630, April,ibid.257. 1632, February,ibid.153—177. 1632, Septemberibid.178—202. 1633, February,ibid.202—209. 1633, August,ibid.209—222. 1634,ibid.223. 1635,ibid.223. 1636,ibid.229. 1637,ibid.227. 1639,ibid.229—230. 1640,Hening, i.268. 1641, June,ibid.259—262. 1642, January,ibid.267. 1642, April,ibid.230. 1642, June,ibid1633, August,ibid.209—222. 1634,ibid.223. 1635,ibid.223. 1636,ibid.229. 1637,ibid.227. 1639,ibid.229—230. 1640,Hening, i.268. 1641, June,ibid.259—262. 1642, January,ibid.267. 1642, April,ibid.230. 1642, June,ibid.269. Considering how imperfect are the early records, it is surprising that so considerable a list can be established. The instructions to Sir William Berkeley do not first order assemblies; but speak of them as of a thing established. At an adjourned session of Berkeley's first legislature, the assembly declares its meeting exceeding customary limits, in this place used. Hening, i. 236. This is a plain declaration, that assemblies were the custom and use of Virginia at
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
from bigotry; and they were never betrayed into the excesses of religious persecution, though they sometimes permitted a disproportion between punishment and crime. The frame of civil government in the Old Colony was of the utmost simplicity. A governor was chosen by general suffrage; whose power, always subordinate to the general will, was, at the desire of Bradford, specially restricted by a council of five, and afterwards 1624. of seven, assistants. In the council, the governor had 1633. but a double vote. For more than eighteen years, the whole body of the male inhabitants constituted the. legislature; the state was governed, like our towns, as a strict democracy; and the people were frequently convened to decide on executive not less than on judicial questions. At length, the increase of 1639. population, and its diffusion over a wider territory, led to the introduction of the representative system, and each town sent its committee to the general court. We shall subseq
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
se better auspices, and the invitations of Win throp, won new emigrants from Europe. During the 1633. July and Aug. long summer voyage of the two hundred passengers, who freighted the Griffin, threeways, even while it remained to him a mystery. This was he, whom, for his abilities Chap. IX.} 1633. and services, his contemporaries placed in the first rank of men; praising him as the one rich p its faith with its form of govern ment, Roger Williams, after remain two years or a Chap. IX.} 1633. little more in Plymouth, accepted a second invitation to Salem. The ministers in the Bay and ofe established with their sanction, the people of New Plymouth had built a trading house at Wind- 1633 Oct. sor, and conducted with the natives a profitable commerce in furs. Dutch intruders from Manhattan, 1633 Jan. 8. ascending the river, had also raised at Hartford the house of Good Hope, and struggled to secure the 1635 territory to themselves. The younger Winthrop, the future benefactor o
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
oo passionately punished; and when they returned to England, Mason and Gorges, the rivals of the Massachusetts company, willingly echoed their vindictive complaints. A petition even reached King Charles, complaining of distraction and disorder in the plantations; but the issue was unexpected. Massachusetts was ably defended by Saltonstall, Humphrey, and Cradock, its friends in England; and the committee of the privy council reported in favor of the adventurers, who were ordered to continue 1633 Jan. their undertakings cheerfully, for the king did not design to impose on the people of Massachusetts the Chap. X.} ceremonies which they had emigrated to avoid. The country, it was believed, would in time be very beneficial to England. Winthrop and Savage, 1. 54—57, and 101—103. Prince, 430,431. Hutch. Coll. 52—54. Hubbard, 150—154. Chalmers, 154,155. Hazard, i. 234, 235. Revenge did not slumber, Winthrop, II. 190,191; or Hazard, i. 242,243. Hubbard, 428—430. because