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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 12 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cape Ann (search)
Cape Ann Original name of the present city of Gloucester, Mass., noted for more than 250 years for its extensive fishery interests. It was chosen as a place of settlement for a fishing colony by Rev. John White (a long time rector of Trinity Church, Dorchester, England) and several other influential persons. Through the exertions of Mr. White, a joint-stock association was formed, called the Dorchester adventurers, with a capital of about $14,000. Cape Anne was purchased, and fourteen persons, with live-stock, were sent out in 1623, who built a house and made preparations for curing fish. Affairs were not prosperous there. Roger Conant was chosen governor in 1625, but the Adventurers became discouraged and concluded on dissolving the colony. Through the encouragement of Mr. White, some of the colonists remained, but, not liking their seat, they went to Naumkeag, now Salem, where a permanent colony was settled. Population in 1890, 24,651; in 1900, 26,121.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Felt, Joseph Barlow 1789-1869 (search)
Felt, Joseph Barlow 1789-1869 Historian; born in Salem, Mass., Dec. 22, 1789; graduated at Dartmouth in 1813, and entered the ministry. In 1836 he was asked to arrange the state papers of Massachusetts, which at that time were in confusion. He was librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1842-48, and president of the New England Historico-Genealogical Society in 1850-53. He was the author of Annals of Salem; History of Ipswich, Essex, and Hamilton; Historical account of Massachusetts currency; Memoirs of Roger Conant, Hugh Peters, and William S. Shaw; also of The customs of New England. He died in Salem, Mass., Sept. 8, 1869.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Salem, Ma. (search)
was chosen, by a new company of adventurers, to lead emigrants thither and be chief manager of the colony. A grant of land, its ocean line extending from 3 miles north of the Merrimac River to 3 miles south of the Charles River, and westward to the Pacific Ocean, was obtained from the council of New England, March 19, 1628, and in June John Endicott, one of the six patentees, sailed for Naumkeag, with a small party, as governor of the new settlement. Those who were there—the remains of Conant's settlers—were disposed to question the claims of the new-comers. An amicable settlement was made, and in commemoration of this adjustment Endicott named the place Salem, the Hebrew word for peaceful. The colony then comprised about sixty persons. Previous to this emigration about thirty persons, under Captain Wollaston, had set up an independent plantation at a place which they named Mount Wollaston (afterwards Quincy, Mass.), which soon fell under the control of a pettifogger of Furniv
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, The first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (search)
Colony. By Aaron Sargent. This honor has been claimed for three persons,—Matthew Cradock, Roger Conant, and John Endicott. Perhaps none of them were entitled to the distinction. Matthew Cradock radock, as second governor of the company, became the governor of the colony, its successor. Roger Conant came over seven years before Winthrop, and in 1627 was at Salem as governor, agent, or supernor, agent, or superintendent of London's Plantation of about thirty persons, superseding, also, Conant, and he was nothing more at that time. Honor enough there is for Endicott, the earliest patente were even used or known at the time. None of the compilers, or Savage, make any recognition of Conant. Matthew Cradock was not a governor of the colony as a fact, but only so by a lively imagination and misapplication of a title. Roger Conant was not a governor of the colony as a fact, but only so by family invention and easy credulity, and John Endicott was not the first governor of the col
Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, Index (search)
5, 82, 83. Company A, of Peabody. 46, 67. Company B, Roxbury, 46, 64. Company C. Medford. 22, 46. Company C, of Scituate and Boston, 46. Company D. of Quincy, 46. Company E, 46, 47, 58, 60, 63. 66, 67. Company E, Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Infantry, in the Civil War, 17-23, 43-47. Company F, of Taunton, 46. Company H, Dorchester, 46, 64. Company I, of Natick, 46. Company K. Woburn, 46, 57. Cobble Hill, 53. Cold Harbor, 63. 64. Cold Harbor, Battle of, 63. Conant. Roger, 78, 79, 80. Concord, Mass., 28, 77. Conrad's Ferry, 18. Constantine, Arch of. 80. Convent Hill, 11. Conwell, Leon M., 75. Coolidge, Eunice, 49. Cooper-Shop Eating House, 18. Cotimore Katharine. 29. Cow Commons, 25, 26, 30. Cradock House, 79. Cradock, Matthew, 78. 79, 80. Crater, The, 72. Crawford, General, 45. Crosby, Elkanah. 18. Cross Street, 9, 29, 39. Crosswell, Andrew. 51. Crosswell, Benjamin, 51. Crosswell, Caleb, 51. Crosswell, Joseph, 51. Cros
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
he consequences of Chap IX.} 1624. the attempt at a permanent establishment near Cape Ann; for White, a minister of Dorchester, a Puritan, but not a separatist, breathed into the enterprise a higher principle than that of the desire of gain. Roger Conant, having already left New Plymouth for Nantasket, through a brother in England, who was a friend of White, obtained the agency of the adventure. 1625 A year's experience proved to the company, that their speculation must change its form, or it would produce no results; the merchants, therefore, paid with honest liberality all the persons whom they had employed, and abandoned the unprofitable scheme. But Conant, a man of extraordinary vigor, inspired as it were by some superior instinct, and confiding in the active friendship of White, succeeded in breathing a portion 1626 of his sublime courage into his three companions; and, making choice of Salem, as opening a convenient place of refuge for the exiles for religion, they resolved