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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 40 | 0 | Browse | Search |
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. | 26 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register | 18 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 4 | 0 | Browse | Search |
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 2. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Deane , Charles , 1813 -1889 (search)
Deane, Charles, 1813-1889
Historian; born in Biddeford, Me., Nov. 10, 1813; became a member of the chief historical societies of the country; author of Some notices of Samuel Gorton; First Plymouth patent; Bibliography of Governor Hutchinson's publications; Wingfield's discourse of Virginia; Smith's true relation; and editor of Bradford's history of Plymouth plantation, etc. He died in Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 13, 1889.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorton , Samuel 1600 -1677 (search)
Gorton, Samuel 1600-1677
Clergyman; born in England about 1600; was a clothier in London, and embarked for Boston in 1636, where he soon became entangled in teleological disputes and removed to Plymouth.
There he preached such heterodox doctrines that he was banished as a heretic in the winter of 1637-38.
With a few follow ed 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 labor, in irons, and in 1644 they were banished from the colony.
Gorton went to England and obtained from the Earl of Warwick an order that the clergyman and his followers should have peace at the settlement they had chosen.
He called the place Warwick when he returned to it in 1648.
There he preached on Sunday and performed civil service during th
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), James , Lewis George 1844 - (search)
James, Lewis George 1844-
Historian; born in Providence, R. I., Feb. 19, 1844; graduated at Providence High School; instructor in history in the Adelphia Academy, Brooklyn, in 1894-95.
He is the author of Samuel Gorton, a forgotten founder of our liberties, etc.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), State of Rhode Island, (search)
Shawomet, War at
Gorton, the restless disturber of the peace in New England, had been whipped from colony to colony, and had settled at Shawomet (afterwards Warwick), R. I., on land ceded to him ent, with the same result.
Commissioners were appointed to go to Shawomet.
They were warned by Gorton that if they should come to exercise force they would be met by force.
We strictly charge you, oston.
The truce was delusive.
Before the messenger sent to Boston could return, the houses of Gorton's people were broken open and plundered.
Even the women and children returning from the woods w ed upon.
The Bostonians besieged the Gortonians for several days.
At length it was proposed to Gorton that he and his fellowdefenders should go to Boston, not as prisoners, but as free men and neighbors.
As soon as the besiegers entered the house, Gorton and his friends were disarmed and marched off to Boston as prisoners.
Their property was left behind, a prey to plundering Indians, and their
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 7 : Whittier as a social reformer (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)