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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 followed 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)
the Indians the island of Aquiday or Aquitneck, and made settlements on the site of Newport and Portsmouth. A third settlement was formed at Warwick, on the mainland, in 1643, by a party of whom State seal of Rhode Island. John Greene and Samuel Gorton were leaders. The same year Williams went to England, and in 1644 brought back a charter which united the settlements at Providence and on Rhode Island under one government, called the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Then the ciam Coddington April 28, 1639-47 Presidents under the patent Providence, Warwick, Portsmouth, and Newport John CoggeshallMay, 1647 William Coddington May, 1648 John SmithMay, 1649 Nicholas Easton May 1650 Providence and Warwick. Samuel Gorton Oct., 1651 John Smith May, 1652 Gregory Dexter May, 1653 Portsmouth and Newport John Sanford, SrMay. 1653 Four towns United Nicholas Easton May, 1654 Roger WilliamsSept., 1654 Benedict Arnold May, 1657 William BrentonMay, 1660
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Shawomet, War at (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 wed 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
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
....Dec. 9, 1640 Trouble of the Massachusetts and Plymouth colonies with Samuel Gorton begins......1641 Governor Bellingham, of Massachusetts, selects his brid3,000; money scarce, and bullets for a time pass for farthings......1643 Samuel Gorton is banished for heresy and disrespect to the magistrates, and purchases a tcalled Shawomet of the Narragansets, and begins a settlement there......1643 Gorton and his companions, summoned to Boston, refusing, a detachment of forty men is sent to arrest them; Gorton and his followers, after an unsuccessful attempt to defend themselves, are taken to Boston and tried. Gorton and seven others are found gGorton and seven others are found guilty......November, 1643 They are ordered, at the next court, to depart out of the jurisdiction within fourteen days, and not to return to Massachusetts or Shawom the governor, and over fifty others in Massachusetts......June 14, 1647 Samuel Gorton, after the second banishment from Massachusetts, 1644, proceeds to England
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Rhode Island, (search)
asserts Rhode Island to be a democracy, saving only the right of the King, and grants freedom of religious opinions......March, 1641 Four landholders, three of them original proprietors, at Pawtuxet dissatisfied with the opposition of one Samuel Gorton and his partisans to the government, offer themselves and their lands to Massachusetts, and are received by the General Court......Sept. 8, 1642 Samuel Gorton and his companions remove to Shawomet, where they had purchased lands from the ISamuel Gorton and his companions remove to Shawomet, where they had purchased lands from the Indians, and commence the settlement of Warwick......Jan. 12, 1643 Roger Williams is sent to England as agent for Providence, Aquedneck, and Warwick, to secure a charter from the King......1643 Patent granted by Robert, Earl of Warwick, governor-in-chief and lord high admiral, and commissioners, to planters of the towns of Providence, Portsmouth, and Newport, for incorporation of Providence Plantations in Narraganset Bay......March 14, 1643 General Court changes the name of Aquedneck to
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 7: Whittier as a social reformer (search)
his permanent collection of prose works, partly perhaps from its character of personal antagonism, which he so greatly disliked. He says:-- Nor can it be said that the persecution grew out of the intrusion, indecency, and effrontery of the persecuted. It owed its origin to the settled purpose of the ministers and leading men of the colony to permit no difference of opinion on religious matters. They had banished the Baptists, and whipped at least one of them. They had hunted down Gorton and his adherents; they had imprisoned Dr. Child, an Episcopalian, for petitioning the General Court for toleration. They had driven some of their best citizens out of their jurisdiction, with Anne Hutchinson, and the gifted minister, Wheelwright. Any dissent on the part of their own fellow-citizens was punished as severely as the heresy of strangers. The charge of indecency comes with ill grace from the authorities of the Massachusetts Colony. The first Quakers who arrived in Boston,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
oned, 73; Whittier's letters to, 26, 49, 50; relation between Whittier and, 26, 66, 67, 69, 71, 72; his letters, 26, 27; seeks Whittier's aid in antislavery movement, 48; Whittier's verses to, 54, 55; on Concord mob, 61; Garrison mob, 62; his party, 68; his tribute to Whittier, 72; Whittier's tribute to, 72-75; differs from Whittier, 75; compared with Whittier, 95, 96. Geneva, Switzerland, 166. Georgetown, Mass., 89, 90. Gerry, Gov., Elbridge, 31. Gordon, Gen. C. G., 78, 112, 113. Gorton, Samuel, 84. Gove, Sarah A., 183. Gray, Thomas, his Elegy, mentioned, 159. Greenacre, Me., 180. Greene, Mrs., Nathaniel, 19. Greenleaf, Sarah, 5. Greenwood, Grace. See Lippincott. Grimke, Angelina, 115. Griswold, Rufus W., Letters of, quoted, 108, 109. H. Hampton Falls, N. H., 183. Hampton, N. H., 85. Hampton, Va., school at, 98. Hanmer and Phelps, 35. Harmon, Capt., 36. Harper's Ferry, Va., 79. Hartford, Conn., 34, 35, 37, 137, 138. Harvard University, 3; law school
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays, The Puritan minister. (search)
have seen the quaint little heart-shaped locket he gave her, bearing an anchor and a winged heart and Thine forever. Let us glance now at some of the larger crosses of the Puritan minister. First came a young brood of heretics to torment him. Gorton's followers were exasperating enough; they had to be confined in irons separately, one in each town, on pain of death, if they preached their doctrines,--and of course they preached them. But their offences and penalties were light, compared wiutchinson, that extraordinary woman, who divided the whole politics of the country by her Antinomian doctrines, denouncing the formalisms around her, and converting the strongest men, like Cotton and Vane, to her opinions. Thither went also Samuel Gorton, a man of no ordinary power, who proclaimed mystical union with God in love, thought that heaven and hell were in the mind alone, but esteemed little the clergy and the ordinances. The Colony was protected also by the thoughtful and chivalro
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