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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
r; Suffolk County Records, i. 5 and 6. The names of two hundred and seventy are recorded. The lading of the John and Sarah was ironwork, household stuff, and other provisions for planters and Scotch prisoners. Recorded May 14, 1652. and the leaders in the insurrection of Penruddoc, Burton's Diary, IV. 262. 271. 5 Stith, 171. Godwin's Commonwealth, IV. 172. in spite of the remonstrance of Haselrig and Chap. V.} Henry Vane, were shipped to America. At the corresponding period, in Ireland, the crowded exportation of Irish Catholics was a frequent event, and was attended by aggravations hardly inferior to the usual atrocities of the African slave-trade. Lingard, XI. 131,132. In 1685, when nearly a thousand of the prisoners, condemned for participating in the insurrection of Monmouth, were sentenced to transportation, men of influence at court, with rival importunity, scrambled for the convicted insurgents as a merchantable commodity. Dalrymple. Mackintosh, Hist. of the
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
nd affluence followed of course. When persecution ceased in England, there were already in New England thousands who would not change their place for any other in the world; and they were tempted in vain with invitations to the Bahama Isles, to Ireland, to Jamaica, to Trinidad. The purity of morals completes the picture of colonial felicity. As Ireland will not brook venomous beasts, so will not that land vile livers. One might dwell there from year to year, and not see a drunkard, or hear Ireland will not brook venomous beasts, so will not that land vile livers. One might dwell there from year to year, and not see a drunkard, or hear an oath, or meet a beggar. New England's First Fruits, printed 1643, p. 23, 26. The consequence was universal health—one of the chief elements of public happiness. The average duration of life in New England, compared with Europe, was doubled; and the human race was so vigorous, that of all who were born into the world, more than two in ten, full four in nineteen, attained the age of seventy. Of those who lived beyond ninety, the proportion, as compared with European tables of longevity, w