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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
natives. In pious sincerity the company desired Chap. IX.} 1629. to redeem these wrecks of human nature; the colony seal was an Indian erect, with an arrow in his right hand, and the motto, Come over and help us—a device of which the appropriateness has been lost by the modern substitution of the line of Algernon Sydney. The party who took passage for Salem included six shipwrights, and an experienced surveyor, who was to give advice on the proper site for a fortified town, and with Samuel Sharpe, master gunner of ordnance, was to muster all such as lived under the government, both planters and servants, and at appointed times to exercise them in the use of arms. A great store of cattle, horses, and goats was put on shipboard. Before sailing, servants of ill life were discharged. No idle drone may live amongst us, was the spirit as well as the law of the dauntless community. As Higginson and his companions were receding from the Land's end, he called his children and others a
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9., Matthew Cradock. (search)
c Mayflower, the Pilgrim, and the Four Sisters. In other matters two-thirds was the company's proportion, one-third the governor's. His agent seemed to be Mr. Samuel Sharpe, who had charge of the ordnance and artillery business of the colony. The silver seal and charter of the company were sent in his care. In case of the death of Endicott, Mr. Skelton or Sharpe was to assume command. In case of Sharpe's sickness, Henry Haughton was to act as Cradock's agent, but Haughton died the first year. Capt. Israel Stoughton, in a letter to his brother, Dr. John Stoughton of London, dated from Dorchester, N. E., May, 1634, writes, Mr. Patrickson, Mr. CradockSharpe's sickness, Henry Haughton was to act as Cradock's agent, but Haughton died the first year. Capt. Israel Stoughton, in a letter to his brother, Dr. John Stoughton of London, dated from Dorchester, N. E., May, 1634, writes, Mr. Patrickson, Mr. Cradock's agent, happily came in the spring. This may refer to Capt. Daniel Patrick, who was at Watertown, and killed at Stamford, Conn., in 1643. June 14, 1631, Philip Ratcliffe, a servant of Mr. Cradock, was convicted of malicious and scandalous speeches against the government and the church at Salem; he was censured, whipped, lost