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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Preface to the first edition (search)
at considerable length on this first period, because it contains the germ of our institutions. The maturity of the nation is but a continuation of its youth. The spirit of the colonies demanded freedom from the beginning. It was in this period, that Virginia first asserted the doctrine of popular sovereignty; that the people of Maryland constituted their own government; that New Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, New Hampshire, Maine, rested their legislation on the popular will; that Massachusetts declared itself a perfect commonwealth. In the progress of the work, I have been most liberally aided by the directors of our chief public libraries; especially the library at Cambridge, on American history the richest in the world, has been opened to me as freely as if it had been my own. The arrangement of the materials has been not the least difficult part of my labor. A few topics have been anticipated; a few, reserved for an opportunity where they can be more successfully gro
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Preface to the first edition (search)
at considerable length on this first period, because it contains the germ of our institutions. The maturity of the nation is but a continuation of its youth. The spirit of the colonies demanded freedom from the beginning. It was in this period, that Virginia first asserted the doctrine of popular sovereignty; that the people of Maryland constituted their own government; that New Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, New Hampshire, Maine, rested their legislation on the popular will; that Massachusetts declared itself a perfect commonwealth. In the progress of the work, I have been most liberally aided by the directors of our chief public libraries; especially the library at Cambridge, on American history the richest in the world, has been opened to me as freely as if it had been my own. The arrangement of the materials has been not the least difficult part of my labor. A few topics have been anticipated; a few, reserved for an opportunity where they can be more successfully gro
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
Roberval accomplished no more than a verification of previous discoveries. Remaining about a year in America, he abandoned his immense viceroy- Chap. I.} 1542. alty. Estates in Picardy were better than titles in Norimbega. His subjects must have been a sad company; during the winter, one was hanged for theft; several were put in irons; and divers persons, as well women as men, were whipped. By these means quiet was preserved. Perhaps the expedition on its return entered the Bay of Massachusetts; the French diplomatists always remembered, that Boston was built within the original limits of New France. The commission of Roberval was followed by no per- 1549. manent results. It is confidently said, that, at a later date, he again embarked for his viceroyalty, accompanied by a numerous train of adventurers; and, as he was never more heard of, he may have perished at sea. Can it be a matter of surprise, that, for the next fifty 1550 to 1600. years, no further discoveries we
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
oncurrence of Raleigh, had well nigh secured to New England the honor of the first permanent English colony. Steering, in a small bark, directly 602 Mar. across the Atlantic, in seven weeks he reached the continent of America in the Bay of Massachusetts, not Chap. III.} 1602. May 14. far to the north of Nahant. Belknap's Biog II. 103. Williamson's Maine, i. 184, 185. He failed to observe a good harbor, and, standing for the south, discovered the promontory which he called Cape Cod—a namscovery of the eastern rivers and harbors—the Saco, the Kennebunk, and the York; and the channel of the Piscataqua was examined for three or four leagues. Meeting no sassafras, he steered for the south; doubled Cape Ann; and went on shore in Massachusetts; but, being still unsuccessful, he again pursued a southerly track, and finally anchored in Old Town harbor, on Martha's Vineyard. The whole absence lasted about six months, and was completed without disaster or danger. Purchas, IV. 1654—<
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
morals detestable; and when the sovereign of England participated in its hazards, its profits and its crimes, she became at once a smuggler and a slave merchant. Lingard, VIII. 306, 307. A ship of one Thomas Keyser and one James Smith, 1645 the latter a member of the church of Boston, first Chap. V.} brought upon the colonies the guilt of participating in the traffic in African slaves. They sailed for Guinea to trade for negroes; Winthrop, II. 243, 244, 245. but throughout Massachusetts the cry of justice was raised against them as malefactors and murderers; Richard Saltonstall, a worthy assistant, felt himself moved by his duty as a magistrate, to denounce the act of stealing negroes as expressly contrary to the law of God and the law of the country; Ibid. II. 379, 380. the guilty men were committed for the offence; Colony Records, III. 45. and, after advice with the elders, the representatives of the people, bearing witness against the 1646. heinous crime of ma
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
uth were invited to remove within the jurisdiction of Virginia; Puritan 1629. merchants planted themselves on the James River without fear, and emigrants from Massachusetts had 1640. recently established themselves in the colony. The honor of Laud had been vindicated by a judicial sentence, and south of the Potomac the decrees oinvited from Boston by the Puritan settlements in Virginia, carried letters from Winthrop, written to Berkeley and his council by order of the general court of Massachusetts. The hearts of the people were much inflamed with desire after the ordinances; but the missionaries were silenced by the government, and ordered to leave the cginia. Maryland, which was not expressly included in the ordinance, had taken care to acknowledge the new order of things; Langford's Refutation, 6, 7. and Massachusetts, alike unwilling to encounter the hostility of parliament, and jealous of the rights of independent 1651 May 7. legislation, by its own enactment, prohibited
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VII (search)
united to perfect the scene of colonial felicity and contentment. Ever intent on advancing the interests of his colony, Lord Baltimore invited the Puritans of Massachusetts to emigrate to Maryland, offering them lands and privileges, and free liberty of religion; but Gibbons, to whom he had forwarded a commission, was so wholly tuthat he would not advance the wishes of the Irish peer; and the people, who subsequently refused Jamaica and Ireland, were not now tempted to desert the Bay of Massachusetts for the Chesapeake. Winthrop, II. 148, 149. But secret dangers existed. The aborigines, alarmed at the rapid increase of the Europeans, vexed at being ience, not less than freedom of person and estate, as amply as ever any people in any place of the world. Ibid. 5. The disfranchised friends of prelacy from Massachusetts, and the Puritans from Virginia, were welcomed to equal liberty of conscience and political rights in the Roman Catholic province of Maryland. Chalmers, 219
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
ing selected for their settlement the country near the Hudson, the best position on the whole coast, were conducted to the most barren and inhospitable part of Massachusetts. After a 1620 long and boisterous voyage of sixty-three days, during which one person had died, they espied land, and, in Nov. 9. two days more, were safely menaced their safety, was himself compelled to sue for mercy; and nine chieftains subscribed an instrument of submission Sept. 18. to King James. The Bay of Massachusetts and harbor of Boston were fearlessly explored. Canonicus, the wavering sachem of the Narragansetts, whose territory had escaped the ravages of the pestilence,n if they had been followed by no other colonies in New England. Hardly were they planted in America, when their enterprise began to take a wide range; before Massachusetts was settled, they had acquired rights at Cape Ann, as well as an extensive domain on the Kennebec; and they were the first to possess an English settlement on
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
even opulent state. The early history of Massachusetts is the history of a class of men as remark England was put to the letters patent for Massachusetts. The charter, which was cherished for mld transfer themselves and their patent to Massachusetts, and after thus breaking down the distincte, and dreading famine and death, deserted Massachusetts, and sailed for England; while Winthrop repposition to the system of the founders of Massachusetts, who were bent on making the state a uniteis allegiance, not to King Charles, but to Massachusetts. There was room for scruples on the subj primarily directed to the institutions of Massachusetts, but to the doctrines of their religious stism over the mind. To them the clergy of Massachusetts were the ushers of persecution, Coddingrgy, but as a contest for the liberties of Massachusetts against the power of the English governmened such admiration, that to the leaders in Massachusetts it gave cause of suspicion of witchcraft. [35 more...]
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
ed too serious an obstacle. The grant for Massachusetts, it was argued, was surreptitiously obtaine interference of the 1641 magistrates of Massachusetts, III. Mass. Hist. Coll. i. 2—4. Winthation was refused; for, in that case, said Massachusetts, all would have come to nothing. The vi they had, at Plymouth, with the advice of Massachusetts, executed three of their own men for takin Winslow's New England's Salamander, 24. Massachusetts was not without steadfast friends in the lnow that royalty was abolished, it invited Massachusetts to receive a new patent, and to hold courty to sustain the doctrine of persecution. Massachusetts was already in the state of transition, ans of extreme cruelty. The government of Massachusetts at length resolved 1658 to follow the advy the guns of the fort. The government of Massachusetts applied similar quarantine rules to the mo long and frequent sermons. The courts of Massachusetts respected in practice the code of Moses; t[48 more...]