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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 5 1 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3 2 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Plymouth Company. (search)
t year. In the spring of 1607 they sent three small vessels to the domain with 100 emigrants, and George Popham as governor of the colony. They landed, late in August, at a rather sterile place near the mouth of the Kennebec, Maine, afterwards known as Parker's Island, where, after a sermon had been delivered, and the patent and other laws read, they dug a well, built a stone house, a few log-huts, and a stockade, which they called Fort St. George. They experienced the bitter fruit of Weymouth's kidnapping in the hostility of the natives, who refused to furnish them with maize or other food. The season was too far advanced to raise food for the colony, so, on Dec. 5, two of the ships returned to England, leaving forty-five persons, with sufficient stores, Popham being president of the colony, and Raleigh Gilbert admiral. During the severe winter their storehouse was burned by accident. The next spring a vessel arrived at Fort St. George with supplies, and with the intelligence
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
hing and a bull and three heifers, first neat cattle imported into New England......March 24, 1624 Population of Plymouth colony, 180, and number of dwelling-houses, thirty-two; a substantial fort, a vessel of forty-four tons, with smaller boats; large tracts of land under cultivation, and enclosures for the cattle, goats, swine, and poultry......spring, 1624 Capt. Robert Gorges returns to England early in......1624 A few settlers remain at Wessagusset; some families come from Weymouth, England, and the name is changed to Weymouth......1624 Settlement commenced at Cape Ann with the intention of connecting the settlement with the fishing interests......1624 William Bradford again elected governor of Plymouth colony......1624 John Lyford and John Oldham expelled from the colony......1624 Captain Wollaston and about thirty others commence a settlement at a place they call Mount Wollaston (now Quincy)......1625 Thomas Morton on the departure of Wollaston takes ch
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Weymouth, George 1605- (search)
the bays and rivers of Maine, and saw (possibly) the White Mountains of New Hampshire. There was mutual distrust between Weymouth and the Indians, and the former decided to keep no faith with the latter. Five of the Indians who ventured on hoard the vessel were carried off to England, three of whom were given to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, at Plymouth; the other two were sent to Sir John Popham, of London. The curiosity excited by these Indians in London doubtless gave the idea expressed by Shakespeare in The tempest, in which Trinculo says of the London people: Any strange beast there makes a man: when they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Weymouth's kidnapping spread distrust and anger wide among the Indians on the Eastern coast. One of the Indians carried away came, in May, 1607, as guide and interpreter for a colony of 120 persons, sent out in two vessels, commanded by George Popham, to plant a colony in Eastern New England.