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the next month the removal was made, with much cost and labor, from Salem to Charlestown. But while drooping with toil and sorrow, fevers consequent on the long voyage and the, want of proper food and shelter, twelve ships having Chap. IX.} 1630. arrived, the colonists kept the eighth of July as a day of thanksgiving. The emigrants had intended to dwell together, but in their distress they planted where each was inclined. A few remained at Salem; others halted at the Saugus, and founded Lynn. The governor was for the time at Charlestown, where the poor lay up and down in tents and booths round the Hill. On the other side of the river, the little peninsula, scarce two miles long by one broad, marked by three hills, and blessed with sweet and pleasant springs, safe pastures and land that promised rich cornfields and fruitful gardens, attracted among others William Coddington of Boston in England, who, in friendly relations with William Blackstone, built the fist good house there,
ve energy, exhibited its worst aspect; just as the waves of the sea are most tumultuous when the wind is subsiding, and the tempest is yielding to a calm. Anabaptism was to the establishment a dangerous rival. When Clarke, the pure and tolerant Baptist of Rhode Island, one of the happy few who succeed in acquiring an estate of beneficence, and connecting the glory of the name with the liberty and happiness of a commonwealth, began to preach to a small audience Chap X.} 1651. July 20. in Lynn, he was seized by the civil officers. Being compelled to attend with the congregation, he expressed his aversion by a harmless indecorum, which would yet have been without excuse, had his presence been voluntary. He and his companions were tried, and condemned to pay a fine of twenty or thirty pounds; and Holmes, who refused to pay his fine, was whipped unmercifully. Since a particular form of worship had become a part of the civil establishment, irreligion was now to be punished as a ci