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Dutch (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
re and of competition. The earl of Warwick was the first proprietary of the soil, under a grant from the council for New England; and it was next held by Lord Say and Seal, Lord Brooke, John 1631 Mar. 19. Hampden, and others, as his assigns. Saml. Garton's Defence, 58,59 Winthrop, II. 136. Before any colony could be established with their sanction, the people of New Plymouth had built a trading house at Wind- 1633 Oct. sor, and conducted with the natives a profitable commerce in furs. Dutch intruders from Manhattan, 1633 Jan. 8. ascending the river, had also raised at Hartford the house of Good Hope, and struggled to secure the 1635 territory to themselves. The younger Winthrop, the future benefactor of Connecticut, one of those men in whom the elements of human excellence are mingled in the happiest union, returned from England July 7. with a commission from the proprietaries of that region, to erect a fort at the mouth of the stream—a Oct. 8. purpose which was accomplish
Southampton (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 13
ip-owners, by the contributions of Puritans in England, but mainly by the resources of the emigrants themselves, there were employed during the season of 1630, seventeen vessels, which brought over not far from a thousand souls, Chap. IX.} 1630. beside horses, kine, goats, and all that was most necessary for planting, fishing and shipbuilding. As the hour of departure drew near, the hearts of some, even of the strong, began to fail. On the eighteenth of March, it became necessary at Southampton to elect three substitutes among the assistants; and of these three, one never came over. Even after they had embarked, a court was held on board the Arbella, and Thomas Dudley was chosen deputy governor in the place of Humphrey, who staid behind. It was principally the calm decision of Winthrop which sustained the courage of his companions. In him a yielding gentleness of temper, and a never failing desire for unity and harmony, were secured against weakness by deep but tranquil enthu
Delaware (Delaware, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
xecutive trust, they admitted to the court all church members; the character of civil magistrates was next expounded from the sacred oracles; and the election followed. Then Davenport, in the words of Moses to Israel in the wilderness, gave a charge to the governor, to judge righteously; the cause that is too hard for you,—such was part of the minister's text,— bring it unto me, and I will hear it. Annual elections were ordered; and God's word established as the only rule in public affairs. Thus New Haven made the Bible its statute-book, and the elect its freemen. As neighboring towns were planted, each was likewise a house of wisdom, resting on its seven pillars, and aspiring to be illumined by the Eternal Light. The colonists prepared for the second coming of Christ, which they confidently expected. Meantime their pleasant villages spread along the Sound, and on the opposite shore of Long Island, and for years they nursed the hope of 1640 to 1649. speedily planting Delaware
France (France) (search for this): chapter 13
er title on the ground of dis- 1603. covery, had been granted by Henry IV. of France, and which had been immediately occupied by his subjects; nor could it be suppoful adjustment of jarring pretensions. Yet, even at that period, the claims of France were not recognized by England; and a new patent confirmed to July 12. Sir Wilrsonal beauty, hurried England into an unnecessary and disastrous conflict with France. The siege of Rochelle invited the presence of an English fleet; but the expedebec. Hazard, i. 314, 315. Perhaps an indifference to the issue prevailed in France; but the pride of honor and of religion seconded the claims to territory; and tonsequences were obvious. As the neighborhood of the indefinite possessions of France foreboded the border feuds of a controverted jurisdiction, so the domestic dispigion; when even Holland was bleeding with the anger of vengeful factions; when France was still to go through the fearful struggle with bigotry; when England was gas
South Boston (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
st good house there, even before it took the name which was to grow famous throughout the world. Some planted on the Mystic, in what is now Malden. Others, with Sir Richard Saltonstall and George Phillips, a godly minister specially gifted, and very peaceful in his place, made their abode at Watertown; Pynchon and a few began Roxbury; Ludlow and Rossiter, two of the assistants, with the men from the west of England, after wavering in their choice, took possession of Dorchester Neck, now South Boston. The dispersion of the company was esteemed a grievance; but it was no time for crimination or debate, and those who had health made haste to build. Winthrop himself givinge good example to all the planters, wore plaine apparell, drank ordinarily water, and when he was not conversant about matters of justice, put his hand to labour with his servants. The enjoyment of the gospel as the dearest covenant that can be made between God and man was the chief object of the emigrants. On Fri
Leicester, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ful provision of godly ministers; all of one judgment, and fully agreed on the manner how to exercise their ministry. One of them was Samuel Skelton, of Clare Hall, Cambridge, from whose faithful preachings Endicott formerly received much good; a friend to the utmost equality of privileges in church and state; another was the able, reverend, and grave Francis Higginson, of Jesus College, Cambridge, commended for his worth by Isaac Johnson, the friend of Hampden. Deprived of his parish in Leicester for nonconformity, he received the invitation to conduct the emigrants as a call from Heaven. Two other ministers were added, that there might be enough, not only to build up those of the English nation, but also to wynne the natives to the Christian faith. If any of the salvages—such were the instructions to Endicott, uniformly followed under the succeeding changes of government—pretend right of inheritance to all or any part of the lands granted in our patent, endeavor to purchase th
Popham (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 13
of the Chesapeake, the coast was regularly visited by fishermen and traders. A special account of the country was one of the fruits of Hakluyt's inquiries, and was published in the collections of Purchas. At Winter Harbor, near the mouth of Saco River, Englishmen, under Richard Vines, again encountered the severities of the inclement season; and not long after- 1616-7 wards, the mutineers of the crew of Rocraft lived from autumn till spring on Monhegan Island, where the 1618-9 colony of Popham had anchored, and the ships of John 1607 Smith had made their station during his visit to New 1614. England. The earliest settlers, intent only on their immediate objects, hardly aspired after glory; from the few memorials which they have left, it is not, perhaps, Chap IX.} 1623 to 1628 possible to ascertain the precise time, when the rude shelters of the fishermen on the sea-coast began to be tenanted by permanent inmates, and the fishing stages of a summer to be transformed into regula
Nantasket (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
ritan, but not a separatist, breathed into the enterprise a higher principle than that of the desire of gain. Roger Conant, having already left New Plymouth for Nantasket, through a brother in England, who was a friend of White, obtained the agency of the adventure. 1625 A year's experience proved to the company, that their specusula; the island now known as East Boston was occupied by Samuel Maverick, son of a pious nonconformist minister of the West of England, himself a prelatist. At Nantasket and further south, stragglers lingered near the sea side, attracted by the gains of a fishing station and a petty trade in beaver. The Puritan ruler visited in heir church with Maverick and Warham for ministers, and who in a few years were to take part in calling into being the commonwealth of Connecticut, were found at Nantasket, where they had landed just before the end of May. Winthrop ascended the Mystic a few miles, and on the nineteenth took back to Salem a favorable report of the
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
enevolence of uncultivated nature and the care of Providence, than to endure the constraints of the English la a mutuall consent, through a speciall overruling Providence, and a more than ordinary approbation of the chur softened by the mildest sympathy; while trust in Providence kept guard against weakness and despair. Not a th a glorious peace of soul; fixed in his trust in Providence, and in his adhesion to that cause of advancing c to find in the hands of the aged Moses Brown, of Providence. It is Mr. Cotton's Letter, lately printed, Examined and Answered. By Roger Williams, of Providence, in New England. London. Imprinted in the yeere 1644. S opinions, fully reduced to the form of a law, at Providence, in 1647, in II. Mass. Hist. Coll VII. 96. when e in England began to apprehend a special hand of Providence in raising this plantation, and their hearts 163ied this, word for word, from the Records, now in Providence. It was farther ordered, that none be accounted a
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 13
e oldest town in the colony, soon to be called Salem; and extended some supervision over the watersne, the little band of two hundred arrived at Salem, where conscience was no Chap. IX.} 1629. morrld, the few tenants of the huts and cabins at Salem were too insignificant to merit notice; to theed where each was inclined. A few remained at Salem; others halted at the Saugus, and founded Lynne in Plymouth, accepted a second invitation to Salem. The ministers in the Bay and of Lynn used to remained as yet undecided; when the church of Salem,—those who were best acquainted with Williams,mittee of divines might have time to repair to Salem and deal with him and with July 8 the church presentatives to do Justice to the citizens of Salem. This last act seemed flagrant treason; jestais laesae. and at the next general court, Salem was disfranchised till an ample apology for th longer there. Three days before, he had left Salem, in winter snow and inclement weather, of whic[10 more...]
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