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Hartford (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
nor, the several towns and churches throughout the whole country were resolved to oppose him. Hutch. Coll. 339; Belknap, 437. The colonies of Plymouth, of Hartford and New Chap XI.} 1660 Haven, not less than of Rhode Island, proclaimed the new king, and acted in his name; Quantum mutatus ab illo Hectore, adds Stuyvesant The charter, disregarding the hesitancy of New Haven, the rights of the colony of New Belgium, and the claims of Spain on the Pacific, connected New Haven with Hartford in one colony, of which the limits were extended from the Narragansett River to the Pacific Ocean. How strange is the connection of events! Winthrop not only se was content with virtue and single-mindedness; and the public welfare never suffered at the hands of plain men. Roger Williams had ever been a welcome guest at Hartford; and that heavenly man, John Haynes, would say to him, I think, Mr. Williams, I must now confesse to you, that the most wise God hath provided and cut out this p
Great River (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
prevailed to obtain for Connecticut an ample patent. The courtiers of King Charles, who themselves had an eye to possessions in America, suggested no limitations; and perhaps it was believed, that Connecticut would serve to balance the power of Massachusetts. The charter, disregarding the hesitancy of New Haven, the rights of the colony of New Belgium, and the claims of Spain on the Pacific, connected New Haven with Hartford in one colony, of which the limits were extended from the Narragansett River to the Pacific Ocean. How strange is the connection of events! Winthrop not only secured to his state a peaceful century of colonial existence, but prepared the claim for western lands. Under his wise direction, the careless benevolence of Charles II. provided in Chap. XI.} 1662. advance the school fund of Connecticut. With regard to powers of government, the charter was still more extraordinary. It conferred on the colonists unqualified power to govern themselves. They were
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
spered in affluent tranquillity. Except in New England, royalty was now alone in favor. The repube the interests and quicken the industry of New England, and had assisted in founding the earliest f Rhode Island, the ever-faithful friend of New England, adhered with undaunted firmness to the gloestimony for liberty in the face of death, New England is the monument of its power to estab- Chan, and, let us hope, to the institutions of New England. To New England, the revolutions in the New England, the revolutions in the mother country were not indifferent; the American colonies attracted the notice of the courts of jun whose favor depended the liberties of the New England colonies, where lewdness was held a crime, r, no change in the political principles of New England, which never was regicide. Albany Records,towns, which here, as indeed throughout all New England, constituted each separate settlement a litits bay, in very deed the most excellent in New England; having harbors safe for the biggest ships [11 more...]
Dubris (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 1
every steeple rung merry peals; the bonfires round London were so numerous and so brilliant, that the city seemed encircled with a halo; Pepys, i. 15. 18. and under a clear sky, with a favoring wind, the path of the exiled monarch homewards to the kingdom of his fathers, is serene and unruffled; as he landed on the soil of England, he was received by infinite crowds with all 1660. May 25. imaginable love. The shouting and general joy were past imagination. Pepys. On the journey from Dover to London, the hillocks all the way were covered with people; the trees were filled; Gumble's Life of Monck, 386. and such was the prodigality of flowers from maidens, such the acclamations from throngs of men, the whole kingdom seemed Chap XI.} 1660 May 29. gathered along the road-sides. The companies of the city welcomed the king with loud thanks to God for his presence; Clarendon, III. 772 and he advanced to Whitehall through serried ranks of admiring citizens. All hearts were o
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
be added, that, having given away the whole south, he enfeoffed his brother with the country between Pemaquid and the St. 1664 Croix. The proprietary rights to New Hampshire and 1677 Maine were revived, with the intent to purchase then Chap. XI.} for the duke of Monmouth. The fine country from Connecticut River to Delaware Bay, tenanted by nearly ten thousand souls, in spite of the charter to 1664. Winthrop, and the possession of the Dutch, was, like part of Maine, given to the duke of York. The charter which secured a large and fertile province to William Penn, and thus invested philanthropy with 1681. executive power on the western bank of the Delaware, was a grant from Charles II. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two indifferent comedies. The grant of Nova Scotia to Sir Thomas Temple was not revoked, while, with the inconsistency of ignorance, Acadia, with indefinite boundaries, was 1667
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
f a score, as if to appease the shade of Charles I.; and among the selected victims was Hugh Peters, once the minister of Salem, the father-in-law of the younger Winthrop; R. Williams to J. Winthrop, Jr., in Knowles, 310. You were the son of two in high esteem with Paul. As a preacher, his homely energy resembled the eloquence of Latimer and the earlier divines; in Salem he won general affection; he was ever zealous to advance the interests and quicken the industry of New England, and had a the streams were first opened beneath the gallows. See a favorable view of Peters m Upham's Second Century Lecture at Salem, 13—27, and Postscript. So, too, Felt's Annals of Salem, 132—151. Bentley, in Mass. Hist. Coll. VI. 250—254. London MSalem, 132—151. Bentley, in Mass. Hist. Coll. VI. 250—254. London Monthly Repository, XIV. 525 and 602. Opposite opinions in nearly all the royalist writers The regicides, who had at nearly the same time been 1660 Oct. condemned to death, did not abate their confidence in their cause. Alone against a nati
Delaware Bay (United States) (search for this): chapter 1
d among the eight, had given to each a tract as extensive as the kingdom of France. To complete the picture of the territorial changes made by Charles II., it remains to be added, that, having given away the whole south, he enfeoffed his brother with the country between Pemaquid and the St. 1664 Croix. The proprietary rights to New Hampshire and 1677 Maine were revived, with the intent to purchase then Chap. XI.} for the duke of Monmouth. The fine country from Connecticut River to Delaware Bay, tenanted by nearly ten thousand souls, in spite of the charter to 1664. Winthrop, and the possession of the Dutch, was, like part of Maine, given to the duke of York. The charter which secured a large and fertile province to William Penn, and thus invested philanthropy with 1681. executive power on the western bank of the Delaware, was a grant from Charles II. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two ind
Connecticut (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 1
lderness. A letter was also addressed from Connecticut 1661 to the aged Lord Say and Seal, Seend liberties. But the chief happiness of Connecticut was in the selection of its agent. In the th, engaging in the enterprise of planting Connecticut. Care for posterity seemed Chap XI.} 16612. April 20. easily prevailed to obtain for Connecticut an ample patent. The courtiers of King ChaColl. IV. 262—298. And the gratitude of Connecticut was reasonable. The charter which Winthrop; in this they are egregiously aspersed. in Connecticut; while it had a scholar to their minister is the surest criterion of public happiness, Connecticut was long the happiest state in the world. , we shall rarely have occasion to recur to Connecticut; its institutions were perfected. For moreples, imbodied all that had been granted to Connecticut. Hazard, II. 612, &c.; anti also Knowlesit was importuned by Plymouth, and vexed by Connecticut, on the subject of boundaries? that, askin[9 more...]
Venice (Italy) (search for this): chapter 1
the qualities of human excellence were mingled in such happy proportions, that, while he always wore an air of contentment, no enterprise in which he engaged seemed too lofty for his powers. Even as a child, he had been the pride of his father's house; he had received the best instruction which Cambridge and Dublin could afford; and had perfected his education by visiting, in part at least, in the public service, not Holland and France only, in the days of Prince Maurice and Richelieu, but Venice and Constantinople. Winthrop, i. 348 and 354; Mather, b. II. c. XI. From boyhood his manners had been spotless; and the purity of his soul added lustre and beauty to the gifts of nature and industry; Winthrop, i. 341. as he travelled through Europe, he sought the society of men eminent for learning. Returning to England in the bloom of life, with every promise of preferment which genius, gentleness of temper, and influence at court, could inspire, he preferred to follow his father to
Halifax (Canada) (search for this): chapter 1
Scotland; commerce filled the English marts with prosperous activity under his powerful protection, Chap. XI.} his fleets rode triumphant in the West Indies; Nova Scotia submitted to his orders without a struggle; the Dutch begged of him for peace as for a boon; Louis XIV was humiliated; the pride of Spain was humbled; the Prote. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two indifferent comedies. The grant of Nova Scotia to Sir Thomas Temple was not revoked, while, with the inconsistency of ignorance, Acadia, with indefinite boundaries, was 1667. restored to the French. From the outer cape of Nova Scotia to Florida, with few exceptions, the tenure of every territory was changed. Nay, further, the trade with Africa, the link in the chain of universal commerce, that first joined Europe, Asia, and America together, and united the Caucasian, the Malay, and the Ethiopian races in indissoluble bonds, was giv
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