The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . eir headsover the block as the axe fell. And in one brief century hemade the name of Englishman the highest title of honorthat any man on earth could hold. It was Macaulay whosaid, The dread of his invincible army was on all the inhabit-ants of the island. And it was that invincible spirit, un-conquerable in all that it determined upon, that was broughtto New England by those Puritan pioneers in the spring of1624, when Thoma
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . eir headsover the block as the axe fell. And in one brief century hemade the name of Englishman the highest title of honorthat any man on earth could hold. It was Macaulay whosaid, The dread of his invincible army was on all the inhabit-ants of the island. And it was that invincible spirit, un-conquerable in all that it determined upon, that was broughtto New England by those Puritan pioneers in the spring of1624, when Thomas Gardener, John Tilley, and a few othersset sail in a small ship of but fifty tons and made settlementon Cape Ann, now Gloucester. They were the agents of theDorchester Company, engaged for one year, instructed toestablish a plantation and trading post in connection with thefishing industry. The company had in contemplation theidea that by establishment of a plantation during the timethe men were not engaged in fishing, they could cultivate theland, raising sufficient cereals, with the wild game and fish,,as would give them support the year round, and would enable. them to also use the products in their trading for furs withthe Indians, and so an arrangement was eitected with Gov-ernor Bradford of the Plymouth colony, who owned theland (which was a part of the territory granted them by LordSheffield under a patent), to occupy for this purpose the landat Cape Ann. In the spring of 1625 the Dorchester Company engagedRoger Conant, who was then living at Nantasket, havingthrough disagreement left the Plymouth colony, to be theirGovernor, taking full charge of the enterprise at Cape that the company sent many vessels, men,stores, and cattle, the project, for one reason or another, failedto develop the success hoped for, and in the fall of 1626the company abandoned the enterprise, selling their vessels,and many of the planters returned to England, but aboutthirty
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