A history of the United States for Catholic schools . in battle, and spread terror amongthe hostile Indians, but was noted for his womanly tendernessin the care of the sick and wounded. Longfellow gives a goodpicture of him in his Courtship of Miles Standish. The Plymouth colonists, like the Virginians, at first estab-lished the system of holding property in common. Since this,however, proved impracticable even among the sober and in-dustrious Puritans, the common storehouse was abolished THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP OF COLONIES 115 within a few years after the founding of the colony. Owingto the pov
A history of the United States for Catholic schools . in battle, and spread terror amongthe hostile Indians, but was noted for his womanly tendernessin the care of the sick and wounded. Longfellow gives a goodpicture of him in his Courtship of Miles Standish. The Plymouth colonists, like the Virginians, at first estab-lished the system of holding property in common. Since this,however, proved impracticable even among the sober and in-dustrious Puritans, the common storehouse was abolished THE NEW ENGLAND GROUP OF COLONIES 115 within a few years after the founding of the colony. Owingto the poverty of the settlers, and also to the fact that thenumber of Separatists in England was small, the colony grewbut slowly. It finally ceased its separate existence (1691)when it was united to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Indian tribes of the region belonged to the Algonquinfamily; fortunately for the settlers, they had been greatlyreduced in number by a pestilence. In the spring the settle-ment was surprised by visits from two friendly savages,. A GROUP OF PILGRIMS Samoset, who had learned a few words of English from fisher-men on the coast of Maine, and Squanto, who had been pre-viously kidnapped and taken to England. These two nativesbrought to the settlement Massasoit, the great chief of theWampanoags, who made a treaty of friendship and alliancewith the Pilgrims. On the other hand, Canonicus, chief of theNarragansetts, sent the colonists a declaration of war in theshape of a bundle of arrows tied with a rattlesnake Bradford promptly returned the skin filled with pow-der and shot, whereupon Canonicus treated for peace. 116 A HISTORY OP THE UNITED STATES 163. Government. The Pilgrims introduced the Englishtown meeting. This government, a pure democracy in form,was the first of the kind in America. All the citizens gatheredat the town meeting and voted on all questions directly insteadof through representatives. Gradually, however, it becameinconvenient for a
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