. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . 344 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA ing lands, and to send out other bands of emigrants, taking little care todefine the boundaries of the new grants, or to avoid ceding to one companyor individual the very tract already bestowed upon another. This negli-gence was the cause of much subsequent dispute and difficulty. A fewpersons also established themselves at various points along the coast, whohad no formal title to any land, but who were afterwards generally admittedto have an imperfect right, founded on occupancy and prescription. Somefew
. The American encyclopedia of history, biography and travel . 344 AMERICAN ENCYCLOPEDIA ing lands, and to send out other bands of emigrants, taking little care todefine the boundaries of the new grants, or to avoid ceding to one companyor individual the very tract already bestowed upon another. This negli-gence was the cause of much subsequent dispute and difficulty. A fewpersons also established themselves at various points along the coast, whohad no formal title to any land, but who were afterwards generally admittedto have an imperfect right, founded on occupancy and prescription. Somefew fishing settlements were thus established; but their inhabitants hadnot the disposition to toil, the habits of order and self-denial, or the indom-itable perseverance which characterized the Puritans. All their establish-ments were subsequently absorbed by the Massachusetts colony, whichbecame the chief agent in the settlement of New England. The persecution of all who would not conform to the Established Churchstill continuing in England, and king Charles h
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