. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. out onehundred emigrants, settled at Naumkeag (Salem), in Mas-sachusetts. Encouraged by this beginning, a company ofwealthy Puritans was formed in England (1629), and KingCharles I. granted them a large tract of land, Ieaching fromthree miles south of the Charles River to three miles northof the Merrimac River, and extending from the Atlantic tothe Pacific. This company was called the Massachusetts BayColony, and the king gave it a charter which permitted thesettlers to govern themselves. In the spring of 1630, two hundre
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. out onehundred emigrants, settled at Naumkeag (Salem), in Mas-sachusetts. Encouraged by this beginning, a company ofwealthy Puritans was formed in England (1629), and KingCharles I. granted them a large tract of land, Ieaching fromthree miles south of the Charles River to three miles northof the Merrimac River, and extending from the Atlantic tothe Pacific. This company was called the Massachusetts BayColony, and the king gave it a charter which permitted thesettlers to govern themselves. In the spring of 1630, two hundredPuritans came from England and joinedthe colony at Salem, which, for someyears, was the most prominent of thePuritan settlements. In the same year John Winthrop, an ^^^^XS^i^i^^-^educated, wealthy Puritan, determined „.. ^ ^ Jolm Winthrop. to leave the country where man was more vile and base than the earth we tread upon, and to settle in Massachusetts. He brought a colony of nearly eight hundred men, womenand children, a large number of horses and cattle, and such. 82 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON. In 1630, John Winthrop brought about eight hundredcolonists to Tri-mountain i Boston). Other places ^vere soon several settlements united and sent representatives to Boston tomake laws. Winthrop w^as the first governor. In 1692, the Puritan andPilgrim colonies united as Massachusetts. ini|)leineiits aiul liouseliokl stuff as are necessary in a newsettlement. After visiting Salem, and examining other loca-tions, AVintliiop settled on a peninsula which he called Tri-mountain (Tremont), from three hills which crowned was afterwards named Bost<jn. ANithin a year from that time, several hundred more Puri-tans came to Massachusetts, and founded Charlestow n, Lynn,Dorchester, and other places. At first a council of leading; men made laws for the colo-nists and saw that they were obeyed, but, in a short time, thepeople took the government into their own hands, an
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