The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . The New England colonieswere governed under charters,which left them, in general, freefrom interference from , Massachusetts, Con-necticut, New Haven, and RhodeIsland were the only colonies onthe continent that had the privi-lege of choosing their own gov-ernors. In 1684 the first Massa-chusetts charter was taken away,and after that the governors ofMassachusetts were appointed by the king, but under a new charter given in 1692 the gocolony enjoyed the greater part of its old liberties. ur rP-emaqui
The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans . The New England colonieswere governed under charters,which left them, in general, freefrom interference from , Massachusetts, Con-necticut, New Haven, and RhodeIsland were the only colonies onthe continent that had the privi-lege of choosing their own gov-ernors. In 1684 the first Massa-chusetts charter was taken away,and after that the governors ofMassachusetts were appointed by the king, but under a new charter given in 1692 the gocolony enjoyed the greater part of its old liberties. ur rP-emaquid^i, y^ Plymouth^-,,-:^:incei 620. \ :) ProvideiHaHfSrd ^36 1635 nent in/ Eng- CHAPTER IX. THE COMING OF THE While Captain John captain john Smith sends a Smith was in V^irginia (see map to Hudson Chapter IV), he had a notion that there was a passage into the Pacific Ocean somewhere to the north of the Virginia Colony. He may have got this opinion from some old maps, or from misunderstanding something that the Indians told him while he HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.
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