. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. ^^ ::^^fs-j^^^^^:r<^A^ TRAINING DAT IN THE OLDEN TIME. 14, Religion.—The prescribed religion was Puritan-ism. No other was tolerated, not even any of the otherProtestant sects. Eoman Catholics and Quakers were heldin special abhorrence; and even after the laws agamst thelatter had been abolished, those agamst the former remainedin force. Jesuits were forbidden to enter the colony; and, mcase of a second transgression, the penalty was death. Intheir desire to avoid all observance of any Catholic Festivals,it was
. Sadlier's excelsior studies in the history of the United States, for schools. ^^ ::^^fs-j^^^^^:r<^A^ TRAINING DAT IN THE OLDEN TIME. 14, Religion.—The prescribed religion was Puritan-ism. No other was tolerated, not even any of the otherProtestant sects. Eoman Catholics and Quakers were heldin special abhorrence; and even after the laws agamst thelatter had been abolished, those agamst the former remainedin force. Jesuits were forbidden to enter the colony; and, mcase of a second transgression, the penalty was death. Intheir desire to avoid all observance of any Catholic Festivals,it was even deemed wrong to eat mince-pie on Christmasday; and Endicott, in his zeal, cut the cross out of theBritish flag, because it seemed indicative of Catholicity. STUDY T^O. 5. NEW ENGLAND,— Seal of Connecticut. 1. Connecticut Explored by the Dutch.—The coast of Connecticut was first exi^lored in 1614, by AdrianBlock, a Dutch navigator. He wasalso the first European to sail throughthat dangerous whirlpool of the EastEiver, called Hiirlgate. Block Islandin the Atlantic, south of the State ofRhode Island, still bears the nameof the bold mariner. Other Dutchnavigators afterwards sailed up theConnecticut River, and claimed itsbanks and the whole shore of Long Island Sound, as far as Cape Cod. In 1631, they bought of the Indian chief, Sassacus, the land on which Hartford now stands, and there built a trading-house. 2. Connecticut Settled by the English.—But the English also claimed the valley of the Connecticut, invirtue of a grant from their king ; and, in 1633, a party oftraders from Plymouth built a fort at Windsor. Two yearsafterwards, the foundations of Hartford and Wethersfieldwere laid. These settlements were at first under the pro-tection of Massachusetts, and were
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