Our patriots . a place where they could 13 14 OUR PATRIOTS live under laws of their own making and wor-ship God as their own hearts bade them. A small company came over in 1628 andsettled at Salem. But not until 1630—tenyears after the Pilgrims reached Plymouth—did the great body of Puritans begin to comeover in throngs. Nine hundred of them, ledby John Winthrop, a rich lawyer and countrygentleman, settled first at Charlestown, andthen spread out to Boston and other townsnear by. The first part of this company arrived ineleven vessels, bringing horses, cattle, and manyother things useful in se
Our patriots . a place where they could 13 14 OUR PATRIOTS live under laws of their own making and wor-ship God as their own hearts bade them. A small company came over in 1628 andsettled at Salem. But not until 1630—tenyears after the Pilgrims reached Plymouth—did the great body of Puritans begin to comeover in throngs. Nine hundred of them, ledby John Winthrop, a rich lawyer and countrygentleman, settled first at Charlestown, andthen spread out to Boston and other townsnear by. The first part of this company arrived ineleven vessels, bringing horses, cattle, and manyother things useful in settling a new voyage had taken nearly nine weeks; so,although they had left England in early spring,it was about the middle of June when theyreached the Massachusetts coast. A TIME OF TRIAL AND SUFFERING Their plans had been carefully made and asmall company sent ahead to build houses anddo the spring planting. But in spite of their foresight, all did notgo as they had planned. Cold weather came. An Indian welccme on Charles River Isine hundred Puritans settled first at Charlestown, and then spread out toBoston and other towns JOHN WINTHROP 15 before they were ready for it. The crops weredisappointing. For food, they had to dependon the fish, clams, and mussels that they couldpick up on the wind-swept shore, the acornsand ground-nuts they could dig from underthe snow, and the small amount of corn theycould get from the Indians. Bread was sovery scarce, wrote one of the Puritan settlers^that I thought the very crusts from my fa-thers table would have been sweet to me. Moreover, to provide shelter for this largenumber was no small task. At first the poorersettlers lived in tents or booths hastily put upon the hillsides. These frail structures of coursewould afford little protection against storms orcold, and would have to be replaced by cabins. Dismayed by the cheerless outlook andfearing death by famine or freezing, about onehundred sailed back to England before t
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