History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . IMS IN HOLLAND AND ENGLAND. America. Persecuted by a King and his fellow state church-men, who wished to follow Anglican methods in Dutchchurch government, they took the only course open to escapeimprisonment, which was to flee the home land. Equal ingrit and grace to their predecessors in earlier times, theyhave proved themselves to be among the best of statebuilders in the Northwest. Their journey up the Hudson,along the Erie Canal, and overland to found not only theCity of Holland and Hope Colle
History of the Pilgrims and Puritans, their ancestry and descendants; basis of Americanization . IMS IN HOLLAND AND ENGLAND. America. Persecuted by a King and his fellow state church-men, who wished to follow Anglican methods in Dutchchurch government, they took the only course open to escapeimprisonment, which was to flee the home land. Equal ingrit and grace to their predecessors in earlier times, theyhave proved themselves to be among the best of statebuilders in the Northwest. Their journey up the Hudson,along the Erie Canal, and overland to found not only theCity of Holland and Hope College, on Lake Michigan, butscores of other thriving towns, forms a romantic episodeworthy of both record and literary decoration. They awaita Longfellow. Of the seven hundred and twenty-onechurches and seventy-five thousand one hundred and ninety-eight families in the Reformed Church in America, theyform nearly a third, rich also in the missionary and educa-tional spirit. Another large body of the modern DutchPilgrim Fathers went up the Mississippi River from New THE SEPARATISTS IN HOLLAND 261. 262 HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS
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