. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . ry of the early settlers of the town. Frizetl TABLETIN THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH,DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, in memory of Rev. John White, with the namesof all the ministers of the church from his time. writers as the Father of the Massachusetts Colony, had previously interestedhimself in encouraging the settlement at Plymouth and had furnished money tothe settlers here, also urging at the same time many of the old Dorchester fishermento make voyages into American waters. His failure at Cape Ann in 1624 onlystimulated him to ne
. Towns of New England and old England, Ireland and Scotland . ry of the early settlers of the town. Frizetl TABLETIN THE FIRST PARISH CHURCH,DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, in memory of Rev. John White, with the namesof all the ministers of the church from his time. writers as the Father of the Massachusetts Colony, had previously interestedhimself in encouraging the settlement at Plymouth and had furnished money tothe settlers here, also urging at the same time many of the old Dorchester fishermento make voyages into American waters. His failure at Cape Ann in 1624 onlystimulated him to new undertakings, and we soon find him, with about onehundred and forty of his friends, in the New Hospital at Plymouth (shown on page113) where they spent the night previous to sailing for America. White himselfdid not come over on the Mary and John, but preached to them just beforesailing. Among the notable passengers were Captain Roger Clap, Henry Wolcott,an ancestor of the late Governor Wolcott, Thomas Ford, George Dyer, William DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS 3. ..J From an old printPhotosraphed by Frisett Kindne^^ Mt^ \f,iT\ FififUi K,~. II. I- Burns THE NEW HOSPITAL, PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND, the building (taken down in 1869) in which the members of the First Church in Dorchester gatheredbefore saiUng in the Mar> and John, March 20, 1629-30, for Dorchester, Massachusetts. This picturehangs in the Ministers Room in the First Parish Church of Dorchester, Massachusetts. Gaylord, William Rockwell, William Phelps, Israel Stoughton, George Minot,George Hall, Richard Collicot, Nathaniel Duncan, Captains John Mason andRichard Southcote. Much to their disgust Captain Squeb landed them in Hullon May 30, 1630, instead of near the Charles River where they hoped to of their number, therefore, rowed up the Charles and settled at Charlestown,but the larger part of the colony landed at Savin Hill, Dorchester, then called Mat-tapan. This was the sfecond parish in the co
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