. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. k them in their new homes but half died; others, disheartened, waded back through the dreary untrod-den snows and came half famished to Plymouth and Boston; but therest, with true Puritan heroism, outbraved the Avinter and triumphed overthe pangs of starvation. Spring brought a recompense for hardship: theheroic pioneers crept out of their miserable huts to become the foundersof Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the oldest towns in the Con-necticut valley. The banishment of Roger
. A popular history of the United States of America, from the aboriginal times to the present day. k them in their new homes but half died; others, disheartened, waded back through the dreary untrod-den snows and came half famished to Plymouth and Boston; but therest, with true Puritan heroism, outbraved the Avinter and triumphed overthe pangs of starvation. Spring brought a recompense for hardship: theheroic pioneers crept out of their miserable huts to become the foundersof Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the oldest towns in the Con-necticut valley. The banishment of Roger Williams, instead of bringing peace,brought strife and dissension to the people of Massachusetts. The minis-ters were stern and exacting. Every shade of popular belief was closelyscrutinized; the slightest departure from orthodox doctrines was metwith a charge of heresy, and to be a heretic was to become an , the advocates of free opinion multiplied. The clergy, notwithstand-:ng their great influence among the people, felt insecure. Religious de~ MASS A CHUSETTS.—SETTLEMENT. 131. MAP OF EARLY SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND. bates became the order of the day. Every sermon had to pass the ordealof review and criticism. Most prominent among those who were said to be as bad asRoger Williams, or worse, was Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, a woman ofgenius who had come over in the ship with Sir Henry Vane. She de-sired the privilege of speaking at the weekly debates, and was had no business at these assemblies, said the elders. Indignantat this, she became the champion of her sex, and declared that the minis-ters who were defrauding women of the gospel were no better than Phari-sees. She called meetings of her friends, spoke much in public, andpleaded with great fervor for the full freedom of conscience. The liberaldoctrines of the exiled Williams were reaffirmed with more power andeloquence than ever. Many of the magistrates were converted to the newbeliefs; the govern
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