The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ? &r t/u J^tw /juflantf / 1629.] SETTLEMENT OF CHARLESTOWN. self governor,* at his arrival at Naumkeag, has never been ascertained;but, judging from the data that are to be found, there could not have beenmany above one hundred persons in and about that part of the time after the arrival of Governor Endicott, several gentlemen,under his direction, crossed the country to Mishawum. The principalpersons who went on this discovery were three brothers, Ralph, Richardand ^William The place they lighted of was on thenorth side of Char
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . ? &r t/u J^tw /juflantf / 1629.] SETTLEMENT OF CHARLESTOWN. self governor,* at his arrival at Naumkeag, has never been ascertained;but, judging from the data that are to be found, there could not have beenmany above one hundred persons in and about that part of the time after the arrival of Governor Endicott, several gentlemen,under his direction, crossed the country to Mishawum. The principalpersons who went on this discovery were three brothers, Ralph, Richardand ^William The place they lighted of was on thenorth side of Charles river, full of Indians, called Aberginians. Theirold Sachem being dead, his eldest son, by the English called John Sag-amore, was their chief, and a man naturally of a gentle and good dispo- * Half a century ago, or to be more exact,sixty-two years ago (1790), an edition ofGov. Winthrops Journal Avas published atHartford, in the title-page of which the editoror transcriber wrote, after the name of theauthor, First Governor of Ma
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