. A history of the United States. as thepresent boundary of New Hamp-^^ shire. They had also formed theMassachusetts Bay Company, hop-ing to make profits from the fish-eries and fur trade as well as toJohn Winthrop settle their lands. After the original in the Massa- The MaSSachuSCttS BaV Com- chusetts Senate Chamber pany. — In 1629, after Charleshad angrily dismissed parliament, a large number of influ-ential Puritans resolved to emigrate to the lands of theMassachusetts Bay Company. Among them were some of theprincipal men in the company. The other members agreedthat those who went should co
. A history of the United States. as thepresent boundary of New Hamp-^^ shire. They had also formed theMassachusetts Bay Company, hop-ing to make profits from the fish-eries and fur trade as well as toJohn Winthrop settle their lands. After the original in the Massa- The MaSSachuSCttS BaV Com- chusetts Senate Chamber pany. — In 1629, after Charleshad angrily dismissed parliament, a large number of influ-ential Puritans resolved to emigrate to the lands of theMassachusetts Bay Company. Among them were some of theprincipal men in the company. The other members agreedthat those who went should control the companys was better than tr3dng to manage the settlement fromEngland, three thousand miles away, as had been done atfirst in the case of Jamestown. John Winthrop was chosengovernor. The First Emigration. — The emigration of Puritans beganin the spring of 1630. Before the year was over about twothousand crossed to the Massachusetts shore. Many werecountry gentlemen, well-to-do landowners, like Winthrop,. ,^^ Gloucester Bay Concord n^S~~~jBoston ^MassachusettsWatertown\\<Z.^^^^iiOuinc7j f^Cape CodDuxhury JX! ^fV*.,., io„n Thjmouth V\ BOSTON SETTLED 6i who could pay their own expenses and subscribe somethingtoward the expenses of the enterprise. Beginnings of Boston. — The settlers scattered in smallgroups along the shore of Massachusetts Bay from Salemsouthward. Winthrop chose for his home land where Bostonnow stands. On one side was an arm of the bay, on the otherthe Charles River. Excellentsprings furnished pure settled near Winthropon trails worn by deer or In-dians along the wood-coveredhills. Boston soon becamethe chief town of the Massa-chusetts Bay colony. Within _ ^^ - ^ • Country about Massachusetts a year the colonists had begun Bay villages near Salem and Bos-ton, among them Lynn, Charlestown, and Newtowne, after-wards called Cambridge. The region seemed beautiful tothe newcomers. Winthrop wrote to his wife, who did notl
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