Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . sselaer, Stephen 260 Vassar, Matthew 445 INDEX. PAGE w Warren, Mercy 85 Warren, Joseph 190 Warner,Seth 206 Washington, George 55 Washington, Martha 119 Wayland, Francis 418 Wayne, Anthony 286 Weare. Meshech 183 Webster, Noah 224 Webster, Daniel 5:76 Weems, Mason L 112 West, Benjamin 29 Wheatley, Philips 249 Wheaton, Henry 334 Wheelock, Eleazer 32 Wliite, William 53 Wliitney, Eli 132 Whipple, Abraliam 220 PAGE Weiser, Conrad 251 Williams, Roger 18 W
Eminent Americans : comprising brief biographies of leading statesmen, patriots, orators and others, men and women who have made American history . sselaer, Stephen 260 Vassar, Matthew 445 INDEX. PAGE w Warren, Mercy 85 Warren, Joseph 190 Warner,Seth 206 Washington, George 55 Washington, Martha 119 Wayland, Francis 418 Wayne, Anthony 286 Weare. Meshech 183 Webster, Noah 224 Webster, Daniel 5:76 Weems, Mason L 112 West, Benjamin 29 Wheatley, Philips 249 Wheaton, Henry 334 Wheelock, Eleazer 32 Wliite, William 53 Wliitney, Eli 132 Whipple, Abraliam 220 PAGE Weiser, Conrad 251 Williams, Roger 18 Williamson, Hugh 156 Willett, Marinus 247 Willis, N. P 422 Wilson, Alexander 181 Wilson, Henry 463 Winslow, Edward 23 Winthrop, John 9 Winthrop, John 44 Wirt, William 218 Witherspoon, John 179 Wolcott, Oliver 238 Wooster, David 322 Woods. Leonard 390 Wool, John E 438 Wright, Silas 355 Wright, Benjamin 363 Wythe, George 278 ADDITIONS TO THIS EDITK)N. PAGE Grant, Ulysses S 500 Hancock, Winfiekl Scott 498 TMoOIellan, Geo. B .504 McCloskey, Cardinal 49: PAGE PhiLips, Wendell 503 Seymour, Horatio 502 Stephens, Alexander H 506 rilclen, Samuel J 508. JOHN WINTHROP. THE Pilgrim Fathers planted the seeds of the Plymouth Colony, amid theDecember snows, in 1620. Eight years afterward other emigrants, withJohn Endicott at their head, as governor, founded the colony of the Massa-chusetts Bay, at Salem. In 1629, John Winthrop, a wealthy Puritan, resolvedto convert his large estate into money, and link his fortunes with this newcolony. He was chosen to succeed Endicott, as governor, before he left England,and soon after his arrival in June, 1630, he chose the peninsula of Shawmut, on 1. In the year 1608, John Robinson, a pious pastor of a flock in the norfh of England, who wonld notconform to the rituals of the Established Church, fled, with his people, to Holland, to avoid felt that they were only Pilgrims, and assumed that name. Toward the close of 1620. about 100of them, in
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