The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . ce that it was not; it is of a size that wouldscarcely hold a hundred people, and its conformation insideresembles precisely that of a stable. The timbers of whichit is constructed are too finely finished for the period whensupposedly, or as all the records tell us, the houses andbuildings of this period were all built of logs or stone withcrevices filled with clay. But the strongest evidence that itwas not the original chur
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . ce that it was not; it is of a size that wouldscarcely hold a hundred people, and its conformation insideresembles precisely that of a stable. The timbers of whichit is constructed are too finely finished for the period whensupposedly, or as all the records tell us, the houses andbuildings of this period were all built of logs or stone withcrevices filled with clay. But the strongest evidence that itwas not the original church lays in the fact that GovernorEndicott was aware that over three hundred planters werecoming in the spring of 1629, and that immediately followingthem large numbers would in addition be sent as rapidly aspossible, and these added to the sixty already with him wouldmake such a population that it would require a house manytimes larger than the little affair, which at this late day it isendeavored to exploit as the first church. To believe that itwas, is to believe that Governor Endicott was void of com-mon sense, and surely history gives us the evidence that of 63. 1^^ o %o fir*
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