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 . ^ John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson,Gofife, Dudley, Craddock, Saltonstall, and others, and their 59. purchase of these interests was for the sole purpose of provid-ing an asylum for the persecuted non-Conformists, beyond thereach of ecclesiastical tyranny. It is then to religiousconsiderations entirely that we must attribute the settling ofthe Puritans colony in America. No country in the worldcan deduce its origin from men so gu
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 . ^ John Winthrop, Isaac Johnson,Gofife, Dudley, Craddock, Saltonstall, and others, and their 59. purchase of these interests was for the sole purpose of provid-ing an asylum for the persecuted non-Conformists, beyond thereach of ecclesiastical tyranny. It is then to religiousconsiderations entirely that we must attribute the settling ofthe Puritans colony in America. No country in the worldcan deduce its origin from men so guided by pure anddisinterested motives as those which influenced the firstsettlers of Massachusetts and New England; for neither thecountry in its wildness, which they proposed to inhabit, northe success of the former adventurers, held out sufficientinducements to stimulate either avarice or ambition. Theywere men of firmness and resolution, ready to endure everysuffering for the sake of civil and religious freedom, to levelforests, where savage beasts and men had roamed in undis-turbed possession for centuries, and make dwelling placesamid such surroundings—and they did. Upon Endicottsarrival and superseding Conant in the governorship, therewas great discon
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