The history and antiquities of Boston .. . as apinnace of thirty tons. Among thecommodities which he brought home wasan alligator, probably the first ever seenhere. The Captain made a present of it tothe Governor. Three ships arrived from Ipswich,having in them three hundred andsixty passengers. As one of the shipspassed the Castle, she was carelessly firedinto by the gunner, by which an honestpassenger was killed.* Within a week after, three other ships camein from London. In one of them, named the Hector, cameMr. John Davenport, Mr. Theophilus Eaton, Mr. Edward Hop-kins, son-in-law of Mr. Ea
The history and antiquities of Boston .. . as apinnace of thirty tons. Among thecommodities which he brought home wasan alligator, probably the first ever seenhere. The Captain made a present of it tothe Governor. Three ships arrived from Ipswich,having in them three hundred andsixty passengers. As one of the shipspassed the Castle, she was carelessly firedinto by the gunner, by which an honestpassenger was killed.* Within a week after, three other ships camein from London. In one of them, named the Hector, cameMr. John Davenport, Mr. Theophilus Eaton, Mr. Edward Hop-kins, son-in-law of Mr. Eaton, and Lord James Ley, a young manabout nineteen years of age, who had come to see the „ The time having now arrived which Mr. Vane had set for his Au< 3 ° *? departure for England, the people assembled to show him re-spect upon the occasion. The ship in which he was to sail was ridingat Long Island, in the harbor. Many accompanied him in boats to theship with their arms, and saluted his departure with divers vollies,. June 2G. * Winthrop, i. 227. f For an exceedingly interesting accountof this young man, I must refer the reader toMy. W. T. Harris edition of Hubbards NewEngland, p. G95, &c. Though his name standsout in bold relief on the pages of history after-wards, I cannot forbear extracting a few wordsof what the noble historian Clarendon says ofhim. He observes : The Earl of Mai-lborough[that being Lord Leys title] was a man ofwonderful parts in all kinds of learning, whichhe took more delight in than his title ; and,having no great estate descended to him, hebrought down his mind to his fortune, andlived very retired, but with more reputation than any fortune could have given is the character of that modest younggentleman, who came so early to Boston, drawnby the hand of a master. But his end, how-ever glorious it was then considered, was oneto be lamented with myriads of others. It washis fate to be sacrificed on the altar of blindambition. He
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