Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . n Street. Pemberton Hill, a spur of Beacon,now marks a level of about eighty feet below the sununit ofthe original hill, it having been cut down in 1835. On the brow of the hiU, later the residence of GardinerGreene, Avas the mansion of Governor Endicott, that uncom-promising Puritan who, in 1629, sent the obnoxious Episcopa-lians home to England, and afterwards cut out the cross from+he Kings standard because it savored of popery. JohnEndicott was sent to America by the Massachusetts Company,in England, of Avhich Mathew Cradock was governor, a
Old landmarks and historic personages of Boston . n Street. Pemberton Hill, a spur of Beacon,now marks a level of about eighty feet below the sununit ofthe original hill, it having been cut down in 1835. On the brow of the hiU, later the residence of GardinerGreene, Avas the mansion of Governor Endicott, that uncom-promising Puritan who, in 1629, sent the obnoxious Episcopa-lians home to England, and afterwards cut out the cross from+he Kings standard because it savored of popery. JohnEndicott was sent to America by the Massachusetts Company,in England, of Avhich Mathew Cradock was governor, as theiragent, and was governor of the colony which settled at Salemin 1628. He was the successor of Winthrop, as governor, in1644, and again in 1649, and removed to Boston in the formeryear. Endicott filled a number of important offices; was ap-pointed Sergeant JNIajor-General in 1645, and in 1652 estab-lished a mint, which, though without legal authority, continuedto supply a currency for more than thirty years. Governor 48 LANDMARKS OF ENDICOTT CUTTING OUT THE CROSS. Endicott opposed the crusade of Rev. John Cotton against thewearing of veils by ladies, and had a warm personal discussion with that eminent divine. Hisportrait is more like a cardinal ofItichelieus time than a Puritansoldier. His head is covered by aclose-titting velvet skull-cap, fromwhich the curling iron-gray hairis escaping down his slioulders ; a^ broad linen collar, fastened at thethroat with cord and tassel, fallsupon his breast, while his smallwhite right hand is grasping agauntlet richly embroidered. En-dicotts forehead is massive, hisnose large and prominent; but agray mustache which decorates his upper lip efiectually con-ceals the expression of liis mouth, while a long imperial of theFrench fashion hides a portion of the chin. His whole coun-tenance, however, indicates strength, resolution, and mutilation of the flag was not an act of bravado at a safedistance from punishment, bu
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