A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . lymouth Company had de-scended to his brother John and he had sold to a Sir William Brere-ton and John Oldham — the acquaintance of the latter we have al-ready made at Plymouth — all the country from Charles River toNahant and twenty miles inland. The grant made by the PlymouthCompany to the Massachusetts Company, and the royal patent to the VOL
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . lymouth Company had de-scended to his brother John and he had sold to a Sir William Brere-ton and John Oldham — the acquaintance of the latter we have al-ready made at Plymouth — all the country from Charles River toNahant and twenty miles inland. The grant made by the PlymouthCompany to the Massachusetts Company, and the royal patent to the VOL. I. 34 530 MASSACHUSETTS BAY. [Chap. XX. Massachusetts Bay Company, included all this region. Neither Brere-ton nor Oldham were disposed to yield their claims, and had failed tocome to any agreement with the Council of the Massachusetts BayCompany, in regard to them. The question was a frequent subject atthe meetings of the Council in London, and Cradock — who spoke ofOldham as a man obstinate and violent in his opinions — wrote to Endi-cott to send forty or fifty persons to Massachusetts Bay to inhabitthere .... with all speed .... whereby the better to strengthen ourpossession there against all or any that shall intrude upon us. This. Colonial Furniture. was aimed at the rival claimants, Brereton and Oldham, whose titlethe Company believed, would not hold good in law against their own,but was coupled with a caution not to molest such other Englishmenas had there planted, and who were willing to live under the govern-ment of the new Company. Some of these we have spoken of in a previous chapter—Maver-ick, on Noddles Island, now East Boston ; Thompson, on Thomp- 1621.] EARLY SETTLERS ABOUT BOSTON BAY. 531 sons Island; Blaxton, or Blackstone, living at this time near the footof what is now Boston Common, but who removed some years Old settlers later to the banks of the river since known by his name — on Bostonthe Blackstone — in the southwestern part of the State
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