. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. code oflaws founded on the law of Moses, as under-stood by the Puritan ministers, who were thereal rulers of the colony.—Roger Williams, oneof the ministers, is expelled from Massachusettsbecause of his belief that the church should notgovern in the colony. He thought that thevote of the people should make laws, as we be-lieve to-day. He finds temporary refuge inSalem.—John Winthrop, Jr., son of the gover-nor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, leaves Bostonwith many other colonists who do not believein the kind of government
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 4. code oflaws founded on the law of Moses, as under-stood by the Puritan ministers, who were thereal rulers of the colony.—Roger Williams, oneof the ministers, is expelled from Massachusettsbecause of his belief that the church should notgovern in the colony. He thought that thevote of the people should make laws, as we be-lieve to-day. He finds temporary refuge inSalem.—John Winthrop, Jr., son of the gover-nor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, leaves Bostonwith many other colonists who do not believein the kind of government they have there. Hegoes to Connecticut, where he founds the villageof Saybrook, named after two English Say and Sele and Lord Brooke. This laterbecame a famous place.—Rev. Thomas Hookerand sixty colonists from Boston found Hartford,Connecticut, then called Newtown. 1636—Roger Williams is forced to leave Salemin the midst of winter, but finds refuge with theIndian chiefs Massasoit and Canonicus. In Junehe settles on Narragansett Bay, where the city of. COLONIAL GOVERNORS AND PROPRIETORS. =»37 238 EVENTS OF OUR COUNTRYS HISTORY Providence now stands. Many people drivenout of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth coloniesjoin him there, and found a new colony in whichreligious toleration is enjoyed.—The first col-lege in America is founded at Cambridge, Massa-chusetts. It is called Harvard College from Harvard, who left money and books tohelp endow it.—The Pequots, a large tribe ofIndians living mostly in Connecticut, begin awar on the colonists by murdering several whitepersons. Roger Williams persuades the otherIndian tribes not to join them. 1637—The Pequot Indians are destroyed inwar with the colonists, helped by the Moheganand Narragansett Indian tribes.—A council ofcolonists from Connecticut and Massachusettsmeet at Boston to form a union of all the NewEngland colonies. They do not succeed.—Negroslaves are first imported into the New Englandco
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