A history of the United States for schools . e shores of Massachusetts Bay. In 1628,John Endicott, of Dorchester, took command of a placewhich the Indians called Naumkeag ; he called the littlecolony which was beginning to be planted there by theBible name of Salem, or Peace. A number of lead-ing Puritans in England bought from the PlymouthCompany a large tract of land including all the coun-try between the Charles and Merrimack rivers, The Com-and stretching inland indefinitely. Then they MasL°chu-got a charter from Charles I. incorporating ^^^^ as the Company of Massachusetts Bay, T
A history of the United States for schools . e shores of Massachusetts Bay. In 1628,John Endicott, of Dorchester, took command of a placewhich the Indians called Naumkeag ; he called the littlecolony which was beginning to be planted there by theBible name of Salem, or Peace. A number of lead-ing Puritans in England bought from the PlymouthCompany a large tract of land including all the coun-try between the Charles and Merrimack rivers, The Com-and stretching inland indefinitely. Then they MasL°chu-got a charter from Charles I. incorporating ^^^^ as the Company of Massachusetts Bay, The 92 COLONIZATION OF NORTH AMERICA. Ch. VI. affairs of this company were to be managed by agovernor, deputy governor, and council of eighteenassistants, to be elected annually by the members ofthe company. They could make any laws they likedfor their settlers, only these laws must not conflictwith the laws of England. The place where the com-pany was to hold its meetings was not mentioned inthe charter. Accordingly, in 1629, having become. JOHN thoroughly disgusted and somewhat alarmed at thekings conduct, the company decided to take its charterover to New England and found a self-governing com-munity there. No attempt was made to interfere withthem, and it may be supposed that the king was not1 From apalnting in the State House at Boston, attributed to Vandyke. § 44. NEW ENGLAND. 93 unwilling to have a large body of eminent Puritansleave England and get out of his way. In 1630, John Winthrop, of Groton, came over toSalem with eleven ships, bringing nearly i,ooo persons,with quite a stock of horses and cattle. John Winthrop,one of the wisest and noblest men of his time, p^^^j^j;^was the real founder of the Massachusetts Bay of the Mas-colony, and its first governor. During the year , settlements were made at Dorchester,Roxbury, Charlestown, and Watertown. Governor Win-throp moved his headquarters first to Charlestown, andthen to a small hilly peninsula
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