. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... Isaac Johnson, ThomasDudley, Richard Saltonstall and eightothers, men of fortune and education,met at Cambridge and bound them-selves by a solemn agreement to settle inNew England if the whole government ofthe colony, together with the patent, shouldbe legally transferred to that region beforethe end of September. On the twenty-ninth of the month, the court took the de-cisive step and ordered that * the govern-ment and patent should be settled in NewEngland.
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... Isaac Johnson, ThomasDudley, Richard Saltonstall and eightothers, men of fortune and education,met at Cambridge and bound them-selves by a solemn agreement to settle inNew England if the whole government ofthe colony, together with the patent, shouldbe legally transferred to that region beforethe end of September. On the twenty-ninth of the month, the court took the de-cisive step and ordered that * the govern-ment and patent should be settled in NewEngland. This was a bold step, but itslegality was not contested by any one, and it made the government of the colony independ-ent of control by any power in England. The officers of the colony were to be agovernor and eighteen assistants. On thetwentieth of October, a meeting of the courtwas held to choose them, and John Winthropwas elec*ed governor for one year. It was afortunate selection, for Winthrop provedhimself for many years the very mainstay ofthe colony, sustaining his companions by hiscalm courage, and setting them a noble ex-. JOHN WINTHROP. ample in his patience, his quiet heroism andhis devotion to the welfare of others. Heseemed to find his greatest pleasure in doinggood, and his liberality acted as a checkupon the bigotry of his associates and keptthem in paths of greater moderation. Efforts were made to send over new settlersto Massachusetts, and about a thousandemigrants, with cattle, horses and goats, were<-^ri snorted thither in the season of 1630, 142 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. Early in Aprif, Governor Winthrop andabout seven hundred emigrants sailed fromEngland in a fleet of eleven ships. Many ofthem were men of high endowments andlarge fortune; scholars, well versed in thelearning of the times; clergymen who rankedamong the best educated and most pious inthe realm. Death Among the Settlers. They reached Salem on the twelfth ofJune, after a voyage of sixty-one day
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