History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Harbor of Provincetown, Cape Cod, where the Pilgrims landed. in a sub-corporation of a new organization,the Plymouth Company, chartered in in the Mayflower from Plym-outh, where they had paused in their wayhither from Holland, they arrived off thecoast of Cape Cod in 1620, December nthOld Style, December 21st New Style, and i34 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT [1620 began a settlement, to which they gave thename Plymouth. Before landing they had. formed themselves into a political body, agovernment
History of the United States from the earliest discovery of America to the present time . Harbor of Provincetown, Cape Cod, where the Pilgrims landed. in a sub-corporation of a new organization,the Plymouth Company, chartered in in the Mayflower from Plym-outh, where they had paused in their wayhither from Holland, they arrived off thecoast of Cape Cod in 1620, December nthOld Style, December 21st New Style, and i34 DISCOVERY AND SETTLEMENT [1620 began a settlement, to which they gave thename Plymouth. Before landing they had. formed themselves into a political body, agovernment of the people with just andequal laws. i62o] PILGRIM AND PURITAN 135 They based their civil authority uponthis Mayflower compact, practically ignor-ing England. Carver was the first gov-ernor, Bradford the second. The colonywas named Plymouth in memory of hospi-talities which its members had received atPlymouth, England, the name having noconnection with the Plymouth of thePlymouth Company. The members of thePlymouth Company had none but a mer-cantile interest in the adventure, merelyfitting out the colonists and bearing the ex-pense of the passage for all but the the other hand, the stock was not allretained in England. Shares were allottedto the Pilgrims as well, one to each emi-grant with or without means, and one forevery ^10 invested. Plymouth early made a treaty with Mas-sasoit, the chief of the neighboring Warn-panoags, the peace lasting with benigneffects to both parties for fifty years, or tillthe outbreak of Phili
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