. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... st of LongIsland Sound, and spent the winter at a placewhich he selected as a settlement. In April,1638, Davenport and the rest of the companysailed from Boston and established a settle-ment on the spot chosen by Eaton. Thesettlers obtained a title to their lands fromthe natives, and agreed in return to protectthem against the Mohawks. They named their settlement New 1639 a form of government was adopted,and Eaton was elected governor. He wasannuall
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... st of LongIsland Sound, and spent the winter at a placewhich he selected as a settlement. In April,1638, Davenport and the rest of the companysailed from Boston and established a settle-ment on the spot chosen by Eaton. Thesettlers obtained a title to their lands fromthe natives, and agreed in return to protectthem against the Mohawks. They named their settlement New 1639 a form of government was adopted,and Eaton was elected governor. He wasannually chosen to this position until hisdeath, twenty years later. The colonistspledged themselves to be governed in allthings by the rules which the Scriptures heldforth to them. The right of suffrage wasrestricted to church members. * Thus NewHaven made the Bible its statute book, andthe elect its freemen. In the next ten yearssettlements spread along the sound and ex-tended to the opposite shores of Long colony was distinct from and independ-ent of the Connecticut colony, with whichfriendly relations were soon CHAPTER XIIIThe Union of the New England Colonies (feeling of the Colonies Towards England—Hostility of the English Government to New England—Efforts to Inti«duce Episcopacy—Massachusetts Threatens Resistance—The Revolution in England—Establishment of Free Schoolsin New England—Harvard College—The Printing Press—The Long Parliament Friendly to New England—TheUnited Colonies of New England—Rhode Island Obtains a Charter—Maine Annexed to Massachusetts—TheQuakers are Persecuted—Efforts to Christianize the Indians—^John Eliot, the Apostle to the Indians. THE sentiments with which the peopleof the New England coloniesregarded the mother country may-be briefly stated. They were proudof the name of Englishmen, and took a deepinterest in the welfare of their old regarded the British constitution as thesupreme law of th
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