An introductory school history of the United States, arranged on the catechetical plan; to which are added, the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with questions and explanations . han five months nearlyhalf of that Pilgrim band died from the eflfects of exposure andprivations. Carver and his wife being among the Bradford was the second governor. Wh^t treaty was formed with the Indians? In 1621 a treaty of friendship was made with Massasoit[mas-sas-so-it)j chief of the Wampanoags {wom-pa-no-ags),which was sacredly kept for more than thirty ye
An introductory school history of the United States, arranged on the catechetical plan; to which are added, the Declaration of independence, and the Constitution of the United States, with questions and explanations . han five months nearlyhalf of that Pilgrim band died from the eflfects of exposure andprivations. Carver and his wife being among the Bradford was the second governor. Wh^t treaty was formed with the Indians? In 1621 a treaty of friendship was made with Massasoit[mas-sas-so-it)j chief of the Wampanoags {wom-pa-no-ags),which was sacredly kept for more than thirty years. Canoni-cus, chief of the Narragansetts, kept the colonists in fear forawhile, but the decisive course of Bradford eventually com-pelled him to sue for peace. What colony in Massachusetts was planted next after Plymouth ? A company of persons interested in the fisheries of NewEngland, having purchased a tract of land, sent a hundredpersons, under the charge of Endicott. These settled atSalem, in 1628, thus laying the foundation of the Massachu-setts Bay Colony. The colony grew rapidly by the additionof new settlements, especially by the one at Boston, com-menced in 1630. COLONIAL HISTORY. 25 I^EW HAMPSHIRE. PORTSMOUTH AND VICINITT. What can you state of the firstsettling of New Hampshire ? The fir^t settlements in NewHampshire were made at LittleHarbor and Dover in 1623, undera grant which Ferdinand Gorges(gor-jes) and John Mason had ob-tained from the Council of Plymouth. What can you state of the claims ofWheelwright and Mason. Although the grant to Gorges and Mason included all theterritory between the Merrimac and the Kennebec, the Wheelwright, in 1629, purchased of the Indians a por-tion of the same territory. In the same year Mason obtained,from Gorges a grant, in his own name alone, of the countrywhich Wheelwright had purchased, and to this he gave thename of New Hampshire. What land controversy afterward took place? After the death of Mason a vexations cont
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