A history of the United States . of Massachusetts Bay. — The new Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New Englandwas ostensibly to engage in trade, but in reality its foundersintended to form a religious commonwealth. This could beeasily done, since somehow or other no proviso that the Com-pany should have its headquarters in England was inserted inthe charter. Thus itwas possible to trans-port the Companybodily to New Eng-land, and this a num-ber of prominentPuritans, at a meet-ing held at Cam-bridge in 1629, agree 1to do. There was 1be no violent separation from the Estab-lished Church except
A history of the United States . of Massachusetts Bay. — The new Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New Englandwas ostensibly to engage in trade, but in reality its foundersintended to form a religious commonwealth. This could beeasily done, since somehow or other no proviso that the Com-pany should have its headquarters in England was inserted inthe charter. Thus itwas possible to trans-port the Companybodily to New Eng-land, and this a num-ber of prominentPuritans, at a meet-ing held at Cam-bridge in 1629, agree 1to do. There was 1be no violent separation from the Estab-lished Church exceptsuch as was causedby distance ; but un-congenial practiceswould be avoided,and the heavy handof Archbishop Laud,then the strenuousPrimate of England, would hardly reach across the sea. Thus many men ofwealth and education, whose conservatism would naturallyhave prevented their taking rash steps in their oppositionto the Crown, were led to join in the Massachusetts enter-prise. In April, 1630, eleven vessels sailed for America,. John Winthrop. 36 FIRST PLANTATIONS AND COLONIES, 1607-1630. [§ 38 and by the end of the year about a thousand persons hademigrated to the new colony and founded such towns asBoston, Charlestown, and Watertown. They chose as gov-ernor a wealthy and highly educated Suffolk gentleman, JohnWinthrop,^ and under his able administration the colony begana career of great prosperity and importance. References.—General Works: To the list already given maybeadded: Bryant and Gay, Popular History of the United States; H. , Short History of the English Colonies in America; RichardFrothingham, Bise of the Eepublic of the United States. Special Works: J. Fiske, Beginnings of New England; J. Fiske,Old Virginia and Her Neighbors; J. G. Palfrey, History of New Eng-land; W. B. Weeden, Economic History of New England; P. A. Bruce,Economic History of Virginia; A. Brown, Genesis of the United States;J. E. Cooke, Virginia (American Commonwealths); R. C. Win-throp,
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