The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . Governor Winthrop,at the order of the General Court held September 7th, causedone Thomas Morton to be placed in the stocks, then to be sentback to England. All his goods were seized and sold for thepayment of his debts and to satisfy the Indians for a canoewhich he had stolen from them, and his house burned in theirsight as part compensation for the wrongs he had done to them. 67 In February, 1631, Roger Williams, a Separati
The story of New England, illustrated, being a narrative of the principal events from the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620 and of the Puritans in 1624 to the present time . Governor Winthrop,at the order of the General Court held September 7th, causedone Thomas Morton to be placed in the stocks, then to be sentback to England. All his goods were seized and sold for thepayment of his debts and to satisfy the Indians for a canoewhich he had stolen from them, and his house burned in theirsight as part compensation for the wrongs he had done to them. 67 In February, 1631, Roger Williams, a Separatist minister,arrived in the ship Lion, and instead of gomg to Plymoutiiwhere the Pilgrims, the main body of Separatists, werelocated, he went to Salem, and was elected to the office ofassistant to Rev. Samuel Skelton, the pastor of the SalemChurch, taking the place of the Rev. Francis Higginson,who had just died. As the planters at Salem and Bostonwere non-Conformists, this action by the Salem people metwith condemnation by the Assistants Court, and Mr. Wil-liams at once resigned and departed for Plymouth. InSeptember the Rev. John Eliot arrived and was assigned to. ytrKty. i ^er^ the planters in Roxbury, where he at once became the closestof friends with the Indians; **he learned their language andpreached the Gospel in it to their perfect understanding;he translated the English language into the Indian and wroteit in a Bible for them, as well as several other books duringhis long life among them. The first session of the General Court was held atBoston, May i8th, 1631, when Winthrop was again chosenGovernor, and the first meeting-house erected upon what isnow State street, at the corner of Devonshire, with JohnWilson as pastor. In 1632 some three hundred immigrants 68 came over, and in 1633 nearly eight hundred, among whomwas the Rev. John Cotton, who was chosen teacher of theBoston Church. The year 1634 was somewhat of a momentousone. Wilham Blackstone, the first white settle
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