. A brief history of the United States . who fled from England in Cromweirs time took refuge in Virginia, and werehospitably entertained, while the regicides (the judges who con-demned Charles I.) fled to Massa-chusetts and were concealed fromtheir pursuers. t Going up the James River,just before reaching City Point,one sees on the right-hand bankthe ruins of an old church. Thecrumbling tower, with its archeddoorways, is almost hidden bythe profusion of shrubbery whiclisurrounds it. Its moss-coveredwalls, entwined with ivy plantedby loving hands which havesince crumbled into dust, lookdesolate
. A brief history of the United States . who fled from England in Cromweirs time took refuge in Virginia, and werehospitably entertained, while the regicides (the judges who con-demned Charles I.) fled to Massa-chusetts and were concealed fromtheir pursuers. t Going up the James River,just before reaching City Point,one sees on the right-hand bankthe ruins of an old church. Thecrumbling tower, with its archeddoorways, is almost hidden bythe profusion of shrubbery whiclisurrounds it. Its moss-coveredwalls, entwined with ivy plantedby loving hands which havesince crumbled into dust, lookdesolately out upon the oldchurchyard at its back. Here,pushing aside the rank vines andtangled bushes which concealthem, one finds a few weather-beaten tombstones. A huge bnt-tonwood tree, taking root below, THE RUINS AT JAMESTOWN. ^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ „,^ Slabs, and now, with its many fellows, spreads its lofty branches high over the soli-tary dead. And this is aU that remains of that Jamestown whose struggles we Ijavphere l620.] DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH COLONIES. 53 impatiently declared, He has taken more lives in thatnaked country than I did for the murder of my father. MASSACHUSETTS. The Plymouth Company made several attempts toexplore Xorth Virginia. Captain John Smith, already sofamous in South Virginia, examined the coast from Penob-scot to Cape Cod, drew a map of it, and called the countryNew England. The company, stirred to action by hisglowing accounts, obtained a new patent (1630) under thename of the Council for New England. This- authorizedthem to make settlements and laws, and to carry on tradethrough a region reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific,and comprising oyer a million square miles. New England,however, was settled with no consent of king or council. PLYMOUTH COLONY. Settlement—Landing of the Pilgrims.*—One stormyday in the fall of 1620, the Mayflower, with a band of a hun-dred pilgiims, came to anchor in Cape Cod harbor. The * They wer
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