The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . lk),is the ancestral home of the Winthrops, one of whom,John Winthrop, was the first Governor of MassachusettsBay Colony. His birthplace was at Edwardstone, not farfrom Groton Manor. Ancient Kings Lynn was the native to\Mi of Vancouver,who died in 1798, and after whom Vancouver Island isnamed. Other natives of Kings Lynn who pla3ed a partin the history of New England were Samuel Whiting, theminister of the set
The British Isles : a guide for overseas visitors, taking in the American pilgrim shrines, the principal show-places and other famed for their history, beauty, or literary associations . lk),is the ancestral home of the Winthrops, one of whom,John Winthrop, was the first Governor of MassachusettsBay Colony. His birthplace was at Edwardstone, not farfrom Groton Manor. Ancient Kings Lynn was the native to\Mi of Vancouver,who died in 1798, and after whom Vancouver Island isnamed. Other natives of Kings Lynn who pla3ed a partin the history of New England were Samuel Whiting, theminister of the settlement that grew into the AmericanLynn, and Captain John Mason, Vice-Admiral of NewEngland in 1635. AMERICAN SUKINICS IN THE 1>R()V1NCES. Widford, a quiet little Hertfordshire village, sevenmiles from Hertford, has a parish church dating in partsfrom the 14th century, in which the east ^vindow is inmemorv of John Eliot^ the Apostle to the Indians, whowas one of the first of the Puritan settlers to show humanitytowards the aborigines. He was baptised and probablyborn at Widford in 1604, where his father was a yeomanand a landowner. A copy of Eliots translation of the. ;. <r- . ; l?rT; 1 -
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