. King's handbook of Boston harbor. rs Ministers and others, visited Castle Island, and,in the rich beauty of a July afternoon, voted that it was exactly the placefor a fortress. Two platforms and a small earthwork were erected, under KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARJWN 131 the supervision of Roger Ludlow of Dorchester; the General Court resolv-ing soon afterwards that The ffort att Castle Hand, nowe begun, shalbefully pfected, the ordnance mounted, evry other thing aboute it ffinished,before any other ffort ificacon be further proceeded in. Captain Simpkins, ofthe Ancient and Honorable Artillery
. King's handbook of Boston harbor. rs Ministers and others, visited Castle Island, and,in the rich beauty of a July afternoon, voted that it was exactly the placefor a fortress. Two platforms and a small earthwork were erected, under KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARJWN 131 the supervision of Roger Ludlow of Dorchester; the General Court resolv-ing soon afterwards that The ffort att Castle Hand, nowe begun, shalbefully pfected, the ordnance mounted, evry other thing aboute it ffinished,before any other ffort ificacon be further proceeded in. Captain Simpkins, ofthe Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, became the first commanderof the Castle, and was succeeded by Gibbons and Morris. In 1635 one ofthe Castle officers was Thomas Beecher, who had come over as masterof the Talbot, in Winthrops fleet. Among his de- ,.,,,., scendants is Henry Ward Beecher. was deposed and banished fromMassachusetts in 1638, because he sup-ported the hated Antinomian heresy ofMrs. Hutchinson. He had alsocaused great scan-dal by his. Main Gate, Fort Independence. adherence to the flag of England, whose cross was deemed heathenish by thePuritans. The St. Georges cross was left out of the colors of the Bostontrain-bands, as savoring of Popery, but remained on the Castle standard, toavoid trouble with England. Sewall wrote, I was and am in great exerciseabout the Cross to be put into the Colours, and afraid if I should have a handint, whether it may not hinder my Entrance into the Holy Land. Other zeal- 132 KINGS HANDBOOK OF BOSTON HARBOR. ous Puritans even made way with the Castle flag, and the masters of the shipsin the harbor raised great complaints thereat. Harry Vane, who was thengovernor, feared that if these honest sailors returned to England, reportingthat there was no standard on the defences of Boston, the colonists wouldbe denounced as rebels; wherefore he ordered that the royal colors shouldbe displayed at the Castle. This, as the ingenious Rev. John Cottonpointed out,
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