A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ket beach and dashesagainst the ledges of Co-hasset — in or near thislovely nook, Standish, onhis first visit to Boston har-bor, had put up a house.^Of this, probably a year ortwo later, Conant took pos-session, and there he, Lyford, and Oldham found refuge when thePuritans would no longer tolerate the latter. It is not quite certain whether Con
A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders . ket beach and dashesagainst the ledges of Co-hasset — in or near thislovely nook, Standish, onhis first visit to Boston har-bor, had put up a house.^Of this, probably a year ortwo later, Conant took pos-session, and there he, Lyford, and Oldham found refuge when thePuritans would no longer tolerate the latter. It is not quite certain whether Conant was at this time residing atCape Ann, or whether he was there only to be present atthe apprehended struggle between the Plymouth men and capeAnnthe crew of Hewess vessel, a report of which might easilyhave reached him at Nantasket, only a few miles distant. At CapeAnn, at any rate, was already planted that first colony of whichConant was sometime in charge, and which was the seed from whichsprung the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. The merchants of the west of England had for several years sent 1 Something like a habitation was put up at Nantasket, says Hubbard {General His-tory of New England), with reference to future traffic with Standishs Pot and Platter. Chester Com-pany. 420 THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH. [Chap. XV. vessels to fish along the coast of New England,^ and in 1623 it wasproposed, as a saving of time and expense, that colonizing and fishingshould be united. The extra men whom it was necessary to take onthese voyages to catch and to cure the fish, were to be left somewhereon the coast when the fishing season was over and the vessel ready togo home, to employ themselves in building, planting, and hunting, forthe rest of the year till they were needed again as fishermen. Theplan, indeed, did not answer, for, — as Bradford saw so plainly and asthe west country merchants proved to their great loss, — the prelimi-nary and continuous work necessary in the
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