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 . on, began to settle within thedomain of the Pilgrims, and with few exceptions thesepeople were the only ones thereafter to increase the the General Court, consisting of deputies from theseveral towns, was established in 1639, so large had been theemigration from the Massachusetts Bay colony that sixtowns or settlements, besides Plymouth on the south shore,were represented. The colonists had suffered in the way of
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 . on, began to settle within thedomain of the Pilgrims, and with few exceptions thesepeople were the only ones thereafter to increase the the General Court, consisting of deputies from theseveral towns, was established in 1639, so large had been theemigration from the Massachusetts Bay colony that sixtowns or settlements, besides Plymouth on the south shore,were represented. The colonists had suffered in the way of securing pas-tors for the church, and in the main the religious teachingswere by Elder William Brewster and others, but in 1632Roger Williams left the Salem church, where he was assist-ant to the Rev. Samuel Skelton, the pastor, and came toPlymouth, where, as Bradford records, he exercised his giftsamongst them, and after some time was admitted a memberof the church, but within a year he caused great dissatis-faction by promulgating the views through a paper, in which 31 f ^ ->.. (<-s;,*^^.y ^^ ^^; ?.1-. X 4,,^*. C^f- ffh-^ /^^^•^*^? * 1 t. (r. ^.<. he asserted that the charter gave no title to the land; thatthe colonists were guilty of sin in taking the land from theIndians without a title from them; that King James told asolemn public lie, because in his patent he blessed God thathe was the first Christian prince that had discovered thisland, and also cast several other severe reflections uponKing James and King Charles. The leaders, at an held meeting of the church, rebukedhim for this and by vote inscribed upon the church recordsdismissed him from further service with them. As the yearspassed the Pilgrim colonists and the Massachusetts Baypeople gradually came closer together, until finally theyappeared to be one people, but they continued under the wiseadministration of Brewster, who died in 1643 j of Winslow,who left for England in 1646; of Standish, who di
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