. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... place had been taken bythe council of body cared for NewEngland only as a sourceof profit, and sold the ter-ritory of that region toa number of purchasers,assigning the same districtto different people, and thuspaving the way for vexa-tious litigation. In 1628,it sold to a company ofgentlemen of Dorchester,which Whites energy hadsucceeded in bringing intoexistence, a district extending from threemiles south of Massachusetts Bay to threemiles no
. Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ... place had been taken bythe council of body cared for NewEngland only as a sourceof profit, and sold the ter-ritory of that region toa number of purchasers,assigning the same districtto different people, and thuspaving the way for vexa-tious litigation. In 1628,it sold to a company ofgentlemen of Dorchester,which Whites energy hadsucceeded in bringing intoexistence, a district extending from threemiles south of Massachusetts Bay to threemiles north of the Merrimac River. Aswas usual in all grants of the day, thePacific was made the western boundary offthis region. This company was at once prepared to«^ind out a colony, and in the early sun^mer of that year one hundred persons underJohn Endicott, as governor, were despatchedto New England. Endicott took his familywith him, and in September, 1628, reachetlNew England, and established the settlementof Salem, the site of which was already occu-pied by a few men whom White* had placedthere to hold it. Endicott, who was a mai*. JOHN ENDICOTT, of undaunted courage and acknowledged in-tegrity of character, soon established hisauthority over the few settlements that hacsprung up along the shores of the bay. Atthis time the site of Charlestown was occupiedby an Englishman named Thomas Walford,a blacksmith, who had fortified his cabinwith a palisade. The only dweller on tufi 140 SETTLEMENT OF AMERICA. tri-mountain peninsula of Shawmut was theRev. William Blackstone, a clergyman of theChurch of England; the island now knownas East Boston was occupied by SamuelMaverick. At Nantasket and a few placesfarther south some Englishmen had locatedthemselves, and lived by fishing and tradingin skins : and on the site of Quincy was thewreck of a colony which had nearly perishedin consequence of its evils ways. These?with the settlement at Salem, constituted thecolony of Massachusetts Bay.
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