An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . dicolt, under the auspices of the Governor and Com-pany of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England. Charlestownwas founded next year. The settlement was denominated the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony, and its niembers were greatly strengthenedin 1630, when the celebrated John Winthrop arrived with threehundred pious families. Winthrop was chosen governor of thewhole colony, and establish
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . dicolt, under the auspices of the Governor and Com-pany of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England. Charlestownwas founded next year. The settlement was denominated the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony, and its niembers were greatly strengthenedin 1630, when the celebrated John Winthrop arrived with threehundred pious families. Winthrop was chosen governor of thewhole colony, and established his residence where Boston nowstands. Misfortunes, however, still thickened around them ; sick-ness and a severe cHmate made fearful inroads into their numbers,a;nd, before December, two hundred died. But the survivors werenot discouraged. They had found a home in the wilderness, wherethe asperities of nature were less formidable than the persecutionsof man ; and the hardships inseparable from their situation couldnot shake their determined minds. In 1631, a law was passed limiting the rights of citizenship tomembers of church, and another, making the offices of governor blR HAKRY VANE CHOSEN GOVERNOR. 247. 8fK HARRY , deputy-governor, and assistants, elective by the people. The wholeform of government was changed, in 1634, from a pure democracyto a representative one. The former statute, somewhat intolerablein itself, was soon followed by proceedings still more arbitrary. Aclergyman, named Roger Williams, having been driven from hisnative country by English bigotry, sought a home among the Puri-tans, and became pastor of Salem. Here he proclaimed, amongother things, perfect freedom of conscience in religious matters,denied the authority of the king to enforce an oath of allegiance, orto deprive the Indians of their lands. Men like the Puritans couldnot regard such opinions without alarm ; and Willian)s was soonarraigned for trial. Banishment from the colony followed, (
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