The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . tts, p. 86 PIONEERS OF THE CIIUUCIl IN NEW ENGLAND. 93 arc members of some of the churc-hcs within the i^-mitts of tlic cords of restraint were thus being tightened around the few oldsettlers who were churchmen. Even the cut of Blaxtons coat wasoffensive. We find, in Johnsons AYonder-Working Providence, aquaint passage, throwing a little light on the manners and rejiutationof this eccentric, but amiable, scholar and recluse, wjio was the earliestsettler of Boston. Referring to the spring of 1(529, this writer adds : — All t
The history of the American Episcopal Church, 1587-1883 . tts, p. 86 PIONEERS OF THE CIIUUCIl IN NEW ENGLAND. 93 arc members of some of the churc-hcs within the i^-mitts of tlic cords of restraint were thus being tightened around the few oldsettlers who were churchmen. Even the cut of Blaxtons coat wasoffensive. We find, in Johnsons AYonder-Working Providence, aquaint passage, throwing a little light on the manners and rejiutationof this eccentric, but amiable, scholar and recluse, wjio was the earliestsettler of Boston. Referring to the spring of 1(529, this writer adds : — All this wliile little likelihood there was of building: the Temple for Godsworship, there being only two that began to hew stones in the Mountaines, the onenamed Mr. Bright and the other Mr. Blaxton, and one of them began to build, Iwtwhen thej saw all sorts of stones would not (it in the building, as they supposed,llio one betooke him to the seas againe, and the other to till the Land, retainingno simbole of his former profession, but a Canonicall WINTUnOP S FLEET. In the Magnalia Cotton Mather speaks of Blaxton as reckonedamong the godlj- Episcopalians, and refers to him as one wiio byhappening to sleep first in an hovel upon a point of land there, laid claimto all the ground whereupon there now stands the metropolis of thewhole English America, until the inhabitants gave him early settlers evidently r-ecognized the existence of more than aclaim on Blaxtons part, for, in the spring of 1633, the records statethat it is agreed, that M. William Blackestone shall haue 50 acres of Records of Massachusetts, i., p. 87. II. Mass. Hist. Soc. ii., p. 0. This cut is a reduction, by permission, froman oil-paintinpr recently completed liy Mr. Will-iam F. Ihikall, ; a part of Ihe ilcctwhich Ijionylit Winlhrop and bis toSalem just as they had come round to BostonHarbor, and were droppini^ anchor. The vesselsare a careful study of the ships
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