United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . hers, disheartened, waded back through the dreary untrod-den snows and came half famished to Plymouth and Boston; but therest, with true Puritan heroism, outbraved the winter and triumphed overthe pangs of starvation. Spring brought a recompense for hardship: theheroic pioneers crept out of their miserable huts to become the foundersof Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the oldest towns in the Con-necticut valley. The banishment of Roger William
United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present . hers, disheartened, waded back through the dreary untrod-den snows and came half famished to Plymouth and Boston; but therest, with true Puritan heroism, outbraved the winter and triumphed overthe pangs of starvation. Spring brought a recompense for hardship: theheroic pioneers crept out of their miserable huts to become the foundersof Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, the oldest towns in the Con-necticut valley. The banishment of Roger Williams, instead of briuging peace,brought strife and dissension to the people of Massachusetts. The minis-ters were stern and exacting. Every shade of popular belief was closelvscrutinized; the slightest departure from orthodox doctrines was metwith a charge of heresy, and to be a- heretic was to become an , the advocates of free opinion multiplied. The clergy, notwithstand-ing their great influence among the people, felt insecure. Religious de- MASS A CHUSETTS.—SETTL EMENT. 131 > 3>ortsmoutl ..Concord S **? KoJn??%>?ft,fc.
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