The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths . citem rliamer were aet aside, parliamentary leaders were 8Tower, and the period of royal rule without Par-liament began. The heavy hand of an autocrgovernment fell on all those within reach whoupheld the Puritan cause, among whom waa Johnthrop, a country squire, forty-one years ofwho was deprived of his office as attorney inCourt of Wards. Disillusioned as to life inland because of financial losses and familyavements, ana now u3rr^59rom his customary r^mh^zU sdi to noMfoo sd) nJ .noJ80a ^uoll six* sdt thoughts toward Amenca
The fathers of New England; a chronicle of the Puritan commonwealths . citem rliamer were aet aside, parliamentary leaders were 8Tower, and the period of royal rule without Par-liament began. The heavy hand of an autocrgovernment fell on all those within reach whoupheld the Puritan cause, among whom waa Johnthrop, a country squire, forty-one years ofwho was deprived of his office as attorney inCourt of Wards. Disillusioned as to life inland because of financial losses and familyavements, ana now u3rr^59rom his customary r^mh^zU sdi to noMfoo sd) nJ .noJ80a ^uoll six* sdt thoughts toward AmencaBo^ tpg^^oitgeapproval of the Earl of Warwick and in conjunctionwith a group of Puritan friends — Thomas Dudley,Isaac Johnson, Richard Saltonstall, and JohnHumphrey,— he decided in the sum 1629 to leave England forever, and in S» r he joined the Massachusetts Bay Company. Almost lediately he showed his cap;; , was soon elected governor, a the following winter I rs as to secure a vo fer of charter and comj The official organizat *hat y those desirhr tove si con-. ETO-VU-ra^TiKevseiL-LaiTib. C& JWY THE BAY COLONY 29 trol, and on March 29, 1630, the companywith its charter, accompanied by a considerablenumber of prospective colonists, set sail fromCowes near the Isle of Wight in four vessels,the Arabella, the Talbot, the Ambrose, and theJewel, the remaining passengers following inseven other vessels a week or two later. Thevoyages of the vessels were long, none less thannine weeks, by way of the Azores and the Mainecoast, and the distressed Puritans, seven hundredaltogether, scurvy-stricken and reduced in num-bers by many deaths, did not reach Salem untilJune and July. Hence they moved on to Charles-town, set up their tents on the slope of the hill,and on the 23rd of August, held the first officialmeeting of the company on American soil; but find-ing no running water in the place and still pursuedby sickness and death, they again removed, thistime to Boston, where they built
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