Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . ople in a very unfortunate condition. But in a short time over onethousand ptiions arrived and villages began to spring up along the Bos-ton Com-mon they found a spring of water and a settlement was madewhich was the beginning of that great city. The people were not accustomed to the New Eng-land climate and therewas consequently a great deal of sickness. So many died that a day was setapart for fasting and prayer. As if in answer to their appeal a ship appeare
Young folks' story of our country; a thrilling and accurate history of America, told in the simple language of childhood .. . ople in a very unfortunate condition. But in a short time over onethousand ptiions arrived and villages began to spring up along the Bos-ton Com-mon they found a spring of water and a settlement was madewhich was the beginning of that great city. The people were not accustomed to the New Eng-land climate and therewas consequently a great deal of sickness. So many died that a day was setapart for fasting and prayer. As if in answer to their appeal a ship appearedwith provisions and drugs which the people sadly needed. On this vessel camea young man by the name of Ro-ger Wil-liams. He was a very well educatedperson but very frank in expressing his opinion. He believed that the churchand state should be kept separate and openly declared that no magistrate hadany right to punish anyone for breaking the Sab-bath. He was chosen min-ister of the Bos-ton church but En-di-cott would not allow him to preach, sohe was obliged to go to Ply-mouth. Although he had many followers, En-di- 43. CAPTAIN JOHN SMITH. THE MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY. 45 cott and others accused him of being a heretic and finally he fled to the woodsand lived with the In-di-ans. Ca-non-i-cus, Chief of the Nar-ra-gan-setts, gave him a tract of landbut Wil-liams gave away the land in order that those who were persecuted likehimself, might find a refuge. So he called the land Prov-i-dence because hebelieved that God had delivered him from his enemies. Finallv others joinedWil-liams in his colony and among these was Ann Hutch-in-son, a very re-markable woman and one who did not believe in the strict religious laws ofEn-di-cott. Finally the new colony obtained a charter under the name ofRhode Is-land and Prov-i-dence Plan-ta-tion. The Pur-i-tans and the In-di-ans did not agree very well, however, anda tribe who inhabited Block Is-land murdered a prominent man by the nameof Old-ham.
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