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| MASSACHUSETTS. |
| THE Pilgrim Fathers
sailed from Delft in the
"Mayflower" for America
and landed (102 in number) at new
Plymouth. Half of them died the
first winter. The Massachusetts
Bay Colony was founded at Salem
by John Endicott in 1628, and in
1630 Gov. John Winthrop and
seventeen ship-loads of colonists
came over, and the capital was
transferred, first to Mishantum,
which was re-named Charlestown,
and next to the Indian cornfields
of Shaqmut (then re-named
Boston). Another and much smaller
colony secured a grant from the
Earl of Stirling of the islands
of Nantucket and Martha's
Vineyard, and held them under the
government of New York until
1695, when they were ceded to
Massachusetts. |
| The Bay
colonists, more wealthy,
influential and energetic than
those of Plymouth, were also less
lenient and liberal. Their chief
motive in self-exile lay in
securing freedom to worship God
in their own way. They banished
certain people who differed with
them in doctrine, such as the
Antinomians and the Quakers. Then
followed the terrible witchcraft
delusion, wherein so-alleged
witches were put to death at
Salem. When the settlements began
to encroach on their domains, the
Indian tribes rose in arms, and
there followed a long series of
terrible wars between 1637 (the
Pequot War) and 1760 (the
conquest of Canada). On the soil
of this State occurred the first
battles of the Revolutionary War,
in which the larger part of the
army was composed of
Massachusetts men. |
| When
the Secession War broke out in
1861, the Massachusetts militia
was the first to respond to the
President's call for troops,
armed and equipped in all points,
ready for the field. |
| ILLUSTRATIONS. |
Pilgrims
on the Way to Church. The
"Mayflower." Priscilla
Weaving. A Treaty. |
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