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Title: A history of the United States
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Latané, John Holladay, 1869-1932
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Publisher: Boston : New York : Allyn and Bacon
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o was One of his parishioners. They arrived at Boston in 1637, in the midst of the Hutchin-sonian controversy, and in spite of every inducement thatwas offered them to remain in Massachusetts proceeded toLong Island Sound and founded New Haven. They had nocharter of any kind, and their only right to the soil wasbased on purchases from the Indians. In 1639 the free planters met in a barn, and after Daven-port ♦had preached from the text, Wisdom hath buildedher house; she hath hewn out her seven pillars, theyproceeded to adopt a set of resolutions binding them tobe governed by the Scriptures as a sufficient guide in allthe affairs of life and providing for the selection of sevenmen as pillars of the new church and state. Only churchmembers were to be admitted as free burgesses. On thisbasis the seven pillars proceeded to organize a Biblecommonwealth of the extremest type. A general court was organized to meet once a year for theelection of a governor and assistants, in whose hands was
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NEW ENGLANDIN 1640 English Colonization, 1584-1660 41 placed the entire administration of affairs. They were to beguided by the laws of Moses. Trial by jury was not recog-nized because not found in the Mosaic code, ^j^^ MosaicOther towns were soon established in the neigh- code en-borhood: Guilford, Milford, and Stamford, all ^°^^modeled more or less after New Haven. In 1643 dread ofattack from the Indians and the Dutch caused these townsto unite with New Haven. Later Southold on Long Island,Bradford, and Greenwich joined the confederacy. Thusconstituted, the colony of New Haven continued its separateexistence until 1662. In 1622 Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Captain John Masonreceived from the Council for New England a grant of thecountry between the Merrimac and the Kennebec New Hamp-rivers. Both were Episcopalians and friends of ^^^e^*^the king, and their interests in the new enter- granted toprise were mainly commercial. In 1623 they go^^^^J^*^established settlements or trading posts

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