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Title: An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ... and a complete history of the United States to the present time ..
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Denison, John Ledyard, 1826-1906
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn., H. Bill
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and after beino; circulated ainono; (;ther tribeswith siniilar effects, it was returned to Plyniouth. In 1022, a merchant of London, natned Weston, with sixty followers, commenced a .settlement at Weymouth. Idleness soon re-duced them to poverty, and their encroachments on the Indians wereso unscrupulous that the latter determined on the utter destructionof their white neighbours. The plot was revealed by Massassoit.Captain Standish, with eight men, being sent to support the newsettlement, succeeded in filling the Indian chief with several of hismen, and breaking up th.? conspiracy. In 1626, the colony purchased the rights of the London ner-chants, and distributed th * property among the emigrants. Unfor-tunately, however, Robinson and his friends remaining in Holland,were unable to obtain transportation in consequence of opposition inEngland. In 1624, Mr. White, a Puritan minister, formed a settlement aiCape Ann, which remained two years. In 1624, Salem was settled X 2 MASSACHUSETTS.
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BANI8HMBNT OF ROSaa WILLIAMS. by John Endicolt, under the auspices of the Governor and Com-pany of the Massachusetts Bay, in New England. Charlestownwas founded next year. The settlement was denominated the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony, and its niembers were greatly strengthenedin 1630, when the celebrated John Winthrop arrived with threehundred pious families. Winthrop was chosen governor of thewhole colony, and established his residence where Boston nowstands. Misfortunes, however, still thickened around them ; sick-ness and a severe cHmate made fearful inroads into their numbers,a;nd, before December, two hundred died. But the survivors werenot discouraged. They had found a home in the wilderness, wherethe asperities of nature were less formidable than the persecutionsof man ; and the hardships inseparable from their situation couldnot shake their determined minds. In 1631, a law was passed limiting the rights of citizenship tomembers of church, and another, making the offices of gove

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