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Title: History of the United States
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Andrews, Matthew Page. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ence, and Beginnings of Rhode Is- this was the beginning of the colony of Rhode Island.In the same year that Roger Williams fled from Salem,another noted disputant began in Boston to teach doctrines thatwere obnoxious to the Puritan authorities. This disturber of thePuritan church was Mrs. Anne Hutchinson, who, with her fol-lowers, was later driven out of Boston. Mrs. Hutchinson andsome of her adherents bought land from the Indians and foundedthe towns of Portsmouth and Newport, also in Rhode Island. DUTCH DRIVEN OUT OF NEW ENGLAND 35 18. The Dutch Driven out of New England.—The 3 ear thatsaw Roger WiUiams lead the way in the colonization of RhodeIsland also saw the bednnin^s of Connecticut. The Beginnings ^ ^ of Connecti- Dutch had laid claim to the western half of the future cut, i636 English colony and had threatened war if their claims were not respected. These threats the English Puritans wholly disregarded. Governor Win- throps son sent an expedition which secured the mouth of
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NEW ENGLAND AND NEW NETHERLAND the Connecticut River and thus made untenable a Dutch fortabove. Hartford was among the towns first founded in the newregion thus opened for settlement. Its leading spirit was ThomasHooker, a Puritan pastor, who maintained that all the peopleshould have a part in the government and not a limited few. He 36 BEGINNINGS OF NEW ENGLAND upheld a complete democracy as against the established religioustheocracy of Massachusetts Bay.^ 19. Indian Wars.—The new colony was soon called upon toface a dangerous Indian war. In fact, the probability of the alli-ance of several of the tribes endangered all the outlying settlements.The Pequot Indians had been accused of murdering isolated set-tlers in the Connecticut Valley, and John Endicott was sentagainst them in 1636. His course served only to arouse them toopen hostility. Settlers were ambushed, captured, and, in manycases, burned alive or tortured in other ways. The Pequots fur-ther sought alliance with the numero

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