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Identifier: ourgreatercountr00nort (find matches)
Title: Our greater country; being a standard history of the United States from the discovery of the American continent to the present time ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National pub co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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country was closedagainst them, and the nations of continentalEurope could offer them no asylum. Astheir conviction, that it was their duty toseek some other home, deepened, theirthoughts became more irresistibly directedtowards the new world. In the vast soli-tudes of the American continent, and therealone, they could establish a home in whichthey could worship God without fear 01molestation, and rear their children in th^ways that seemed to them good. Thithciwould they go. Seeking a New Home. They were anxious to make their ventureunder the protection of England, and ucclined the offers made them by the Dutch,who wished them to establish their colonyas a dependency of Holland. They hadheard of the excellent climate and fertile soilof Virginia, and it seemed best to them tochoose that promising region as the scene oltheir experiment. It was necessary to obtaii.the consent of the London Company to thensettlement, as Virginia had been granted tothat body by the king of England; and in
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126 THE PILGRIMS AT PLYMOUTH THE PILGRIM FATHERS. 12^ 1617 two of the leading members of thecongregation—John Carver and RobertCushman—went to England to lay their ap-plication before the company. They were kindly received by Sir EdwinSandys, the secretary of the company. TheyPaid before the directors the request for per-mission to form a settlement in Virginia, withwhich they had been charged by their breth-ren. The application was signed by thegreater part of the congregation, and con-tained a statement of their principles, andtheir reasons for desiring to emigrate toAmerica. We verily believe that God iswith js, said the petitioners, and will pros-per us in our endeavors; we are weanedfrom our mother country, and have learnedpatience in a hard and strange land. Weare industrious and frugal; we are boundtogether by a sacred bond of the Lord,whereof we make great conscience, holdingourselves to each others good. We do notwish ourselves home again; we have nothingto hope from Engl

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