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Identifier: magazineofamericv13stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
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eived a warm welcome from Governor Thomas Dud-rnors, and deputy governors, and future govern-I Bo ton, of whom were present John Winthrop, JohnBrad treet, Sir Henry Vane, John Hayncs, Roger Lud-I. • ham, and the younger John Winthrop—an exceptionalrnatorial lights for one little town not quite five years old.Winthrop had just returned from Europe with his commis-l ommonwealth—embracing the greater portion of the THE MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAND 3 present State of Connecticut and extending westward to the Pacific Ocean—which he had received from a company of English noblemen who had be-come dissatisfied with the conduct of affairs under the graceful but erringmonarch, Charles I., and had obtained a patent for this broad extent ofterritory, intending permanent removal to America. The leaders of the enterprise included such notables as Oliver Crom-well, John Hampden, Sir Matthew Boynton, Sir Richard Saltonstall, SirArthur Heslerigge, Lord Say and Sele, Lord Brooke, afterward Earl of
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WOOD SCENE. Warwick (the ancestor of the present Earl who occupies Warwick castle, sofamiliar to all traveling Americans) and Colonel George Fenwick. Theyhad not only made choice of a governor but had employed Lion Gardiner as acompetent engineer to precede them to America, for the drawing, order-ing, and making of a city, towns, and forts of defense. The site of acity of castles and palaces, to be rendered suitable for the reception ofmen of quality had already been selected at the mouth of the Connecti-cut River. Lion Gardiner was to be its engineer, architect, and builder,and was to have three hundred able-bodied men under his control—twohundred as a garrison, fifty to till the ground, and fifty to build houses.He was employed to command the post four years, subject to the directionof Governor Winthrop. Supplies needful for his purposes were to be for- nil. MANOR OF GARDINERS ISLAND From England as the work advanced. As this was an importantin connection with the beginning of emp

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