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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Salem, Ma. (search)
ional and scientific interests; population in 1900, 35,956. After the abandonment of Cape Ann there was a revival of zeal for colonization at Naumkeag (Salem), and John Endicott was chosen, by a new company of adventurers, to lead emigrants thither and be chief manager of the colony. A grant of land, its ocean line extending from 3 miles north of the Merrimac River to 3 miles south of the Charles River, and westward to the Pacific Ocean, was obtained from the council of New England, March 19, 1628, and in June John Endicott, one of the six patentees, sailed for Naumkeag, with a small party, as governor of the new settlement. Those who were there—the remains of Conant's settlers—were disposed to question the claims of the new-comers. An amicable settlement was made, and in commemoration of this adjustment Endicott named the place Salem, the Hebrew word for peaceful. The colony then comprised about sixty persons. Previous to this emigration about thirty persons, under Captain Wo
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
property, and twenty acres of land near the town is assigned in fee to each colonist......January, 1628 Rev. John White, a Puritan minister of Dorchester, England, enlists some gentlemen who obtain a patent conveying to them that part of New England lying between 3 miles to the north of the Merrimac River and 3 miles to the south of the Charles River, and every part thereof in Massachusetts Bay; and in length between the described breadth from the Atlantic Ocean to the South Sea......March 19, 1628 Company appoint John Endicott governor of the colony until themselves should come over ......May 30, 1628 Endicott, with wife and children and about fifty others, embarks in ship Abigail from England for Massachusetts......June 20, 1628 Plymouth people admonish Thomas Morton of Merry Mount twice; the third time they sent Capt. Miles Standish with some aid ; Morton's followers are disarmed and dispersed without bloodshed, while he is conducted to Plymouth and from there sent to E