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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Alexander , Sir William , 1580 -1640 (search)
Anglican Church.
The earliest Anglican congregation in New England was organized in 1630, when about 1,000 emigrants arrived in Massachusetts from England, under the leadership of John Winthrop, who had been appointed governor under the royal charter.
Winthrop brought the charter with him. On the day before they sailed from the Isle of Wight the leaders sent an address to the rest of the brethren in and of the Church of England, and spoke of that Church with affection as their dear mother., and two of them (John and Samuel Browne) protested, and set up a separate worship.
The energetic Endicott promptly arrested the malcontents and sent them to England.
Following up the system adopted at Salem, the emigrants, under the charter of 1630, established Nonconformist churches wherever settlements were planted — Charlestown, Watertown, Boston, Dorchester, etc. At Salem the choice of minister and teacher was made as follows: Every fit member wrote in a note the name whom the Lord moved
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Blackstone , William , -1675 (search)
Blackstone, William, -1675
Pioneer, supposed to have been graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 1617, and to have become a minister in the Church of England.
In 1623 he removed from Plymouth to the peninsula of Shawmut, where Boston now stands, and was living there in 1630, when Governor Winthrop arrived at Charlestown.
On April 1. 1633, he was given a grant of fifty acres. but not liking his Puritan neighbors he sold his estate in 1634.
He then moved to a place a few miles north of Providence.
locating on the river which now bears his name.
He is said to have planted the first orchard in Rhode Island, and also the first one in Massachusetts.
He was the first white settler in Rhode Island, but took no part in the founding of the colony.
The cellar of the house where he lived is still shown, and a little hill near by where he was accustomed to read is known as Study Hill.
He died in Rehoboth Mass., May 26, 1675.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Bradstreet , Simon , -1697 (search)
Charles ii. 1630-
King of England; son and successor of Charles I.; born in London, May 29, 1630.
His mother was Henrietta
Charles ii. Maria, daughter of Henry IV.
of France, and sister of the then reigning King of that realm.
As the fortunes of his father waned, his mother returned to France, where the son joined her; and, at the Hague, he heard of the death of his parent by the axe, when he assumed the title of King, and was proclaimed such at Edinburgh, Feb. 3, 1649.
He was crowned at Scone, Scotland, Jan. 1, 1651.
After an unsuccessful warfare with Cromwell for the throne, he fled to Paris; and finally he became a resident of Breda, in Belgium, whence he was called to England by a vote of Parliament, and restored to the
Signature of Charles ii. throne, May 8, 1660.
He was a very profligate monarch—indolent, amiable, and unscrupulous.
He misgoverned England twenty-five years in an arbitrary manner, and disgraced the nation.
He became a Roman Catholic, although prof
Clap, Roger 1609-1691
Pioneer; born in Salcomb, England, April, 1609; settled in Dorchester, Mass., with Maverick and others in 1630; was representative of the town in 1652-66, and also held a number of military and civil offices.
In 1665-86 he was captain of Castle William.
He wrote a memorial of the New England worthies, and other Memoirs, which were first published in 1731 by Rev. Thomas Prince, and later republished by the Historical Society of Dorchester.
He died in Boston, Mass., Feb. 2, 1691.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Coddington , William 1601 - (search)
Coddington, William 1601-
Founder of Rhode Island; born in Lincolnshire, England, in 1601; came to America in 1630 as a magistrate of Massachusetts appointed by the crown.
He was a prosperous merchant in Boston, but, taking the part of Anne Hutchinson (q. v.), he was so persecuted that, with eighteen others, he removed to the island of Aquidneck (now Rhode Island), where, on the organization of a government, he was appointed judge, or chief ruler.
In March, 1640, Coddington was elected governor, and held the office seven years. He went to England in 1651, and in 1674-75 he was again governor.
He adopted the tenets of the Quakers.
He died Nov. 1, 1678.