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Manchester (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
s equally unbending. The commission, said he from New Haven, is but a tryal of our courage; the Lord will be with his people while they are with him. If you consent to this court of appeals, you pluck down with your own hands the house which wisdom has built for you and your posterity. The elections in the spring of 1665 proceeded with great quiet; the people firmly sustained the govern- Chap XII.} 1664 ment. Meantime letters of entreaty had been sent to Robert Boyle and the earl of Manchester; for, from the days of Southampton and Sandys, of Warwick and Say, to those of Burke and Chatham, America was not entirely destitute of friends in England. But none of them would perceive the reasonableness of complaining against an abstract principle. We are all amazed, wrote Clarendon, who, says Robert Boyle, was no 1665 enemy to Massachusetts; you demand a revocation of the commission, without charging the commissioners with the least matter of crymes or exorbitances. Boyle echoed t
Charles (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
heard of Christ, where do they go?—Do they in heaven dwell in houses, and what do they do?—Do they know things done here on earth? The origin of moral evil has engaged the minds of the most subtle. Why, demanded the natives on the banks of the Charles, why did not God give all men good hearts? —Since God is all-powerful, why did not God kill the devil, that made men so bad? Of themselves Chap. XII.} they fell into the mazes of fixed decrees and free will. Doth God know who shall repent anprietary only of the district between the Kennebeck and the Piscataqua. A novel form of political institution ensued. Massachusetts, in her corporate capacity, was become the lord proprietary of Maine; the little republic on the banks of the Charles was the feudal sovereign of this eastern lordship. Maine had thus far been represented in the Massachusetts house of representatives; henceforward she was to be governed as a province, according to the charter to Gorges. In obedience to an ord<
Medfield (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ill answer your chief. His life was offered him, if he would procure a treaty of peace; he refused the offer with disdain. I know, added he, the Indians will not yield. Condemned to death, he only answered, I like it well; I shall die before I speak any thing unworthy of myself. Meantime the Indian warriors were not idle. We will fight, said they, these twenty years; you have houses, barns, and corn; we have now nothing to lose; and one town in Massachusetts after another— Lancaster, Medfield, Weymouth, Groton, Marlborough —were laid in ashes. No where was there more distress than at Lancaster. Forty-two persons sought shelter under the roof of Mary Rowlandson; and, after a hot assault, the Indians succeeded in setting the house on fire. Will the mothers of the United States, happy in the midst of unexampled prosperity, know the sorrows of woman in a former generation? Quickly, writes Mary Rowlandson, it was the dolefulest day that ever mine eyes saw. Now the dreadful hour
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s rejected. He that will not attend to the request, said Cartwright, is a traitor. The nature of the government of Rhode Island, its habitual policy of relying on England for protection, secured to the royal agents in that province a less unfavornecticut, nearly fourteen thousand; Massachusetts proper, more than twenty-two thousand; and Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island, each perhaps four thousand. The settlements were chiefly agricultural communities, planted near the sea-side, from Nlymouth, never from the first peopled by many Indians, seems to have had less than eight thousand. In Connecticut and Rhode Island, never depopulated by wasting sickness, the Mohegans, the Chap. XII.} 1675. Narragansetts, the Pokanokets, and kindrasoit——he who had welcomed the Pilgrims to the soil of New England, and had opened his cabin to shelter the founder of Rhode Island—now slept with his fathers; and his son, Philip of Pokanoket, had succeeded him as chief over allied tribes. Repeated<
Essex (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
Sept. 1 during a time of religious service, was saved only by the Chap. XII.} 1675. daring of Goffe, the regicide, now bowed with years, a heavenly messenger of rescue, who darted from his hiding-place, rallied the disheartened, and, having achieved a safe defence, sunk away into his retirement, to be no more seen. The plains of Northfield were wet with the blood of Beers, and twenty of his Sept. valiant associates. As Lathrop's company of young men, the very flower of the young men of Essex, all culled out of the towns of that county, were conveying the harvests of Deerfield to the lower towns, Sept. 18. they were suddenly surrounded by a horde of Indians; and, as each party fought from behind trees, the victory was with the far more numerous savages. Hardly a white man escaped; the little stream that winds through the tranquil scene, by its name of blood, commemorates the massacre of that day. See the names in note to E. Everett's Address at Bloody Brook, 37 Springfield w
Deerfield, Mass. (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
had not extended far into the interior. Haverhill, on the Merrimack, was a frontier town; from Connecticut, emigrants had ascended as far as the rich meadows of Deerfield and Northfield; but to the west, Berkshire was a wilderness; Westfield was the remotest plantation. Between the towns on Connecticut River and the cluster of to of the clouds. Washington Irving. What need of repeating the same tale of horrors? Brookfield was set on fire, and rescued only to be Aug 2. abandoned; Deerfield was burned Hadley, surprised Sept. 1 during a time of religious service, was saved only by the Chap. XII.} 1675. daring of Goffe, the regicide, now bowed withciates. As Lathrop's company of young men, the very flower of the young men of Essex, all culled out of the towns of that county, were conveying the harvests of Deerfield to the lower towns, Sept. 18. they were suddenly surrounded by a horde of Indians; and, as each party fought from behind trees, the victory was with the far mor
Jamaica, L. I. (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
e childish, simple, and babyface, of a new favorite; Ibid. 332. 355. and his traffic of the honor and independence of England to the king of France. The duke of Buckingham, now in mighty favor, was revelling with a luxurious and abandoned rout, having with him the impudent countess of Shrewsbury, and his band of fiddlers; and the discussions at the council about New England, were, for the present, as Chap XII} fruitless as the inquiries how nutmegs and cinnamon might be naturalized in Jamaica. Massachusetts prospered by the neglect. It is, said Sir Joshua Child, in his discourse on trade, the 1670 most prejudicial plantation of Great Britain; the frugality, industry, and temperance of its people, and the happiness of their laws and institutions, promise them long life, and a wonderful increase of people, riches, and power. They enjoyed the blessings of selfgovernment and virtual independence. The villages of New England were already the traveller's admiration; the acts of
York, Pa. (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
, in part, continue to the present day. In a pecuniary point of view, no transaction could have been for Massachusetts more injurious; for it made her a frontier state, and gave her the most extensive and most dangerous frontier to defend. But Massachusetts did not, at this time, come into possession of the whole territory which now constitutes the state of Maine. France, under the treaty of Breda, claimed and occupied the district from St. Chap XII.} Croix to the Penobscot: the duke of York held the tract between the Penobscot and the Kennebeck, claiming, indeed, to own the whole tract between the Kennebeck and the St. Croix; while Massachusetts was proprietary only of the district between the Kennebeck and the Piscataqua. A novel form of political institution ensued. Massachusetts, in her corporate capacity, was become the lord proprietary of Maine; the little republic on the banks of the Charles was the feudal sovereign of this eastern lordship. Maine had thus far been re
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
of the claims of Gorges, the government of Maine was to continue as the commissioners had left it. The general court was to execute such commands as exceeded the powers of the magistrates; the general court was therefore convened to consider the letter Sept. 11. from the king. The morning of the second day was spent in prayer; six elders prayed. The next day, after a lecture, some debate was had; and petitions, proposing compliance with the king, were afterwards forwarded from Boston, Salem, Ipswich, and Newbury. Let some regular way be propounded for the debate, Chap. XII.} 1666. said Bellingham, the governor, a man who emphatically hated a bribe.—The king's prerogative gives him power to command our appearance, said the moderate Bradstreet; before God and men we are to obey. —.You may have a trial at law, insinuated an artful royalist; when you come to England, you may insist upon it and claim it.—We must as well consider God's displeasure as the king's, retorted Willoughb<
Haverhill (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
ments were chiefly agricultural communities, planted near the sea-side, from New Haven to Pemaquid. The beaver trade, even more than traffic in lumber and fish, had produced the villages beyond the Piscataqua; yet in Maine, as in New Hampshire, there was a great trade in deal boards. Most of the towns were insulated settlements near the ocean, on rivers, which were employed to drive the sawmills, then described as a late invention; and cultivation had not extended far into the interior. Haverhill, on the Merrimack, was a frontier town; from Connecticut, emigrants had ascended as far as the rich meadows of Deerfield and Northfield; but to the west, Berkshire was a wilderness; Westfield was the remotest plantation. Between the towns on Connecticut River and the cluster of towns near Massachusetts Bay, Lancaster and Brookfield were the solitary abodes of Christians in the desert. The government of Massachusetts extended to the Kennebeck, and included more than half the population of
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