Identifier: politicalhistory00boyd (find matches)
Title: The political history of the United States : or, popular sovereignty and citizenship; birth and growth of the colonies; march to independence; constitutional government; presidents and administrations; congresses and political measures; party platforms and principles; rise and fall of parties. Questions of the hour-civil service reform, polygamy, prohibition, surplus revenue, tariff and free trade, arguments for and against, review of tariff acts
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Boyd, James Penny, 1836-1910
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Publisher: Philadelphia Chicago : P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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s. Mason got a patent forthe lands between the Salem river and the farthest head of theMerrimac (1621). Gorges and Mason took a patent for Laconia,the whole country between the sea, the St. Lawrence, the Mer-rimac and Kennebec, and the plantations on the Piscataqua, aswell as the towns of Portsmouth and Dover came into being,say 1623. Mason got a second patent (1629) for the countrybetween the Merrimac and Piscataqua, which was afterwardsknown as the New Hampshire patent, and so the business raninto interminable confusion and endless law-suits. The omnip-otent Council of Plymouth was fast frittering away its lands,influence and prerogatives. SECOND PURITAN ADVENT—The Puritan at homechafed under the constraints of English law and the severitiesof the English church. Minister White, of Dorchester, thoughnot a Separatist, would lead a colony of the faithful across thewaters. Despite his puritanism, he formed a company, whichbought of the expiring Plymouth Council a belt of land extend-
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PLYMOUTH BOCK. 49 50 POLITICAL HISTORY OF ing from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from three miles southof the river Charles and Massachusetts bay to three miles northof every part of the river Merrimac. This was a strong com-pany in men, for it included such as Sir Henry Roswell, SirJohn Young, Thomas Southcoat, John Humphrey, John Endicot,Simon Whetcomb, and afterwards Winthrop, Dudley, Johnson,Pynchon, Eaton, Saltonstall, and Bellingham, all names wellknown in colonial history. Endicot, the sternest kind of a Pur-itan, was selected to begin the work of establishing a plantationof the best of their countrymen on the shores of New Eng-land and in safe seclusion, where the corruptions of humansuperstition might never invade. Not trusting to this patentfrom the Council, for it was in contravention of half a dozenothers, it was confirmed by a charter from Charles I., and * TheGovernor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng-land was on its feet. Its date is March 4, 1629. The

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