The colonies, 1492-1750 Volume 2

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1890 Excerpt: ...by his son Thomas as deputy-governor. The colony It was impossible for the latter, however, to neglected. carry all of his father's plans into effect, and gradually the province sank into disorder and neglect. Its towns were finally absorbed by Massachusetts (1C521658). The settlers brought out to people Maine were the servants of individuals or companies having a tract of land Character-t0 l-e occupie(l and cultivated, fisheries to conistics of duct, and fur-trade to prosecute. They did not come to found a church or build a state, and such institutions as they developed were the immediate outcome of their necessities. They had little sympathy or communication with their neighbors of Massachusetts and Plymouth. 62. New Hampshire founded (1620-1685). We have seen that John Mason was given a grant in 1629 of the country between the Merrimack and the _..,, Piscataqua. In his scheme for colonizing the Or1g1n of the & first settle-tract, Gorges was associated with him. Eut munts. David Thomson and three Plymouth furtraders had already gained a footing at Rye in 1622, under a grant from the Plymouth Council. Dover had been founded before 1628 by the brothers Hilton, Puritan fish-dealers in London; and some of Mrs. Hutchinson's adherents, exiles from Massachusetts, founded Exeter and Hampton. In 1630 Neal, as colonizing agent of Mason and Gorges, settled at Portsmouth, on the Piscataqua, with a large party of fanners and fishermen, all of them Church of England men: and it is probable that this colony absorbed the neighboring settlement at Rye. By the time the proprietors dissolved partnership in 1635 1620-16S5. New Hampshire Founded. 153 (page 150), considerable property had been accumulated by them here, as in the inventory of their possessions at Portsmouth...