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قراءة كتاب Historic Events of Colonial Days
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Historic Events of
Colonial Days
By RUPERT S. HOLLAND
Author of "Historic Boyhoods," "Historic
Girlhoods," "Historic Inventions," etc.
PHILADELPHIA
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1916, by
George W. Jacobs & Company
Published, October, 1916
All rights reserved
Printed in U. S. A.
Contents
| I. | A Puritan Hero (Rhode Island, 1630) |
9 |
| II. | Peter Stuyvesant's Flag (New York, 1661) |
21 |
| III. | When Governor Andross Came to Connecticut (Connecticut, 1675) |
55 |
| IV. | The Struggle Between Nathaniel Bacon and Sir William Berkeley (Virginia, 1676) |
70 |
| V. | An Outlaw Chief of Maryland (Maryland, 1684) |
105 |
| VI. | In the Days of Witches (Massachusetts, 1692) |
139 |
| VII. | The Attack on the Delaware (Pennsylvania, 1706) |
174 |
| VIII. | The Pirates of Charles Town Harbor (South Carolina, 1718) |
206 |
| IX. | The Founder of Georgia (Georgia, 1732) |
245 |
| X. | The Green Mountain Boys and the Yorkers (Vermont, 1774) |
287 |
Illustrations
| Andross Stared at Governor Treat | Frontispiece | |
| Stuyvesant Bit His Lips as His Gunners Waited | Facing page | 46 |
| "I Yield as Your Prisoner" | " " | 116 |
| Nick Turned to Lead the Way | " " | 210 |
I A PURITAN HERO
(Rhode Island, 1630)
The good ship Lyon had been sixty-seven days outward bound from the port of Bristol, in England, when she dropped anchor early in February, 1630, at Nantasket, near the entrance of Boston Harbor, in New England. The ship had met with many winter storms, and passengers and crew were glad to see the shores of Massachusetts. On the ninth of February the Lyon slipped through a field of drifting ice and came to anchor before the little settlement of Boston. On board the ship was a young man who was to play an exciting part in the story of the New World.
Yet this young man, Roger Williams by name, seemed simple and quiet enough, as he and his wife came ashore and were welcomed by Governor John Winthrop. He was a young preacher, filled with a desire to carry his teaching to the new lands across the Atlantic Ocean, and he had been asked to be the minister of the First Church in Boston. As it turned out, however, his ideas were not the ideas of the people of Boston, and he soon found that the First Church was not the place for him.
So after a short stay in Boston Roger Williams and his wife went to Plymouth, which was then a colony separate from Massachusetts Bay. William Bradford, the governor of Plymouth, and his neighbors made the young preacher welcome, and there Roger Williams stayed for two years, teaching and exhorting and prophesying, as ministers were said to do in those days. There his daughter Mary was born. Roger Williams, however, was given to argument and could be very obstinate at times, and presently he fell out with his neighbors at Plymouth, and moved again, this time to Salem. There he was given charge of the church, and there he, like many other free-thinking men, fell under the displeasure of the governor of Massachusetts Bay. For some things he taught he was summoned before the General Court of the Bay, and the Court ordered him to leave the colony. He did not go at once, and Governor Winthrop let him stay until the following January, when rumors came to Boston that Roger Williams was planning to lead twenty men of his own way of thinking to the country about Narragansett Bay, and there establish a colony of his own. John Winthrop objected seriously to any such performance.
The governor