Excerpt from Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 6 It was generally accounted no wisdom to be straitened in a wilderness, where there was land enough, and therefore these, with Isaac, preferred a Rehoboth before a Sitnah and it were to be wished, that men's desires being obtained as to room, there may never be conteh tion about their bounds. But Whatever were the cause, or gave the occasion, of setting up these Plantations, the design being resolved upon in the year 1634, some1 were deputed from ...
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Excerpt from Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Vol. 6 It was generally accounted no wisdom to be straitened in a wilderness, where there was land enough, and therefore these, with Isaac, preferred a Rehoboth before a Sitnah and it were to be wished, that men's desires being obtained as to room, there may never be conteh tion about their bounds. But Whatever were the cause, or gave the occasion, of setting up these Plantations, the design being resolved upon in the year 1634, some1 were deputed from amongst the towns in the Bay to View the country, who returning'from this Eshcol with a large commendation of the commodiousness of the place, and fruitfulness Of the soil, they took up a resolution forth with to begin several Plantations there; accordingly, in the year 1635, several families, with the approbation of the authority of the Massachusetts, undertook the removal of themselves to that Canaan of Connecticut; and in the way thereunto, whether they so Well expected it and prepared for it or no, they met with many difficulties, and trials ofa wilderness, before they were comfortably settled there. For those their hasty resolves, that had so early budded, were sorely nipped, and almost quite blasted, by the sharpness of the winter season that year, and other sad. Occurrences, which they were called to en counter With, in the following year, by the barbarous outrage of the Pequod Indians, who, like Amalek of Old. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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