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1620 the Pilgrims, who had received a grant 

 from the London Company, landed by mistake 

 at Plymouth, which was in the Plymouth Com- 

 pany's grant. Two noteworthy events occurred 

 at Jamestown in 1619; these were the meeting 

 of the first legislative assembly in America, and 

 the first importation of negro slaves. 

 Other English settlements began to dot the 

 In 1628 Salem was founde^l as the 



Other troubles in Massachusetts had led sev- 

 eral congregations to move in a body to the 

 Connecticut River valley, where they founded 

 Windsor, Hartford and other towns, 

 settlements in 1639 drew up a written constitu- 

 tion, called the "Fundamental Orders of Con- 

 necticut," which united them in a sort of re- 

 public, the fourth of the colonies. This was not 

 only the first written constitution in America, 



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COMPARATIVE LATITUDES, NORTH ANT) FCT'TII OF TTTE EQUATOR 

 In the above map of the two Americas South America has been folded upon th< north 

 sphere, at the equator. Itlo de Janeiro's latitude R i.th < n i>.ir< s with th:it of i 

 paralao's, with Saxannah's. Thone l.itltu us \-.\ t st:it< s :iri I < ' mada where pi 



densest are between 35* and 60* north; there are no Hties <>r urMpondOM 



rn latitudes. As a furt , of \\orld i.itim.hs. it may be noted that London and 



Winnipeg are at about equal distances north of the equator. 



Massachusetts Bay Colony. By 1650 there were 

 five separate colonies in New England 

 composed of several towns and smaller settlc- 

 The largest was Massachusetts Bay, 

 with its center at Boston. North of this colony 

 were a few small settlements in New Hamp- 

 shire and Maine, but these were not united or 

 large enough to be considered a separate colony. 

 The second colony was Plymouth, founded by 

 the Puritans. The third was Rhode I 

 founded by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchin- 

 son, two religious exiles from Massachusetts. 



but it was the first time in the history of the 

 world that a new state had been created by a 

 constitution. The colony of New Haven was 

 established in 1039, but was united to Connecti- 

 cut in 1682. An event of much importance was 

 the formation of the New England Confedera- 

 tion in 10 



Wh lo New England was thus growing, colo- 

 nies were being established at other places. 

 M.I wn.i founded in 1634 by settlers sent 

 out by Lord Baltimore, the lord proprietor. 

 Meanwhile, five years after Henry Hudson ex- 



