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commenced at Weymouth. This company 

 not only pilfered the Plymouth people, 

 but got them into trouble with the natives, 

 by treating the last in a similar manner. 

 This was, however, speedily terminated by 

 sending against it a small force under 

 Standish, by which means the settlement 

 was dispersed, and soon abandoned, al- 

 though, not many years after, it was per- 

 manently settled under its present name, 

 the few inhabitants receiving an acces- 

 sion to their number from Weymouth 

 in England. A few miles to the north 

 of this, another plantation was laid out, 

 which, coming under the jurisdiction of 

 Thomas Morton, became an undesirable 

 place, well known by the character of the 

 company, whose unruly exploits were 

 finally terminated through the exertions 

 of Plymouth, aided by contributions to 

 the expenses therein incurred from the 

 small settlements and individuals scat- 

 tered about Boston Bay and the coast of 

 Maine. 



Although a record exists of the several 

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