II. 



THE COLONIES OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY. 



THE first emigration under the Mas- 

 sachusetts Bay Company was made 

 with Master Bndicott as Governor. 

 Arriving at Naumkeag (Salem) in Septem- 

 ber, 1629, and uniting his own men with 

 those who were formerly here planted, a 

 body of fifty or sixty persons was thus 

 made up. A second emigration, under 

 the Reverend Francis Higginson, in- 

 creased the number to two hundred 

 more. 



In a letter to England, Higginson 

 says : " The next morning the Governor 

 came on board our ship, and bade us 

 kindly welcome, and invited me and my 

 wife to come ashore and take our lod- 

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