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Anno Dom. 



1628. The Maffachufets Colony Planted, and Salem the 

 foil Town therein Built. 1 



1629. The firft Church gathered in this Colony was at 

 Salem', from which Year to this prefent Year, is 43 Years. 



In the compafs of thefe Years, in this Colon}', there 

 hath been gathered Fourty Churches, and 120 Towns built 

 in all the Colonies of New-England. 



1 The author, in the "chronological observations" appended to his Voyages, 

 enlarges this, but confounds Conant's Plantation at Cape Ann, and Endicott's, 

 as follows : " 1628. Mr. John Endicot arrived in New England with some num- 

 ber of people, and set down first by Cape Ann, at a place called afterwards Glos- 

 ter; but their abiding-place was at Salem, where they built the first town in 

 the Massachusets Patent. . . . 1629. Three ships arrived at Salem, bringing a 

 great number of passengers from England. . . . Mr. Endicot chosen Governour." 

 The next year, Josselyn continues as follows : " 1630. The 10th of July, John 

 Winthrop, Esq., and the Assistants, arrived in New England with the patent for 

 the Massachusetts. . . . John Winthrop, Esq., chosen Governour for the remainder 

 of the year; Mr. Thomas Dudley, Deputy-Governour; Mr. Simon Broadstreet, 

 Secretary." — Voyages, p. 252. The title of Governor was used anciently, as it 

 still is elsewhere, in a looser sense than has been usual in New England ; and 

 derived all the dignity that it had from the character and considerableness of the 

 government. Conant and Endicott were directors or governors of settlements in 

 the Massachusetts Bay before Winthrop's arrival ; but when the Massachusetts 

 Company in London proceeded, on the 20th October, 1629, to carry into effect 

 their resolution to transfer their government to this country, — and chose accord- 

 ingly Winthrop to be their Governor; Humphrey, their Deputy-Governor; and 

 Endicot and others, Assistants (Young, Chron. of Mass., p. 102), — the record 

 appears sufficient evidence that they had in view something quite different from 

 the fishing plantation which Conant had had charge of at Cape Ann, or the little 

 society (" in all, not much above fifty or sixty persons," says White's Relation in 

 Young, Chron., p. 13: which the editor, from Higginson's narrative, raises to 

 " about a hundred ") " of which Master Endecott was sent out Governour " 

 (White. /. c.) at Naumkeak. 



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