161 
Anno Dom. 
1628. The Maffachufets Colony Planted, and Salem the 
firft 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 Colony, 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 Iligginson's narrative, raises to 
" about a hundred ") " of which Master Endecott was sent out Governour " 
(White, /. c.) at Naumkeak. 
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