AUSTERE PURITAN GARDENS 
9i 
after the “paradise of plenty” wherein she had been 
bred, and she died a month after landing. Her hus¬ 
band survived the grief of her death but a few weeks 
—and there followed, before the autumn of that year, 
upwards of two hundred of the thousand or so who 
came under Winthrop—“new planters” these were 
called, to distinguish them from those already settled 
on the Bay’s shore where beginnings had previously 
been made. 
These “beginnings” had been variously brought 
about. There was, for example, a group of fisher¬ 
men at Cape Ann; there were “some religious and 
well appointed persons,” grown weary of rigid Pil¬ 
grim ideas as they prevailed at Plymouth, who had 
shifted their abode; Nahumkeike or Naumkeag had 
become Salem—a definite little colony—under Endi- 
cott who, with three other “gentlemen” and two 
knights, had obtained a grant in 1628 for a large 
tract. An exploring party from this group had begun 
preparations for a settlement at Mishawum—now 
Charlestown—the same year; and there were here 
and there independent and solitary planters who pre¬ 
ferred to brave the wilderness alone rather than to 
live among their fellows. William Blackstone, a 
Church of England clergyman who had come with 
Gorges in 1626, was one of these. He had estab¬ 
lished himself in solitude at Shawmut—now Boston 
