England in America, 1580-1652 Volume 4 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...the coast to obedience. West came to America, but found them "stuberne fellows,"3 and he returned in about a year to England without effecting anything. 1 Bradford, Plimoth Plantation, 149-168; Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 40. During his absence the Council for New England set to work to send out a colony under Robert Gorges, son of Sir Ferdinando; and, June 29, 1623, a division was made among twenty patentees, of the North Atlantic coast from the Bay of Fundy to Narragansett Bay.4 In September, 1623, Gorges arrived at Plymouth attended by an Episcopal minister, William Morell, and a company of settlers, whom he planted at Wessagusset. He remained in New England throughout the winter, and in the effort to exert his authority had a long wrangle with Weston. In the spring of 1624 he received news from his father that discouraged his further stay. It seems that in March, 1624, a committee of Parliament, at the head of which was Sir Edward Coke, had reported the charter of the Council for New England as a national grievance, which so discouraged the patentees that most of them abandoned the enterprise, and it became, in the language of the elder Gorges, "a carcass in a manner breathless."' After Robert Gorges' departure most of his party dispersed, some going to England and some to Virginia, but a few remained at Wessagusset, which was never entirely abandoned. 1 Gorges, Description of New England (Mass. Hist. Soc, Collections, 3d series, VI., 80). Cal. of State Pap., Col., 1574-1660, p. 33. 'Bradford, Plimoth Plantation, 170. 4 Maine Hist. Soc, Collections, 2d series, VII., 73-76. The relations between the colony and the London merchant adventurers, never very pleasant, became more tinsatisfactory as time went on. The colonists naturally...