Voyage of the Mayflower; she goes astray and takes the Pilgrims to Cape
Cod bay ... 81

Founding of the Plymouth colony (1620) ... 82, 83

Why the Indians did not molest the settlers ... 84, 85

The chief interest of this beginning of the Puritan exodus lies not so much in what it achieved as in what it suggested ... 86, 87

CHAPTER III.

The planting of new England.

Sir Ferdinando Gorges and the Council for New England ... 88, 89

Wessagusset and Merrymount ... 90, 91

The Dorchester adventurers ... 92

John White wishes to raise a bulwark against the Kingdom of Antichrist ... 93

And John Endicott undertakes the work of building it ... 94

Conflicting grants sow seeds of trouble; the Gorges and Mason claims ... 94, 95

Endicott’s arrival in New England, and the founding of Salem ... 95

The Company of Massachusetts Bay; Francis Higginson takes a powerful reinforcement to Salem ... 96

The development of John White’s enterprise into the Company of Massachusetts Bay coincided with the first four years of the reign of Charles I ... 97

Extraordinary scene in the House of Commons (June 5, 1628) ... 98, 99

The King turns Parliament out of doors (March 2, 1629) ... 100

Desperate nature of the crisis ... 100, 101

The meeting at Cambridge (Aug. 26, 1629), and decision to transfer the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Company, and the government established under it, to New England ... 102

Leaders of the great migration; John Winthrop ... 102

And Thomas Dudley ... 103

Founding of Massachusetts; the schemes of Gorges overwhelmed ... 104

Beginnings of American constitutional history; the question as to self-government raised at Watertown ... 105

Representative system established ... 106

Bicameral assembly; story of the stray pig ... 107

Ecclesiastical polity; the triumph of Separatism ... 108

Restriction of the suffrage to members of the Puritan congregational churches ... 109

Founding of Harvard College ... 110

Threefold danger to the New England settlers in 1636:—­

1.  From the King, who prepares to attack the charter, but is foiled by dissensions at home ... 111-113

  2.  From religious dissensions; Roger Williams ... 114-116
     Henry Vane and Anne Hutchinson ... 116-119
     Beginnings of New Hampshire and Rhode Island ... 119-120

  3.  From the Indians; the Pequot supremacy ... 121

First movements into the Connecticut valley, and disputes with the Dutch settlers of New Amsterdam ... 122, 123

Restriction of the suffrage leads to disaffection in Massachusetts; profoundly interesting opinions of Winthrop and Hooker ... 123, 124