Chapter XXI

Organization of the Massachusetts Company—A Unique
Letter of Instruction to Endicott—The Soil ordered to be
purchased of the Indian Owners—A Blast against Tobacco—The
Colonial Seal—Preparations for the Embarkation of Fresh
Emigrants—Buckingham—Strafford—Laud—Puritans Eager to
Emigrate—The Flotilla—The Plentiful Provision of “Godly
Ministers”—Bright—Smith—Higginson—Skelton—“Farewell, Dear
England”—Britain does not know her Heroes—The Landing
at Salem—Higginson’s Impressions—The Pilgrims plant a
Church at Salem—Cordial Relations opened with the Plymouth
Colonists—Endicott’s Letter to Bradford—An Additional Link in
the Chain of Friendship—Ordination of Higginson and Skelton—The
Ceremony—Bradford’s Tardy Arrival—The Confession of Faith—Birth
of the Theocracy—Dissatisfaction of the Church of England men at
Salem—The Brothers Brown—Breach of the Peace imminent—Endicott
sends the Browns home to England—Endicott cautioned by the
Massachusetts Company 260

CHAPTER XXII.

The New Colony outstrips Plymouth—Intense Interest in the
Colonies felt in England—Higginson’s Tract—Men of Wealth
and Position prepare to emigrate—One Thing makes Them
Hesitate—Character of the Charter—The “Open Sesame”—Alienation
of the Government of the Company—A Daring Construction changes
a Trading Corporation into a Provincial Government—Joy of
the Would-be Emigrants—The Election—An Extensive Emigration
set Afoot—The Fleet of Ten Vessels—In the Cabin of the
“Arbella”—Winthrop—Dudley—Humphrey—Johnson—Saltonstall—Eaton—
Bradstreet—Vassall—The Women of the Enterprise—The Lady Arbella
Johnson—The Farewell at Yarmouth—On the Atlantic 274

CHAPTER XXIII.

“Land ho!”—The Supper at Salem—Sickness—Explorations—The
Settlement at Cambridge—Busy Days—Death—The Last Hours of Francis
Higginson—Death of Arbella Johnson—Grief and Death of her
Husband—The Mortality List—Cambridge partially Deserted—Settlement
of Boston—The Original Occupant of Shawmut Peninsula—Blackstone’s
Oddities—The “Lord-Bishops” and the “Lord-Brethren”—Activity of the
Colonists—The View from Beacon Hill—Winthrop’s Cheery Letter to his
Wife 286

CHAPTER XXIV.

Fundamental Law of the Colonies of Massachusetts Bay—Earliest
Legislation—First General Assembly—The Democratic Tendency—The
Test of Citizenship—Reflections—Animadversions on the Theocratic
Plan—The Acorn and the Oak 293

CHAPTER XXV.

Life in the Wilderness—Winthrop’s Adventure—The False Alarm—The
Settlers and the Wolves well frightened—The Courtship of Miles
Standish—Alden’s Wedding—Morton once more at “Merry-Mount”—An
Execution—Radcliff, and his Punishment—The Mysterious Stranger—A
Knight of the Holy Sepulchre astray in the Wilderness—The Three
Wives—The Pursuit—An Unmasked Jesuit—The “Italian Method”
tabooed in New England—Satan’s Ill-manners—Utopia—A Sentence
from Demosthenes—Great Combat between a Mouse and a Snake—Its
Significance—Fresh Arrivals—Eliot—Roger Williams-Attachment of
the Pilgrims to their Rocky Refuge—How New England looked to a
Puritan—How it looked to a Churchman—A Difference of Standpoint—The
Brood of _Townlets_—The Western Wilds no longer Tenantless 299