Chapter XXVIII

Progress of New England in Material Prosperity—Arrival of Three
Thousand Settlers in a Single Year—An Illustrious _Trio_—Hugh
Peters—The Younger Winthrop—Sir Harry Vane—A Long Smouldering
Feud placated—Value which the Pilgrims set on Education—Good and
Bad Universities—A Public School planted at Cambridge—Harvard
College—Relations between Learning and Manners—Enlarged
Colonization of New England—The Plymouth Pilgrims at Windsor—The
Younger Winthrop at Saybrook—Hooker’s Parishioners at
Cambridge—Petition for “Enlargement or Removal”—The Advance Guard
of Civilization—The New Hesperia of Puritanism—Hooker and Haynes
lead a Colony into Connecticut and settle at Hartford—Pilgrimage
from the Sea-shore to the “Delightful Banks” of the Inland
River—Liberality of the New-born Colony—New Haven planted by
English Puritans—Colonization of Guilford, Milford, and Long
Island—Character of these Settlers—Commerce and Agriculture as the
Basis of New States—Constitution of New Haven—The First Political
Paper ever cradled in a Manger—The Connecticut Colonists and the
Dutch at New Amsterdam quarrel over their Boundary Line—A Yankee
_Rûse_—The Dutchmen and the Onion Rows—Isolation of the New
Settlements—The War-whoop 357