Identifier: popularhistoryof00brya (find matches)
Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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t furthergarboiles. The next day he was called before the council, and the change inthe governmentwas made knownand discussed at apublic meeting ofthe colonists. Thethree councillorsgave the reasonsfor their action,and with two ofthem hunger evi-dently was at thebottom of theirdiscontent. Rat-cliffe, the newpresident, com-plained that hehad been denied a penny whitle,(a small pocket-knife probablywanted for tradewith the Indians),a chickyn, a spoon-ful of beere, andserved with foulecorne; Martin declared that Wingfield had neglected his dutiesto the colony, did nothing but tend his pott, spitt and oven;and had, moreover, starved his son and denied him a spoonefuU ofbeere. All this would seem frivolous enough if we did not remem-ber that these poor people were in the extremity of hunger, againstwhich no dignity is proof. But Smith showed a nobler passion. Herepelled an accusation of lying ; he resented the scorn with whichhe had been treated by Wingfield, who said that though they were
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Deposition of Wingfield. 278 FIRST ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA. (Chap. XL equals here, in England Smith would not be a lit companion for his —Wingfields — servant. Archer, who was now made recorder, and sub-sequently a member of the council, followed with other charges inwriting, too slight to be remembered, though the accuser, says Wing-field, glorieth much in his penn worke. Kendall was deposed from the council earlier than Wingfield, andKendall shot sccms to havc belonged to neither party, or, perhaps, to eachfor mutiny, ^y. tums. Hc was confincd for a time with the ex-presidenton board the pinnace, and was subsequently tried for mutiny, and shot.In arrest of judgment the poor man objected that the new presidentsname was not Ratcliffe but Sicklemore, and the plea was allowed ;but judgment, nevertheless, was pronounced by Martin. Afterward,according to the sequence of the narrative — though neither the dateof Kendalls execution nor of this incident is given — Wingfield was

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