Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ollowedby several others. Salem was plantedin 1628, and Boston in 1630. Most ofthe settlers being of the same class, auniform system of laws and habits wasestablished, which was gradually ex-tended, and most of the peculiarities ofNew Ensfland still retain the same char-acter. These first colonies were the sourcesor the channels from which the settle-tlements on the Connecticut, and manyof those in New Hampshire and Ver-mont, derived their impulse and theirpopulation, and theie we find a generalidentity of sentiment and society. The first period in the history of Mas-sachusetts is that between the first set-tlement and the Pequod war, in 1636,when Rhode Island and Connecticutriver had been occupied and exposed topowerful tribes of savages, against whomMassachusetts afforded them aid. Thencommenced that active system of mutualsupport, which often secured the safetyof the eastern colonies, and graduallyextended to all the colonies from Eng-land, and resulted in forming the UnitedStates.
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74 DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. The second period extends to Philipswar, in 1675, wlien Massachusetts hadseveral towns on Connecticut rivei, andhad an extensive region to protect athome from a powerful savage combina-tion. The third period may be limitedby the close of the last French war, in1759, when the capture of Canada bythe British put an end to the long anddisastrous hostilities of France upon thefrontiers of the colonies. The fourthperiod extends to the close of the rev-olution, and the fifth to the present day. Early Missions among the Indians.—Rev. John Eliot began to preach to theIndians fear Boston in IGIG. In 1650the English society.for the projiaga-tion of the gospel in foreign parts,opened a correspondence with the com-missioners of the United colonies, andappointed them their agents. Eliot(the apostle to the Indians, as he is oftencalled) had, ere this, been so far suc-cessful in his exertions as to feel encour-agement, and to inspire the benevolentwith

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