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162,8. nythem. Of these Matthew Craddock,Esq; was appointed Governour, whoseated himself at a Place called Naheme-S ik, by the Indians, to which these Non-

ae m built, conformists gave the Name of Salem, a-bout eight Miles Northward of Boson,in the County of Essex. To them cameMr. Higginson, a Leicejlerjhire Preacher,and Mr. Skelson, a Minister of Lincoln-shire, silenced for their not conformingto the indifferent Things imposed onthem by their Ecclesiastical Governours.As these drew so many Puritans afterthem, that Salem-Colonj in a littlewhile began to rival her Elder Sister,Plymouth. Mr. Higginson was chosenMinister of the Church of Salem, andMr. Skelton his Associate. The formerdied in about a Year, and his Son, Mr.“John Higginson succeeded him veryyoung in the Ministry, and was yetliving, and Minister of Salem, in 1694.s'eatEn- The Company of Adventurers inC„y °sthe England finding their Maffachuset-Golonythrived, and was likely to turn to a goodAccount, resolved to give it due En-couragement ; And considering Mr.Craddock was grown old, and hisDeputy,John Endicot, Esq ; not so fit for thePost as a Man of greater .Quality andInterest would be ; By Virtue of theirCharter, which empowered them to e-lect their own Governour, Deputy-Go-vernour and Magistrates, they madeJohn IVinthrop, Esq; of Grot on, in Suf-folk, Governour, and Thomas Dudley,Esq; of Northampton, Deputy Gover-nour, of the New Colony. With theseGentlemen, they sent large Supplies ofNecessaries, and about a ThousandPersons transported themselves thither,at this Time ; Among whom were SirRichard Saltonjlal, Theophilus Eaton,John Venn, Esq; Isaac Johnson, Esq ;and his Wife, the Lady Arabella John-son-

These arrived in New England, inthe Year, 1630. And Mr. Winthrop,entring upon the Exercise of his Office,gained the Affection and Esteem of eve-ry Body; And the Easiness of his Go-vernment, the Success of his Councils,and the Piety of his Life, invited manyrnore Families to retreat thither, fromthe Rage of their Persecutors.

The Maffachuset Settlement now? e ^ Ver a/ built several Towns, as Charles-towu, onns buii t . Charles-Bdver , in Middlesex- County,where there was a Church erected, andMr. IVilson, an outed Minister, of Sud-& u ry, jn Suffolk, chosen Pastor of it;

Dorcheser in Suffolk-C ounty, and Ba- l 628.flon, which rose out of the Ruins, ifthe Expression may be used, of Charles-Town ; That Town being not thoughtso commodious for Trade as Boson, ma-ny of the Inhabitants removed thither,as did the Minister, Mr. IFilson. ThisPlace flourished so much, that in a littleTime it became the Capital of Maffa-chuset -Colony, and of all New England.

After Bison, were built Roxbury, inSuffolk- County, and then Lynn, in Es/hx-County, and IVater-L own, in Mid-dlesex-Qounty. All these were finishedand settled in less than two Years;

And the Plantation went on so prospe-rously, by the Multitudes of Peoplewho came over, that some of themwere forced to remove, to other Partsof the Country.

The srs Settlement of a Colony atMe vis.

The Accounts we have of the firstDiscovery and Settlement at Mevis, are y 0 l. 11. p.’so obscure, that little can be said with 195-any Certainty. I shall therefore onlybriefly observe, that Captain Warriner,who made the first Settlement in St.

Chr sopker’s, made also the first at Mevis(first called Nevis ) in 1628. But theYear following, Don Frederick de To-ledo, who drove the most of the En-glish and French out of the former Island,seized all the Ships (to the Number offifteen) which were at Mevis.

T 12 e Settlement, however, went onso prosperously, that in twenty YearsTime, there were between three andfour Thousand Men there, who subsist-ed and lived handsomely by the Tradethey drove in Sugar.

The Meeting of the Parliament ap-pointed to be the twentieth of Ohlober,was by Proclamation prorogued to thetenth of January, and then met, butwas dissolved the tenth of March, with-out having done any Thing. The seve-ral Speeches, Remonstrances, Petitions,

Answers and other Proceedings of thesethree Parliaments are at Length, copiedfrom the Originals, in TindaFs Tranfla- s he r th ' ird ,tion of Rapin. About a Month after dfflv'edthe Dissolution of this Parliament, viz.the fourteenth of April, it was, that thePeace was concluded with France, andit was sworn to in September following.

The Subsidies granted in the firstSession of the last Parliament being now

6 O, exhausted,