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Title: New England, old and new; a brief review of some historical and industrial incidents in the Puritan "New English Canaan," still the Land of promise
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Old Colony Trust Company (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Cambridge, Mass.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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st town in the new EnglishCanaan. The Mayflower s open shallop went exploring upand down the coast in the bitter cold. FinaHy the placethat had been named Plymouth on Captain John Smithsmap was seleded. Out of the hundred who landed, fifty-one succumbed todisease, exposure, and privation that first winter. At onetime only Brewster, Miles Standish, and five others werewell enough and strong enough to care for the sick andbury the dead. But there was no thought of surrender.Brewster spoke the truth when he said, It is not withus as with men whom small things can discourage orsmall discontentments cause to wish themselves at homeagain. Work went on. By the end of the following summer wefind a rude fortress topping the hill, twenty-six acres clearedand planted, and seven houses forming the village street,with others building. The settlement of Plymouth was effeded without anyloss of life through Indian attack. Though the bow twangedand the blunderbuss barked on several occasions, no blood
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/N 1646 the Boston shoemakers pe-titioned for a consolidation of theircraft, that all boots might be alikemade well. 12 New England — Old and New was spilled. Good relations were established with theIndians towards the end of the first winter. The First Treaty The first treaty was made with Massasoit, sachem of theWampanoags, who inhabited the shores of MassachusettsBay. He came accompanied by a score of befeatheredbraves. With Miles Standish and a few musketeers stand-ing quietly by, the pipe of peace was smoked and a treatymade that was faithfully kept on both sides for half a cen-tury. This quality of probity runs like a golden threadthrough New Englands history. Canonicus, the sachem of the Narragansetts, however,threatened trouble. He sent a snake-skin filled with arrows.Governor Bradfords answer to this challenge was the snake-skin stuffed with gunpowder and bullets. Boldness won.Against the fifty English settlers, the Narragansett chiefcould have mustered two thousand warrior

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