A COMPENDIOUS HISTORY OF NEW-ENGLAND: TO WHICH IS ADDED, A SHORT ABSTRACT OF THE HISTORY OF NEW-YORK, AND NEW-JERSEY. DESIGNED FOR THE USE OF SCHOOLS AND PRIVATE FAMILIES. BY JEDIDIAH MORSE, D.D. ND ELIJAH PARISH, D.D. Third Edition, Enlarged and Improved. CHARLESTOWN: PRINTED BY S. ETHERIDGE. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of April, A.D. 1820, and in the forty fourth year of the independence of the United States of America, Jedidiah Morse, of the said District, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims, as sole proprietor, in the words following, to wit: "A Compendious History of New England: to which is added, a short abstract of the History of New-York and New-Jersey Designed for the use of schools and private families. By Jedidiah Morse, D.D. and Elijah Parish, D D. Third edition, enlarged and improved." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act entitled, "an act supplementary to an act entitled, "an act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, Historical and other prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. PREFACE. EVERY person should possess some knowledge of the history of his own country. It seems necessary to the exist ence of true and enlightened patriotism. Youth is the fittest season to acquire this knowledge. It is the season of the most leisure; the memory is then less incumbered; this knowledge gratifies that curiosity, which is natural to the human mind, and which is peculiarly strong in the early period of life. Among the first settlers of New-England were some of the best and wisest men of the age; men remarkable for their christian piety, patience, fortitude, and benevolent enterprize, deserving a rank among the worthies who have founded empires, enlightened nations, and given glory to the age and country in which they lived. Its history, in consequence, has been more entirely preserved, and better authenticated, from its first settlement, than that of any other portion of the globe, of equal magnitude and importance. No history is more replete with useful instruction and entertainment. It furnishes many important lessons to Warriors, statesmen, and divines. It may be read and studied with much profit by our youth. The abundant but scattered materials for the history of this favoured portion of the world, it has been our aim to reduce to a form, order, and size, adapted to the use of the higher classes in schools, and to families. We have endeavoured faithfully to bring into view the most operative causes, near and more remote, which led to the settlement of New-England, with the impelling motives of the immediate agents in this bold enterprize, and to trace the steps by which she has risen to her present distinguished rank in the political, literary and commercial world. To render the work interesting to youth, we have laboured to clothe our ideas in plain, familiar language, and to blend entertainment with instruction. The sources whence we have derived our information have been very numerous, and the most authentic that our country affords. Among them many occasional sermons, 10994 652 miscellaneous publications, records and manuscripts, have been faithfully consulted, and their essence condensed into this little volume. In the use of these voluminous materials we have not been hurried. A considerable part of the work was compiled in 1802, for the Supplement of Dobson's edition of the Encyclopedia; and, by his permission, and the advice of some judicious friends, has been revised, enlarged, divided into chapters, and published in its present form, for more general benefit. To extend the usefulness of this work, an abstract of the history of New-York and New-Jersey has been added to this edition, with a view to its introduction into the schools of these respectable states; and that their pious and indigent youth, of promising talents, might enjoy the benefit of a portion of the avails of its sale, whatever this may be. One of the authors, who is sole proprietor of the work, having consecrated the net profits of all future editions of it to this purpose. Conscious, that in compiling and publishing this little volume, we have been prompted by an upright regard to the best interests of our country, we commit it to the candour and patronage of the public. We hope the youth of the several states, a summary of whose history is here given, will read with pleasure and improvement what we have written for their particular use, with labour and delight; that while reading, they will admire, then love, then imitate the shining virtues of their pious forefathers, be emulous to preserve pure their wise institutions, and, like them, receive the applause and blessings of succeeding generations. APRIL, 1, 1820. J. MORSE. E. PARISH. CONTENTS. The flight of the Puritans to Holland; their suffer- ings during their residence there; their charac- Page. Measures adopted for removing; their voyage; their disappointment as to the place of their settlement, |