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Q. Where is New Plymouth?

Q. What occasioned their sufferings?
A. Famine and disease.

Q. How many died before spring?
A. About half of their number.
Q. Who were the first governors?

A. John Carver was the first: he was succeeded, the following year, by William Bradford.

Q. Who were the other distinguished men in the early history of the colony?

A. Brewster, Winslow, and Standish.

Q. What was the first military organization?

A. An organization, commanded by Miles Standish, for protection against the Indians.

Q. What treaty was made with the Indians?

A. A treaty of friendship, which was observed inviolate for more than fifty years.

Q. What Indian chief confirmed this treaty?

A. Massasoit; from whom Massachusetts derives its

name.

Q. When was the first settlement of the Massachusetts bay colony?

A. In 1628, under the charge of John Endicott, at Salem.

Q. Where is Salem?

Q. What accession arrived shortly after?

A. John Winthrop, with about three hundred families they located themselves at and near Boston; and thus, in 1630, was the foundation laid of the metropolis of New England.

Q. With what neighboring colony was New Plymouth afterwards associated?

A. The colony at Massachusetts Bay.

Q. What gave rise to religious controversies?

A. Some of the colonists, who had not emigrated

through motives of religion, preferred the rituals of the church of England, and refused to join the colonial esta blishment for public worship.

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Q. When was Connecticut first settled?

A. In 1633, at Windsor, by a party from Plymouth. Q. Who may be regarded as the principal founder of Connecticut?

A. Rev. Thomas Hooker: he, with about 100 persons, started from Massachusetts; and, after a fatiguing march through woods and swamps, settled on the Connecticut river, in the year 1636.

Q. In what war were the settlers of Connecticut soon involved?

A. In a war with the Pequod tribe of Indians, known as the Pequod war.

Q. What was the result?

A. The Indians were totally defeated.

Q. When and by whom was the New Haven colony established?

A. Preparations having been made in 1637, the following year Eaton and Davenport laid the foundation of the city of New Haven.

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Q. Who was the founder of Rhode Island?
A. Roger Williams, a clergyman.

Q. Why did he leave Massachusetts ?

A. He was banished on account of his religious opinions.

Q. In what year was Rhode Island founded?

A. In the year 1636.

Q. What did Williams call the town where he settled! A. Providence as an expression of his confidence in the goodness of God.

Q. Where is Providence? How situated?

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Q. When was New Hampshire first settled? A. Settlements were made, in 1623, near Portsmouth, and at Dover, by persons sent by Ferdinand Gorges and John Mason, to whom the land had been granted.

Q. How are Portsmouth and Dover situated?

Q. Who were among the early settlers of New Hampshire?

A. Rev. John Wheelwright and his followers: the former had been exiled from Massachusetts on account of his opposition to the church government.

Q. Were the settlements of New Hampshire ever united to the colony of Massachusetts ?

A. Yes: in 1641, they placed themselves under the protection of that colony, and so continued till 1680, when New Hampshire became a separate royal province.

Q. What were the names of the two principal tribes of Indians in New England?

A. The Narragansets and Pequods.

Note.-These two nations had long been at war with each other, but, foreseeing the extinction of their race, if the Europeans were suffered to spread among them, the Pequods applied to the Narragansets, to forget old animosities, and unite to expel the common enemy; but the Narragansets, perceiving in this an opportunity to crush a powerful rival, instead of accepting the offer of friendship, discovered the design of the Pequods to the governer of Massachusetts, and joined in alliance with the English. Long and bloody wars ensued; but as the colonies in creased 'in_number, and extended in territory, the uncivilized savages fell before the superior skill of their invaders, and in a few years many powerful nations were totally extirpated.

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Q. WHAT union was formed by the New England Colonies?

A. As early as 1643, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven, formed themselves into a confederacy, called the "United Colonies of New England."

Q. Why was not the colony of Rhode Island and Providence plantations included?"

A. Because it refused to be merged into the colony of Plymouth.

Q. What was the object of the confederacy?

A. Mutual protection against the Indians, French, and Dutch.

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