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nocuture made the first day of January Anno 1623 And in the Yeared of the Vaigue of a soverrigue Lord James by o the grate of God King of England Ffrance and Ireland defender of the faith Er the One and Twentyth and of Grotland the Seaven and ferth Between the right honorable Edmond Lord Chefferton might of the most noble Order of the Sarter on thone part And Fobert Oushman and Edward Winslowe for them selved, and theire Alforiats and planters at Plymouth in New England in America on thother part wytnesseth that the faid Lord Hefferts (Aswell in Possideraton that the said Robert and Edward and divers of theire ear Afforiots have already adventured themselve in person, and have likewise at their owne proper dofth and charge transported dyvers & persons into deew England aforesaid Clyd for that the said Tobert and Edward and theire Associats also intend aswell to transport more persons as also further to plant at Plymouth aforesaid, and in other plated in New England aforesaid 13 for the better Advantement and furtherance the said Planters, and encouragement of the said undertaker Hath Even, granted, assigned, allotted, and appointed and by these puts doth Tyve, grannt, assigne, allott, and appoint vnto and for the said Robert and ware and theire Assosiats A swell a certaine Trast of Ground in New England aforeford Sping in fforty Three degrees or thereabout of Northers latitude and in a knowne plate there tomonly called Cape Anne concher with the free vse and benefitt aswell of the Bay tomonly talled the Bay of Cape Ame, as also of the Islands within the said Bay And free liberty, to ffish fowle, hawke, and hunt, fruch, and trade in the Lands thereabout, and in all other plated in New England aforesaid, where of the sand Lord Shefferts is, or hath byn possessed, or which have bon allotted to him the said Lord Cheffert, or within hid Furisßitton (not nowe being inhabited or hereafter to be inhabited by any English Together also with flyve hundred cared of free Land adorning to the said Bay to be employed for publig, ved,ad for the building of a Towne, & d Sotholes, Shurther, Hospitalk, and for the maintenance of such Ministers, officers, ad Magistrats ad by the said vndertakers and there ssoriath are there a already appointed, or which hereafter shall (with there god liking reside, and inhabit there And also Thirty Aired of Land, over and beside the flyve hundred Orved of Land before mentoned to be allotted, and appointed for every pectituler verson, vonny, or old (being the Associats, or servants of the said vndertakers or theire sunce slo:& that shall tome, and dwell at the aforesaid Cape Anne within Searen peated next after the date hereof, which Thirty Atred of Lande soc appointed to every person as aforesaid, shall be taken as the same doth hye together bporthe said Bay in one entire plate, and not strapling in deverd, or remote a Parrell, not we Preeding English Weile; and a half in length on the waters side of the sand Day Welding and paving forever yearely outor the said Lord Shefferte, his heires, suttesso, vent gatherer or assigned for every Curly Chres be to be obter ned, and possessed by the sand Lobect & Edward theire heires hurressor or a foriats Twelve Pente of lawfull' English money. If the feast of C. Mit haell Charthanngell only (if it be lawfully en demanded the first garment thereof to beymme pmediatly from and after thed and expiraton of the first Seaven plated next after the date hereof And the said Lord Cheffeils for himself his heires, surress, and assigned dth Covennt, promiß, and grant to and with the sand Robert Enspiman and Edward Winslow theire hewed, associats, and assigned hat they the said robert, and Sward, and such other persond as shall plant, and contrail with them, shall freely, and guyethy hane, hold, possesse, and enroy All such profitth, rights, previdnes, benefitts, Comodities, advantage, and preeminented as shall hereafter by the labe, search and diligence of the said vndertakers theire Oloriats servants, or Assigme be obtevned, found out, or made within the said dinutes of Ground se granted onto them as aforesaid; deserving vuto the hand fore hespeild his heired, surressond, and assigned The one Movety of all such Wynes as shall be discovered, or found out at any tyme by the said Indertaked, or an theire herred, funt esses, or assigned byon the Grounds aforesaid And further That it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said robert Eushman and Edward Winslowe theire heired, associats, and assigned from tome to tymne, and at all tyme hereafter se scone as they or theire Msigned hane taker possession, or entred into any of the hard lands To forbid, repell, repulse and resist by forte of Armed Off and Every such persons as shall buite, plant, or inhabit, or which shall offer, or make shew to build, plant, or inhabitt within the Lanos soe að aforesaid granted, without the leave and litemte of the said Robert, am Edward, or theire assigned And the sand as Sheffert Soth further Govennt, and grannt chat opon a lawfull surver hadd and taken of the afresand Lands, and good informaton y vven to the sand Ford Sheffe its hid Heire, or assigned of the Mecats, Bounds, and quantity of Lands which the sand robert, and Edward there heires, assoriats, or assigned (ball take in by them && of the aid Bundertakers, or theire Anoriats. shall and will by tood and sufficient Assurante in the Jawe Gramps, enfeoffe, confirme and affoft onto the said Robert Dushman and Edward Winslowe theire Assotiats and Assigned All and every the said Lands foe to be taken in withine the spare of Seaven peared next after the date hereof in ad laty, ample, and benefitiall manner, as the said Lord Cheffend his heired, or assigned nowe hane, or hereafter shall have the same Lands, or any of them graunted vnto himor them, for such rent, and buder such Govenints, and Provisos ad herein are route med (mutatis mutandis)nd hall and will also at all tymed hereater vpon reasonable request made to him the said Ford Shefferts his a Heired, or assigned by the sand Edward and Robert theire hewed, assotiation affiones, or any of them grannt, proture, and make good, law full & fuffitient Defterd, or other Grannts of Futorporaton whereby the said vidertakers, and theire Olsoriats shall hane liberty, and law full authority from tyme to tyme to make and establish Lawes, Ordynth, and Constituions for the enlag. ordering, and governing of such persond ad nowe are resident or which hereafter shathe planted, and inhabitt there and in the meane tyme wwill such, Frannt be made It shathe lawfull for the said Robert, and Edward there herres, assotiats, and Assignes by consents of the greater part of them To establish futh Jawed, provisions, and Ordymus ad are or shathe by them thought most fitt, and convenient for the governement, of the said plantaton which, halbe from tyme to tyme executed, and administered by a fuch Officer, or offired, as the sand, and strakete, or theite Afforiats of the most part of them shall elert, and make thone of rovyded award That the said Lawes, Provisions, and ordninth which are, or shall be agreed on, be not repugnant to the Laws of England, or to the orders & Conftitmond are, or her athwaid of the President, and conurell of New England provided further That the said undertakers theire heires, and hurresser shall foren arknowledy the said Lord Cheffeild his heires and hurressed, to be theire Theife Ford, and to ausweare and dee servite buto hid L.38 or his huttessos, at hid, or there Don't when vpon his, or their owne Plantaton The same habe effablished, and kept 11 Wytuce whereof the said partied to these present Indentures Interchangeably hame puts theire Hand, and Scales The day, and yeares first abone written.

reasonable regness of the Motiate, servants, or assigned inhabited as aforesaid we the sand Ford Sheffend his heired, or assigned, at and when the

Lithographed by Tappan & Bradford from the Original in the Possession of J.Wingate Thornton Esq.

THE

LANDING AT CAPE ANNE;

OR

THE CHARTER

OF THE

FIRST PERMANENT COLONY ON THE TERRITORY

OF THE MASSACHUSETTS COMPANY.

NOW DISCOVERED AND FIRST PUBLISHED FROM

Che Original Manuscript.

WITH AN INQUIRY INTO ITS AUTHORITY AND

A HISTORY OF THE COLONY.

1624-1628.

ROGER CONANT, GOVERNOR.

BY

JOHN WINGATE THORNTON.

"OBSCURA PROMEN S. "

BOSTON:

GOULD AND LINCOLN.

NEW YORK:

SHELDON, LAMPORT, AND BLAKEMAN.

1854.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by

GOULD AND LINCOLN,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.

BRITIS

MUSEUM

THURSTON AND TORRY, PRINTERS.

THE GREATER MAN.

"APOLLOS WATERED, BUT PAUL PLANTED; HE THAT BEGUN THE WORKE WAS YOU SHALL HAVE MADE THIS ISLAND, [ENGLAND] WHICH IS BUT AS THE SUBURBS OF THE OLD World, a Bridge, a GallERY TO THE NEW; TO JOYNE ALL TO THAT WORLD THAT SHALL NEVER GROW OLD, THE KINGDOME OF HEAVEN. YOU SHALL ADD PERSONS TO THIS KINGDOME, AND TO THE KINGDOME OF HEAVEN, AND NAMES TO THE BOOKES OF OUR CHRONICLES, AND TO THE BOOKE OF LIFE."

Dr. John Donne's Sermon to the "Honorable Virginian Company,” Nov. 13, 1622.

"LET IT NOT BE GRIEVOUS TO YOU, THAT YOU HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTS TO

BREAK THE ICE FOR OTHERS WHO COME AFTER WITH LESS DIFFICULTY: THE HONOR SHALL BE YOURS TO THE WORLD'S END."

"SMALL THINGS IN THE BEGINNING OF NATURAL OR POLITIC BODIES ARE AS REMARKABLE AS GREATER IN BODIES FULL GROWN."

Dudley's Letter to Lady Bridgett, Countess of Lincoln, March 12, 1631.

"MY HOLD OF THE COLONIES IS IN THE CLOSE AFFECTION WHICH GROWS FROM COMMON NAMES, FROM KINDRED BLOOD, FROM SIMILAR PRIVILEGES AND EQUAL PROTECTION. THESE ARE TIES WHICH, THOUGH LIGHT AS AIR, ARE AS STRONG AS LINKS OF IRON."

Burke's Speech on Conciliation with America, 1775.