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Title: A popular history of the United States : from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen, to the end of the first century of the union of the states ; preceded by a sketch of the prehistoric period and the age of the mound builders
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878 Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
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Publisher: New York : Scribner, Armstrong, and Company
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ords History of Plymouth Plantation. 2 Hunters Founders of New Plymouth. 3 Bradford. 1606.) ATTEMPTS TO LEAVE ENGLAND. 377 secret of lands and houses and other property, make the other needfulpreparations to emigrate in a body from a rural neighborhood, and doall this unobserved. They hoped to get away in small detachments,but even this was impossible, without encountering dangers ^ruei treat-and oftentimes defeat. At one time, at Boston, in Lincoln- n^Lfnco?nshire, a large party of them got safely at night on board ^^^^^ship. But the master was treacherous, and handed them over to theoflBcers with whom he was in complicity; their goods were rifled andransacked; the men were searched to their shirts for money; even thewomen were compelled to submit to like indignities further than be-came modesty; and thus outraged, insulted, and robbed, they wereled back to the town, a spectacle and wonder to the gaping crowd thatflocked from all sides to see and jeer at their sad condition. The mag-
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Attempted Flight of Puritans. istrates were kinder than the people, and showed them such favor asthey could; but the whole company were imprisoned for a month,when they were dismissed to go where they would, excepting sevenof the chief among them, who were detained for trial. These, and others with them, made a more disastrous attempt toescape some months later. A Dutch ship was engaged to take themon board at a lonely place between Hull and Grimsby, and thither 378 THE PURITANS. (Chap. XIV. the women and children were sent in a small vessel; the men wereto go by land. All arrived in due season. The ship rode at an-Attempted ^^^^ some distance from the shore ; the smaller vessel, withHuufms- th^ women and children, lay aground where the ebb-tidetrated. ^i^d left her. A single boat-load of men had been taken off to the ship as the first preparation for departure, when suddenly amob of country people, some on foot and some mounted, armed withbills and guns and other weapons, rushed down

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