Book/Printed Material Reading for children.
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Image 1 of Reading for children. Reading for Children. 67 18 •py 1 HISTORY. JOHN WINTHROP. .«V^ -i I OF «fiN G o-o- 10^ jAN 15J8%7 i O A i^^ O/^ASHlH* J 1 I CAMBRIDGE JOHN WILSON AND…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 2 of Reading for children. ^1 Copyright, 1886, by N. Moore. C r\^ u4v JLh w- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 3 of Reading for children. JOHN WINTHROP. 1630. I. On a day in March, in the year 1630, a good ship rode at anchor off the EngHsh shore. She bore a company of EngHsh Puritans who were…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 4 of Reading for children. seas, in America. Their chief man was John Winthrop he was to be their governor. The ship lay near Cowes, waiting for the wind to veer. Day after day she rocked there,…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 5 of Reading for children. 3 Lady Arbella s name came first in whatever Governor Winthrop wrote about the women of the company, and her comfort was the first to be cared for whenever comfort could be…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 6 of Reading for children. 4 being E. and N., and fair weather, she weiofhed anchor and set sail. The captain of the Arbella had been told at Yarmouth that some Spanish vessels were lying in wait…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 7 of Reading for children. as were subject to take fire, and drew forth our men and armed them with muskets and other weapons and instruments for fireworks, and for an experiment our captain shot a ball…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 8 of Reading for children. 6 God be praised, our fear and danger was turned into mirth and friendly entertainment. Our danger being thus over, we espied two boats on fishing in the channel so every of…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 9 of Reading for children. 7 our captain set our children and young men to some harmless exercises, which the seamen were very active in, and did our people much good, though they would sometimes play the…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 10 of Reading for children. 8 The journey had been most wearisome. Storm after storm had beaten upon the vessel the people, cramped in narrow space, had suf- fered for want of exercise. Their diet of salted…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 11 of Reading for children. 9 on shore, a good supper, writes Governor Winthrop, of venison pasty. The pasty was not for the whole ship s company; but those who were not asked to the supper found…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 12 of Reading for children. lO II. Salem, where wee landed, pleased us not, wrote Mr. Dudley to the Countess of Lincoln, Lady Arbella s mother. Since they did not care to remain in Salem Governor Winthrop…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 13 of Reading for children. II Governor Winthrop visited Charlestown and Noddle s Island,^ and went six miles up the Mys- tic River. He also found his way to the small settlement at Nantasket. Returning, he advised…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 14 of Reading for children. 12 it being very hot weather, but none of the party could swim but himself; and so he plunged in, and, as he was swimming over, was taken with the cramp a…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 15 of Reading for children. 13 booths about the Town HIll. Samuel Green, the printer, who came from England in the ship with Mr. Dudley, was one of those who had not even a tent to sleep…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 16 of Reading for children. 14 and before long left that wilderness for the heavenly paradise. She took New England in her way to heaven. Looking south across the river, Governor Winthrop and his people could see…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 17 of Reading for children. 15 mut, where he only had a cottage, at or not far off the place called Blackstone s Point, he came and acquaint the governor of an excellent spring there, withal inviting…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 18 of Reading for children. i6 Her account of certain matters which no one else was old enough or clear-headed enough to remember is of service still. She has said that our hills were covered with blueberry…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 19 of Reading for children. 17 in sweet peace, leaving some part of his sub- stance to the colony. The Charlestown Records go on to tell us that After the death of Mr. Johnson and divers others,…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 20 of Reading for children. i8 III. Governor Winthrop, when settled in his Boston home, wrote: My dear wife, we are here in a paradise. Though we have not beef and mutton, c., yet (God be praised)…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 21 of Reading for children. 19 say the Charlestown Records, especially when they heard that the Governor himself had the last batch of bread in the oven. We read that at the very time when that last…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 22 of Reading for children. 20 ships. Plymouth had had a famous one ten years before, in November, after the gathering-in of her first harvest; and this Plymouth Thanks- giving Day we celebrate yearly. In the spring…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 23 of Reading for children. 21 A sentry was posted on the Treamount s highest peak later, a beacon was raised there, a tall, stout mast with an arm atop, and a great kettle of tar at…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 24 of Reading for children. 22 warm garments of the strangers, and listened to the thunder which they carried in their hands. He wished to make them his allies. Leaving his home in Neponset, he went, with…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 25 of Reading for children. 23 turned home, the governour giving him cheese and peas and a mug and some other small things. Journal. About three weeks after this, the journal tells us, Chickatabot came to the…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 26 of Reading for children. 24 ernor WInthrop s farm^ on the Mystic suffered from them. One evening, The governour, be- ing at his farm-house at Mistick, walked out after supper and took a piece in his…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 27 of Reading for children. 25 but a little before day it began to rain, and, having no cloak, he made shift by a long pole to climb up into the house. In the morning, there came…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 28 of Reading for children. 26 IV. The ship Lyon came again in the following November, bringing from England Governor Winthrop s wife and the rest of the family, as well as John Eliot, and many others.…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 29 of Reading for children. 27 A great happiness and hope carried the Puri- tans through the trials of these first hard years. The freedom which they had come so far to seek was found. They now…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 30 of Reading for children. 28 No time had these earnest folk for trifling. A dance was held to be a sinful waste of hours; theatres were left behind, it was hoped, forever. Yet the boys and…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 31 of Reading for children. 29 about two or three miles, they came to a very great pond, having in the midst an island of about one acre, and very thick with trees of pine and beech…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 32 of Reading for children. 30 the couvre-feu time. In the villages of old England a bell tolled the day to rest. Here in New England no bell had been heard as yet a drum sounded the…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 33 of Reading for children. 31 We at Boston were almost ready to brake up for want of wood. The hill-sides did not bear enough to supply the towns-people with fuel logs had to be brought from…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 34 of Reading for children. 32 would have you supply yourself at my wood-pile till this cold season be over. And then he mer- rily asked his friends Whether he had not effec- tually cured this man…- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 35 of Reading for children.- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886
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Image 36 of Reading for children. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 014 012 731- Contributor: Tiffany, Nina Moore
- Date: 1886