[Gutenberg 43810] • Woodstock: An historical sketch

Excerpt from Woodstock: An Historical Sketch

About the year 1627 some friends, being together in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New England and the planting of the gospel there. In 1628 we procured a patent from his Majesty for our planting between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River on the South and the River of Merrimack on the North and three miles on either side of those rivers and bay and the same year we sent Mr. John Endicott and some with him to begin a plantation. In I 629 we sent divers ships over with about three hundred people. Mr. Winthrop, of Suffolk (who was well known in his own country and well approved here for his piety, liberality, wisdom, and gravity), coming in to us we came to such resolution that in April, 1630, we set sail from Old England. We were forced to change counsel, and, for our present shelter, to plant dispersedly.

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