A Paragraph History of the United States Author:Edward Abbott Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3years later, with its further endowment by the will of Rev. John Harvard, minister of Charlestown, whose name it bears. The first class entered upon study at this time, under the instructi... more »on of Nathaniel Eaton. 1639. The Connecticut Colonists adopted a written constitution, the leading features of which afterward entered into the constitutions of other States. In this same year Stephen Day, or Daye, set up at Cambridge the first printing-press in the colonies, the first issue of which was the "Freeman's Oath." IV. PERIOD OF COLONIAL GROWTH. 1640-1775. 1641. The people of New Hampshire put them- 'selves under the jurisdiction of Massa- 1564-1642. textit{Ga- chusetts. and so remained for nearly textit{f°' ,,, ., textit{' 1642. textit{Civil war forty years. In this same year Sir Wil- textit{in England. liam Berkeley came over as Governor of textit{Parliament ar- ,,. , . " textit{rayed atrainst Virginia. textit{Charles!. 1643. The United Colonies of New England. For their mutual benefit the Plymouth, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Haven colonies l545. textit{Battle of banded together this year under the f^',^£ name of The United Colonies of New textit{Charles I. and England; each to be independent as textit{the parUamen- textit{. . . . , textit{,f . , textit{tary forces wider respected its own internal affairs, but textit{Cromwell and submitting matters of joint interest to the textit{Fairfax. Final control of commissioners, two from each textit{^"1^^"^' textit{bishop Laud be- colony, who were required to be church textit{/ieaded. members. Here we find the seed of the present union of the States. 1646. John Eliot's Mission to the Indians. John Eliot, Englishman, and a student of Cambridge, came to Boston in 1631, became "teacher" of the church in Rox- bury, ...« less