Excerpt from Massachusetts: A Typical American Commonwealth Yet because their sons and daughters were marrying into native families, their young men enlisting in the army led by Maurice, and their people likely to be swallowed up in the Dutch nationality, withal desirous of propagating their tenets of independency, these Eng lish Independents resolved to cross the Atlantic to the New World. In their enterprise they were joined by Miles Standish, one of the captains in the English contingent of the Dutch army. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.