Excerpt from The Discovery and Colonization of North America Earliest ventures. The Puritans. The Pilgrim Fathers. Company of Massachusetts Bay. Settle ment of Massachusetts. Threatened dangers. Rhode Island. Connecticut. The Pequot War. Colony of New Haven. End of the exodus to New England. The New England Confederacy. Quakers in Boston. Coining money. The Connecticut charter. Visit of the royal commissioners. King Philip's War. The Massachusetts charter annulled. Tyranny of Sir Edmund Andros. Fall Of the Stuart dynasty. Mas sachusetts becomes a royal province. 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.