The Founding of New England



THE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND

BY JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS

Illustrated

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS BOSTON

COPYRIGHT, 1921 By JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS

First Impression, May, 1921 Second Impression, Nov. 1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To

A. L. A.

One duty that was always incumbent on the historian has now become a duty of deeper significance and stronger obligation. Truth, and Truth only, is our aim. We are bound as historians to examine and record facts without favor or affection to our own nation or to any other. Lord Bryce, Presidential Address, at the International Congress of Historical Studies, 1913

Contents

 * Preface


 * I. 	The American Background
 * II. 	Staking Out Claims
 * III. 	The Race for Empire
 * IV. 	Some Aspects of Puritanism
 * V. 	The First Permanent Settlement
 * VI. 	New England and the Great Migration
 * VII. 	An English Opposition Becomes a New England Oligarchy
 * VIII. 	The Growth of a Frontier
 * IX. 	Attempts to Unify New England
 * X. 	Cross-Currents in the Confederacy
 * XI. 	The Defeat of the Theocracy
 * XII. 	The Theory of Empire
 * XIII. 	The Reassertion of Imperial Control
 * XIV. 	The Inevitable Conflict
 * XV. 	Loss of the Massachusetts Charter
 * XVI. 	An Experiment in Administration
 * XVII. 	The New Order