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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908 12 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 6 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 4 0 Browse Search
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Historic leaves, volume 6, April, 1907 - January, 1908, The first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. (search)
Colony. By Aaron Sargent. This honor has been claimed for three persons,—Matthew Cradock, Roger Conant, and John Endicott. Perhaps none of them were entitled to the distinction. Matthew Cradock radock, as second governor of the company, became the governor of the colony, its successor. Roger Conant came over seven years before Winthrop, and in 1627 was at Salem as governor, agent, or supernor, agent, or superintendent of London's Plantation of about thirty persons, superseding, also, Conant, and he was nothing more at that time. Honor enough there is for Endicott, the earliest patente were even used or known at the time. None of the compilers, or Savage, make any recognition of Conant. Matthew Cradock was not a governor of the colony as a fact, but only so by a lively imagination and misapplication of a title. Roger Conant was not a governor of the colony as a fact, but only so by family invention and easy credulity, and John Endicott was not the first governor of the col
5, 82, 83. Company A, of Peabody. 46, 67. Company B, Roxbury, 46, 64. Company C. Medford. 22, 46. Company C, of Scituate and Boston, 46. Company D. of Quincy, 46. Company E, 46, 47, 58, 60, 63. 66, 67. Company E, Thirty-ninth Massachusetts Infantry, in the Civil War, 17-23, 43-47. Company F, of Taunton, 46. Company H, Dorchester, 46, 64. Company I, of Natick, 46. Company K. Woburn, 46, 57. Cobble Hill, 53. Cold Harbor, 63. 64. Cold Harbor, Battle of, 63. Conant. Roger, 78, 79, 80. Concord, Mass., 28, 77. Conrad's Ferry, 18. Constantine, Arch of. 80. Convent Hill, 11. Conwell, Leon M., 75. Coolidge, Eunice, 49. Cooper-Shop Eating House, 18. Cotimore Katharine. 29. Cow Commons, 25, 26, 30. Cradock House, 79. Cradock, Matthew, 78. 79, 80. Crater, The, 72. Crawford, General, 45. Crosby, Elkanah. 18. Cross Street, 9, 29, 39. Crosswell, Andrew. 51. Crosswell, Benjamin, 51. Crosswell, Caleb, 51. Crosswell, Joseph, 51. Cros