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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 20 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 19 5 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
Dudley, in Hutchinson, II. 427. She was encouraged by John Wheelwright, a silenced minister, who had married her husband's sfence of their influence, and in opposition to Vane; and Wheelwright, who, in a fast-day's sermon, had 1637. Mar. strenuouslious divisions controlled the elections. The friends of Wheelwright had threatened an appeal to England; but in the colony idwell in the presence of his brethren. The friends of Wheelwright could not brook the censure of their leader; but they juceeded to pass sentence on the more resolute offenders. Wheelwright, Anne Hutchinson, and Aspinwall, were exiled from the teeign, and Ruin; T. Shepherd's Lamentation; a fragment of Wheelwright's Sermon; and the statement of John Cotton himself, in h. We shall hereafter trace the career of Henry Vane. Wheelwright and his immediate friends removed to the banks of the Piits jealousy, yet not for its cruelty, and Williams, and Wheelwright, and Aspinwall, suffered not much more from their banish
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
assertion of the liberty of conscience. With the increase of English freedom, the dangers 1644 which had menaced Massachusetts appeared to pass away; its government began to adventure on a more lenient policy; the sentence of exile against Wheelwright was rescinded; a proposition was made to extend the franchises of the company to those who were not church members, provided a civil agreement among all the English could be formed for Chap. X.} 1644. asserting the common liberty. For this r Williams, the apostle of soul-liberty, weakened the cause of civil independence by impairing its unity; and he was expelled, even though Massachusetts always bore good testimony to his spotless virtues. Backus, i. 155. Winthrop, II. 193. Wheelwright and his friends, in their zeal for strict Calvinism, forgot their duty as citizens, and they also were exiled. The Anabaptist, who could not be relied upon as an ally, was guarded as a foe. The Quakers denounced the worship of New England as