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    Woodstock An historical sketch
    Woodstock An historical sketch
    Woodstock An historical sketch
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    Woodstock An historical sketch

    By Clarence Winthrop Bowen

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Woodstock An historical sketch - Clarence Winthrop Bowen

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Woodstock, by Clarence Winthrop Bowen

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      Title: Woodstock

             An historical sketch

      Author: Clarence Winthrop Bowen

      Release Date: September 24, 2013 [EBook #43810]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOODSTOCK ***

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      Internet Archive)

      WOODSTOCK

      An Historical Sketch

      BY

      CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN, Ph.D.

      READ AT ROSELAND PARK, WOODSTOCK, CONNECTICUT, AT THE BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE TOWN, ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1886

      NEW YORK & LONDON

      G. P. PUTNAM’S SONS

      The Knickerbocker Press

      1886

      COPYRIGHT BY

      CLARENCE WINTHROP BOWEN

      1886

      Press of

      G. P. Putnam’s Sons

      New York

      As a full history of Woodstock has been in preparation for several years and will, it is hoped, be published in the course of another year, this brief sketch is issued as it was read at the Bi-Centennial Anniversary of the town.

      CONTENTS.

      I.

      The history of the town of Woodstock is associated with the beginnings of history in New England. The ideas of the first settlers of Woodstock were the ideas of the first settlers of the Colony of Plymouth and the Province of Massachusetts Bay. The planting of these colonies was one of the fruits of the Reformation. The antagonism between the Established Church of England and the Non-Conformists led to the settlement of New England. The Puritans of Massachusetts, at first Non-Conformists, became Separatists like the Pilgrims of Plymouth. Pilgrims and Puritans alike accepted persecution and surrendered the comforts of home to obtain religious liberty. They found it in New England; and here, more quickly than in the mother country, they developed also that civil liberty which is now the birthright of every Anglo-Saxon.

      II.

      The settlement of Woodstock is intimately connected with the first organized settlement on Massachusetts Bay; and how our mother town of Roxbury was first established is best told in the words of Thomas Dudley in his letter to the Countess of Lincoln under date of Boston, March 12, 1630-1:

      About the year 1627 some friends, being together in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New England and the planting of the gospel there. In 1628 we procured a patent from his Majesty for our planting between the Massachusetts Bay and Charles River on the South and the River of Merrimack on the North and three miles on either side of those rivers and bay ... and the same year we sent Mr. John Endicott and some with him to begin a plantation. In 1629 we sent divers ships over with about three hundred people. Mr. Winthrop, of Suffolk (who was well known in his own country and well approved here for his piety, liberality, wisdom, and gravity), coming in to us we came to such resolution that in April, 1630, we set sail from Old England.... We were forced to change counsel, and, for our present shelter, to plant dispersedly.

      Settlements were accordingly made at Salem, Charlestown, Boston, Medford, Watertown, and in several other localities. The sixth settlement was made, to quote further from the same letter to the Countess of Lincoln, by others of us two miles from Boston, in a place we named Rocksbury.¹

      The date of settlement was September 28, 1630, and just three weeks later the first General Court that ever sat in America was held in Boston. The same year the first church in Boston was organized.² Roxbury, like the other settlements of Massachusetts Bay, was a little republic in itself. The people chose the selectmen and governed themselves; and as early as 1634, like the seven other organized towns, they sent three deputies to Boston to attend the first representative Assembly at which important business was transacted. The government of Roxbury, like the other plantations, was founded on a theocratic basis. Church and state were inseparable. No one could be admitted as a citizen unless he was a

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