New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-10
ctHfOSLTIEs OF HSTORY

boards dong the highways OF human progression.
The FIRST Legislative Assembly in Amcrisa was the Gov
ersor of Virginia Council. and number Of Burgesses
who assembled in one Chamber, at jamestown, 1917
In Ieso-2l one hundred anil fifty young women OF
agreeable manners were sen. from England 10 VIZ
gna sold The planters for wives leo to so pounds
oftobaoc, cash. This trasc in wives continued many
years, ana in 1859 two young women were scdaced on
their passage out, end immediately sent back ss
unworthy propagi ate the of VTginians Indeed
20 scnrce and valuable sgrceabe women in 1927
that fire imposed am wornsn who should en-
courage more han stor at time This was to OBJ
vate the Inconvenience resulting from the ardor and
(" frequency OF anorous competition.
The early chvslric cavaliers q the Old Dominion
hardly up the spirit Of the present as appears
from the following letter Of Sir William Berkeley, descrp
tive of the Virginia colony years after the restoration of
Charles H.:
81 thank God there fres schools printing; and
hope we shall not ha them thsse hundred years for
esTsing has brought heresy and dsobeence and sects
into the world and printing has dvulged them and bels
against the best Government. Godkeep from both.
In 1855 great majority of the people OF Virginia be-
onged to the Esab shed Church, md the preaching of
was prohbited-Quakers were banished and if
thew returned were punishable with death By statute.
Adultery and forncaon punished by fine Of one
thousand dollars for the frs; oene, and 500 pounds # to-
beeco for the second Women convicted Of SANDER
duclod Il the husband did not redeem them by money
uct Az this period there not booksellers shop in
Vrqpin-and even at the beginning of the ANIlth CEN
tury there was in Virginia Maryland or Carolina;
only one in New-York, while Boston had five printing
Offices end many book-shops.
The Puritans landed at New Plymouth November Q,
1920, but they intended to settle on the Hudson River
Their Dutch Captain tits said brbed to land them
further to the north TO interfere with the Dutch
settlement on the Hudson which had been established
wears previous. These Plymouth Rock emigrants were
mostly B!oxnisis" or A" Independents who had been
persecuted in England fed Hollan and while there
purchased the right OF the Plymouth Company to col
onze portion Of their American possessions.
Robert Brown was English clergyman who being
censured by the Established Church in 1885, rallied against
the Bishops and the ordination of minister's He was per-
secuted a dangerous fanatic and repeatedly imprisoned
lie roamed about exungy proclamins that he had been
incaIcerued in try;wo different prisons His proselytes
naturally increased and he engrated with his followers to
leland Here his Church dissolved, and he re-
turned to England reoned the Established Church, be-
came dssoute and finally ended his days in Incidence and
contempt. The followers Of this same Robert Brown
were a. first called Brownists and then Independents
Those who fed from England to Holland called themselves
Brownis,s. And when they were about leaving Delft
HAY en- to plant a colony in the New World, their good
Pastor Robinson in his farewell sermon, urged them to
abandon avoid and shake off the of Brownists;
ts mere nickname and brand for making religion
4" and professors of it odious TO the Christian world.
In 1857 it was customary in Boston to hold meetings to
consider the of the previous Sunday and argue the
doctrinal points Females not allowed to participate
in the discussions and Anne Hutchinson, strongmnded
married woman determined that she would no longer be
debared from Joining in the debates. As the Scripture
enions the elder women to teach the younger" she
established separate female assemblies She called
the Nonesuch and her feminine gatherings were styled
Gosspings-a word before that time of respectable i'm
port but from thence consigned to contempt and ridcue
She cordially esteemed by John Cotton aniGovernor
Vance and became the leader of sect. She was ban
ishcd from Massachusetts, went Rhode Island and was
finally killed by the Indians. Her followers were guilty
of the grossest vices and immoralities.
From 1884 to G44 the Council and Freemen Of Aassa-
chuses assembled together forming the General Court.
Arward the Governor and Council assembled apart from
the Freomen making two branches of the Legislature.
In Massachusetts, ests and Romish priests were ban
ished and the importation of that cursed sect Quakers
prohibited On the Sabbath all persons forbidden
10 run or walk, Except reverently to and from church.
or to proane the day by sweeping their houses cooking
or shaving. Mothers commanded not to kiss their
children on that sacred day and fine was imposed on
any one observing any such day as Christmas
In 1896 any person who kissed person in the street,
even as an honest salute logged and this punishment
was inflicted as late the middle of the eighteenth centu'
~ No man was allowed to keep tavern, unless he was
of good character and competent estate In 1893 there
were but two licensed Inns in Boston. When stranger
entered an Inn an officer followed and If he called Tor
more erop than the officer thought he could bear was
forbidden and less quantity administered. All persons
were required to dress according to their fortune or be
fined by the Grand Jury. Women were fined for cutting
their hair ike man, having it hung loosely over the
face Idleness, lying swearing and drunkenness were
punished by whipping, the stocks, &c. Young women
ysre reouirod IN n AZ much as the Ssecmen prescribed
or be fined. Any person counting maid without her
parents counsel" was fncd and imprisoned. very
few persons had the title Of Mr. and fewer that OF Esquire
The usual applications L" Goodman and "Good-
wife" Associations were formed and sanctioned oy
law TO suppress drinking heahs wearing long halr ana
perivigs It'll now recorded by way of illustration, 1
suppose that brewing prohibited on Saturday be-
cause the beer would work on Sunday
The first three children baptized in Boston, were JOY
Recompence and Pity, and the following bapnsmai names
were very commons Faith, Hope, Charity, Deliverence'
DEPENDENCE, Preserved, Content Prudence, fauehce,
Thankful Haeevil, Holdfast and the like
IN l642 some Puritan preachers visited Virginia and
were ordered to leave forthwith, by proelamaton OF
Gov. Berkeley.
In 1913 the colonies OF Plymouth Massachusetts,
Connecticut and New-Haven, entered into League
If "perpetual confidence, offensive and defensive.
under the title of The United Colonies OF New-Engand
In 1914 mint was created for coming silver money in
Boston. by Provincial authority Maryland Is the only
other Colony that coined money.
In le5l the Beptis,s first made their appearance IN
Ma.sacbu.etts. led by Obadiah Holmes They were
CHARGED with gross immorGiiies-adjudged nuisance,
and banshed the Province The President Of Harvars
Colleke embraced the new tenets and was dismissed
II was about the year 1914 that the Quakes first ap-
poared in America George Fox was the founder Oh the
900, in England and the first Quakers jealous prose-