New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-07-06

heard by night around the farm yard. Humanity io7'
tbs kindly links Of nelig be language; and was seen
only under the aspect OF strange race, whose num-
bers and strength were unknown, ana whose alspcs,
ton toward the new corners remained 10 DC iearael
from experience. But these bardshIps am uIiots
Welded 10 the courage and perseverance Oh GU!
and all the subduing po~er Of time Dorchester with
the ueual vicisstudes of a new country, nnepene1
AS il was by slight priority the hrs; town settled oy
Governor Whit rop's party II retained lot sno,1
time a certain precedence. In 1888 we PAID az inucn
tax-I sav VIC. Governor, though did NOT have much
10 do With tive paid nearly twice as much tax as
they did in Boston, .... -.
In the wear 1888 Wood calls our ancient town . the
" Greatest town in New England" lts geograpcal
,,,t t reduced by the separation from II OF several
large new towns great. IL eomPrsei me mo ler1
towns Of Milton, StOughton, sharon canton end rok,
borough being OF the length Oh uirt!-nse ullIeS 1ud
,hc AVERAGE breadth Of FIVE. Nor was Il merely IN
te or wealth that il took for short time the lead.
II set the example in 1888 OF That muhclpal organLa-
ton which has prevailed throughout New-England,
has proved one of the chief sources OF progress
II hes been supposed that the fret stated provision for
a public school was made here tapplsuse]; but the
loss of the earliest leaves of our town records leaves
ms without the documentary proof Of this fact If il be
one One would have thought that the extensive ter
ritOry have Just described would have afforded am
rle accommodation for some two or three hundred in-
tabitants. They had however scarcely established
Themselves in their new home before they began TO
be straiehteIed for want of IL seems 70 have
been thought extremely desirable in the first settle
mont of the country 10 be seated either the sea
coast or the banks Of river. The inhabitants of
tie Bay had been early made acquainted by those at
Plymouth with Connecticut River, although the Court
dfcli,ed an application from that quarter, to
ioin them III anticipating the Dut h. who were sup
posed 10 have the design OF aDnexmg Connecticut 10
The Island of Manhattan AppauseI to get possession
of It, Three or four individuals, hO~ever from Dor
chester had as early as 1893 crossed the intervening
wilderness and explored this magnificent stream In
fuenced by their reports Of the noble range OF pas
turage I've found on IFS banks aided 1t must be con-
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the GREAT river was contemplated in 1884 from Dor
chester and Newtown. Mr. Ludlow Of Dorchester, it
wns said thought that other persons, himself in
cluded would fill the chair of state az well as Gov.
Winthrop: and the star of Mr.. Hooker in the church
at Newtown il was thought was not wanted so near
the light Of John Cotton. The emigration was warm
y debated in the Court Fifteen out of twenty-five Of
the infant House of Deputies first elected that year,
were for the removal; majority of the magistrates
pla ed their Ue0 the measure, and great heats en-
sued. II opposed on various grounds, but the
"procatarctcal" reason, what that was leave you
10 divine,l the procatarctcal reason Laughter and
appsusei was that so many Of its Inhabitants could
not safely be spared from the Bay The next year the
Rev. Messrs Richard Mather and Thomas Shepherd,
with numerous associates, arrived in the Colony.
Mr. Mather's comoany being pTep4red to fill the
places Of those desiring TO leave Dorchester aud Mr.
Sbepherds to succeed their brethren at Newtown
Cambridge, the Court gave way AMI permitted
the undertaking. portion of the emigrants
went in the Autumn OF. lsJ5-the residue IN the
severe The sufeTngs endured in this early American
exodus through the Wilderness first faint image of that
living tide Of emigration which in all subsequent tine
has flowed westward from the Atlantic coast, till IN
our day il has reached the b0undess West, and is
even now swelling over the Rocky Mountains aud
spreading itself the shores of the Pacific Cheer
ingl Sl may il swell and still may it flow, bearing
upon its bosom the laws and the institutions, the let
tiers and the arts, the freedom and the faith which
have given New England her name and praise in the
world Loud cheeringl. The adventures from
Dorcbester-meD, women and chidrer-were fourteen
days in making the journey now daily accomplished
in three hours and reached the river weak with toll
and huns or and all but dishearened. Both the Dor
chester ministers though it il said reluctantly agreed 10
Join their emgraiing church. Mr. Maverick, the senior
died in Boston be fore startiDg Mr. Waram conducted
lis flock to East Windsor where they formed the rst
church in Connecticut, they had been in MassGchu
sets second to Salem alone Thus from our native
town and Cambridge within five years from their first
settlement went forth the founders of Connecticut.
Nor was il for their own establishment alone that
the early fathers of Dorchester were CAREFUL they re-
member,d tie native children OF the sol with kind
ness. When few years after the emigration to the
Connecticut, the increase of the new corners about
the Falls OF Nepcneet had begun to press hard upon
the natives gathered about that spot, the applca-
ton Of John Eliot graft OF Elk thousand acres OF land,
being the greet part OF the modern town OF Soughon,
was made by Dorchester for their accommodation;
Grant as one of our Town Clerks well says, witho IT
example in the history of the Sta G. In tis pie sant
retreat were colec ed the remnants of the friendly
tribe. who TINS NcHcfaDc name OF MAssACHu-
SETS and who ruled the shores OF the noble BAY,
which in wears past added another epi,het 10 this
time -hoEOred designation. The far domain OF this,
orr pame-sake tribe extended from the broad, smooth
floor of Nantasket where the ripple, as It runs up the
beach scarcely efaces the footprints Of the smart lit
lie sand piper, all round 20 the cold, gray lodges OF
Nahant on which the mountain waves OF tue Atlantic
broken and tired with Their tempestuous, welterng
march through seventy degrees of longitude, conflict
ing with all the winds of heaven, like weary ritans
after battling with the GODS sink down upon their ada
mantine bed, and lulled by the moaning dirges of
their voicefu caves roll and rock Themselves heavily
TO sleep Enthusiast, appausel' some .oid men oil
Massachusetts affirm that IN the interior they ex-
tended as far west as PocomtacoOk. They hunted
small game in the Bue-hils, and on their snow-shoes
they followed the deer TO Wachuset They passed in
their bark canoes through Mother Brook into Charles
River-ihe Falls of Momentum and the head waters
of the Mystic were favorite resorts; they ranged
even to the Nashua; their war-parties met the Tar
ratiDes on the Shawshine and the Mermac; but they
loved especially the fair headand of Squantum
lCheersl the center of their power was Neponset
Falls Renewed applausel. From the origin OF the
colony they the friends OF the white man. and IN
the first mention of Matepan the place of the future
settlement it ia stated that there also the lnlans
"were kind 10 u.s." Trimmed by esiential disease
before the arrival of the English, overshadowed by
the numbers the physical power and the intellectual
superiority of the new conner reading IN the events OF
every day the terrible bat inevitable doom, he must
increase but must decrease, they adopted the
white man faith, and by miracle OF Christian pains
and charity read the white mans BOOK IN their native
tongue Appausel. Butnot even that mighty element
of life to which the civilized nations of the earth
owe so much of their vilaly-avsiled to proong the
red mans existence Twelve families only OF praying
Indians as they called, the remains of those who
removed from Neponsei, were found by Gookn at
Punkapoag in 1914. John Eliot Jr., the son of the
aposile--and truly know not who since Peter and
Paul better deserves that name-labored with them
once fortnight But they dwinded with each genera
ton; till in my boyhood remember that poor soil
tary Indian who, il was said, occupied lonely wgwam