The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-08-15
Bay cOLOMY's
settlement
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Senator Lodge said In part:
AT the beginning OF that histoSic period
when those great and earliest civilizations
were rising in the Male and the Euphrates
this bold headland. which marks the boun-
dary OF Narragansett bay. stretched out
into the ocean just as IL does today. As
the centuries slipped by the wandering
Indians probably came there and pered
out through the trees or sldrted the shores
in their canoes. although they never seem
ed TO have made even temporary set
tlement on the Cape itself.
1T was here IN 1902 that Bartholomew
Gosnold is believed TO have made land
when he first emerged from the wastes
of the ocean. Fro mthis time onward II
may be supposed that vessels or seafar-
ers OF various sorts began TO appear of
the coast until In 1914 Capt John Smith.
explorer, discoverer and hero OF the first
settlement at Jamestown, christened this
region by the names OF New England.
which II has borne ever since. and also
bestowed names upon the bays and head
lands In thi svicinity. when he made
his map OF the New England coast he
gave 10 our cape here the fantastic name
OF Tragabigzanda and called these islands
Heads. II was later christened In honor
Of Queen Anne OF Denmark by Prince
Charles OF England. her son.
Six months after the voyage OF
Capt. Smith came the famous landing
at Plymouth and the establishment OF
that memorable settlement upon which
and Jamestown. the foundations of the
United States were built and from
which started I'm the fuIiness OF time
the two great columns which marched
westward TO the conquest OF the con-
tinent.
BEGUN IN 1858.
"The actual beginning OF the set
tlement at Cape Town was made In
1853, when a crew OF IL men from
fishing vessel landed at Cape Ann
where. they stayed through the winter
These hardy men were not long left
alone however. for that very year
when they were establishing them
selves at this spot. members of the
Plymouth colony secured a title tc
Cape Ann and started out TO effect q
settlement They chose Roger Conant
as their FIRST governor. In 1926 Conant
took his people to the spot where
Salem now Is. and where there was
larger opportunity for agriculture. fol
which IL would seem his people were
better fitted than for fishing.
"It Is too often overlooked thai
Conant an dthe great Puritan settle.
ment and migration found a small
body OF Englishmen already estab.
lished at Salem. Conant and his mer
did not make a permanent settlement
at Cape Ann, but farther down the
bay they began the settlement which
grew into the colony OF Massachusetts,
With the departure of Conant and
his followers from Cape Ann. the in
cident which we commemorate today
with this monument. is closed for-ws
do not celebrate here the foundation
of Gloucester. The monument we
dedicate here bears witness to the frs'
plantation at Salem. Although they
failed to make a permanent settlement
here they made the first permanent
settlement on this coast, which latel
developed into the state of Massachu
setts. The monument which we rais
here, today commentaries that par
| OF their work which was done here. a.
| q stepping stone to greater things"