[Illustration: MYLES STANDISH'S KETTLE, SWORD, AND PEWTER DISH.]
[Illustration: COPY OF MYLES STANDISH'S SIGNATURE.]
73. Governor John Winthrop founds[14] Boston.--Ten years after the
Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, a large company of English people under
the leadership of Governor John Winthrop came to New England. They
were called Puritans,[15] and they, too, were seeking that religious
freedom which was denied them in the old country. One of the vessels
which brought over these new settlers was named the _Mayflower_. She
may have been the very ship which in 1620 brought the Pilgrims to
these shores.
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