Landing of the Pilgrims--Their Abiding Faith in God's Goodness--The Agreement Signed on the Mayflower--A Winter of Hardship--The Indians Help the Settlers--Improved Conditions--The Colony Buys Its Freedom--Priscilla and John Alden--Their Romantic Courtship and Marriage, 52 CHAPTER VI. The Puritan Immigration--Wealth and Learning Seek These Shores--Charter Restrictions Dead Letters--A Stubborn Struggle for Self-government-- Methods of Election--The Early Government an Oligarchy--The Charter of 1691--New Hampshire and Maine--The New Haven Theocracy--Hartford's Constitution--The United Colonies--The Clergy and Politics--Every Election Sermon a Declaration of Independence, 57 CHAPTER VII. Where Conscience Was Free--Roger Williams and His Providence Colony-- Driven by Persecution from Massachusetts--Savages Receive Him Kindly--Coddington's Settlement in Rhode Island--Oliver Cromwell and Charles II. Grant Charters--Peculiar Referendum in Early Rhode Island, 64 CHAPTER VIII. Puritans and Education--Provision for Public Schools--Puritan Sincerity--Effect of Intolerance on the Community--Quakers Harshly Persecuted--The Salem Witchcraft Tragedy--History of the Delusion-- Rebecca Nourse and Other Victims--The People Come to their Senses-- Cotton Mather Obdurate to the Last--Puritan Morals--Comer's Diary-- Rhode Island in Colonial Times, 68 CHAPTER IX. New England Prospering--Outbreak of King Philip's War--Causes of the War--White or Indian Had to Go--Philip on the War-path--Settlements Laid in Ashes--The Attack on Hadley--The Great Swamp Fight--Philip Renews the War More Fiercely Than Before--His Allies Desert Him-- Betrayed and Killed--The Indians Crushed in New England, 77 CHAPTER X. Growth of New Netherland--Governor Stuyvesant's Despotic Rule--His Comments on Popular Election--New Amsterdam Becomes New York--The Planting of Maryland--Partial Freedom of Conscience--Civil War in Maryland--The Carolinas--Settlement of North and South Carolina--The Bacon Rebellion in Virginia--Governor Berkeley's Vengeance, 82 CHAPTER XI. The Colony of New York--New Jersey Given Away to Favorites--Charter of Liberties and Franchises--The Dongan Charter--Beginnings of New York City Government--King James Driven From Power--Leisler Leads a Popular Movement--The Aristocratic Element Gains the Upper Hand--Jacob Leisler and Milborne Executed--Struggle For Liberty Continues, 90 CHAPTER XII.