Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. Ex-library book but very few markings. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> One June 8 1630 John Winthrop and his company of refugees had their first glimpse of what they came to call New England. High on the surrounding hills stood a welcoming band of fir trees whose fragrance drifted to the Arbella on a morning breeze. To Winthrop the “smell off the shore [was] like the smell of a garden.” This new world would in fact often be compared to the Garden of Eden. Here John Winthrop would have his opportu- nity to start life over again. So would his family and his ship- mates. So would all those who came after them. These victims of conflict in old England hoped to find peace in New England. Winthrop for one had experienced much conflict in his life. As a Puritan he was opposed to Catholicism and Anglicanism both of which he believed were burdened by distracting rituals and distant hierarchies. A parliamentarian by conviction he despised Charles I who had spurned Parliament and created a private army to do his bidding. Winthrop believed in individual respon- sibility and fought against the loss of religious and political free- dom. A gentleman landowner he feared the rising economic power of a merchant class that seemed to value only money. Once Winthrop stepped aboard the Arbella he hoped these conflicts would not be a part of his American futuret to (LL)