The American lawyer and antiquarian John Wingate Thornton (1818-1878), pictured here, made this interesting statement in his book The Landing at Cape Anne or The Charter of the first permanent colony on the territory of the Massachusetts Company, published in Boston and New York, 1854: ‘Governor Conant and his associates, in the fall of the year 1626, removed to Naumkeag, and there erected houses, cleared the forests, and prepared the ground for the cultivation of maize, tobacco, and the products congenial to the soil.’
In his book, published at Boston in 1854, Thornton continues: ‘In after years, one of the planters in his story of the first days of the colony, said, "when we settled, the Indians never then molested us, but shewed themselves very glad of our company and came and planted by us, and often times came to us for shelter, saying they were afraid of their enemy Indians up in the country, and we did shelter them when they fled to us, and we had their free leave to build and plant where we have taken up lands”’.
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