Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Compendious History of New England, Vol. 1 of 4: From the Discovery by Europeans to the First General Congress of the Anglo-American Colonies
OF the periods of past New England history each consisting of eighty-six years, the third has lately closed. In the year 1602 the Englishman Bartholomew Gosnold built a house on land now belonging to Massachusetts, and in the spring of 1603 the family of Stuart came to the throne of Great Britain. On the 19th Of April, 1689, the im prisonment, by the people, of the Royal Governor, marked the First Revolution in New England. On the 19th of April, 1775, the Second Revolution was inaugurated by the fight at Lexington and Concord. On the 19th of April, 1861, at the open ing of the Third Revolution, which was to rescue the country from the domination of the Slave Power, Massachusetts troops fought their way through a city of Maryland to the relief of the National Capital.
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