They were one of the few families then resident in the colonies who thought it a degradation to its members to descend to the pursuits of commerce; and who never emerged from the privacy of domestic life unless to preside in the councils of the
colony or to bear arms in her defense.
Let us humbly hope that the fathers of the Plymouth
Colony will then appear in the whiteness of innocence.
On the banks of the Hudson River was a
colony of Dutch, who had taken possession of that region many years before, and called it New Netherlands.
Hunt and his associates, the little
colony might be able to maintain itself until the return of peace.
Suddenly Penfentenyou, Premier of his
Colony in all but name, left Jimmy and me, and appeared at the gate.
But this did not disconcert the enthusiast, who proceeded with the story of Joseph Smith's bankruptcy in 1837, and how his ruined creditors gave him a coat of tar and feathers; his reappearance some years afterwards, more honourable and honoured than ever, at Independence, Missouri, the chief of a flourishing
colony of three thousand disciples, and his pursuit thence by outraged Gentiles, and retirement into the Far West.
The Cat cunningly resolved to destroy this chance-made
colony.
The power which the government possesses, by means of forced labour, of at once opening good roads throughout the country, has been, I believe, one main cause of the early prosperity of this
colony.
It is not proper to enter here into the particulars of what part of the
colony of Virginia we settled in, for divers reasons; it may suffice to mention that we went into the great river Potomac, the ship being bound thither; and there we intended to have settled first, though afterwards we altered our minds.
About three quarters of a year after this separation, a new frolic took these rogues, which, together with the former villainy they had committed, brought mischief enough upon them, and had very near been the ruin of the whole
colony.
The founders of a new
colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The whale-ship is the true mother of that now mighty
colony.
