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Then it was about time to go ... We haven't many battalion commanders left. Watson, Endicot, Crawshay ... He stammered out a list of gallant fellows who had gone. 'Get back double quick, Hannay. They want you. I'm not happy about Masterton. He's too young for the job. And then a nurse drove me out, and I left him speaking in the strange forced voice of great weakness.

At that place they found Endicot, to whom they brought a confirmation of his commission as governor. The colony consisted of three hundred persons, one hundred of whom removed to Charlestown. Religion, which had stimulated them to remove from their native land, became the first object of their care in the country they had adopted.

When Governor Endicot shortly after visited the place, he was greatly struck with the orderliness and civilization he found there. "I account this one of the best journeys I have made for many years," he says. Many little manufactures were carried on, in particular one of drums, which were used for lack of bells in some of the American settlements, as a summons to come to church.

A small number of planters and servants were, soon afterwards, dispatched under Endicot, who, in September, laid the foundation of Salem, the first permanent town in Massachusetts. Chalmer. The purchasers perceived their inability to accomplish the settlement of the extensive regions they had acquired, without the aid of more opulent partners.