WINTHROP’S JOURNAL

 

“A HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND”

 

1631 

 

 

 1631

January.] A house at Dorchester was burnt down.

February 11.] Mr. Freeman's house at Watertown wa& burned down, but, being in the daytime, his goods were saved.

5.] The ship Lyon, Mr. William Peirce, master, arrived at Nantasket. She brought Mr. Williams, (a godly minis­ter,) with his wife, Mr. Throgmorton, [blank] Perkins, [blank] Ong, and others, with their wives and children, about twenty passengers, and about two hundred tons of goods. She set sail from Bristol, December 1. She had a very tempestuous passage, yet, through God's mercy, all her people came safe, except Way his son, who fell from the spritsail yard in a

1 Here enters upon our stage Roger Williams, one of the most illustrious and important characters concerned with early New England. During his life of eighty years (160:>-1683) he affected the course of history in both the old and the new world as a conspicuous pioneer in vindicating freedom of con­science. Born p