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Excerpt from An Historical Memoir of the Colony of New Plymouth, From the Flight of the Pilgrims Into Holland in the Year 1608, to the Union of That Colony With Massachusetts in 1692, Vol. 1: Containing Parts One and Two Sour: of the towns which were once included within the ancient colony of New Plymouth, contain at the present day a population more numerous than the whole population of that colony at any time during the first twenty years of its existence. But no small commonwealth, not even a Greek republic, ever afforded to history in so short a period, so many materials alike interesting and instructive. In the earliest period, 'the colonists of Plymouth are to be considered rather as a voluntary association of independent individuals, than as subjects of the crown of England receiving protection, and yielding allegiance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.