Excerpt from The Leavens Name, Including Levings: An Account of the Posterity Descending From Emigrant John Levins, 1632-1903The Massachusetts Company had been formed in 1628, and a party. Led by John Endicott, had come over and taken a position at Salem. The confirmation of the Company by a royal charter would, of course, stima ']ate its zeal.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.