Excerpt from The Leavens Name, Including Levings: An Account of the Posterity Descending From Emigrant John Levins, 1632-1903

In order to picture to the eye the earliest settlement of Massachusetts, we cannot do better than to quote freely from the admirable History of the English People. There had been efiected a permanent lodgement at Jamestown, Virginia, in the year 1607, and the May¿ower, bearing the Pilgrim Fathers, had landed at Plymouth in 1620. A movement quite distinct from either of these was the colonization of Massachusetts Bay. Yet, says Mr. John Richard Green, in the work above referred to, from the moment of their establishment (the Pilgrims at Plymouth) the eyes of the English Puritans were fixed on this little Puritan settlement in North America. Through the early years of Charles (1625 and onward-s) projects were being canvassed for the establishment of a new settlement beside the little Plymouth, and the aid which the merchants of Boston, in Lin colnshire, gave to the realization of this project was acknowledged in the name of its capital. At the moment he was dissolving his third Parlia ment (march 10, 1629) Charles granted the charter which established the colony of Massachusetts, and by the Puritans at large the grant was at once regarded as a providential call.

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