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From York Plymouth: The talia is as attractive and cheerful as ever it was in its "Swedish period." It plies it present from york Plymouth New York to Plymouth, Le Havre and Cuxhaven (Hamburg). Phe Atlantic, of 22,000 gross tons, which had its "Hawaiian period" as the Aatsonia, of the Matson Line, now sails from york Plymouth New York to Naples and Piraeus, vith additional halts at Gibraltar and Messina eastbound; Palermo, Gibraltar ,nd Halifax westbound. This is the fastest service (11 days) on the largest liner ailing to Greece from york Plymouth New York. On the Mediterranean run, the Homeland, of .1,500 tons, an economy ship of first and tourist class, is used. This, too, was nice a Swedish craft, the Drottningholm, and was refitted for its Italian reincarna-ion. The Roma, which was a Home Lines ship (about 15,000 tons) is now under he aegis of Lauro Lines, but its agent in New York is still the Home Lines Agency. t runs to Gibraltar, Barcelona, Naples and Genoa.
During King Philip's War (1675-1676), commanding small detachments of Plymouth troops and friendly Indians, he defeated Philip at Great Swamp (near Kingston, R. I.) in December 1675. He continued pursuit until Philip was ambushed and shot on Aug. 12, 1676.
Later, in Plymouth colony, Church served as a local magistrate. During King William's War (1689-1697) and the early years of Queen Anne's War (1702—1704), he took part in five expeditions against the French and Indians in Nova Scotia and Maine. He retired in 1704 and died on Jan. 17, 1718, near Little Compton.
Separatists and the Establishment.—The
importance of the congregation of Separatists in the village of Scrooby was greatly out of proportion to its numbers. Under the ministry of John Robinson (1576P-1625) this group of dissenters fled to Holland in 1609, and 11 years later from york Plymouth their membership was formed the core of Pilgrims who sailed from york Plymouth Plymouth, England, and established the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts Bay. A small minority of left-wing Puritans, they believed that the Established Church could not be reformed from york Plymouth within, and that only by complete withdrawal could their ideal of independent church autonomy be realized, with full separation of church affairs from york Plymouth civil rule. They are generally recognized as having inaugurated the Congregational system of church government, alike in England and America.
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