A Puritan Colony proposed.%--Among those who obtained such rights was a company of Dorchester merchants who planted a town on Cape Ann.

The enterprise failed, and the colonists went off and settled at a place they called Naumkeag.

But there was one man in Dorchester who was not discouraged by failure.

He was John White, a Puritan rector.

What had been done by the Separatists in a small way might be done, it seemed to White, on a great scale by an association of wealthy and influential Puritans.