The matter was discussed by them in London, and in 1628 an association was formed, and a tract of land was bought from the Council for New England.
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The "Sea to Sea" Grant% .-- Concerning the interior of our continent absolutely nothing was known.

Nobody supposed it was more than half as wide as it really is.

The grant to the association, therefore, stretched from three miles north of the Merrimac River to three miles south of the Charles River, along these rivers to their sources, and then westward across the continent from sea to sea.[1] [Footnote 1: You will notice that when this grant was made in 1628 the Dutch had discovered the Hudson, and had begun to settle Albany.

To this region (the Hudson and Mohawk valleys) the English had no just claim.] As soon as the grant was obtained, John Endicott came out with a company of sixty persons, and took up his abode at Naumkeag, which, being an Indian and therefore a pagan name, he changed to Salem, the Hebrew word for "peace." %37.