Note Note 6, page 205 — BOOK II. THE PURITAN MIGRATION. (continued 2)
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His influence. When the question of emigration was under discussion other gentlemen who thought of going turned to Winthrop as the natural leader, declaring that they would remain in England if he should desert them. He was not only the official head, but he was indeed the soul, of the migration of 1630, and he went to America confident of a call divine like that of Moses. Note 6.