Sir Henry Vane was beheaded, in London, at the beginning of the reign of Charles II.

And Haynes, Dudley, Bellingham, and Leverett, who had all been governors of Massachusetts, were now likewise in their graves.

Old Simon Bradstreet was the sole representative of that departed brotherhood.

There was no other public man remaining to connect the ancient system of government and manners with the new system which was about to take its place.

The era of the Puritans was now completed." "I am sorry for it!" observed Laurence; "for though they were so stern, yet it seems to me that there was something warm and real about them.
I think, Grandfather, that each of these old governors should have his statue set up in our State House, Sculptured out of the hardest of New England granite." "It would not be amiss, Laurence," said Grandfather; "but perhaps clay, or some other perishable material, might suffice for some of their successors.