He went, soon after his arrival, to Charlestown, and tarried about a year in the country, when he returned to England.
Ralph Smith was required to give a pledge, under his hand, that he would not exercise his ministry within the limits of the patent, without the express leave of the Governor on the spot.

Mr.Smith seems to have been of the separation in England, which occasioned the caution to be used with him.

He was a little while in Nantasket, and went from thence to Plymouth, where he was their minister for several years.

(Hutchinson's History of Massachusetts Bay, Vol.

I., pp.