The Works of Anne Bradstreet - In Prose and Verse #229915

America he had been a magistrate he had held the offices of Governor, deputy-governor, Assistant, and Justice of the Peace; he was in May, 1636, together with Winthrop, chosen Councillor for life; in 1644 he was elected the first major-general; he had been appointed to hold court in various places, and had received many other tokens of the regard and confidence of the peoplet He has been charged with bigotry and intolerance, faults which certainly did not distinguish him from most of his contemporaries.