ABORIGINAL TRIBES, THEIR ORIGIN, POPULATION, EMPLOYMENTS, ARTS, ་ TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF THE DISCOVERIES AND SETTLEMENTS MADE BY DIFFERENT NATIONS THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONIES-THEIR WARS-THE REVOLUTION WHICH LED TO THE! BY CHARLES A. GOODRICH. ACCOMPANIED WITH A MAP OF THE UNITED STATES, AND ILLUSTRATED BY FORTY-EIGHT ENGRAVINGS. PUBLISHED BY H. F. SUMNER & CO. Stereotyped by Conner & Cooke, New York. 2178 ▸atered according to act of Congress. in the year 1832, by CHARLES A. GOODRICH, ID the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Connecticut. THE UNIVERSIT GEORGIA AUG 25 '45 PREFACE. THE basis of the following work was first published ten years since. At that time, it was presented to the public with much diffidence. Unexpectedly, it was received with uncommon favour; and, through the above space of time, it has been continued to be issued from the press, by several thousands, almost every year. The circumstances under which it was originally published, prevented the author from revising a single line of it, after the first edition; although, at successive periods, some additions were made to the work, corresponding to the lapse of events. But, at length, existing obstacles having been removed, the author has devoted some months to a thorough and care. ful revision of it. Besides correcting not a few errors, he has endeavoured to supply important deficiencies, especially in the earlier and later portions of the work, by which he has added more than one hundred and fifty pages to its original size. He has retained the plan, originally adopted, from a conviction of its general excellence, and in this he has been strengthened by the sanction which has been given to the work by a generous, but discerning public. For the benefit of the reader, who may not at once understand the plan of the volume, the following brief explanation is added: The principal object of dividing the History into periods is to aid the memory, by presenting certain marked eras, from which the whole subject of dates may be readily and distinctly viewed. Two sizes of type are employed. The matter in larger type is designed to give a brief outline of the history of the United States, and may be read in connexion. The matter in smaller type is to be regarded rather in the light of notes, which, without studying exact regularity, are thrown in as they may subserve the purposes of illustra tion and completeness in the delineation of events; or, as they may contribute to support the interest, and establish the recollections of the reader. Sec. 1. The existence of a Western Continent, by whom first made known, page 16.-Sec. 2. Voyage of Columbus, 17.-Sec. 3. Discovery of Newfoundland by the Cabots, 32.-Sec. 4. Voyage of Verrazano, 32.-Sec. 5. Of Cartier, who discovered the St. Lawrence, 33.-Sec. 6. Discovery of the Mississippi by Soto, 34.-Sec. 7. Expedition of Raleigh, 35.-Sec. 8. Discovery of Cape Cod by Gosnold, 36.-NOTES. Sec. 9. State of the coun- Sec. 1. Unsuccessful attempts to settle North America, 44.-Sec. 2. Set- tlement of Jamestown, 45.-Sec. 3. Account of London and Plymouth companies, 45.-Sec. 4. Expedition under Newport-adventures of Capt. Smith, 46.-Sec. 5. Calamities of the colony at Jamestown, 53.-Sec. 6. New charter granted to the London company, 54.-Sec. 7. Expedition un- der Lord De la War, 54.-Sec. 8. Distress of the colony at Jamestown and manner of relief, 55.-Sec. 9. Settlement at Albany and New-York by the Dutch, 56.-Sec. 10. Voyage of Capt. John Smith to New-England, 57.- Sec. 11. Establishment of a government in Virginia, 57.-Sec. 12. Settle- ment of New-England by the Puritans, 58.-Sec. 13. Patent of the Duke of Lenox and others, 64.-Sec. 14. Treaty of the Puritans with Masassoit, 64.-Sec. 15. Alteration of the Virginia government, 65.-Sec. 16. Distress- ing calamity which befel the Virginia colony, 66.-Sec. 17. Distress of the Plymouth colony, 67.-Sec. 13. First settlements in New Hampshire, 67.- Sec. 19. Dissolution of the London company, 67.-Sec. 20. Patent to the Plymouth colony, 68.-Sec. 21. Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 69.-Sec. 22. Massachusetts Bay Company incorporated, 69.-Sec. 23. Government and patent of the plantation transferred to America, 70.-Sec. 24. Patent to Lord Baltimore of Maryland, 71.-Sec. 25. First settlement in Mary- land, 72.-Sec. 26. First house erected in Connecticut, 72.-Sec. 27. Set- tlement of Windsor, Wethersfield, and Hartford, 73.-Sec. 28. Patent to Lords Say, Seal, and Brooke, 75.-Sec. 29. Settlement of Rhode Island. 76.-Sec. 30. Pequot war, 77.-Sec. 31. Settlement of New Haven, 30.- Sec. 32. Adoption of a constitution by the colony of Connecticut, 81.- Sec. 33. By New Haven, 81.-Sec. 34. Grant of the province of Maine to 1* |