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CHAPTER I.
Commission of Cabot.... His voyage to America....Claims
of the French to the discovery of North America....All
further views of discovery, or settlement, relinquished
by Henry VII....Renewed by Elizabeth....Letters patent
granted to sir Humphrey Gilbert....His voyages and
death....Letters patent granted to sir Walter Raleigh....
Voyage of sir Richard Grenville....Colonists carried
back to England by Drake....Grenville arrives with
other colonists....They are left on Roanake island, and
destroyed by the Indians....Arrival of captain John
White.... White dispatched to England for succour....
Raleigh assigns his patent to sir Thomas Smith and
company.. y....Patent to sir Thomas Gates and others....
Code of laws drawn up for the proposed colony by king
James.
CHAPTER II.
Voyage of captain Newport....Colony settled at Jamestown
....Distress of the colonists.... Influence and activity of
captain Smith....He is captured by the Indians....Con-
demned to death by Powhatan....Saved by Pocahontas....
Returns to Jamestown....Newport arrives with an addi-
tional supply of settlers....Smith explores the Chesa-
peak....Is chosen president....New charter....Third voy-
age of Newport....Smith sails for Europe....Condition of
the colony...Determination to abandon the colony...Stop-
ped by the arrival of lord Delawar, the governor gene-
ral....Sir Thomas Dale....New charter....Captain Argal
seizes Pocahontas....She marries mr. Rolfe....Separate
property in lands and labour in some degree established
...Expedition of captain Argal against the French colony
at Port Royal....Against the Dutch at Manhadoes....
Fifty acres of land laid off for each settler....Tobacco....
Sir Thomas Dale....Mr. Yeardly....First colónial assem-
bly....First arrival of females in the colony....And of
convicts....First importation of African slaves.... Two
councils established....Prosperity of the colony....At-
tempt of the Indians to massacre all the whites....General
war....Dissension and dissolution of the company....Co-
lony taken into the hands of the king....Arbitrary mea-
sures of the crown....Sir John Harvey....Sir William
Berkeley....Provincial assembly restored....Virginia de-
clares in favour of Charles II....Grant to lord Baltimore
....Arrival of a colony in Maryland under Calvert....
Assembly composed of all the freemen.... William Clay-
borne.... Assembly composed of representatives....Di-
vided into two branches....Tyrannical proceedings.
CHAPTER III.
First ineffectual attempts of the Plymouth company to
settle the country....Settlements at New Plymouth....
Sir Henry Rosewell and co....New charter....Settlement
of the country vigorously prosecuted....Government
transferred to the colonists....Boston founded....Reli-
gious intolerance....General court established....Com-
mission granted by the crown for the government of
the plantations....Contests with the French colony of
Acadié....Hugh Peters....Henry Vane....Mrs. Hutchin-
son and the antinomians....Maine granted to Gorges....
Quo warranto against the patent of the colony....Re-
ligious dissensions....Providence settled....Rhode Island
settled....Connecticut settled.... War with the Piquods....
New Haven settled.
CHAPTER IV.
Massachussetts claims New Hampshire and part of Maine
....Dissensions among the inhabitants....Confederation
of the New England colonies....Rhode Island excluded
from it....Separate chambers provided for the two
branches of the legislature....New England takes part
with parliament....Treaty between New England and
Acadié....Petition of the non-conformists....Disputes
between Massachussetts and Connecticut....War be-
tween England and Holland....Machinations of the Dutch
at Manhadoes among the Indians....Massachussetts re-
fuses to join with the united colonies in the war....
Application of New Haven to Cromwell for assistance
....Peace with the Dutch....Expedition of Sedgwic
against Acadié....Religious intolerance.
CHAPTER V.
Transactions immediately succeeding the restoration of
Charles II....Contests between Connecticut and New
Haven....Discontents in Virginia....Grant to the duke of
York....Commissioners appointed by the crown....Con-
quest of the Dutch settlements....Conduct of Massa-
chussetts to the royal commissioners.... They are re-
called....Massachussetts evades a summons to appear
before the king and council....Settlement of Carolina....
Form of government....Constitution of mr. Locke....
Discontents and insurrections in the county of Albe-
marle....Southern colony is invaded by the Spaniards
from Florida....Abolition of the constitution of mr.
Locke....Bacon's rebellion....His death....Assembly de-
prived of judicial authority....Discontents in Virginia....
Population of the colony.
CHAPTER VI.
Prosperity of New England.... War with Philip....Edward
Randolph arrives in Boston....Maine adjudged by the
king in council to Gorges, and is purchased by Massa-
chussetts....Royal government erected in New Hamp-
shire....Complaints against Massachussetts.... Their let-
ters patent cancelled by decree of the court of chancery
....Death of Charles II....James II. proclaimed....New
commission for the temporary government of Massa-
chussetts, New Hampshire, Maine, and Narraghansetts
....Sir Edmund Andros.... The charter of Rhode Island
abrogated....Odious measures of the new government
....Andros deposed.... William and Mary proclaimed....
Review of the proceedings of New York and the Jerseys
....Pennsylvania granted to William Penn....Frame of
government....Foundation of Philadelphia laid....As-
sembly convened....First acts of the legislature....
Boundary line with lord Baltimore settled.
CHAPTER VII.
New charter of Massachussetts....Execution of Leisler
.... War with France....Schenectady destroyed....Expe-
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dition against Port Royal....And against Quebec....
Acadié recovered by France, and Pemaquid taken....
Attempt on St. Johns....Peace....Affairs of New York
....Of Virginia....Disputes between England and France
about the boundaries of their American colonies....
Recommencement of hostilities with France....Quotas
of men required from the respective colonies....Treaty
of Neutrality between the French and Five Nations....
Expedition against Port Royal fails.... Incursion into
Massachussetts....Plan for invasion of Canada....Port
Royal taken....Expedition against Quebec....Treaty of
Utrecht....Affairs of Carolina....Expedition against St.
Augustine....Attempt to establish the episcopal church
in Carolina....That colony invaded....Bills of credit
issued....Legislature continues itself....Massacre in
North Carolina by the Indians.... Tuscaroras defeated
....Scheme of a bank....Contests of the legislature of
New York with lord Cornbury....Expedition against
Montreal....Adjustment of boundary line between Mas-
sachussetts and Connecticut.
CHAPTER VIII.
Proceedings of the legislature of Massachussetts....In-
trigues of the French among the Indians.... War with
the savages....Peace....Points of controversy with the
governor, decided in England against the house....Con-
tests concerning the governor's salary....Adjournment of
the assembly to Salem....Contest concerning the salary
terminated....Great depreciation of the paper currency
....Scheme for a land bank....Company dissolved by act
of parliament....Governor Shirley arrives.... Review of
transactions in New York.
CHAPTER IX.
War with the southern Indians....Various causes of dis-
satisfaction given by the proprietors to the assembly of
Carolina....Rupture with Spain....Governor endeavours
to prepare the militia to repel an invasion....Combina-
tion throughout the colony to subvert the proprie-
tary government....Revolution completed....Expedition
against Charleston from the Havanna....Peace with
Spain....Many of the proprietors surrender their interest
to the crown.... The province divided....Georgia settled
....Impolicy of the first regulations.... Intrigues of the
Spaniards with the Indians....And with the slaves of
South Carolina....Insurrection of the slaves.
CHAPTER X.
War declared against Spain....Expedition against St.
Augustine....Georgia invaded....Spaniards land on an
island in the Alatamaha....Appearance of a fleet from
Charleston....Spanish army are seized with a panic, and
re-embark....Hostilities with France....Plan for attack-
ing Louisbourg....Louisbourg surrenders.
CHAPTER XI.
Great plans of the belligerent powers....Misfortunes of the
armament under the duke d'Anville....The French fleet
is dispersed by a storm....Expedition against Nova
Scotia....Treaty of Aix la Chapelle....Paper money of
Massachussetts redeemed....Revival of the contest be-
tween the French and English colonies respecting
boundaries....Statement of the discovery of the Mis-
sissippi by the French....Scheme for connecting Louis-
iana with Canada....Relative strength and advantages
of the French and English colonies....Defeat at the
Little Meadows....Convention at Albany....Plan of union
agreed to in convention....Objected to, both in America
and Great Britain.
CHAPTER XII..
General Braddock arrives in America......Convention of the
governors, and plan of the campaign resolved on....
French expelled from Nova Scotia, and the inhabitants
transplanted Expedition against fort du Quesne.....
Battle of Monongahela... Defeat and death of Braddock
.....Expedition against Crown Point.....Dieskau defeated
.....Expedition against Niagara....Frontiers distressed by
incursions of the Indians
Meeting of the governors at
New York..... Plan for the campaign of 1756.Command
in America bestowed on lord Loudoun Montcalm takes
Oswego. All offensive operations abandoned by lord