Rhode Island.-Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson. Many Puritans find refuge in Holland.-The congregation at Leyden determine to remove to America.-They obtain a patent from the Virginia Company.-The Mayflower and the Speedwell leave Leyden.-The Mayflower sails from Plymouth alone.-The emigrants land at Cape Cod.-Their sufferings.-The settlement of New Plymouth founded.-Hardship and labour.-Friendly relations established with the Indians.-The “unruly colony” at Weymouth.-Gradual rise of New PlymouthĪttempts to colonise the coast.-Portsmouth founded.-Richard Vines’ expedition.-First settlement of Maine and Nova Scotia.-New emigrants.-Settlement founded in the wilderness of Salem.-John Winthrop.-Settlement at Boston.-Fortunes of the colonists.-Bigotry creeps in among them.-Friendly disposition of the Indian chiefs.-Commencement of trade with Virginia, and with the Dutch, on the Hudson.-Representative government established at Massachusetts.-Arrival of Henry Vane towards the Church of England.-Oppression, and resistance of the bigotry of James.-Struggle between established authority and the spirit of liberty Smith’s Voyage to Massachusetts Bay.-New England.-Hunt kidnaps the Indians.-King James grants the “great patent.”-Puritanism in England.-The Pilgrim Fathers.-Commencement of English Nonconformity.-Policy of James I. a grant of land, which is called Maryland.-Cecil Calvert sends Leonard Calvert to Maryland with emigrants.-Clayborne’s attempt to discourage the colonists.-His turbulence.-Incursions of the Indians.-Puritanism.-Toleration of the government.-Political troubles.-The dissensions compromised The London Company’s second charter.-Clayborne.-Sir George Calvert, afterwards Lord Baltimore, obtains from James I. IvNew motives for colonisation in the seventeenth century.-England steps into the field of enterprise.-The Plymouth and London Companies founded.-Vain effort of the Plymouth Company.-The London Company despatches a squadron, which lands in Chesapeake Bay.-The settlement of Jamestown formed.-Wingfield and Smith.-Extraordinary adventures of Smith.-His life saved by the Indian girl, Pocahontas.-Gold, mania in the colony.-Dissatisfaction of the London Company.-Lord de la Ware appointed governor.-Famine in the colony.-New settlements and new charter.-Pocahontas visits England.-Land-law in Virginia.-Written constitution.-Unexpected rising among the Indians.-New laws.-Governors of Virginia.-Democratic spirit.-Tobacco Second attempt of Raleigh to colonise Virginia.-Rupture with the natives.-Delay in the supply of necessaries to the colonists.-Misfortunes of Raleigh.-His efforts for the colony.-Bartholomew Gosnold lands at Cape Cod.-Penobscot river discovered.-The voyages of the French.-Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Acadia.-Quebec founded in 1608.-Samuel Champlain.-Henry Hudson’s voyages to the north.-He endeavours to discover a passage to the Pacific.-His sufferings and death Pamphilo de Narvaez’ expedition to Florida.-Ferdinand de Soto lands with 600 men.-Their adventures in search of gold.-Sufferings and death of de Soto.-The Mississippi discovered.-Florida colonised by Huguenots.-The French settlement destroyed by Pedro Melendez.-English discovery.-Willoughby and Richard Chancellor.-Frobisher.-Sir Humphrey Gilbert.-Sir Walter Raleigh.-The colony of Virginia and its fortunes.-Sir Francis Drake reaches Nova Scotia.-Jacques Cartier’s voyages.-Ponce de Leon discovers Florida.-Fernandez de Cordova discovers Yucatan.-Conquest of Mexico by Cortes America discovered by the Vikings.-Runic pillars of Rask and Finn Magnusen.-Christopher Columbus: his various voyages.-John and Sebastian Cabot.-The Portuguese.-Vasco de Gama and Cortereal.-John Verazzani despatched by Francis I.
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