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....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 colonial 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