CONTENTS

PART I

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE ENGLISH

CHAPTER I-THE NEW WORLD

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THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA

1. Geography before Columbus

STRABO, Geography, Book I, chap. iv, par. 6

SENECA, Medea, Act II, ll. 371 ff..

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PULCI, Morganti Maggiore, Canto XXV, strophes 229, 230

ST. AMBROSE, Hexaëmeron, in Migne, Patrologia Latina,
Vol. XIV, col. 123.

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THOMAS WRIGHT, Popular Treatises on Science written
during the Middle Ages, London, 1841, pp. 1-3

ALEXANDER OF NECKAM, De Natura Rerum, ed. Thos.

Wright, in Rolls Series, Book II, chap. 98, p. 183

2. The "Capitulation " of April 17, 1492

FILSON YOUNG, Christopher Columbus, Vol. II, Appen-

dix C, pp. 336-337

3. Columbus' letter to Luis de Santangel, February 15, 1493
Original Narratives of Early American History, Vol. I,
ed. OLSON and BOURNE, The Northmen, Columbus
and Cabot, pp. 263-271

4. Columbus complains to his son Diego, December 1, 1504

JOHN BOYD THACHER, Christopher Columbus, Vol. III,

pp. 318-325.

A CENTURY OF EXPLORATION

5. Magellan's voyage around the world, 1519-1522

PIGAPHETA's Narrative, in Hakluyt Society Publications,

Vol. LII, pp. 35-163. .

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6. De Soto's journey to the Mississippi, 1538-1542

RICHARD HAKLUYT, Voyages, Travels, and Discoveries,

Vol. V, pp. 476-550

7. A Tribute to Queen Elizabeth as the " Mother of Eng-

lish Sea-greatnesse," 1625

Hakluytus Postumus, or PURCHAS, His Pilgrimes, ed.

MacLehose, Glasgow, Vol. XIX, pp. 449-450

8. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's patent, 1578

RICHARD HAKLUYT (see No. 6), Vol. III, pp. 174-176

9. An encouragement to English colonization, 1584

RICHARD HAKLUYT, A Discourse Concerning Western

Planting, in Maine Historical Society's Documen-

tary History, Series II, Vol. II, pp. 101-161..

CHAPTER II -THE ENGLISH COLONIES

THE OLD DOMINION

10. An English gentleman's impression of Jamestown in

1619

Original Narratives (see No. 3), Vol. III, ed. L. G.

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TYLER, Narratives of Early Virginia, pp. 281-287

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11. Virginia changes masters, 1651-1662

EBENEZER HAZARD, Historical Collections of State

Papers, Vol. I, pp. 556-558

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W. W. HENING, Statutes at Large... of Virginia, Vol. I,

p. 530

EBENEZER HAZARD, op. cit. Vol. II, pp. 607–611.

12. An eyewitness' account of Bacon's rebellion, 1675–

1676

PETER FORCE, Tracts. relating to the Origin, Settle-

ment, and Progress of the Colonies in North America,

Vol. I, No. 8

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THE NEW ENGLAND SETTLEMENTS

13. The coming of the Pilgrims, 1620

Original Narratives (see No. 3), Vol. VI, ed. W. T.

DAVIS, Bradford's History of Plimouth Plantation,

pp. 32-107 passim .

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14. Illustrations of Puritan character

THOMAS HUTCHINSON, History of the Colony of Massa-

chusetts Bay, Vol. I, pp. 151-153

SAMUEL WHITING, Life of John Cotton, in Alexander

Young's Chronicles of the First Planters of the

Colony of Massachusetts Bay, pp. 423-430

COTTON MATHER'S Diary, in Massachusetts Historical
Society Collections, Series VII, Vol. VIII, pp. 3-5,
252-258.

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15. "Independency" in Massachusetts, 1664

THOMAS HUTCHINSON (see No. 14), Vol. I, pp. 537-542,

appendix

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16. The "Glorious Revolution" of 1689

PETER FORCE (see No. 12), Vol. IV, No. 10, An Account

of the Late Revolution in New England

The Hutchinson Papers, in Publications of the Prince

Society, Vol. II, pp. 314-317.

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THE PROPRIETARY COLONIES

17. Two accounts of early New York, 1643, 1661

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, ed. R. G.

THWAITES, Vol. XXVIII, pp. 105-111.

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Original Narratives (see No. 3), Vol. VIII, ed. J. F.
JAMESON, Narratives of New Netherland, pp. 423-

424

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18. Rivalry between Dutch and English in the Connecticut
valley, 1627-1650

Massachusetts Historical Society Collections for the Year

1794, Vol. III, pp. 51-52

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of. New

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York, ed. E. B. O'CALLAGHAN, Vol. I, pp. 287-289 57

THOMAS HUTCHINSON (see No. 14), Vol. I, pp. 514-515 59

19. New Netherland becomes New York, 1664

Original Narratives (see No. 3), Vol. VIII, pp. 451-453 60

Documents Relative to the Colonial History of.

New

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York (see No. 18), Vol. II, pp. 250-253

20. The rise of the Quakers, about 1650

Robert Proud, History of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,

1797, Vol. I, pp. 28-61 passim

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Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, Series IV,

Vol. IX, p. 159 ・ ・

21. Peopling a new colony, 1681-1683

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SAMUEL HAZARD, Register of Pennsylvania, Vol. I,

pp. 306–308

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Original Narratives (see No. 3), Vol. X, ed. A. C.

MEYERS, Narratives of Early Pennsylvania, West

New Jersey, and Delaware, pp. 379-397

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THE COLONIES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

22. The First Navigation Act, 1660

WILLIAM MACDONALD, ed. Select Charters illustrative

of American History, 1606-1775, pp. 110-115

23. Observations of two foreign visitors, 1748-1749,

1759-1760

PETER KALM, Travels into North America, tr. J. R.

Foster, London, 1770, Vol. I, pp. 260-265

ANDREW BURNABY, Travels .. in North America,

ed. John Pinkerton, London, 1812, General Collec-

tion of Travels, pp. 750-752.

24. Harvard College in the early days, 1642, 1680, 1741

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New England's First Fruits, London, 1643, pp. 12-15. 80

The Journal of Jasper Dankers, ed. H. C. MURPHY, in

Memoirs of the Long Island Historical Society,

Vol. I, pp. 384-385

JOSIAH QUINCY, History of Harvard University, Vol. II,
pp. 88-89

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CHAPTER III - THE STRUGGLE WITH FRANCE FOR

NORTH AMERICA

THE RISE OF NEW FRANCE

25. La Salle's voyage down the Mississippi, January to

April, 1682

LE CLERCQ, The First Establishment of the Faith in New

France, tr. John G. Shea, Vol. II, pp. 161-179

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