Category: History - American

The Beginners of a Nation A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People

I.--Chesapeake Bay 1 II.--James River 28 III.--The cradle of the Pilgrims 149 IV.--Coast explored by the Pilgrims 177 V.--The colony at St. Mary's 245 VI.--Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth 275 VII.--The early settlements on Narragansett Bay 296 VIII.--New England after the dispe...