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

BOOK III.

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_CENTRIFUGAL FORCES IN COLONY-PLANTING._

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

The Catholic Migration 220

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

The Prophet of Religious Freedom 266

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

New England Dispersions 315

LIST OF MAPS.

(In the coast line the American maps follow the charts of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; the third map conforms to the British Ordnance Survey.)

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 dispersions 343