The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763

"If we can remove the turbulent Gallics the seat of Empire might be transferred to America."[281] Such were the characteristically pompous words of John Adams, which nevertheles...

The English settlers in America may be less romantic and less interesting figures than their Elizabethan predecessors, but they were undoubtedly fitter instruments for the speci...

It has been customary to regard the members of the colony of Virginia as Cavaliers of the most ardent type, but, as has been shown, this is scarcely correct, and amongst the Vir...

In a previous chapter reference has already been made to the fatality of having no form of union among the Thirteen Colonies. Every chance of concentration existed towards the e...

"The French empire in the New World has vanished, leaving behind it ineffaceable monuments of the grand political conception of which it formed part."[239] Frenchmen were amongs...

There are few examples in history of the possessions of an ardent Roman Catholic passing quietly and amicably into the hands of members of the Society of Friends, but the Quaker...

"Maryland is a province not commonly knowne in England, because the name of Virginia includes or clouds it, it is a Country wholy belonging to that honorable Gentleman the Lord...

The early history of the group of colonies which is now to engage the attention is less interesting than that of either Virginia or Massachusetts. There is not the glamour of a...

It would be out of place in this small book to give in detail a history of all the discoveries which were made along the shores of North and South America at the end of the fift...

A new epoch in colonial history was reached when England adopted a warlike policy to obtain mastery in the West. During the Protectorate, England and Holland were for the first...

"God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."[204] With regard to New England this statement was in part true, for the people of those n...

The southern colonies in their geographical formation, their soil and climate, were of a uniform character; nor were there any decidedly marked religious differences. In the mid...

The colonial share in the capture of Canada--The internal jealousies of the colonies--French aggression in the Ohio valley--George Washington--Results of the campaign of 1754--...

Character of the men--Raleigh's Virginian colonies--Motives for colonisation--Gosnold and Pring--Richard Hakluyt--Elizabeth and James I.--Formation of the London and Plymouth Co...

Character of New England colonies--The Plymouth Company--The Puritans--William Bradford--The Pilgrim Fathers--The foundation of New Plymouth--Life in the colony--Description of...

The colonies were not united--Dongan and Denonville--King William's war--The Albany Conference--Expedition against Quebec --The Abenaki Indians--Incapacity of the colonies--The...

Quarrelsome provinces--The foundation of Connecticut--The Pequod War--The Restoration--Sir Edmund Andros--Connecticut's progress --Foundation of Rhode Island and Providence Plan...

The colonisation of Maryland--Lord Baltimore--Leonard Calvert --Quarrel over the Isle of Kent--The Civil War--The Commonwealth --Lord Baltimore restored--A spirit of unrest in M...

The Dutch Wars--The position of New York--The New Netherlands --Stuyvesant's attack on New Sweden--Nicolls' attack on the New Netherlands--Splendid work of Nicolls--The characte...

The Quakers in America--East and West New Jersey--Delaware-- The Jerseys under one governor--The Jerseys united--William Penn--The foundation of Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Penn...

Early French voyages--Jacques Cartier--The Marquis de la Roche --Samuel Champlain--A passage to the East--The Franciscans and Jesuits--The Company of the One Hundred Associates-...

Spanish, French, and Dutch colonisation--English colonisation --The Cabotian discoveries--The Cabots' second voyage--The Bull of Alexander VI.--The voyages of John Rut and Maste...