Chapter II: Virginia: the First Great Colony of the British

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 Companies--
The government of the London Company--The Virginian settlers--
Foundation of Jamestown--Captain John Smith--The lust for gold
--Smith's good work--English interest in Virginia--Sir George
Somers and Sir Thomas Gates--Lord Delawarr--Improvements in
Virginia--The Princess Pocahontas--Samuel Argall--Sir Thomas
Dale--Yeardley and the first Representative Assembly--The
Company in danger--The abolition of the Company--A change in
the character of Virginian history--Wyatt and Harvey as
Governors--A land of peace and plenty--Sir William Berkeley
--Trouble with the Indians--Virginia and the Civil War--
Berkeley's dislike of education--Arlington and Culpeper--
Virginia under Berkeley--Bacon's rising--Sir Herbert Jeffreys
--Virginia and the Revolution--Virginia in the eighteenth
century--Robert Dinwiddie 19

CHAPTER III

THE COLONISATION OF MARYLAND AND THE CAROLINAS

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 Maryland--
Francis Nicholson--Irreligion of the colonists--Industry in
Maryland--The Carolinas--The foundation of the colony--Its
progress--The Fundamental Constitutions--State of anarchy--
South Carolina--William Sayle--Joseph West--Amalgamation of
the two Carolinas--Danger from French and Spaniards--Queen
Anne's War--Indian troubles--The Treaty of Utrecht--The
Carolinas become a Crown colony--Interest of Carolina history 54

CHAPTER IV

THE PURITANS IN PLYMOUTH AND MASSACHUSETTS

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 colony--Development of government--The Civil War--
Ineffectual attempts to obtain a charter--The foundation of
Massachusetts--Ferdinando Gorges, John White, and John
Endecott--A charter granted--John Winthrop--Government of
Massachusetts--Puritan intolerance--Roger Williams--Harry
Vane, John Wheelwright, and Mrs Anne Hutchinson--Harvard
College--The New England Confederacy--Massachusetts and the
Home Government--Brutality to Quakers--King Philip's War--
Edward Randolph's complaints--The rule of Sir Edmund Andros
--The Revolution of 1688--A new charter--Sir William Phipps
--The Earl of Bellomont and Governor Fletcher--Advance of
the colony 76

CHAPTER V

CONNECTICUT; RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATION; NEW
HAVEN; MAINE; NEW HAMPSHIRE

Quarrelsome provinces--The foundation of Connecticut--The Pequod
War--The Restoration--Sir Edmund Andros--Connecticut's progress
--Foundation of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation--Samuel
Gorton--Government of the colony--The Royal Commissioners in
Rhode Island--James II. and the Revolution--The foundation of
New Haven--The regicides in New Haven--The foundation of Maine
--Sir Ferdinando Gorges--The Restoration in Maine--Descriptions
of Maine--Gorges sells his rights--The foundation of New
Hampshire--The greed of Massachusetts--New Hampshire and the
Revolution--The necessity of union 107

CHAPTER VI

THE FIGHT WITH THE DUTCH FOR THEIR SETTLEMENT OF NEW NETHERLANDS

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 character of
New York--Government of New York and Albany--Francis Lovelace
--The Dutch recapture New York--New Jersey--Thomas Dongan--The
Leisler Rising--Lack of a Constitution--The Earl of Bellomont
and Lord Cornbury--Governors of the early eighteenth century
--Lucrative character of governor's post 128

CHAPTER VII

THE QUAKER SETTLEMENTS AND GEORGIA

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's
constitution--The Revolution and after--Penn regains
proprietorship--Intercolonial disputes--An asylum of rest--
John and Thomas Penn--The foundation of Georgia--Oglethorpe's
difficulties--John and Charles Wesley--War with Spain--Attack
on St. Augustine--Oglethorpe's daring--Quarrels concerning
slavery--Oglethorpe's work--Georgia becomes a Crown colony--
The coming struggle with France 146

CHAPTER VIII

THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND

Population of Puritan colonies--Towns--Wooden houses--Industry
and commerce--Minor industries--Shipbuilding--Eighteenth-century
commerce--Agriculture--Want of money--The colonial mint--Paper
money--Wages and prices--The poor-law--Slavery--Missionary
efforts--Religion--Education--Literature--Printing--Means of
travel--Curious laws--The character of the settlers 168

CHAPTER IX

THE SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE SOUTHERN
AND MIDDLE COLONIES

Character of the colonies--Classes in colonial society--
Indentured servants--Slavery--White population--Industry
and commerce--Money--Education--Literature--Religion--Town
life--Conclusion 187

CHAPTER X

THE FRENCH COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA

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--Character
of Champlain--Colbert and colonisation--The Company of the West
--System of government--Count Frontenac--Western discoveries--
Joliet and Marquette--La Salle--The Mississippi--La Salle's great
expedition--His failure--His place in history--The Iroquois--The
Treaty of Utrecht 200

CHAPTER XI

FRENCH AGGRESSION

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 Treaty
of Ryswick--The War of the Spanish Succession--The horrors of
Indian warfare--Samuel Vetch--Colonial jealousies--English
indifference--The capture of Acadia--Colonial fear of English
interference--The English view of the colonials--The Hill-Walker
expedition--Walker's cowardice--The character of the expedition
--The Treaty of Utrecht--A lost opportunity--Relations between
Indians and Canadian Government--The French scheme--Crown Point
--The War of the Austrian Succession--Louisburg--Character of
forces--The capture of Louisburg--Shirley's plans--The Treaty
of Aix-la-Chapelle 224