A Book of American Explorers

Name: A Book of American Explorers
Author: Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

[No trace of this lost colony has ever been discovered; and
  we can only guess at the fate of the first white child born in
  America, Virginia Dare. Strachey, the secretary of the Jamestown
  (Virginia) colony, twenty years after, was told by the Indians
  that seven of the English, “who escaped the slaughter at Roanoke,”
  were preserved alive by a certain chief; but neither he nor
  Captain John Smith has left on record any thing more.]

  Illustration:   PALISADED TOWN.




                                BOOK X.

               UNSUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND.
                           (A.D. 1602‒1607.)


  The narrative of Captain Gosnold’s adventures is taken from
  John Brereton’s “Brief and True Relation of the Discovery of
  the North Part of Virginia: being a most pleasant, fruitful,
  and commodious soil.” Reprinted in the Collections of the
  Massachusetts Historical Society, 3d series, vol. viii.
  pp. 85‒93.

  Waymouth’s narrative is taken from “A True Relation of the
  most Prosperous Voyage made this Present Year, 1605, by Captain
  George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia, where
  he discovered, sixty miles up, a most excellent river, together
  with a most fertile land. Written by James Rosier, a gentleman
  employed in the voyage.” Reprinted in the same volume of the
  Massachusetts Historical Collections, pp. 135‒156.

  The other two narratives are from Strachey’s “Historie of
  Travaile into Virginia” (reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, 1849),
  pp. 171‒173, 176‒180.




                UNSUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND




                   I.――GOSNOLD’S FORT AT CUTTYHUNK.


  [Gosnold was the first Englishman who attempted to found a
  colony in New England; and this account of his attempt is by his
  companion, John Brereton.]

TO THE HONORABLE SIR WALTER RALEIGH, KNIGHT. _Honorable Sir_,――Being
earnestly requested by a dear friend to put down in writing some
true relation of our late-performed voyage to the north parts of
Virginia,[227] at length I resolved to satisfy his request....

May it please your Lordship, therefore, to understand that upon
the five and twentieth of March, 1602, being Friday, we went from
Falmouth, being in all two and thirty persons, in a small bark of
Dartmouth, called “The Concord,” holding a course for the north part
of Virginia....

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A Book of American Explorers

Higginson, Thomas Wentworth

America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

[No trace of this lost colony has ever been discovered; and
  we can only guess at the fate of the first white child born in
  America, Virginia Dare. Strachey, the secretary of the Jamestown
  (Virginia) colony, twenty years after, was told by the Indians
  that seven of the English, “who escaped the slaughter at Roanoke,”
  were preserved alive by a certain chief; but neither he nor
  Captain John Smith has left on record any thing more.]

  Illustration:   PALISADED TOWN.




                                BOOK X.

               UNSUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND.
                           (A.D. 1602‒1607.)


  The narrative of Captain Gosnold’s adventures is taken from
  John Brereton’s “Brief and True Relation of the Discovery of
  the North Part of Virginia: being a most pleasant, fruitful,
  and commodious soil.” Reprinted in the Collections of the
  Massachusetts Historical Society, 3d series, vol. viii.
  pp. 85‒93.

  Waymouth’s narrative is taken from “A True Relation of the
  most Prosperous Voyage made this Present Year, 1605, by Captain
  George Waymouth, in the discovery of the land of Virginia, where
  he discovered, sixty miles up, a most excellent river, together
  with a most fertile land. Written by James Rosier, a gentleman
  employed in the voyage.” Reprinted in the same volume of the
  Massachusetts Historical Collections, pp. 135‒156.

  The other two narratives are from Strachey’s “Historie of
  Travaile into Virginia” (reprinted by the Hakluyt Society, 1849),
  pp. 171‒173, 176‒180.




                UNSUCCESSFUL SETTLEMENTS IN NEW ENGLAND




                   I.――GOSNOLD’S FORT AT CUTTYHUNK.


  [Gosnold was the first Englishman who attempted to found a
  colony in New England; and this account of his attempt is by his
  companion, John Brereton.]

TO THE HONORABLE SIR WALTER RALEIGH, KNIGHT. _Honorable Sir_,――Being
earnestly requested by a dear friend to put down in writing some
true relation of our late-performed voyage to the north parts of
Virginia,[227] at length I resolved to satisfy his request....

May it please your Lordship, therefore, to understand that upon
the five and twentieth of March, 1602, being Friday, we went from
Falmouth, being in all two and thirty persons, in a small bark of
Dartmouth, called “The Concord,” holding a course for the north part
of Virginia....

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Book of American Explorers

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