3. Settlements were soon attempted and patroonships created; but the chief industry of New Netherland was the fur trade. 4. In 1638 a Swedish colony, called New Sweden, was planted on the Delaware; but it was seized by the Dutch (1655). 5. The English by this time had begun to settle in New England. This led to disputes, and in 1664 New Netherland was seized by the English, arid became a possession of the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II. 6. Most of the province was called New York; but part of it was cut off and given to two noblemen, and became the province of New Jersey. 7. In 1663 and 1665 Charles II made some of his friends proprietors of Carolina, a province later divided into North and South Carolina. 8. In 1681 Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn as a proprietary colony. 9. In order to obtain the right of access to the sea, Penn secured from the Duke of York what is now Delaware. 10. The last of the colonies was Georgia, chartered in 1732. 11. Education scanty and poor. No printing presses for one hundred years after first settlement. [Illustration: POUNDING CORN.] FOOTNOTES [1] Henry Hudson was an English seaman who twice before had made voyages to the north and northeastward for an English trading company. Stopping in England on his return from America, Hudson sent a report of his discovery to the Dutch company and offered to go on another voyage to search for the northwest passage. He was ordered to come to Amsterdam, but the English authorities would not let him go. In 1610 he sailed again for the English and entered Hudson Bay, where during some months his ship was locked in the ice. The crew mutinied and put Hudson, his son, and seven sick men adrift in an open boat, and then sailed for England. There the crew were imprisoned. An expedition was sent in search of Hudson, but no trace of him was found. [2] One of these, Cape May, now bears his name; the other, Cape Henlopen, is called after a town in Holland. [3] The first patroonship was Swandale, in what is now the state of Delaware; but the Indians were troublesome, and the estate was abandoned. The second, granted to Michael Pauw, included Staten Island and much of what is now Jersey City; it was sold back to the company after a few years. The most successful patroonship was the Van Rensselaer (ren'se-ler) estate on the Hudson near Albany. It extended twenty-four miles along both banks of the river and ran back into the country twenty-four miles from each bank. The family still occupies a small part of the estate.