Andros expelled from Boston.—Massachusetts engages in war against Canada and the Indians.—Sir William Phipps’s expedition against Nova Scotia.—Indian warfare.—Prisoners sold to the French.—New charter for Massachusetts.—The witch mania.—Mather and his book.—Absurd and cruel persecution of supposed witches.—Penn’s judgment in a case of witchcraft.—Renewed Indian warfare.—Indian outrages.—Judicial code of Massachusetts 344–359 CHAPTER XXVI. SETTLEMENT OF LOUISIANA.—QUEEN ANNE’S WAR. Callieres excites the Indians against the British.—Lemonie d’Ilberville’s expedition.—Arrival at Ship Island.—The settlement of Detroit.—English expedition to explore the mouth of the Mississippi.—The “English turn.”—The settlement of Natchez.—The settlers of Biloxi.—William III. declares war against France and Spain.—Combats between the settlers and the various nations.—Deerfield destroyed.—Atrocities of Indian warfare.—Port Royal taken.—Admiral Walker’s exploits.—The Tuscarora Indians.—Issues of paper money.—The two Carolinas become separate royal governments.—Enactments with regard to slaves.—The treaty of Utrecht.—Population of the colonies in 1714.—Piracy 360–379 CHAPTER XXVII. LAW’S BUBBLE.—LOUISIANA ESTABLISHED.—GROWTH OF LIBERTY IN THE STATES. State of the American colonies at the accession of the House of Hanover.—The “Mississippi scheme.”—John Law’s bank.—New Orleans founded.—Louisiana established.—Destruction of the Natchez race of Indians.—War with the Chicasaws.—Breaking out of the small-pox in Boston.—Inoculation.—Benjamin Franklin and the “New England covenant.”—British restrictions on colonial manufactures.—Dispute on the salary of the Governor of Massachusetts.—Liberty of the press advocated.—Acquittal of John Zenger the printer 380–389 CHAPTER XXVIII. THE SETTLEMENT OF GEORGIA, AND PROGRESS OF THE STATES. Oglethorpe’s benevolent exertions.—He obtains a charter for Georgia.—His departure from England in 1732.—The town of Savannah laid out.—The Moravians establish themselves in Georgia.—The town of Augusta founded.—Friendly disposition of the Indians.—Progress of the colony.—John and Charles Wesley in Georgia.—Whitfield and his preaching.—The Baptists.—False alarm for a negro rising.—War between England and Spain.—Oglethorpe’s services against the Spaniards.—Character of Oglethorpe.—The boundary of Maine.—The slave-trade.—Attitude of England with regard to the slave-trade.—Hospitality of the Virginians.—General advance of the colonies 390–406 ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOL. I.