Produced by Suzanne Shell, Gary Houston and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net ENGLAND IN AMERICA 1580-1652 By Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL.D. J. & J. Harper Editions Harper & Row, Publishers New York and Evanston 1904 by Harper & Brothers. [Illustration: SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618). From an engraving by Robinson after a painting by Zucchero.] CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION xiii AUTHOR'S PREFACE xix I. GENESIS OF ENGLISH COLONIZATION (1492-1579) 3 II. GILBERT AND RALEIGH COLONIES (1583-1602) 18 III. FOUNDING OF VIRGINIA (1602-1608) 34 IV. GLOOM IN VIRGINIA (1608-1617) 55 V. TRANSITION OF VIRGINIA (1617-1640) 76 VI. SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITIONS OF VIRGINIA (1634-1652) 100 VII. FOUNDING OF MARYLAND (1632-1650) 118 VIII. CONTENTIONS IN MARYLAND (1633-1652) 134 IX. FOUNDING OF PLYMOUTH (1608-1630) 149 X. DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PLYMOUTH (1621-1643) 163 XI. GENESIS OF MASSACHUSETTS (1628-1630) 183 XII. FOUNDING OF MASSACHUSETTS (1630-1642) 196 XIII. RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS (1631-1638) 210 XIV. NARRAGANSETT AND CONNECTICUT SETTLEMENTS (1635-1637) 229 XV. FOUNDING OF CONNECTICUT AND NEW HAVEN (1637-1652) 251 XVI. NEW HAMPSHIRE AND MAINE (1653-1658) 266 XVII. COLONIAL NEIGHBORS (1643-1652) 282 XVIII. THE NEW ENGLAND CONFEDERATION (1643-1654) 297 XIX. EARLY NEW ENGLAND LIFE 318 XX. CRITICAL ESSAY ON AUTHORITIES 328 INDEX 341 MAPS ROANOKE ISLAND, JAMESTOWN, AND ST. MARY'S (1584-1632) _facing_ 34 CHART OF VIRGINIA, SHOWING INDIAN AND EARLY ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS IN 1632 76 VIRGINIA IN 1652 99 MARYLAND IN 1652 133 NEW ENGLAND (1652) _facing_ 196 MAINE IN 1652 265 NEW SWEDEN AND NEW NETHERLAND 296 [Transcriber's Note: This text retains original spellings. Also, superscripted abbreviations or contractions are indicated by the use of a caret (^), such as w^th (with).] EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION