The Historic Series for Young People By RUPERT S. HOLLAND +Historic Boyhoods+ Stories of the Boyhoods of Famous Men. +Historic Girlhoods+ Stories of the Girlhoods of Famous Women. +Historic Inventions+ Stories of the Great Inventors. +Historic Poems and Ballads+ The Heroic Poems of All Lands. +Historic Adventures+ Stories of Our Nation's Heroes. +Historic Heroes of Chivalry+ Stories of Brave Knights of Old. Each 12mo. Cloth, Illustrated, $1.50 net "_Ideal Books for Young Americans_" [Illustration: ANDROSS STARED AT GOVERNOR TREAT] Historic Events of Colonial Days By RUPERT S. HOLLAND _Author of "Historic Boyhoods," "Historic Girlhoods," "Historic Inventions," etc._ [Illustration: Logo] PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1916, by GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY _Published, October, 1916_ _All rights reserved_ Printed in U. S. A. Contents I. A PURITAN HERO 9 (_Rhode Island, 1630_) II. PETER STUYVESANT'S FLAG 21 (_New York, 1661_) III. WHEN GOVERNOR ANDROSS CAME TO CONNECTICUT 55 (_Connecticut, 1675_) IV. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN NATHANIEL BACON AND SIR WILLIAM BERKELEY 70 (_Virginia, 1676_) V. AN OUTLAW CHIEF OF MARYLAND 105 (_Maryland, 1684_) VI. IN THE DAYS OF WITCHES 139 (_Massachusetts, 1692_) VII. THE ATTACK ON THE DELAWARE 174 (_Pennsylvania, 1706_) VIII. THE PIRATES OF CHARLES TOWN HARBOR 206 (_South Carolina, 1718_) IX. THE FOUNDER OF GEORGIA 245 (_Georgia, 1732_) X. THE GREEN MOUNTAIN BOYS AND THE YORKERS 287 (_Vermont, 1774_) Illustrations Andross Stared at Governor Treat _Frontispiece_ Stuyvesant Bit His Lips as His Gunners Waited _Facing page_ 46 "I Yield as Your Prisoner" " " 116 Nick Turned to Lead the Way " " 210 I A PURITAN HERO (_Rhode Island, 1630_) The good ship _Lyon_ had been sixty-seven days outward bound from the port of Bristol, in England, when she dropped anchor early in February, 1630, at Nantasket, near the entrance of Boston Harbor, in New England. The ship had met with many winter storms, and passengers and crew were glad to see the shores of Massachusetts. On the ninth of February the _Lyon_ slipped through a field of drifting ice and came to anchor before the little settlement of Boston. On board the ship was a young man who was to play an exciting part in the story of the New World.