—The English Puritans, persecuted in England, take refuge in Holland. 1609—Lord Delaware is appointed Governor of Virginia, which receives a new charter, and a considerable accession of numbers. —Part of the expedition, however, was shipwrecked, and the colony, embracing a large unruly and indolent element, is near perishing. Pocahontas repeatedly saves them from the Indians. Hudson river and Lake Champlain discovered. 1610—Lord Delaware, having been delayed, arrives (after the discouraged colonists had embarked to return to England) with supplies, and saves the settlement. 1613—Pocahontas marries John Rolfe, an Englishman. —The Dutch erect a fort at New York. 1615—They build Fort Orange, near Albany. 1619—The first General Assembly elected by the people is called in Virginia, by Governor Yeardley. Eleven boroughs, or towns, were each represented by two Burgesses, or citizens. It was the dawn of civil liberty in Virginia, and a germ of the future republic. 1620—Convicts are sent to Virginia, and negro slaves introduced. —September 6th, the Puritans, discontented in Holland, set sail in the Mayflower, from Plymouth, England, for America, under the auspices of the “Plymouth Company.” —December 21st they land on Plymouth Rock, and, amid great hardships, found a religious colony. —James I. grants a charter to the Grand Council of Plymouth for governing New England. 1621—A district called Mariana granted to John Mason. —Plymouth colony makes a treaty with Massasoit. —Cotton first planted in Virginia. 1622—Sir Ferdinand Gorges and John Mason obtain a charter of Maine and New Hampshire. They plant a colony on the Piscataqua river. —An Indian conspiracy nearly proves fatal to the Virginia colony. March 22d, at noon, an attack is made on all the settlements, and in an hour nearly a fourth part of the colony is massacred. The colonists, in a bloody war, thoroughly chastise the Indians. 1624—Virginia becomes a royal province, but stoutly maintains its legislative authority. 1625—Death of Robinson, the distinguished Puritan divine, in Holland. 1629—Massachusetts colony patented, and settlement made at Salem, by John Endicott. —Charlestown, Mass., founded. —The Dutch colonize the west side of Delaware river. 1630—Patent of Carolina made to Sir Robert Heath. 1631—Massachusetts General Court confines the privilege of voting to church members. —Clayborne plants a colony on Kent Island. —The Dutch erect a trading fort at Hartford. 1632—Maryland granted to Lord Baltimore. 1633—Connecticut colony founded. 1636—Roger Williams founds Providence. 1637—Pequod war in Connecticut.