—The Massachusetts Assembly contend with the royal governor for their former liberties. Their charter is still further restricted. 1703—Delaware (called The Territories) is separated from Pennsylvania. 1706—The French and Spaniards invade Carolina. They are repulsed with loss. 1707—Detroit, Michigan, settled by the French. 1710—Many thousand Germans, from the Palatinate, settle in the colonies, from New York to the Carolinas. 1712—A war with the Tuscaroras, in North Carolina, results in their complete defeat. They unite with the Iroquois. 1713—Crown Point, on Lake Champlain, and Niagara, are fortified by the French. The Peace of Utrecht closes Queen Anne’s war. 1715—In a war with the Yamassees, South Carolina loses four hundred inhabitants, but expels the Indians. 1716—Natchez founded by the French. 1717—Father Rasles, a Jesuit Missionary at Norridgwock, Maine, excites the Indians to drive out the English from Maine. He is the last of the Jesuit missionaries, and is slain in the capture of Norridgwock, in August, 1724, by New England troops. 1718—New Orleans founded by the French. 1720—A royal government supersedes the proprietary, in Carolina. 1723—First settlement made in Vermont. 1729—North and South Carolina erected into separate governments. 1732—A company in England prepare to settle Georgia. 1733—General Oglethorpe, with a colony, arrives in Georgia. 1736—Many Scotch Highlanders and Germans settle in Georgia. 1738—Insurrection of the slaves in South Carolina. 1740—General Oglethorpe invades Florida. He is repulsed. The Moravians settle in Pennsylvania. 1742—The Spanish invade Georgia, but retire with loss. 1744—“The Old French War” begins. 1745—The New England colonies raise a force and capture Louisburg, the “Gibraltar of America,” from the French. 1748—The treaty of peace of Aix la Chapelle, restores Louisburg to France, to the great disgust of the colonies. 1750—The French and English both claim the Mississippi and Ohio valleys. Lawrence Washington, and others form the Ohio Company. Parliament grants it six hundred thousand acres of land on, or near, the Ohio river. The French dispute the possession, and threaten summary ejectment. 1753—George Washington is sent by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, as an envoy to the French and Indians in Ohio. 1754—The French build Fort Du Quesne (now Pittsburgh). Washington defeats a French party headed by De Jumonville. The French are reinforced by fifteen hundred men, and Washington with four hundred men, after defending himself one day, capitulates.