The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763Jeffery, Reginald W. (Reginald Welbury)
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The History of the Thirteen Colonies of North America 1497-1763
Jeffery, Reginald W. (Reginald Welbury)
United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Sir George Somers and Sir Thomas Gates sail for Virginia.
1610. Lord Delawarr governor of Virginia.
1611. Sir Thomas Gates governor of Virginia.
1613. Marriage of Pocahontas to John Rolfe.
Champlain and de Vignau follow the course of the Ottawa.
1614. Samuel Argall sacked Port Royal in Acadia.
Captain John Smith made a voyage to New England.
1615. Champlain and Le Caron came to Lake Huron.
1616. The Recollet missionaries settled in Canada.
1619. Sir George Yeardley governor of Virginia.
1620. Reorganisation of the New England Company.
The voyage of the _Mayflower_ and establishment of New
Plymouth.
1621. Sir William Alexander obtained a patent to colonise Acadia.
1622. Sir Robert Gordon attempted to settle Cape Breton Island.
1623. James I. demanded the surrender of the charter of the
London Company.
A fishing station at Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
Levitt established a settlement on Casco Bay, Maine.
1625. Jesuit missionaries first came to Canada.
1626. Definite settlement of the Dutch on Manhattan Island.
1627. Death of Sir George Yeardley. Harvey governor of Virginia.
Richelieu establishes the Company of the One Hundred
Associates.
1628. David Kirke destroyed the French fleet in the St Lawrence.
1629. David Kirke captured Quebec.
Sir Robert Heath received a grant of land south of
Virginia.
The establishment of Massachusetts.
1630. Winthrop established Boston.
La Tour made governor of Acadia.
1631. Arrival of Roger Williams in Massachusetts.
Lord Saye and Sele and Lord Brooke obtain land on the
Connecticut.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges formed a company for colonising
Maine.
1632. Grant of Maryland to Lord Baltimore.
Treaty of St Germain-en-Laye, by which Quebec was
restored to the French.
1634. Champlain built a fort at Three Rivers.
1635. Champlain died.
Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando Gorges.
Captain John Mason established New Hampshire.
Foundation of Providence by Roger Williams.
Winthrop, the younger, governor of Connecticut.
Harry Vane, Mrs Anne Hutchinson, and John Wheelwright come
to Massachusetts.
The Pequod War.
1636. The foundation of Harvard College.
De Montmagny succeeded Champlain.
1637. The foundation of Rhode Island.
Theophilus Eaton founded New Haven.
1638. Minuit's Swedish settlement.
1640. Union of Rhode Island and Providence.
1642. Conformity Act in Virginia.
Fort Richelieu (Sorel) founded.
1643. The New England Confederacy.
1647.
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