Character of the men--Raleigh's Virginian colonies--Motives for colonisation--Gosnold and Pring--Richard Hakluyt--Elizabeth and James I.--Formation of the London and Plymouth Companies-- The government of the London Company--The Virginian settlers-- Foundation of Jamestown--Captain John Smith--The lust for gold --Smith's good work--English interest in Virginia--Sir George Somers and Sir Thomas Gates--Lord Delawarr--Improvements in Virginia--The Princess Pocahontas--Samuel Argall--Sir Thomas Dale--Yeardley and the first Representative Assembly--The Company in danger--The abolition of the Company--A change in the character of Virginian history--Wyatt and Harvey as Governors--A land of peace and plenty--Sir William Berkeley --Trouble with the Indians--Virginia and the Civil War-- Berkeley's dislike of education--Arlington and Culpeper-- Virginia under Berkeley--Bacon's rising--Sir Herbert Jeffreys --Virginia and the Revolution--Virginia in the eighteenth century--Robert Dinwiddie 19 CHAPTER III THE COLONISATION OF MARYLAND AND THE CAROLINAS The colonisation of Maryland--Lord Baltimore--Leonard Calvert --Quarrel over the Isle of Kent--The Civil War--The Commonwealth --Lord Baltimore restored--A spirit of unrest in Maryland-- Francis Nicholson--Irreligion of the colonists--Industry in Maryland--The Carolinas--The foundation of the colony--Its progress--The Fundamental Constitutions--State of anarchy-- South Carolina--William Sayle--Joseph West--Amalgamation of the two Carolinas--Danger from French and Spaniards--Queen Anne's War--Indian troubles--The Treaty of Utrecht--The Carolinas become a Crown colony--Interest of Carolina history 54 CHAPTER IV THE PURITANS IN PLYMOUTH AND MASSACHUSETTS Character of New England colonies--The Plymouth Company--The Puritans--William Bradford--The Pilgrim Fathers--The foundation of New Plymouth--Life in the colony--Description of the colony--Development of government--The Civil War-- Ineffectual attempts to obtain a charter--The foundation of Massachusetts--Ferdinando Gorges, John White, and John Endecott--A charter granted--John Winthrop--Government of Massachusetts--Puritan intolerance--Roger Williams--Harry Vane, John Wheelwright, and Mrs Anne Hutchinson--Harvard College--The New England Confederacy--Massachusetts and the Home Government--Brutality to Quakers--King Philip's War-- Edward Randolph's complaints--The rule of Sir Edmund Andros --The Revolution of 1688--A new charter--Sir William Phipps --The Earl of Bellomont and Governor Fletcher--Advance of the colony 76 CHAPTER V CONNECTICUT; RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATION; NEW HAVEN; MAINE; NEW HAMPSHIRE