Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 48051-h.htm or 48051-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48051/48051-h/48051-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/48051/48051-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cu31924032738860 Some characters might not display in this UTF-8 text version or in the html version. If so, the reader should consult the original page images referred to above. Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). Small capital text has been replaced with all capitals. In the Index Key to Pronunciation, the transcriber has replaced the following symbols: for a with diaresis below, to read a: in fa:ll for e with macron below, to read e= in ve=il for o with diaresis below, to read o: in do: for unknown form of c, to read ċ in ċan [Illustration: G. Washington with handwritten signature] The Youth's Library THE STORY OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES BY H. A. GUERBER New York D. McNetton & Company 150 Fifth Avenue Copyright, 1898, by H. A. Guerber. STORY OF THE THIRTEEN COLONIES. M. B. C. I PREFACE. This book is intended as an historical reader, an elementary text-book in the history of our country, or as an introduction or supplement to any of the excellent text-books on the history of the United States now in use. The aim has been not only to interest children in the great men of their own country, but to stimulate them to the cultivation of the lofty virtues of which they read, and to instil within their hearts a deep love for their native land. All the main facts in our early history have been given as simply and vividly as possible, and the lessons of patriotism, truthfulness, courage, patience, honesty, and industry taught by the lives of our principal heroes are carefully enforced. Great pains have also been taken to relate all the well-known anecdotes and quote the famous speeches which are so frequently alluded to in our current literature. Although this book ends with the Revolutionary War, the story of our country is continued on the same lines in a companion volume entitled "The Story of the Great Republic;" yet each book is independent of the other and can be used separately. So simply worded as to be easily intelligible to average children of ten or twelve years of age, the text is further arranged in short paragraphs, to facilitate its use as a reader in large classes. The pronunciation of difficult proper names is indicated in the text, and, more fully, in the carefully prepared index. The system of diacritical marks used is explained on the first page of the index. HINTS FOR TEACHERS.