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Canada
The northern neighbor of the United States; discovered by Jacques Cartier (q. v.) in 1534.
Its name is suposed to have been derived from the Huron word Kan-na-ta, signifying a collection of cabins, such as Hochelaga.
No settlements were made there until the explorations of Champlain about threefourths of a century later.
He established a semi-military and semi-religious colony at Quebec, and from it Jesuit and other missions spread over the Lake regions.
Then came the civil power of France to lay the foundations of an empire, fighting one nation of Indians and making allies of another, and establishing a feudal system of government, the great land-holders being called Seigneurs, who were compelled to cede the lands granted to them, when demanded by settlers, on fixed conditions.
They were not absolute proprietors of the soil, but had certain valuable privileges, coupled with prescribed duties, such as building mills, etc. David Kertk, or Kirk, a Huguenot refugee, r
Massachusetts,
One of the original thirteen States of the Union; founded by English Puritans who fled from persecution (see Puritans). Its shores were probably visited by Northmen at the beginning of the eleventh century (Northmen), and possibly Sebastian Cabot saw them (1498), and also Verrazano (1524). The shores were explored by Bartholomew Gosnold (1602), Samuel Champlain (1604), and John Smith (1614); but the first permanent European settlement was made on the shores of Cape Cod Bay by some English Non-conformists, who, calling themselves Pilgrims, had fled from England to Holland, sojourned there a few years, formed a church at Leyden, and in 1620 came to America, where they might worship God with perfect freedom.
Having made arrangements with the Plymouth Company for planting a settlement, and for funds with some London merchants, they went from Delftshaven to England, and sailed for America from Plymouth in the Mayflower, of 180 tons' burden, on Sept. 17 (N. S.), and, af
Mohawk Indians,
The most celebrated of the Five Nations (see Iroquois Confederacy). Their proper name was Agmegue, and they called themselves, as a tribe, She-bears.
That animal was their totemic symbol.
The neighboring tribes called them Mahaqua, which name the English pronounced Mohawk.
Champlain and his followers, French and Indians from Canada, fought them in northern New York in 1609.
At Norman's Kill, below the site of Albany, the Dutch made a treaty with them in 1698, which was lasting; and the English, also, after the conquest of New Netherland, gained their friendship.
The French Jesuits gained many converts among them, and three villages of Roman Catholics on the St. Lawrence were largely filled with the Mohawks.
They served the English against the Canadians in the French and Indian War, and in the Revolutionary War, influenced by Sir William Johnson and his brother-in-law Brant, they made savage war on the patriots, causing the valleys in central New York to be
Vermont,
A New England State, is bounded on the north by the province of Quebec, east by New Hampshire, south by Massachusetts, and west by New York and Lake Champlain.
It lies between 42° 44′ to 45° 43′ N. lat., and 71° 38′ to 73° 25′ W. long.
Area, 9,565 square miles, in fourteen counties.
Population, 1890, 332,422; 1900, 343,641.
Capital, Montpelier.
Samuel de Champlain explores the lake bearing his name......1609
About 44,000 acres in southern Vermont, granted to the colony of Connecticut, in 1715, as an equivalent for lands granted by Massachusetts in Connecticut territory, transferred to William Dummer, Anthony Stoddard, William Brattle, and John White......1716
Fort Dummer built by the colony of Massachusetts on the Connecticut River at Brattleboro......1724
French settle at Chimney Point, Addison township, Vt......1730
Township Number One, now Westminster, laid out between the great falls and the land grant of 1716, by the General Court of Massachuse