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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 70 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 22 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 12 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hakluyt, Richard 1553- (search)
Hakluyt, Richard 1553- Author; born in England about 1553. Educated at Oxford University, he was engaged there as a lecturer on cosmography, and was the first who taught the use of globes. In 1583 he published an account of voyages of discovery to America; and four years afterwards, while with the English ambassador at Pari the voyages of Laudonniere and others; and in 1587 he published them in English, under the title Of four voyages unto Florida. On his return to England in 1589, Hakluyt was appointed by Raleigh one of the company of adventurers for colonizing Virginia. His greatest work, The principal Navigations, voyages, Trafficks, and discoved, because possessing many ports and islands in America that are bare and barren, and only bear a name for the present, but may prove rich places in future time. Hakluyt was appointed prebendary of Westminster in 1605, having been previously prebendary of Bristol. Afterwards he was rector of Wetheringset, Suffolk, and at his deat
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hunt, Robert (search)
Hunt, Robert First pastor of the Virginia colony; went out with Newport and the first settlers as chaplain, having been recommended by Richard Hakluyt (q. v.). He is supposed to have been a rector in Kent. He was a peace-maker amid the dissenters of the first colonists. Mr. Hunt held the first public service at Jamestown, under an awning, but soon afterwards a barn-like structure was erected for worship. In the winter of 1608 a fire burned his little library, and the next year he died. He was succeeded for a brief season by Rev. Mr. Glover, who soon died. He had accompanied Sir Thomas Gates to Virginia.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), London Company, the (search)
London Company, the Twenty years after Raleigh's first attempt to establish a colony in America, Richard Hakluyt, prebendary of Westminster, incited several gentlemen, some of them personal friends of Raleigh, to petition King James I. to grant them a patent for planting colonies in North America. Raleigh's grant was made void by his attainder. There was not an Englishman to be found in America then, and there was only one permanent settlement north of Mexico, that of St. Augustine. The petition was received by the King, and on April 10, 1606, James issued letters-patent to Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, Edward Maria Wingfield, and others, granting to them a territory extending from lat. 34° to 45° N., together with all the islands in the ocean within 100 miles of the coast. The object of the patent was to make habitations and plantations, and to form colonies by sending English people into that portion of America commonly called Virginia, with the hop
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New England. (search)
New England. Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1583) and Bartholomew Gosnold (1602) visited the New England coast, and the latter planted a temporary colony there The account given by Gosnold excited desires on the part of friends of Sir Walter Raleigh to make new efforts to found settlements in America, especially in the northeastern parts. Richard Hakluyt, who was learned in naval and commercial science (see Hakluyt, Richard), Martin Pring, and Bartholomew Gosnold, all friends of Raleigh, induced merchants of Bristol to fit out two ships in the spring of 1603 to visit the coasts discovered by Gosnold. Early in April (a fortnight after the death of Queen Elizabeth), the Speedwell, of 50 tons, and the Discoverer, 26 tons, sailed from Milford Haven under the command of Pring, who commanded the larger vessel in person. William Browne was master of the Discoverer, accompanied by Robert Galterns as supercargo or general agent of the expedition They entered Penobscot Bay early in June, and we
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Purchas, Samuel 1577-1628 (search)
Purchas, Samuel 1577-1628 Clergyman; born in Thaxted, Essex, England, in 1577; is chiefly known by his famous work entitled Purchas his pilgrimages; or, relations of the world and the religion observed in all ages and places discovered from the creation until this present. It contains an account of voyages, religions, etc., and was published in five volumes in 1613. This, with Hakluyt's voyages, led the way to similar collections. The third volume relates to America, and contains the original narratives of the earliest English navigators and explorers of the North American continent. Purchas was rector of St. Martin's, Ludgate, and chaplain to Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury. He died in London in 1628.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
22, 1587 Eleanor Dare gives birth to the first English child on American soil (named Virginia Dare)......Aug. 18, 1587 John White returns to England at request of colonists for supplies, leaving behind eighty-nine men, seventeen women, and two children......Aug. 27 1587 John White returns to Roanoke......Aug. 9, 1590 [He found the settlement deserted. Its fate is conjectural.] James I. of England grants the London company, including Sir Thomas Gates, Sir George Somers, Richard Hakluyt, and Edward M. Wingfield the exclusive right to occupy the land from lat. 34° to 38° N.......April 10, 1606 Three vessels—Susan Constant, of 100 tons, Capt. Christopher Newport; Goodspeed, of forty tons, Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold; and Discovery, twenty tons, Capt. John Ratcliffe—with 105 emigrants, sail from the Downs, England, destined for Virginia......Dec. 19, 1606 They enter Chesapeake Bay, naming the capes at its entrance Charles and Henry, after the sons of King James......A<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Verrazzano, Giovanni da 1508- (search)
ty years before (the name of Cape Breton is a trace of them), thence returning to France. He reached Dieppe early in July, and it is from Dieppe, July 8, 1524, that his letter to the King is dated. It is the earliest description known to exist of the shores of the United States. There are two copies of Verrazzano's letter, both of them, however, Italian translations, the original letter not being in existence. One was printed by Ramusio in 1556, and this was translated into English by Hakluyt for his Divers voyages, which appeared in 1582. The other was found many years later in the Strozzi Library at Florence, and was first published in 1841 by the New York Historical Society, with a translation by Dr. J. G. Cogswell. This is the translation given here. The cosmographical appendix contained in the second version, and considered by Dr. Asher and other antiquarians a document of great importance, was not contained in the copy printed by Ramusio. Verrazzano's voyage and lett
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
o such undertakings, for there was plenty of material for colonies, such as it was. Soon after the accession of James I., war between England and France ceased, and there were many restless soldiers out of employment—so restless that social order was in danger. There was also a class of ruined and desperate spendthrifts, ready to do anything to retrieve their fortunes. Such were the men who stood ready to go to America when Ferdinando Gorges, Bartholomew Gosnold, Chief-Justice Popham, Richard Hakluyt, Capt. John Smith, and others devised a new scheme for settling Virginia. The timid King, glad to perceive a new field open for the restless spirits of his realm, granted a liberal patent to a company of noblemen, gentlemen, and merchants, chiefly of London, to plant settlements in America, between lat. 34° and 38° N., and westward 100 miles from the sea. A similar charter was granted to another company to settle between lat. 41° and 45° N. The space of about 200 miles between the t<