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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
and property Jan 7. might be secured, he granted a charter of incorporation for the settlement, and established a municipal government for the city of Raleigh. John White was appointed its governor; and to him, with eleven assistants, the administration of the colony was intrusted. A fleet of transport ships was prepared at the expense of the proprietary; Queen Elizabeth, the godmother of Virginia, declined contributing to its education. The company, as it embarked, was cheered by the April 26. presence of women; and an ample provision of the implements of husbandry gave a pledge for successful industry. In July, they arrived on the coast of North Carolina; they were saved from the dangers of Cape Chap. III.} 1587. Fear; and, passing Cape Hatteras, they hastened to the Isle of Roanoke, to search for the handful of men whom Grenville had left there as a garrison. They found the tenements deserted and overgrown with weeds; human bones lay scattered on the field; wild deer were
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
of the 1607 selfish, early deserted the colonists. Newport, who commanded the ships, was acquainted with the old passage, and, consuming the whole of the early spring in a navigation which should have been completed in February, sailed by way of the Canaries and the West India Islands. As he turned to the north, a severe storm carried his fleet beyond the settlement of Raleigh, into the magnificent Bay of the Chesapeake. Smith, i. 150. Stith, 44. The head-lands received and retain April 26. the names of Cape Henry and Cape Charles, from the sons of King James; the deep water for anchorage, putting the emigrants in good Comfort, gave a name to the Northern Point; and within the capes a country opened, which appeared to the emigrants to claim Chap IV.} 1607 the prerogative over the most pleasant places in the world. Hope revived for a season, as they advanced. Heaven and earth seemed never to have agreed better to frame a place for man's commodious and delightful habitation
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
journey was begun too late in the season: the winter was so unusually early and severe, Nov 15 that provisions could not arrive by way of the river; Trumbull's Connecticut, i. App. No. i imperfect shelter had been provided; cattle perished Chap IX.} in great numbers; and the men suffered such privations, that many of them, in the depth of winter, abandoned their newly-chosen homes, and waded through the snows to the sea-board. Yet, in the opening of the next year, a government 1636. April 26. was organized, and civil order established; and the budding of the trees and the springing of the grass were signals for a greater emigration to the Connecticut. May. Some smaller parties had already made their way to the new Hesperia of Puritanism. In June, the principal caravan began its march, led by Thomas Hooker, the light of the Western Churches. There were of the company about one hundred souls; many of them persons accustomed to affluence and the ease of European life. They dro