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. 65. He returned in April. Not so. Compare Hakluyt, III. 261, or Belknap, i. 163. The excellent annalist rarely is in error, even in minute particulars. He merits the gratitude of every student of American history. Purchas, i. 931, edition of 1617, says,—Francis I. sent thither James Breton. This person can be no other than James Cartier, a Breton. entered the Chap. I.} 1534. Sept. 5. harbor of St. Malo in security. His native city and France were filled with the tidings of his discover his return to America in the country of the Hurons; and a knight errant among the forests carries his language, religion, and influence, even to the hamlets of Algonquins, near Lake Nipissing. Religious disputes combined with commercial jeal- 1617 to 1620 July ousies to check the progress of the colony; yet in the summer, when the Pilgrims were leaving Leyden, in obedience to the wishes of the unhappy Montmorenci, the new viceroy, Champlain, began a fort. The merchants grudged the expense.
vants. One month of their time and three acres of land were set apart for them, besides a small allowance of two bushels of corn from the public store; the rest of their labor belonged to their employers. This number gradually decreased; and, in 1617, there were of them all, men, women, and children, but fifty-four. Others, especially the favorite settlement near the mouth of the Appomattox, were tenants, paying two and a half barrels of corn as a yearly tribute to the store, and giving to thtism of the new deputy, who was both self-willed and avaricious, might be complete, he was further invested with the place of admiral of the country and the adjoining seas. Stith, 145. The return of Lord Delaware to America might Chap. IV} 1617. have restored tranquillity; the health of that nobleman was not equal to the voyage; he embarked with many emigrants, but did not live to reach Virginia. Stith, 148. In Royal and Noble Authors, II. 180—183, Lord Delaware is said to have died
be terrible to the Arminians, and disputed in the university with such power, that, as his friends assert, Chap. VIII.} 1617. the truth had a famous victory. The career of maritime discovery had, meantime, been pursued with intrepidity, and rew live in a distinct body by themselves. To obtain the consent of the London company, John Carver, with Robert Cushman, in 1617, repaired to England. They took with them seven articles, from the members of the Church at Leyden, to be submitted to th done to Nero and the Roman pontifex, obedience in all things, active if the thing commanded be not against Chap. VIII.} 1617. God's word, or passive if it be. They denied all power to ecclesiastical bodies, unless it were given by the temporal marnment of that day, Lord Bacon had given the most attention to colonial enterprise. The settlements of the Chap. VIII.} 1617. Scotch in Ireland ever enjoyed his particular favor. To him, as to the encourager, pattern, and perfecter of all vertuou
After the bays of New England had been more carefully examined by the 1615. same daring adventurer who sketched the first map of the Chesapeake, the coast was regularly visited by fishermen and traders. A special account of the country was one of the fruits of Hakluyt's inquiries, and was published in the collections of Purchas. At Winter Harbor, near the mouth of Saco River, Englishmen, under Richard Vines, again encountered the severities of the inclement season; and not long after- 1616-7 wards, the mutineers of the crew of Rocraft lived from autumn till spring on Monhegan Island, where the 1618-9 colony of Popham had anchored, and the ships of John 1607 Smith had made their station during his visit to New 1614. England. The earliest settlers, intent only on their immediate objects, hardly aspired after glory; from the few memorials which they have left, it is not, perhaps, Chap IX.} 1623 to 1628 possible to ascertain the precise time, when the rude shelters of the fisherm