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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 5: (search)
Beverley, 38. The plantations of the English were widely extended, in unsuspecting confidence, along the James River and towards the Potomac, wherever rich grounds invited to the culture of tobacco; Beverley, 38. Burk, i 231, 232. nor were solitary places, remote from neighbors, avoided, since there would there be less competition for the ownership of the soil. Powhatan, the father of Pocahontas, remained, after the marriage of his daughter, the firm friend of the English. He died in 1618; and his younger brother was now the heir to his influence. Should the native occupants of the soil consent to be driven from their ancient patrimony? Should their feebleness submit patiently to contempt, injury, and the loss of their lands? The desire of self-preservation, the necessity of self-defence, seemed to demand an active resistance; to preserve their dwelling-places, the English must be exterminated; in open battle the Indians Chap. V.} 1622 would be powerless; conscious of the
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
, said he, is fittest for monarchy of all others. The tenets of separatists and sectaries are full of schism, and inconsistent with monarchy. The king will beware of Anabaptists, Brownists, and others of their kinds; a little con- Chap. VIII.} 1618. nivency sets them on fire. For the discipline of the Church in colonies, it will be necessary that it agree with that which is settled in England, else it will make a schism and a rent in Christ's coat, which must be seamless; and, to that purpong advised not to entangle them-.selves with the bishops. If there should afterwards be a purpose to wrong us,—thus they communed with themselves,— though we had a seal as broad as the house-floor, there would be means enough found Chap. VIII.} 1618. to recall or reverse it. We must rest herein on God's providence. The dissensions in the Virginia company occasioned further delay. At last, in 1619, its members, 1619. in their open court, writes one of the Pilgrims, demanded our ends of go
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
ched 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 fishermen on the sea-coast began to be tenanted by permanent inmates, and the fishing stages of a summer to be trans