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Acadia, or Acadie,
The ancient name of Nova Scotia (q. v.) and adjacent regions.
It is supposed to have been visited by Sebastian Cabot in 1498, but the first attempt to plant a settlement there was by De Monts, in 1604, who obtained a charter from the King of France for making settlements and carrying on trade.
In that charter it is called Cadie, and by the early settlers it was known as L'Acadie.
A settlement was made at a place named Port Royal (now Annapolis), by Poutrincourt, a bosom friend of De Monts, but it was broken up in 1613, by Argall, from Virginia.
These French emigrants built cottages sixteen years before the Pilgrims landed on the shores of New England.
When English people came, antagonisms arising from difference of religion and nationality appeared, and, after repeated struggles between the English and French for the possession of Acadia, it was ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
But for many years not a dozen English families were s
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Americus Vespucius , 1451 -1512 (search)
Cabot 1476-1557
The name of a family of explorers intimately connected with the history of Ame here Cabot sought a Northwest passage.
Sebastian Cabot he determined to attempt a northwest pass he eastern, western, or northern seas.
Cabot, Sebastian
Sebastian Cabot, the second son of JohSebastian Cabot, the second son of John Cabot, was born in Bristol, England, in 1477.
As his name appears in the petition of his fathe ulf of St. Lawrence, after charts made by Sebastian Cabot. sailed again from Bristol; on this voyag as far south as the Carolinas.
On his return Cabot revealed the secret of the codfish at New Foun d Normandy were gathering treasures there.
As Cabot did not bring back gold from America, King Hen e returned to England.
Henry VIII furnished Cabot with a vessel, in 1517, to seek for a northwes as foiled.
The successor of Ferdinand invited Cabot to Spain and made him chief pilot of the realm of Henry VIII.
the boy King, Edward VI., made Cabot grand pilot of England; but Queen Mary neglect
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Franklin , Benjamin 1706 -1790 (search)
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, a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), New Sweden, founding of (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), North Carolina, State of (search)
North Carolina, State of
Was one of the original thirteen States of the Union.
Its coasts were discovered, it is supposed, by Cabot (1498) and Verazzani (1524), and later by the people sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh.
The first attempt at settlement in that region was made by 108 persons under Ralph Lane, who landed on Roanoke Island in 1585.
It was unsuccessful.
Other colonies were sent out by Raleigh, and the last one was never heard of afterwards.
No other attempts to settle there were made until after the middle of the seventeenth century.
As early as 1609 some colonists from Jamestown seated themselves on the Nansemond, near the Dismal Swamp; and in 1622 Porey, secretary of the Virginia colony, penetrated the country with a few friends to the tide-waters of the Chowan.
Early settlements.
In 1630 Charles I. granted to Sir Robert Heath, his attorney-general, a patent for a domain south of Virginia, 6° of latitude in width, and extending westward to the Pacific Ocea