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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Massachusetts (search)
bout 250 miles; to the south lie the Atlantic Ocean and the States of Rhode Island and Connecticut. Immediately on its western boundaries lie Rhode Island, New York, and New Hampshire. It extends east and west 190 miles, and 50 miles north and south, with a projection at the southeast, and a lesser one at the northeast, that increases the breadth to about 110 miles. Area, 8,315 square miles, in fourteen counties. Population, 1890, 2,238,943; 1900, 2,805,346. Capital, Boston. Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold, sailing from Falmouth, England, after a passage of forty-nine days, discovers land in lat. 43° 30′ N......May 14, 1602 He discovers a mighty headland, which, from the quantity of codfish caught in the vicinity, is called Cape Cod; the voyagers land; this is the first spot upon which the first known English discoverers of Massachusetts set foot......May 15, 1602 Martin Pring, in the Speedwell, of sixty tons, and William Browne, in the Discoverer, of twenty-six tons, make disc
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Virginia, (search)
eorge 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 son 26, 1607 They enter the James River and land at a place they name Jamestown. May 13, 1607 Edward M. Wingfield chosen president......1607 Christopher Newport sails to England for provisions and more settlers......June 15, 1607 Bartholomew Gosnold, the projector of the settlement, dies and is buried at Jamestown......Aug. 22, 1607 Before autumn fifty more die; Wingfield is deposed and John Ratcliffe chosen president, whose incompetence gives the control to Capt. John Smith during<
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Colony of Virginia, (search)
ned 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 foast of North Carolina a tempest drove them farther north into Chesapeake Early settlers. Bay, where they found good anchorage. The principal passengers were Gosnold, Edward M. Wingfield, Captain Smith, and Rev. Robert Hunt. The capes at the entrance to Chesapeake Bay Newport named Charles and Henry, in compliment to the Kinghey brought had been spoiled in the long voyage, and the Indians around them appeared hostile. The marshes sent up poisonous vapors, and before the end of summer Gosnold and fully one-half of the adventurers died of fever and famine. President Wingfield lived on the choicest stores, and was preparing to escape to the West Indies
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, chapter 10 (search)
. (A. D. 1602-1607.) The narrative of Captain Gosnold's adventures is taken from John Brereton'ut the one-half of our shallop; and Captain Bartholomew Gosnold, myself, and three others, went ashbout three or four leagues from the main, Captain Gosnold, myself, and some others, went ashore; and, some low on the banks, and others on low Gosnold's fort trees about this lake, in great abunda them. Having sat a while in this order, Captain Gosnold willed me to go unto them to see what couhe best I could. But I, pointing towards Captain Gosnold, made signs unto him that he was our captrstood, and made signs of joy. Whereupon Captain Gosnold, with the rest of his company, being twenem, and after many signs of gratulations,—Captain Gosnold presenting their lord with certain triflent, some of our company that had promised Captain Gosnold to stay, having nothing but a saving Pough before, much smaller; so as That. Captain Gosnold seeing his whole strength to consist but [1 more...]
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Book XI: Captain John Smith in Virginia (A. D. 1606-1631.) (search)
the Generall Historie, pp. 121-123. The last two are from Advertisements for the Unexperienced Planters of New England or anywhere, by Captaine John Smith, sometimes Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England. London, 1631. Reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., 3d series, vol. III. pp. 7, 29, 30, 44. There is a memoir of Captain Smith, by G. S. Hillard, in Sparks's American Biography, vol. II. I.—Captain John Smith in Virginia. Captain Bartholomew Gosnoll, More often written Gosnold. one of the first movers of this plantation, having many years solicited many of his friends, but found small assistance, at last prevailed with some gentlemen, as Captain John Smith, Mr. Edward Maria Wingfield, Mr. Robert Hunt, and divers others, who depended Waited. a year upon his projects; but nothing could be effected, till, by their great charge and industry, it came to be apprehended by certain of the nobility, gentry, and merchants, so that his Majesty by his letters-patents gave
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, A book of American explorers, Index. (search)
. Ferdinando, Simon, 179. Fire of New England, The, 352. First encounter, The, of Pilgrims, 319. Fish in New England, 350. Florida visited, 73, 125, 141. Francis I. (of France), 60, 99, 103. Frederycke, Master, Kryn, 305. French in Canada, The, 97-118. in Florida, The, 141-212. G. Gallegos, Baltasar de, 124, 126, 131. Gardar, 3. Gilbert, Sir, Humphrey, 169-174. Captain Raleigh, 222-227. Gloucester (Mass.) harbor, 344, 349. Gorges, Sir, Ferdinando, 335. Gosnold (or Gosnoil), Bartholomew, 203-213, 222, 231, 232. Gourgues, Dominic de, 166. Granganimeo, 180. Wife of, 184. Greene, Henry, 296-301. Gregory XIII., Pope, 290, 328. Grenville (or Greenville), Sir Richard, 188, 190, 193. Guachoya, Cacique of, 135, 139. Gudrid, 14. Guernache, 151. H. Hackit, Thomas, 143. Hais, John de, 165. Hakluyt Society, Publications of, 18, 54, 120, 142, 202, 280. Hakluyt's voyages, 54, 98, 142, 169, 176. Harlow, Captain, 223. Hawkins
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
s were men trained for the career of discovery; and in 1602, Bartholomew Gosnold, who, perhaps, had already sailed to Virginia, with the usuangth they entered Buzzard's Bay—a stately sound, which they called Gosnold's Hope. The westernmost of the islands was named Elizabeth, from rned. A traffic with the natives on the main land, soon enabled Gosnold to complete his freight, which consisted chiefly of sassafras rootess than four months, during which entire health had prevailed. Gosnold to his father, in Purchas, IV. 1646. Archer's Relation, ibid. IVn, in Smith, i. 105—108. Compare, particularly, Belknap's Life of Gosnold, in Am. Biog. II. 100-123. Gosnold and his companions spread Gosnold and his companions spread the most favorable reports of the regions which he had visited. Could it be that the voyage was so safe, the climate so pleasant, the countrte men. But as the testimony of Pring had confirmed the reports of Gosnold, the career of navigation was vigorously pursued. An expedition,
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
New World. Gorges' Brief Narration, c. II. The minds of many persons of intelligence, rank, and enterprise, were directed to Virginia. The brave and ingenious Gosnold, who had himself witnessed the fertility of the western soil, long solicited the concurrence of his friends for the establishment of a colony, Ebmund Howes' Co213. Lord Bacon's speech as Chancellor to the Speaker, Works, III. 405. When, therefore, a company of men of business and men of rank, formed by the experience of Gosnold, the enthusiasm of Smith, the perseverance of Hakluyt, the hopes of profit and the extensive influence of Popham and Gorges, Gorges, c. v. and VI. applied to Jtheir bodies were trailed out Chap IV.} 1607 of the cabins, like dogs, to be buried. Fifty men, one half of the colony, perished before autumn; among them Bartholomew Gosnold, the projector of the set- Aug. 22 tlement, a man of rare merits, worthy of a perpetual memory in the plantation, Edmund Howes, 1018. and whose influenc
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
ar the primitive pattern of the first churches. A clear and well written apology of their discipline was published by Robinson, who also, in the controversy on free will, as the champion of orthodoxy, began to 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 rewarded with success. The voyages of Gosnold, Smith, and Hudson: the enterprise of Raleigh, Delaware, and Gorges; the compilations of Eden, Willes, and Hakluyt,—had filled the commercial world with wonder; Calvinists of the French Church had sought, though vainly, to plant themselves in Brazil, in Carolina, and with De Monts, in Acadia; while weighty reasons, often and seriously discussed, inclined the Pilgrims to change their abode. They had been bred to the pursuits of husbandry, and in Holland they were compelled to learn mechanic
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