SUMMARY
1. While the English were planting the Jamestown colony, the Dutch under
Hudson explored the Hudson River (1609), and a few years later the
Dutchmen May and Block explored also Delaware Bay and the Connecticut
River.
2. The Dutch fur trade was profitable, and in 1621 the Dutch West India Company was placed in control of New Netherland.
3. Settlements were soon attempted and patroonships created; but the chief industry of New Netherland was the fur trade.
4. In 1638 a Swedish colony, called New Sweden, was planted on the Delaware; but it was seized by the Dutch (1655).
5. The English by this time had begun to settle in New England. This led to disputes, and in 1664 New Netherland was seized by the English, arid became a possession of the Duke of York, brother of King Charles II.
6. Most of the province was called New York; but part of it was cut off and given to two noblemen, and became the province of New Jersey.
7. In 1663 and 1665 Charles II made some of his friends proprietors of Carolina, a province later divided into North and South Carolina.
8. In 1681 Pennsylvania was granted to William Penn as a proprietary colony.
9. In order to obtain the right of access to the sea, Penn secured from the Duke of York what is now Delaware.
10. The last of the colonies was Georgia, chartered in 1732.
11. Education scanty and poor. No printing presses for one hundred years after first settlement.
[Illustration: POUNDING CORN.]