The Footprints of Time / And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order

by Charles Bancroft

1624—Virginia becomes a royal province, but stoutly maintains its legislative authority.

1625—Death of Robinson, the distinguished Puritan divine, in Holland.

1629—Massachusetts colony patented, and settlement made at Salem, by John Endicott.

—Charlestown, Mass., founded.

—The Dutch colonize the west side of Delaware river.

1630—Patent of Carolina made to Sir Robert Heath.

1631—Massachusetts General Court confines the privilege of voting to church members.

—Clayborne plants a colony on Kent Island.

—The Dutch erect a trading fort at Hartford.