The Beginners of a Nation / A History of the Source and Rise of the Earliest English Settlements in America, with Special Reference to the Life and Character of the People

by Edward Eggleston

BOOK III.
CENTRIFUGAL FORCES IN COLONY-PLANTING.

CHAPTER THE FIRST.

The Catholic Migration [220]

CHAPTER THE SECOND.

The Prophet of Religious Freedom [266]

CHAPTER THE THIRD.

New England Dispersions [315]

LIST OF MAPS.

(In the coast line the American maps follow the charts of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; the third map conforms to the British Ordnance Survey.)

• I.—Chesapeake Bay [1]
• II.—James River [28]
• III.—The cradle of the Pilgrims [149]
• IV.—Coast explored by the Pilgrims [177]
• V.—The colony at St. Mary's [245]
• VI.—Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth [275]
• VII.—The early settlements on Narragansett Bay [296]
• VIII.—New England after the dispersions [343]