I. A Puritan Hero
(Rhode Island, 1630)		[9]
II. Peter Stuyvesant's Flag
(New York, 1661)		[21]
III. When Governor Andross Came to Connecticut
(Connecticut, 1675)		[55]
IV. The Struggle Between Nathaniel Bacon and Sir William Berkeley
(Virginia, 1676)		[70]
V. An Outlaw Chief of Maryland
(Maryland, 1684)		[105]
VI. In the Days of Witches
(Massachusetts, 1692)		[139]
VII. The Attack on the Delaware
(Pennsylvania, 1706)		[174]
VIII. The Pirates of Charles Town Harbor
(South Carolina, 1718)		[206]
IX. The Founder of Georgia
(Georgia, 1732)		[245]
X. The Green Mountain Boys and the Yorkers
(Vermont, 1774)		[287]

Illustrations

Andross Stared at Governor Treat[Frontispiece]
Stuyvesant Bit His Lips as His Gunners Waited Facing page[46]
"I Yield as Your Prisoner"" "[116]
Nick Turned to Lead the Way" "[210]

I A PURITAN HERO

(Rhode Island, 1630)

The good ship Lyon had been sixty-seven days outward bound from the port of Bristol, in England, when she dropped anchor early in February, 1630, at Nantasket, near the entrance of Boston Harbor, in New England. The ship had met with many winter storms, and passengers and crew were glad to see the shores of Massachusetts. On the ninth of February the Lyon slipped through a field of drifting ice and came to anchor before the little settlement of Boston. On board the ship was a young man who was to play an exciting part in the story of the New World.