[The English arms on the title are copied from the Molineaux map, dated 1600.]
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| CHAPTER I. | |
| The Voyages of the Cabots. Charles Deane | [1] |
| Illustration: Sebastian Cabot, [5]. | |
| Autographs: Henry VII., [1]; Henry VIII., [4]; Edward VI., [6]; Queen Mary, [7]. | |
| Critical Essay | [7] |
| Illustrations: La Cosa map (1500), phototype, [8], [8]; Ruysch’s map (1508), [9]; OrontiusFine’s map (1531), [11]; Stobnicza’s map (1512), [13]; Page of Peter Martyrin fac-simile, [15]; Thorne’s map (1527), [17]; Sebastian Cabot’s map (1544),22; Lok’s map (1582), [40]; Hakluyt-Martyr map (1587), [42]; Portuguese Portolano(1514-1520), [56]. | |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Hawkins and Drake. Edward E. Hale | [59] |
| Illustrations: John Hawkins, [61]; Zaltieri’s map (1566), [67]; Furlano’s map(1574), [68]. | |
| Autographs: John Hawkins, [61]; Francis Drake, [65]. | |
| Critical Essay on Drake’s Bay | [74] |
| Illustrations: Modern map of California coast, [74]; Viscaino’s map (1602),75; Dudley’s map (1646), [76], [77]; Jeffreys’ sketch-map (1753), [77]. | |
| Notes on the Sources of Information. The Editor | [78] |
| Illustrations: Hondius’s map, [79]; Portus Novæ Albionis, [80]; Molineaux’smap (1600), [80]; Sir Francis Drake, [81], [84]; Thomas Cavendish, [83]. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Explorations to the North-West. Charles C. Smith | [85] |
| Illustrations: Martin Frobisher, [87]; Molineaux globe (1592), [90]; Molineauxmap (1600), [91]; Sir Thomas Smith, [94]; James’s map of Hudson Bay(1632), [96]. | |
| Autographs: Martin Frobisher, [87]; John Davis, [89]; George Waymouth, [91];William Baffin, [94]. | |
| Critical Essay | [97] |
| Illustration: Luke Fox’s map of Baffin’s Bay (1635), [98]. | |
| The Zeno Influence on Early Cartography; Frobisher’s and Hudson’sVoyages. The Editor | [100] |
| Illustrations: The Zeno map (circa 1400), [100]; map in Wolfe’s Linschoten(1598), [101]; Beste’s map (1578), [102]; Frobisher’s Strait, [103]. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Sir Walter Ralegh: Settlements at Roanoke and Voyages to Guiana.William Wirt Henry | [105] |
| Autographs: Walter Ralegh, [105]; Queen Elizabeth, [106]; Ralph Lane, [110]. | |
| Critical Essay | [121] |
| Illustrations: White’s map in Hariot (1587), [124]; De Laet’s map (1630), [125]. | |
| Autograph: Francis Bacon, [121]. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| Virginia, 1606-1689.Robert A. Brock | [127] |
| Illustrations: Jamestown, [130]; George Percy, [134]; Seal of the VirginiaCompany, [140]; Lord Delaware, [142]. | |
| Autographs: King James, [127]; Delaware, [133]; Thomas Gates, [133]; GeorgePercy, [134]; George Calvert, [146]; William Berkeley, [147]. | |
| Critical Essay | [153] |
| Autographs: William Strachey, [156]; Delaware, [156]; John Harvey, [156]; JohnWest, [164]. | |
| Notes on the Maps of Virginia, etc. The Editor | [167] |
| Illustration: Smith’s map of Virginia or the Chesapeake, phototype, [167]. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Norumbega and its English Explorers.Benjamin F. De Costa | [169] |
| Illustration: Map of Ancient Pemaquid, [177]. | |
| Autographs: J. Popham, [175]; Ferd. Gorges, [175]. | |
| Critical Essay | [184] |
| Illustrations: Modern map of Coast of Maine, [190]; Henri II. map (1543),195; Hood’s map (1592), [197]; Smith’s map of New England (1616), [198]. | |
| Autographs: J. Popham, [175]; Ferd. Gorges, [175]. | |
| Earliest English Publications on America, and other Notes. The Editor | [199] |
| Illustrations: Title of Eden’s Münster, [200]; Münster’s map (1532), [201],(1540), [201]; Title of Stultifera Nauis (1570), [202]; Gilbert’s map (1576), [203];Linschoten, [206]; John G. Kohl, [209]; Lenox globe (1510-1512), [212]; Extractfrom Molineaux globe (1592), [213]; Frankfort globe (1515), [215];Molineaux map (1600), [216]. | |
| Autographs: Humphrey Gilbert, [203]; Richard Hakluyt, [204]; Jul. Cæsar, [205];Ro. Cecyll, [206]; John Smith, [211]. | |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| The Religious Element in the Settlement of New England.—Puritansand Separatists in England. George E. Ellis | [219] |
| Critical Essay | [244] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| The Pilgrim Church and Plymouth Colony. Franklin B. Dexter | [257] |
| Illustrations: Site of Scrooby Manor-House, [258]; Map of Scrooby and Austerfield,[259]; Austerfield church, [260]; Record of William Bradford’s baptism,[260]; Robinson’s House in Leyden, [262]; Plan of Leyden, [263]; Map of CapeCod Harbor, [270]; Map of Plymouth Harbor, [272]; Historic Swords, [274];Governor Edward Winslow, [277]; Pilgrim relics, [279]; Governor JosiahWinslow, [282]. | |
| Autographs: John Smyth, [257]; John Robinson, [259]; Robert Browne, [261];Francis Johnson, [261]; Signatures of Mayflower Pilgrims (William Bradford,Myles Standish, William Brewster, John Alden, John Howland,Edward Winslow, George Soule, Francis Eaton, Isaac Allerton, SamuelFuller, Peregrine White, Resolved White, John Cooke), [268]; Dorothy May, [268]; William Bradford, [268]; Thomas Cushman, [271]; Alexander Standish, [273]; James Cole, senior, [273]; Signers of the Patent,1621 (Hamilton, Lenox,Warwick, Sheffield, Ferdinando Gorges), [275]; Governors of PlymouthColony (William Bradford, Edward Winslow, Thomas Prence, ThomasHinckley, Josiah Winslow), [278]. | |
| Critical Essay | [283] |
| Illustrations: Extract from Bradford’s History, [289]; First page, PlymouthRecords, [292]. | |
| Autograph: Nathaniel Morton, [291]. | |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| New England. Charles Deane | [295] |
| Illustrations: Dudley’s map of New England (1646), [303]; Alexander’s map(1624), [306]; John Wilson, [313]; Dr. John Clark, [315]; John Endicott, [317];Hingham meeting-house, [319]; Joseph Dudley, [320]; John Winthrop of Connecticut, [331];John Davenport, [332]; Map of Connecticut River (1666), [333]. | |
| Autographs: William Blaxton, [311]; Samuel Maverick, [311]; Thomas Walford, [311];Mathew Cradock, [312]; John Wilson, [313]; Quaker autographs, [314];John Endicott, [317]; Colonial ministers of 1690 (Charles Morton,James Allen, Michael Wigglesworth, Joshua Moody, Samuel Willard, CottonMather, Nehemiah Walter), [319]; Joseph Dudley, [320]; Abraham Shurt, [321];Thomas Danforth, [326]; Thomas Hooker, [330]; John Haynes, [331];John Winthrop, the younger, [331]; John Allyn, [335]; William Coddington, [336];Samuel Gorton, [336]; Narragansett proprietors (Simon Bradstreet,Daniel Denison, Thomas Willett, Jno. Paine, Edward Hutchinson, AmosRichison, John Alcocke, George Denison, William Hudson), [338]; RogerWilliams, [339]. | |
| Critical Essay | [340] |
| Illustrations: Seal of the Council for New England, [342]; Cotton Mather, [345];Ship of the seventeenth century, [347]; Fac-simile of a page of ThomasLechford’s Plaine Dealing, [352]; James Savage’s manuscript note on Lechford, [353];Beginning of Thomas Shepard’s Autobiography, [355]. | |
| Autographs: Leaders in Pequot war (John Mason, Israel Stoughton, LionGardiner), [348]; Jonathan Brewster, [349]; Nathaniel Ward, [350]; Signaturesconnected with the Indian Bible (Robert Boyle, Peter Bulkley, WilliamStoughton, Joseph Dudley, Thomas Hinckley, John Cotton, John Eliot,James Printer), [356]; Edward Johnson, [358]; John Norton, [358]; EdwardBurrough, [359]; Robert Pike, [359]; Benjamin Church, [361]; Thomas Church, [361];William Hubbard, [362]; Walter Neale, [363]; Ferdinando Gorges, [364];John Mason, [364]; Roger Goode, [364]; Thomas Gorges, [364]; Connecticutsecretaries (John Steel, Edward Hopkins, Thomas Welles, John Cullick,Daniel Clark, John Allyn), [374]. | |
| Bibliographical Notes; Early Maps of New England. The Editor | [380] |
| Illustrations: Maps of New England (1650), [382], (1680), [383]. | |
| Autograph: John Carter Brown, [381]. | |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The English in New York. John Austin Stevens | [385] |
| Illustrations: Sir Edmund Andros, [402]; Great Seal of Andros, [410]. | |
| Autographs: Commissioners (Richard Nicolls, Sir Robert Carr, George Cartwright,Samuel Maverick), [388]; Francis Lovelace, [395]; Thomas Dongan, [404];Jacob Leisler, [411]. | |
| Critical Essay | [411] |
| Notes. The Editor | [414] |
| Illustrations: View of New York (1673), [416]; View of The Strand, [417];Plan of New York, [418]; Stadthuys (1679), [419]. | |
| Autograph: Thomas Willett, [414]. | |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| The English in East and West Jersey, 1664-1689. William A. Whitehead | [421] |
| Autographs: King James, [421]; Richard Nicoll, [421]; Robert Carr, [422]; JohnBerkeley, [422]; G. Carteret, [423]; Philip Carteret, [424]; James Bollen, [428];Edward Byllynge, [430]; Gawen Laurie, [430]; Nicolas Lucas, [430]; EdmondWarner, [430]; R. Barclay, [436]; Earl of Perth, [439]. | |
| Critical Essay | [449] |
| Note. The Editor | [455] |
| Illustration: Sanson’s map (1656), [456]. | |
| Note on New Albion. Gregory B. Keen | [457] |
| Illustrations: Insignia of the Albion knights, [462]; Farrer map of Virginia(1651), [465]. | |
| Autograph: Robert Evelin, [458]. | |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| The Founding of Pennsylvania. Frederick D. Stone | [469] |
| Illustrations: George Fox, [470]; William Penn, [474]; Letitia Cottage, [483];Seal and Signatures to Frame of Government, [484]; Slate-roof House, [492]. | |
| Autographs: William Penn, [474]; Thomas Wynne, [486]; Charles Mason, [489];Jeremiah Dixon, [489]; Thomas Lloyd, [494]. | |
| Critical Essay | [495] |
| Illustrations: Title of Some Account, etc., [496]; Title of Frame of Government, [497];Receipt and Seal of Free Society of Traders, [498]; Gabriel Thomas’smap (1698), [501]; Seal of Pennsylvania, [511]; Section of Holme’s map ofPennsylvania, [516]. | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| The English in Maryland, 1632-1691. William T. Brantly | [517] |
| Illustrations: George, first Lord Baltimore, [518]; Baltimore arms, [520]; Mapof Maryland (1635), [525]; Endorsement of Toleration Act, [535]; Baltimorecoins, [543]; Cecil, second Lord Baltimore, [546]. | |
| Autographs: George, first Lord Baltimore, [518]; Leonard Calvert, [524]; Thomas Cornwallis, [524]; John Lewger, [528]; Thomas Greene, [533]; Margaret Brent, [533]; William Stone, [534]; Josias Fendall, [540]; Charles Calvert, [542]. | |
| Critical Essay | [553] |
| Autograph: Thomas Yong, [558]. | |
| INDEX | [563] |
NARRATIVE AND CRITICAL
HISTORY OF AMERICA.
CHAPTER I.
THE VOYAGES OF THE CABOTS.