A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA; FROM THE DISCOVERY IN 1492, to 1792: OR, SKETCHES OF THE DIVINE AGENCY, In their Settlement, Growth, and Protection; and especially in the late MEMORABLE REVOLUTION. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL I. EXHIBITING A General View of the Principal Events, from the Discovery of 1765. BY BENJAMIN TRUMBULL, D.D. PUBLISHED BY FARRAND, MALLORY, AND CO. BOSTON. 1810. 5344.99 15 04, 1893. District of Massachusetts: to wit, BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the thirtieth day of March, in the thirty fourth year of the Independence of the United States of Ameri ca, FARRAND, MALLORY, & CO. of the said District, have deposited in this Office the Title of a Book, the Right whereof they claim as Proprietors, in the Words following, to wit: A General History of the United States of America, from the discovery in 1492, to 1792; or sketches of the divine agency, in their settlement, growth, and protection, and especially, in the late memorable revolution. In three volumes. Vol. I. exhibiting a general view, of the principal events from the discovery of North America, to the year 1765. By Benjamin Trumbull, Ð. D In conformity to the Act of Congress of the United States, intitled, "An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned;" and also to an Act intitled, An Act supplementary to an Act, intitled, An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the Times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving, and Etching Historical, and other Prints." WILLIAM S. SHAW, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. CONTENTS OF Introduction. Sketches of the principal discoveries of North America; of the state of the country when discovered; of the character, man- ners, religion, government, language, probable numbers, and geo- Attempts of the French and Spaniards to make settlements in Carolina, Patent of Sir Walter Raleigh, and his attempts to plant a colony. Sketches of the patents, discovery, and settlement of Virginia, New York, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island: and, of the principal occurrences attending their settle- Oppression of the Virginians under the administration of Sir Johu Harvey. Another massacre by the Indians. War with them. Con- federation of the New England colonies. Their success in chris- tianizing the natives. The Virginians refusing obedience to the Lord protector, he despatches an armament against them. They capitulate. His different treatment of different colonies. Reduc- tion of New York. Injury by the king's commissioners. The set- tlement of New Jersey and the Carolinas. Indian war and depreda. |