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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
nd were cherished as a barrier against danger from English encroachments. A French colony within the United States followed. under the auspices of De Guercheville and Mary of 1613 Medici; the rude intrenchments of St. Sauveur were Chap. I.} 1613. raised by De Saussaye on the eastern shore of Mount 1613. Desert Isle. The conversion of the heathen was the motive to the settlement; the natives venerated Biart as a messenger from heaven; and under the summer sky, round a cross in the centre 1613. Desert Isle. The conversion of the heathen was the motive to the settlement; the natives venerated Biart as a messenger from heaven; and under the summer sky, round a cross in the centre of the hamlet, matins and vespers were regularly chanted. France and the Roman religion had appropriated the soil of Maine. Meantime the remonstrances of French merchants had effected the revocation of the monopoly of De Monts, and a company of merchants of Dieppe and St. 1608. Malo had founded Quebec. The design was executed 1608. July 3. by Champlain, who aimed not at the profits of trade, but at the glory of founding a state. The city of Quebec was begun; that is to say, rude cottages
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
ndians remained at variance, and the weakest gradually disappeared. The colony seemed firmly established; and its gov- 1613. ernor asserted for the English the sole right of colonizing the coast to the latitude of forty-five degrees. In 1613, sa1613, sailing in an armed vessel, as a protector to the fishermen off the coast of Maine, Samuel Argall, a young sea-captain, of coarse passions and arbitrary temper, discovered that the French were just planting a colony near the Penobscot, on Mount Desert oyal. Thus did England vindicate her claim to Maine and Acadia by petty acts of violence, worthy only of ma- Chap. IV.} 1613. rauders and pirates. In less than a century and a half, the strife for acres which neither nation could cultivate, kindly, directed to the culture of tobacco, enriched Virginia. The condition of private property in lands, among Chap. IV.} 1613-1616 the colonists, depended, in some measure, on the circumstances under which they had emigrated. Some had been sent an