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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
in Purchas, IV. 1646. Archer's Relation, ibid. IV. 1647—1651. Rosier's Notes, ibid. IV. 1651—1653. Brierston's Relation, in Smith, i. 105—108. Compare, particularly, Belknap's Life of Gosnold, in Am. Biog. II. 100-123. Gosnold and his companions spread the most favorable reports of the regions which he had visited. Could it be that the voyage was so safe, the climate so pleasant, the country so inviting? The merchants of Bristol, with the ready assent of Raleigh, Purchas, IV. 1614. and at the instance of Richard Hakluyt, the enlightened friend and able documentary historian of these commercial enterprises, a man whose fame should be vindicated and asserted in the land which he helped to colonize, determined to pursue the career of investigation. The Speedwell, a small ship of fifty tons and thirty men, the Discoverer, a bark of twenty-six tons and thirteen men, under the command of Martin 1603 April 10. Pring, set sail for America a few days after the death of the qu<
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
countrymen. As he looked toward James River and Jamestown, his splendid prophecy, by the mouth of the Protestant Cranmer, promised the English nation the possession of a hemisphere, through King James as the patron of colonies: Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine, His honor and the greatness of his name Shall be, and make new nations. He shall flourish, And like a mountain cedar, reach his branches To all the plains about him. Sir Thomas Gates, leaving the government with 1614. Mar. Dale, embarked for England, where he employed himself in reviving the courage of the London company. May 17. Commons Journal, II. 481. Chalmers, 34, 35. In May, 1614, a petition for aid was presented to the house of commons, and was received with unusual solemnity. It was supported by Lord Delaware, whose affection for Virginia ceased only with life. All it requires, said he, is but a few honest laborers, burdened with children; and he moved for a committee to consider of relief.
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
he ships which carried the English from the Kennebec were on the ocean at the same time with the little squadron of the French, who succeeded in building Quebec, the very summer in which Maine was deserted. The fisheries and the fur-trade were not relinquished; vessels were annually employed in traffic with the Indians; and once, Gorges, c. x. Prince, 119. at least, perhaps oftener, a part of a ship's company remained during a winter on the American coast. But new hopes were awakened, 1614 April when Smith,—who had already obtained distinction in Virginia, and who had, with rare sagacity, discovered, and, with unceasing firmness, asserted, that colonization was the true policy of England,—with two ships, set sail for the coast north of the lands granted by the Virginia patent. The expedition was a private Chalmers, 80, erroneously attributes the expedition to the Plymouth company. See Smith, in III. Mass. Hist. Coll. III. 19; and in his Historie, II. 175, 176; Purchas, IV
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
the River of Salem and the Kennebec became, in a great measure, the property of two enterprising individuals. We have seen that Martin Pring was the discoverer of New Hampshire, 1609 and that John Smith of Virginia had examined and Chap. IX.} 1614. 1620. extolled the deep waters of the Piscataqud. Sir Ferdinand Gorges, the most energetic member of the council of Plymouth, always ready to encounter risks in the cause of colonizing America, had not allowed repeated ill success to chill his cot long after- 1616-7 wards, the mutineers of the crew of Rocraft lived from autumn till spring on Monhegan Island, where the 1618-9 colony of Popham had anchored, and the ships of John 1607 Smith had made their station during his visit to New 1614. England. The earliest settlers, intent only on their immediate objects, hardly aspired after glory; from the few memorials which they have left, it is not, perhaps, Chap IX.} 1623 to 1628 possible to ascertain the precise time, when the rude sh