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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Colonial History (search)
mother of her child, and attempted to kidnap a young woman. Such crimes can be prompted even by the feeble passion of curiosity, and the desire to gratify a vulgar wonder. The harbor of New York especially attracted notice, Chap. I.} 1524 April. for its great convenience and pleasantness; the eyes of the covetous could discern mineral wealth in the hills of New Jersey. Hakluyt, III. 360, 361. N. Y. Hist Coll. i. 52, 53. Moulton's New York, i. 138, 139. In the spacious haven of Newport, Verrazzani remained for fifteen days. The natives were the goodliest people that he had found in the whole voyage. They were liberal and friendly; yet so ignorant, that, though instruments of steel and iron were often exhibited, they did not form a conception of their use, nor learn to covet their possession. Hakluyt, III. 361. Moulton's New York, i. 147, 148. Miller, in N. Y. Hist. Coll. i. 25. Belknap's Am. Biog. i. 33. Leaving the waters of Rhode Island, the persevering 15
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 4: (search)
y the feuds of the 1607 selfish, early deserted the colonists. Newport, who commanded the ships, was acquainted with the old passage, andand. Percy, in Purchas, IV. 1689. About the middle of June, Newport set sail for England. What condition could be more pitiable, than its powers, determined to send out new recruits and supplies; and Newport had hardly returned from his first voyage, before he was again desromised himself honors in England as the discoverer of a mine; and Newport, having made an unnecessary stay of fourteen weeks, and having, inndustry began to be diffused by his energetic administration, when Newport, with a second supply, entered the river. About seventy new emigrng more than five hundred emigrants. The admiral of the fleet was Newport, who, with Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Somers, was authorized rporation successfully opposed. Lord Bacon, who, at the time of Newport's first voyage with emigrants for Virginia, classed the enterprise