842 THE FARMER'S AND 



New. York was settled in 1613, by emigrants from 

 Holland, but in 1644, it become an English colony. 



New-England was settled in 1620, by a hardy band 

 of emigrants, most appropriately called Pilgrims. At 

 the dead of winter, in a small and leaky vessel called the 

 Mayflower, they breasted their way across the ocean, and 

 landed late in December on the iron- bound shores of New- 

 England. They found nothing but a wilderness, and a 

 race of Indians to welcome their arrival. Here they had 

 to build houses, subdue the forest and turn it into fields, 

 and to form a government. Suffering from hunger, cold, 

 hostile Indians, and sickness, they had well nigh perish- 

 ed ; but the noble band of Pilgrim emigrants endured 

 all these things, and helped to lay the foundation of a 

 nation. 



The rest of the Atlantic coast, was soon afterward taken 

 possession of by colonies ; Maryland, in 1634 ; New-Jer- 

 sey, in 1664; Pennsylvania, in 1684; North Carolina, 

 between 1640 and 1650 ; South Carolina, in 1670 ; Geor- 

 gia, in 1732 ; Delaware, in 1627. 



It is thus seen that Emigrants performed the first great 

 acts in settling the New World. Among these early 

 emigrants, were men of various religious creeds, and 

 various nations. The Puritan, the Roman Catholic, the 

 Church-of-England man, the Quaker, all came over to 

 advance their religion. The English, the French, the 

 Dutch, all were found in the different colonies ; even 

 Sweden and Finland had their hand in the great work of 

 colonizing America, Delaware having been settled by 

 a company of Swedes and Finns in the year 1627. 



These peculiar features in the early settlement of the 

 New World are full of interest, and are without a paral- 

 lei in history. 



We will pass over the early struggles of these infant 

 colonies, until the year 1776. How much they suffered 



