30 AMERICAN CATTLE. 



into the interior, in the course of time Texas was reached, and 

 there were spread the foundations for the immense herds of 

 Mexican, or, as we now call them, Texan cattle. CaUfomia 

 was afterwards settled by the Spanish Mexicans, who drove their 

 cattle thither, and in time, scattered over it numerous herds. 

 Of these we will speak hereafter. 



In what are now the "United States," the first English colo- 

 nial settlement was made in Virginia, on the James river, in 

 the year 1607, by a colony of a hundred men, which, by suffer- 

 ing, disease, and want of food, was reduced within a year, to 

 thirty-eight. In 1609, by new emigrations, the colony was 

 increased to five hundred persons; but in a few months they 

 were reduced by death to sixty. Many cows were carried from 

 the "West India Islands to Virginia in 1610, and 1611. In suc- 

 ceeding years more adventurers came out, but in 1622, three 

 hundred and forty-seven men, women and children were massa- 

 cred by Indians, and the colony, in effect, broken up. Whether 

 their cattle were also destroyed, we have no account ; but the 

 settlement was soon after renewed under better auspices and 

 protection, and neat cattle were further introduced and 

 propagated. 



New York was first settled in the year 1614, by the Dutch. 

 That colony, after some vicissitudes, prospered. The first 

 importation of neat cattle there, is said to have been in the year 

 1625, from the mother country, Holland, and they rapidly in- 

 creased in numbers, both in breeding and further importation. 



In 1620, the English Plymouth colony landed in Massachu- 

 setts. In 1623, further English colonies came out and settled at 

 Boston, and in New Hampshire. In 1624, the first arrival of 

 cattle entered Massachusetts Bay. These were soon followed 

 by other arrivals. New Jersey was settled by the Dutch in 

 1624, and Delaware by the Swedes in 1627, who brought cattle 

 with them. The early records of New Hampshire state that in 



