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AMERICA. 



The French, from this period until the conclusion of the war in 

 1763, laid a claim to, and actually possessed, Canada and Louisiana, 

 comprehending all that extensive inland country, reaching from Hud- 

 son's Bay on the north, to Mexico, and the gulf of the same name, on 

 the south. 



The multitude of islands, which lie between the two continents of 

 North and South America, are divided among the Spaniards, Englishi 

 and French. The Dutch indeed possess three or four small islands, 

 which in any other hands would be of no consequence ; and the 

 Danes have one or two, but they hardly deserve to be named among 

 the proprietors of America. We shall now proceed to the particular 

 provinces, beginning, according to our method, with the north; but 

 Labrador, or New'Britain, and the country round Hundson's Bay, 

 with those vast regions towards the pole, are little known. 



A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS OF THE DIFFER. 

 ENT PARTS OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Names of Places. When settled. 



Mexico, about . . 1520 



Florida ..... 1524 



Canada ..... 1608 



Virginia, June 10 . 1609 



Newfoundland, June 1610 



New York ? . . 

 *.t t c about 



New Jersey 3 



Plymouth . . . 



New Hampshire 



Delaware 

 Pennsylvania 

 Massachusetts Bay 



Maryland . . . 

 Connecticut . . . 1635 

 Rhode Island . . . 1635 



By whom. 



By the Spanish. 



By the Spanish. 



By the French. 



By Lord Delawar. 



By Governor John Guy. 



1614 By the Dutch. 



1670 

 1623 



1627 



New Jersey . 



. . 1664< 



South Carolina 

 Pennsylvania . 

 Louisiana . . 



. . 1669 

 . . 1682 

 . . 1685 



North Carolina, 



about 1728 



Georgia . . 



* . 1732 



Tennessee . . 



. . 1755 



Kentucky . . 



. . 1773 



Vermont . . 



. . 1777 



Ohio . . . . 



. . 1787 



By part of Mr. Robinson's congregation. 

 , By a small English colony, near the 

 [ mouth of Piscataqua river. 



By the Swedes and Finlanders. 



1 628 By Captain John Edicot and Company. 

 . 3 „ $ By Lord Baltimore, with a colony of Ro- 

 l man-catholics. 



C By Mr. Fenwick, at Saybrook, near the 

 £ mouth of Connecticut river. 

 5 By Mr. Roger Williams, and his per- 

 I secuted brethren, 

 f Granted to the Duke of York by Charles 

 j II, and made a distinct government, 

 \ and settled some time before this by 

 ^ the English. 



By Governor Sale. 



By W.TPenn, with a colony of Quakers. 



By M. de la Salle. 

 C Erected into a separate government, 

 I settled before by the English. 



By General Oglethrope. 



By Colonels Wood, Buchanan, and 

 others. 



By Colonel Daniel Boon. 



By emigrants from Connecticut, and 

 other parts of New England. 



By the Ohio and other companies. 



