op) 
King James his fleign it was divided jinfo 
Provinces as is before named.In ido2. thefc 
north parts were further difcovered by 
Capt. BaTtholQmiivp Gofnold.ThLZ fit&Engliff$ 
that planted there^let down not far from the 
Narraganfets-Bay^ and called their Colony 
flimoutb^Gncc old Flimouth^ Ah. Vm.tSbzw ^ 
Sir John Popham Loid chief Jufticc autho- 
f ixcd by his Majefty, King JameSy fent a 
Colony of E^glijh to Ssgadtbock^ An. i 6g6. 
Nmfound-land was d i (covered by one An- 
dnvp T'horn an Englifli aian in A^no 
Sic Hnmphrey Gilbert a mft Counircy 
Knight took poflcffion of it in the Queens 
mtnc^Anno i^^Sz. The two firft Colbhies 
in New-England failing, there was afr^Qi 
fupply of who let down iq. other 
parts of the Countrey, and have continued 
in a flourifhing condition to this day. 
The whole Countrcy now :s divided in- 
to Colonics^ and for your better underftand- 
ing obferve, a Cd!ony is a fort of people 
that come to inhabit a place before not in- 
habited, or ColoHus quaji^bcczxxk they fhould 
be Tillers of the Earth. From hence by an 
ufual figure the Counrrey where they fit 
down, IS called a Colony or Pkntadon. 
The firft of thefe that I rtiall relate of, 
though laft in poffvllioo of the EngJiJhy is 
flow our moit Souther ly Colony, and next. 
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