43 * AMERICA. 
and made fettlements. On the 19th of March, 1628, the 
council for New England fold to Sir Henry Rofwell, and 
five others, a large trail of land, lying round Mafiachu- 
fett’s Bay. The June following, Capt. John Endicot, 
with his wife and company, came over and fettled at Na- 
umkeag, now called Salem. This was the firft fettlement 
made in Maffachufett’s Bay. Plymouth, indeed, which is 
row included in the commonwealth of Maffachufett’s, 
was fettled eight years before, but at this time it was a 
feparate colony, under a diftinft government, and conti¬ 
nued fo until the fecond charter of Maflachufett’s was 
granted by William and Mary, in 1691; by which Ply¬ 
mouth, the province of Main, and Sagadahok, were an¬ 
nexed to Mairachufetl's. 
In the reign of Charles I. June 13, 1633, lord Balti¬ 
more, a Roman Catholic, applied for and obtained a grant 
of a trad! of land upon Chefapeak Bay, about 140 miles 
long and 130 broad. Soon after this, in confequence of 
the rigour of the laws of England againft the Roman Ca¬ 
tholics, lord Baltimore, with a number of his perfecuted 
brethren, came over and fettled it ; and, in honour of 
queen Henrietta Maria, they called it Maryland. 
The firft grant of Connecticut was made by Robert earl 
of Warwick, prefident of the council of Plymouth, to lord 
Say and Seal, to lord Brook, and others, in the year 1631. 
In confequence of feveral {'mailer grants made afterwards 
by the patentees to particular perfons, Mr. Fenwick made 
a fettlement at the mouth of Connecticut river, and called 
it Saybrooh. Four years after, a number of people from 
Mhffkchufett’s Bay came and began fettlements at Hart¬ 
ford, Wethersfield, and Windfor, on Connecticut river. 
Thus commenced the Englifti fettlement of Connecticut. 
Rhode Iflandwas firft fettled in confequence of religious 
perfecution. Mr. Roger Williams, who was among thofe 
who early came over to Maftachufett’s, not agreeing with 
fome of his brothers in fentiment, was very unjuftifiably 
banifhed the colony, and went with twelve others, His ad¬ 
herents, and fettled at Providence, in 1635. From this 
beginning arofe the colony, now ftate, of Rhode Ifland. 
On the 20th of March, 1664, Charles II. granted to 
the.duke of York, what is now called New Jerfey, then 
a part of a large traCt of country known by the name of 
New Netherland. Some parts of New Jerfey were fettled 
by the Dutch as early as about 1615. 
In 1662, Charles II. granted to Edward earl of Cla¬ 
rendon, and feven others, almoft the whole territory of 
the three fouthern ftates, North and South'Carolinas and 
Georgia. Two years after he granted a fecond charter, 
enlarging their boundaries. The proprietors, by virtue 
of authority verted in them by their charter, engaged Mr. 
Locke to frame a fyftem of laws for the government of 
their intended colony. Notwithftanding thefe prepara¬ 
tions, no effectual fettlement was made till the year 1669, 
(though one was attempted in 1667,) when governor Sayle 
came over with a colony, and fixed on a neck of land be¬ 
tween Aftiley and Cooper rivers. Thus commenced the 
iettlement of Carolina, which then included the whole 
territory between 29 degrees and 36° 30' north latitude, 
together with the Bahama iflands, lying between latitude 
32° and 27° north. 
The royal charter for Pennfylvania was granted to Wil¬ 
liam Penn, on the 4th of March, 1681. The firft colony 
came over the next year, and fettled under the proprietor, 
William Penn, who acted as governor from Oftober, 1682, 
to Augtift, 1684. The firft aftembly in the province of 
Pennfylvania was held at Chefter, on the 4th of Decem¬ 
ber, 2682. 'Thus William Penn, a quaker, juftly celebra¬ 
ted as a great and good man, had the honour of laying 
the foundation of the prefent populous and very flouriftv- 
fug (late of Pennfylvania. 
The proprietary government in Carolina was attended 
with fo many inconveniences, and occafioned fuch violent 
diftentions among the fettlcrs, that the parliament of Great 
Britain was induced to take the province under their im¬ 
mediate care. The proprietors (except lord Granville) 
accepted of 22,500!. fterling, from the crown, for the pro¬ 
perty and jurifdiClion. This agreement was ratified by 
aft of parliament, in 1729. A claufe in this act referved 
to lord Granville his eighth fhare of the property and ar¬ 
rears of quit-rents, which continued legally verted in his 
family till the revolution, in 1776. Lord Granville’s {hare 
made a part of the prefent ftate of North Carolina. About 
the year 1729, the extendve territory belonging to the 
proprietors was divided into North and South Carolina. 
They remained feparate royal governments until they be¬ 
came independent ftates. For the relief of poor indigent 
people of Great Britain and Ireland, and for the fecurity 
of Carolina, a projeft was formed for planting a colony 
between the rivers Savannah and Alatamaha. Accord¬ 
ingly, application being made to George II. he iffued let¬ 
ters patent, bearing date June 9, 1732, for legally car¬ 
rying into execution the benevolent plan. In honour of 
the king, who greatly encouraged the plan, they called the 
new province Georgia. Twenty-one truftees were appoint¬ 
ed to conduft the affairs relating to the fettlement of the 
province. The November following, 115 perfons, one of 
whom was general Oglethorpe, embarked for Georgia, 
where they arrived, and landed at Yamacraw. In explor¬ 
ing the country, they found an elevated pleafant fpot of 
ground on the bank of a navigable river, upon which they 
marked out a town, and, from the Indian name of the ri¬ 
ver which parted by it, called it Savannah. From this 
period we may date the fettlement of Georgia. 
The country now called Kentucky was well-known to 
the Indian traders many years before its fettlement. They 
gave a defeription of it to Lewis Evans, who publiihed 
his firft map of it as early as the year 1752. James Mac- 
bride, and fome others, explored this country in 1754. 
Colonel Daniel Boon vilited it in 1769. 
Four years after, in 1773, colonel Boon and his family, 
with five other families, who were joined by forty men 
from Powle’s Valley, began the fettlement of Kentucky, 
which is now one of the ntoft growing colonies, perhaps, 
in the world, and was erected into an independent ftate, 
by aft of congrefs, December 6, 1790, and received into 
the union, June 1, 1792. 
The traft of country called Vermont, before the late 
war, was claimed both by New York and New Ilampfiiire. 
When hoflilities commenced between Great Britain and 
her colonies, the inhabitants confidering themfelves as in 
a ftate of nature, as to civil government, and not within 
any legal jurifdiftion, affociated and formed for themfelves 
a eonftitution of government. Under this conftitution, 
they have ever fince continued to exercife all the powers 
of an independent ftate. Vermont was not admitted into 
union with the other ftates till March 4, 2791; yet we may 
venture to date her political exiftence as a feparate go¬ 
vernment, from the year 1777, becaufe, fince that time, 
Vermont has, to all intents and purpofes, been a fovereign 
and independent ftate. The firft fettlement in this ftate 
•was made at Bennington, as early as about 1764. 
The extenfive trait of country lying north-weft of the 
Ohio river, within the limits of the United States, wms 
erefted into a feparate temporary government, by an ordi¬ 
nance of congrefs, parted the 13th of July, 1787. 
Thus we have given a fummary account of the firft; dif- 
coveries and progreffive fettlement of North America, in 
their chronological order. The following recapitulation 
will comprehend the whole in one view. 
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