The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war: With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . HI. HILE the London company, fupported by a fet of public fpirited no-blemen and gentlemen, were eftablifliing a colony in fpite of every ob-flacle, in what was then called South Virginia, North Virginia or New Eng-land, was almoft enurely neglefled by the aflbciated company of Plymouth,Briftol, and Exeter. A fettlement was indeed attempted in > 607, by fome ofthe
The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war: With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies. . HI. HILE the London company, fupported by a fet of public fpirited no-blemen and gentlemen, were eftablifliing a colony in fpite of every ob-flacle, in what was then called South Virginia, North Virginia or New Eng-land, was almoft enurely neglefled by the aflbciated company of Plymouth,Briftol, and Exeter. A fettlement was indeed attempted in > 607, by fome ofthe patentees, at Sagahadoc, near the mouth of Qtientbec river ; but GeorgePopham, the prefident, dving the firft winter, which v/as extremely fevere, andhis brother, lord chief juftice Popham, the principal promoter of the defign,about the fame time in Europe, the adventurers abandoned what they deno-minated a cold, barren, and inhofpitable defert, and all thoughts of eflablifli-ing a colony in fuch a country were laid ailde. It was the fate of New, likeOld irngland, to thrive amid national convulfions ; to rile into confequence dur-ing the horrors of perlecution, and to owe its civil and religious privileges to a noble
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