The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . then, and barbar-ous lands not actually possessed of any Christian prince,nor inhabited by Christian people. 1 The Voyages of the Cabots, Old South Leaflets, general series, No. 37. 2 So early as the year 1496, her (Englands) monarch granted acommission to the Cabots, to discover countries then unknown toChristian people, and to take possession of them in the name of theKing of England. Two years afterwards Cabot proceeded on thisvoyage, and discovered the continent of North America, along whichhe sailed as far south as Virginia. To this discovery t
The Northwest under three flags, 1635-1796 . then, and barbar-ous lands not actually possessed of any Christian prince,nor inhabited by Christian people. 1 The Voyages of the Cabots, Old South Leaflets, general series, No. 37. 2 So early as the year 1496, her (Englands) monarch granted acommission to the Cabots, to discover countries then unknown toChristian people, and to take possession of them in the name of theKing of England. Two years afterwards Cabot proceeded on thisvoyage, and discovered the continent of North America, along whichhe sailed as far south as Virginia. To this discovery the Englishtrace their title.—Opiniou by Mr. Chief-justice Marshall, Johnsonvs. Mcintosh, 8 Wheatou, p. 571. 3 An Account of the European Settlements in America, vol. ii., p. work, published anonymously, was written by Edmund Burke. 4 Historical Collections, consisting of State Papers, by EbenezerHazard, contains Raleighs patent, the assignment of it, the first andsecond charters of Virginia, and other like important documents. 64. SEBASTIAN CABOT THE ENGLISH IN THE OHIO COUNTRY Kaleigh himself Avas too much engrossed with affairsof state to lead colonists in America; but in 1585 hiscaptain, Sir Richard Grenville, founded upon RoanokeIsland, in the present State of North Carolina, the firstEnglish settlement established on the continent of NorthAmerica. The times, however, forbade the success ofthe undertaking; for the invincible Spanish Armadamust be destroyed before colonization could flow un-vexed across the seas. Thus it happened that it was notuntil 1607 that Raleighs successors planted at James-town the first permanent English settlement in 1609, under a new and enlarged charter, the Treas-urer and Company of Merchant Adventurers of the Cityof London for the First Colony in Virginia becamepossessed in absolute property of the lands extendingalong the sea-coast two hundred miles north and thesame distance south from Old Point Comfort, and intothe land
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