This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...reasons and plans worked together when, at last, at the opening of the seventeenth century, England made a permanent settlement in the New World. CHAPTER IX. FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN VIRGINIA. In Queen Elizabeth's time several companies of English colonists tried to make settlements on the coast somewhere north of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...reasons and plans worked together when, at last, at the opening of the seventeenth century, England made a permanent settlement in the New World. CHAPTER IX. FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN VIRGINIA. In Queen Elizabeth's time several companies of English colonists tried to make settlements on the coast somewhere north of the Spanish settlements in Florida. England claimed all the country north of the Spanish settlement, and called it Virginia, in honor of Elizabeth, their Yirgin Queen. The first people who came as colonists faced dangers and endured great suffering. They were sent out, with the queen's permission, by Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Sir Walter Raleigh, and generous men who joined them, and gave their fortunes, and sometimes their lives, to plant an English commonwealth in the New World. THE FIRST ENGLISH CHILD BORN IN AMERICA. One of the early colonies which did not succeed settled on Roanoke Island, in what is now Albemarle Sound; and there a little girl was born. She was Virginia Dare, the first child of English parents born in America. Possibly she grew up with the Indians, but not there at Roanoke. Her grandfather, John White, left her and the colony, with all going well, to get supplies from England; but the next English captain who went there found that everyone was gone and the houses were in ruins. Sir Walter Raleigh and his friends searched for them for years; but no one ever found trace of them. They may have perished from hunger. They may have tried to go back to England in some frail boat of their own. Spaniards or Indians may have killed or captured them. Wild beasts may have devoured them. We know how all of these misfortunes destroyed other colonies; but no one knows what ruined the first settlement at Roanoke.' NEW VENTURES.." By 1607 the qu...
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