"It has been my object in this book to put into a handy form a short narrative of the History of the Thirteen Colonies. In the limited space at my command I have endeavoured to give as often as possible the actual words of contemporaries, hoping that the reader may thereby be tempted to search further for himself amongst the mass of documentary evidence which still needs so much careful study."Early English Voyages to North AmericaVirginia: the First Great Colony of the BritishThe Colonisation of Maryland and the CarolinasThe Puritans in Plymouth and MassachusettsConnecticut; Rhode Island and Providence Plantation; New Haven; Maine; New HampshireThe Fight With the Dutch for Their Settlement of New NetherlandsThe Quaker Settlements and GeorgiaThe Social and Economic History of New EnglandThe Social and Economic History of the Southern and Middle ColoniesThe French Colonies in North AmericaFrench AggressionThe Struggle Between English and French Colonists