Forerunners and Competitors of the Pilgrims and Puritans, Volume 1 and Volume II

Narratives of Voyages made by persons other than the Pilgrims and Puritans of the Bay Colony to the shores of New England during the first quarter of the Seventeenth Century, 1601-1625, with especial reference to the labors of Captain John Smith in behalf of the Settlement of New England.

Table of Contents: Volume I

• I - Introduction: The Development and Influence of Trading Companies
• II - First English Settlement, Buzzard's Bay, 1602
• III - The Voyage of Martin Pring, 1603
• IV - French Explorers and Settlers upon the New England Coast 1504-1607
• V - The Voyage of George Waymouth, 1605. Beginnings of the Plymouth and London Companies, 1606
• VI - Voyages under auspices of the Plymouth Company, 1606-7. The Sagadahoe Colony

Table of Contents: Volume II

• VII - The Discovery of the Hudson River, Henry Hudson's third voyage, 1609
• VIII - Voyages of Argall and Somers, 1610: Harlow and Hobson, 1611
• IX - Revival and Ruin of the French Colony of Acadia, 1610-1613
• X - Renewal of English Attempts at Exploration and Settlement, 1614-1625
• XI - The Account of New England contained in John Smith's "Generall Historie of Virginia"
• XII - "Advertisements for Unexperienced Planters," 1631

Charles Herbert Levermore

(1912), 2025, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 402 pp.

ISBN: 9781556132100

101-L0210