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CHRONOLOGY

THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1607-1761

Historical Events
1603 Death of Elizabeth; accession of James I.
1607 Settlement of Jamestown; rescue of Capt. John
Smith by Pocahontas.
1607-1608 Separatists from Scrooby, England, to
Amsterdam.
1609 Hudson sails up Hudson River.
1612 John Rolfe begins cultivation of tobacco.
1614 Dutch trading post on Manhattan.
1614-1616John Smith explores and maps New
England coast.
1619 Negro slavery introduced into Virginia.
1620 Pilgrims Land at Plymouth.
1621 Dutch settle New Amsterdam ( New York).
1627 Delaware settled by Swedes and Finns.
1628 Suppression of "Merry Mount."
1629 Massachusetts Bay Company charter.
1630 Massachusetts Bay Colony established;
settle-
ment of Boston and Salem.
1634 Settlement of Maryland and Connecticut.
1635 Boston Latin School.
1636 Harvard College founded; Roger Williams
settles Providence.
1637 Pequot War.
1638 New Haven Colony established.
1639 Stephen Daye sets up printing press,
Cam-
bridge, Mass.
1640 Estimated Population of Colonies, 27, 950;
Long Parliament meets.
1643 New England Confederation or United
Colo-
nies of New England established; population of
Mass., 16,000.
1646 John Eliot, missionary to Indians.
1649 Charles I beheaded; Cromwell becomes
Protector.
1650 Population, 51,700.
1656-1661 Persecution of Quakers in New England.
1658 Cromwell dies.
1660 Population, 84,800; Restoration: Charles II
mounts throne; first Navigation Act, aimed at
Dutch carrying trade.
1662 Connecticut charter granted.
1663 Charters granted Carolinas and Rhode Island;
Staple Act--Second Navigation Act: imports for
colonies must be trans-shipped from England.

Literary Events
1608 Milton born; Smith, A True Relation.
1611 King James' Bible.
1612 Smith, A Map of Virginia.
1616 Shakespeare dies; Smith, Description of New-
England.
1624 Smith, Generall Historie.
1623 Purchas, Pilgrimes.
1626 Sandys, Ovid.
1630 Smith, The True Travels; Cotton, God's
Prom-
ise to His Plantation.
1637 Morton, New English Canaan.
1640 Bay Psalm Book, first book printed in New
England.
1641 Shepard, The Sincere Convert.
1644 Williams, Blovdy Tenent; Cotton, The Keyes
of the Kingdom of Heaven.
1647 Ward, Simple Cobler.
1650 Bradstreet, Tenth Muse.
1654 Johnson, The Wonder-Working Providence.
1661 John Eliot translates Bible into Algonquin.
1662 Wigglesworth, Day of Doom.
1663 Davenport, A Discourse about Civil
Govern-
ment.

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Publication Information: Book Title: The American Mind: Selections from the Literature of the United States. Volume: 2. Contributors: Harry R. Warfel - editor, Ralph H. Gabriel - editor, Stanley T. Williams - editor. Publisher: American Book. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1937. Page Number: 1497.
    
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