Great Epochs in American History, Volume II

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1. Introduction
2. The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) I: The account by John A. Doyle
3. The founding of St. Augustine and the massacre by Menendez (1562-1565) II: Mendoza's account
4. Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies (1584-1587) I: The account by John A. Doyle
5. Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies II: The return of the colonists with Sir Francis Drake (1586) by Ralph Lane
6. Sir Walter Raleigh's Virginia colonies III: The birth of Virginia Dare (1587) by John White
7. Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) I: By Gabriel Archer, one of his companions
8. Bartholomew Gosnold's discovery of Cape Cod (1602) II: Gosnold's own account
9. The founding of Jamestown (1607) by Captain John Smith
10. The first American legislative assembly (1619) by John Twine, its secretary
11. The origin of negro slavery in America I: In the West Indies (1518) by Sir Arthur Helps
12. The origin of negro slavery in America II: Its beginnings in the United States (1620) by John A. Doyle
13. New England before the pilgrim fathers landed (1614) by captain John Smith
14. The first voyage of the "Mayflower" (1620) by governor William Bradford
15. The first New York settlements (1623-1628) by Nicholas Jean de Wassenaer
16. The Swedes and Dutch in New Jersey and Delaware (1627) by Israel Acrelius
17. The beginnings of the Massachusetts Bay colony (1627-1631) by governor Thomas Dudley
18. How the Bay colony differed from Plymouth by John G. Palfrey
19. Lord Baltimore in Maryland (1633) by contemporary writers
20. Roger Williams in Rhode Island (1636) by Nathaniel Morton
21. The founding of Connecticut (1633-1636) by Alexander Johnston
22. Witchcraft in New England (1647-1696) by John G. Palfrey
23. The English conquest of New York (1664) by John R. Brodhead
24. Bacon's rebellion in Virginia (1676) by an anonymous writer
25. King Philip's war (1676) by William Hubbard
26. The founding of Pennsylvania I: Penn's account of the colony (1684)
27. The founding of Pennsylvania II: Penn's treaty with the Indians (1683), his own account
28. The founding of Pennsylvania III: The reality of Penn's treaty (1682), by George E. Ellis
29. The Charter Oak affair in Connecticut (1682) by Alexander Johnston
30. The colonization of Louisiana (1699) by Charles E.T. Gayarre
31. Oglethorpe in Georgia (1733) by Joel Chandler Harris

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This is the second volume in ten volume series of great epochs in the history of the United States, from the landing of Columbus to the building of the Panama Canal. In large part, events composing each epoch are described by men who participated in them, or were personal eye-witnesses of them. Volume II describes first colonies in America and covers time period from 1562 to 1733. - Summary by Kikisaulite