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And yet, might not the danger of disruption come again? Was this time of rejoicing the lull before the storm? Possibly the American feeling was something which was not to advance the British Empire; perhaps the foreign observer was right who said that colonial growth was like that of fruit, that the colonies must eventually fall ripe from the parent stem. But, even if this proved true, in dropping the seed might take root and an offshoot grow up as great as the older tree. And come what might, the Southern colonies would do their part. In the South had been the earliest English settlements; and should independence be necessary, not only would a Southerner be ready to move its declaration in a Continental Congress, but a Scotch-Irish county like Mecklenburg in North Carolina would be the first community in the New World to renounce allegiance to the British crown!

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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE

1521. De Ayllon said to have planted a colony north of Port Royal

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1526. Narvaez planned the colonization of Florida by Spain.

1527. De Soto undertook the colonization of Florida 1543. Francis I. declared the western sea open to

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1562. Ribault settled his Huguenot colony at Port Royal.

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1564. Laudonnière established a Huguenot colony
at Fort Caroline, Florida
1565. Menendez landed in Florida and founded
St. Augustine

Spanish attacked French at Fort Caroline and
slaughtered the colonists

1566. First Spanish mission established in Florida.
1567. De Gourges avenged the slaughter of the
Huguenots by Menendez .

1584. Raleigh's expedition reached Roanoke 1586. St. Augustinę destroyed by Drake. 1605. Weymouth arrived in New England

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1606. Charter granted to Gates and others for
American colonization. .

Expedition under Challons to the North Plan-
tation of Virginia, sent by the Plymouth
Adventurers

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1607. The London Adventurers' expedition under Newport reached Chesapeake Bay Spain endeavored to check the colonization of Virginia by England

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1609. Newport arrived at Jamestown with reinforcements for the colony

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The Virginia colony dispersed

New charter for Virginia granted by King
James.

Lord De la Warr arrived at Jamestown as
the governor of the colony

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Rights of English colonists in Virginia 1610. Expedition under Gates and Somers sailed for

Virginia

1612. New charter granted to the Virginia Company First shipment of tobacco from Virginia sent

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Captain John Smith's Oxford Tract published 1615. Last of the "ancient planters" arrived in Virginia in the Treasurer.

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1617. Samuel Argall arrived at Jamestown as gov

ernor .

Pocahontas died in England.

1618. Guinea slave trade privilege granted to the

Earl of Warwick and others

1619. Slavery introduced in Virginia

The first legislative body of Virginia met at
Jamestown

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Indented servants sent to Virginia .

1620. Friction manifested between the colonizing

Company and the king.

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1621. Lotteries in aid of Virginia colonies abolished 1622. The Indians of Virginia perpetrated a general massacre of the settlers

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Royal African Company chartered to import
slaves into the colonies

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1623. The Privy Council investigated the Virginia Company's affairs

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Captain John Smith's True Historie appeared 1624. The Virginia Company's charter annulled 102 Tobacco exports from Virginia restricted to England

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1625. Census of white servants and negroes in Vir

ginia

1628. Children sent as colonists to Virginia
1629. Annual expeditions against the Indians or-
dained by law in Virginia.

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1630. First general inspection law enacted as to Virginia tobacco.

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Charter of Carolina granted to Sir Robert
Heath.

1631. Legislation enacted requiring Virginia lands
to be enclosed against cattle.

1632. System of road building established in Virginia Charter of Maryland granted to Lord Balti

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1633. Virginia Dissenters made first settlement in Carolina

1634. Shires named in Virginia .

Privy Council empowered to govern the Eng-
lish colonies in America

1637. Office of treasurer instituted in Virginia
Custom house established in Virginia.

1639. Patent of Maine granted to Sir Ferdinando

Gorges

1640. Ferries in Virginia first mentioned.

Virginia colonists massacred by Indians 1642. Restrictions enacted in Virginia against law

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1644. Opechancanough attacked the Virginians on the upper York and Pamunkey Rivers 1649. Declaration of Virginia in favor of Charles II.

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1652. "Articles of Surrender" of Virginia to Crom

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1656. Lawyers in Virginia prohibited from receiving

fees

The settlers at James River Falls attacked by
the Richahecrians

1658. Law enacted denying the governor a seat in
the Assembly of Virginia

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1660. Massachusetts settlers located on Cape Fear River.

1663. Charter of Carolina granted to the Earl of

Clarendon and others

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1667. Law passed concerning legal status of slaves 113 Dutch fleet entered James River. Dissolution of the Barbadian colony on Cape

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Agreement entered into between Spain and
England as to their American possessions 291
Census made of the white servants and negro
slaves . .

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1673. Fort Frontenac built, on Lake Erie
1676. Bacon's expeditions in Virginia against the

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