Of convicts.... Of African
slaves.... Two councils established.... Prosperity of the colony....
Indians attempt to massacre the whites.... General war.... Dissolution
of the company.... Arbitrary measures of the crown.... Sir John
Harvey.... Sir William Berkeley.... Provincial assembly restored....
Virginia declares in favour of Charles II.... Grant to Lord
Baltimore.... Arrival of a colony in Maryland.... Assembly composed
of freemen.... William Claybourne.... Assembly composed of
representatives.... Divided into two branches.... Tyrannical
proceedings.

CHAPTER III.

First ineffectual attempts of the Plymouth company to settle the
country.... Settlement at New Plymouth.... Sir Henry Rosewell and
company.... New charter.... Settlements prosecuted vigorously....
Government transferred to the colonists.... Boston founded.... Religious
intolerance.... General court established.... Royal commission for the
government of the plantations.... Contest with the French colony of
Acadie.... Hugh Peters.... Henry Vane.... Mrs. Hutchison.... Maine
granted to Gorges.... Quo warranto against the patent of the colony....
Religious dissensions.... Providence settled.... Rhode Island
settled.... Connecticut settled.... War with the Pequods.... New Haven
settled.

CHAPTER IV.

Massachusetts claims New Hampshire and part of Maine.... Dissensions
among the inhabitants.... Confederation of the New England colonies....
Rhode Island excluded from it.... Separate chambers provided for the
two branches of the Legislature.... New England takes part
with Parliament.... Treaty with Acadie.... Petition of the
non-conformists.... Disputes between Massachusetts and Connecticut....
War between England and Holland.... Machinations of the Dutch at
Manhadoes among the Indians.... Massachusetts refuses to join the
united colonies in the war.... Application of New Haven to Cromwell for
assistance.... Peace with the Dutch.... Expedition of Sedgewic against
Acadie.... Religious intolerance.

CHAPTER V.

Transactions succeeding the restoration of Charles II.... Contests
between Connecticut and New Haven.... Discontents in Virginia....
Grant to the Duke of York.... Commissioners appointed by the crown....
Conquest of the Dutch settlements.... Conduct of Massachusetts to the
royal commissioners.... Their recall.... Massachusetts evades a summons
to appear before the King and council.... Settlement of Carolina....
Form of government.... Constitution o