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PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
SKETCHES OF THE FIRST SETTLEMENTS IN NORTH AMERICA
- its discovery;
- Florida the first settlement made on the continent, Virginia next, in 1607;
- landing of the Pilgrims;
- New Hampshire, 1623;
- Maryland 1634;
- Rhode Island, 1636;
- Connecticut;
- New York, 1615;
- Delaware, 1631;
- New Jersey, 1664;
- North Carolina, 1660;
- South Carolina, 1670;
- Pennsylvania, first visited by Penn in 1682;
- Georgia, 1733;
- Vermont, 1744;
- general character of the colonists;
- motives by which they were actuated;
- and effect of their conduct;
- object of this sketch;
- general state of the colonies in the 17th century;
- efforts to convert the Indians;
- general state of religion and morals;
- tribute of respect to New England;
- pure religion rather low;
- Whitefield’s labors, and their effects;
- state of religion in Virginia;
- in the middle provinces;
- in the southern;
- general state of things about the middle of the 18th century;
- favorable to missionary effort;
- Slavery in the colonies;
- historical sketch of slavery;
- its introduction into the colonies;
- object of these remarks;
- proper divisions of the history.
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