ESTABLISH COLONIES IN AMERICA. 7

Thiswas the first permanent settlement, named :2“ J ames’s Town, made by the English in America; and Captain Newport left 104 persons there, with Edward \Vingfield as president. The Plymouth Company, also, sent two ships, under Admiral Gilbert, to North Virginia, with 100 planters, 45 only of Whom remain- ed; and during this year a few huts were built on the north bank of the St Lawrence, by a colony sent from Dieppe and St Maloes, at the expense of a com- pany of French merchants.

Notwithstanding all the efforts made by the. Eng— lish to settle America, their attempts were on the point of utter ruin in 1610. Sir George Somers, this year, on his way to Virginia, was wrecked on the islands of Bermuda, where he wintered; and 011 arriving the following spring in Virginia, he found the colony reduced from 500 to 60, who embarked with him for England, and broke up the settlement. Fortunately, they Were met, the day after they sailed, by Lord De la Warre, who was appointed, under a new patent, governor of South Virginia. He per- suaded them to return; and from this period we may date the settlement of North America by England.

In 1614, the Dutch settled New York ; and New Jersey was settled in 1620 by the Puritans, part of Mr Robinson’s congregation; and New Hampshire, in 1623, at Pisquataqua River, by a small English colony. A colony of Swedes and Fins made a pur- chase from the Indians of the lands between Cape Henlopen and the falls of the Delaware, which they