ESTABLISH COLONIES IN . 7 This was the first permanent settlement, named | S James 's Town, made by the English in ; and II Captain Newport left 104 persons there, with Edward Wingfield as president. The Plymouth Company , also, sent two ships, under Admiral Gilbert , to , with 100 planters, 45 only of whom remain¬ ed ; and during this year a few huts were built on the north bank of the Lawrence, by a colony sent from Dieppe and Maloes, at the expense of a com¬ pany of French merchants. Notwithstanding all the efforts made by the Eng¬ lish to settle , 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 on 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 . He per¬ suaded them to return; and from this period we may date the settlement of by England . In 1614, the Dutch settled York ; and New Jersey was settled in 1620 by the Puritans, part of Mr Robinson 's congregation; and New Hampshire , in 1623, at , by a small English colony. A colony of Swedes and Fins made a pur¬ chase from the Indians of the lands between and the falls of the Delaware , which they