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.