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PREFACE.
ONE of our American humorists has said that it is better not The first reto
know so much than to know so many things that are not true.
Errors accepted in childhood become articles of faith, and are
not easily got rid of. The absence from this book of certain
well-worn fables, which have served more than one generation
of American school-children for historic facts, will... More

PREFACE.
ONE of our American humorists has said that it is better not The first reto
know so much than to know so many things that are not true.
Errors accepted in childhood become articles of faith, and are
not easily got rid of. The absence from this book of certain
well-worn fables, which have served more than one generation
of American school-children for historic facts, will be regretted,
perhaps, on sentimental grounds. It does not seem worth ",hile,
however, to keep current in elementary books statements which
every sound historical scholar rejects. No work of history ever
yet escaped error, but I have at least tried to make this a genuine
history, in harmony with the best historical scholarship of the
time. Many laborious years passed in the critical study of
original printed and manuscript authorities for the history of
American institutions and American life have perhaps given the
author of this history some right to speak with assurance on
questions relating

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; CHAPTER PAGE; I-How Columbus discovered America; I I-Other Discoveries in America 7; I I I-Sir Walter Ralegh tries to settle a Colony in America 13; IV-How Jamestown was Settled 19; V-The Starving Time, and what followed :24; V1-The Great Charter of Virginia, and the First ;Iassacre by; the Indians 29; VI I-The Coming of the Pilgrims 34-; VI I I-The Coming of the Puritans 39; IX-The Coming of the Dutch 45; X-The Settlement of lIaryland and the Carolinas 50; XL-The Coming of the Quakers and Others to the Jerseys; and Pennsylvania 57; XI 1--The Settlement of Georgia, and the Coming of the Germans,; Irish, and French 62; XIII-HOv the Indians Lived 71; XIV-Early Indian Vars 79; XT-

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