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To strike, to knock. Whip the devil around a stump, To. To prevaricate; to indulge in circumlocution with intention to deceive. Whole team. A man is a whole team when he is an individual of remarkable energy and force of character. Wood up, To. To take a drink of liquor. Worst kind. To an extreme degree. Υ. You bet! The most emphatic confirmation of an a ertion. IMG:content-1540.png:[blocks in formation] 1576 Frobisher, while seeking a route to India, sailed around Newfoundland. 1579 Sir Francis Drake, the English Admiral, explored the Pacific Coast and named the country New Albion. Drake was the first English man to circumnavigate the globe. 1582 Sante Fe, N. M., founded by Spaniards under Espejo. It is the second oldest existing European town in the United States. 1583 The English, under Sir Humphrey Gilbert, attempted the settlement of Newfoundland. 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent an expedition under Amidas and Barlow to 1585 Raleigh sent out a second expedition. The English, led by Grenville, 1587 Raleigh dispatched his third expedition. John White, with ancther band of English, attempted to settle Roanoke Island. Virginia Dare was born, the first white child a native of America. 1602 Matthew Gosnold explored a portion of the coast of New England and named Cape Cod, Ma . 1603 The French, under Cham plain, explored the coast of Newfoundland. 1605 Port Royal, N. S. (now Anna polis), settled by the French under De Monts. The country named Acadia, Port Royal being the first permanent French settlement in America. IMG:content-1541.png:[blocks in formation] Sept. 6-Henry Hudson, in the service of the Dutch, sailed into Long Island Sound and discovered the Hudson River. 1610 A famine occurred in Virginia. Captain John Smith returns tempo- 1613 April-Pocahontas was married to John Rolfe, at York town, Va. 1614 Captain John Smith, with a band of English, explored a portion of the eastern coast of the continent and named New England. Oct. 11-New Netherlands granted by the Dutch to the Amsterdam Company, with territory extending from 40° to 45° lat. and from sea to sea. New Amsterdam (New York City) settled by the Dutch, under the aus- pices of the Amsterdam Company. The culture of tobacco was begun in Virginia. America met at James town, Va. Sept. 6-Salem, Ma ., settled by the English under the auspices of the Ma achusetts Bay Company, and John Endicott was made governor. Order of Patroons was first founded by the Dutch in New Netherlands. Warwick's grant was made and comprised territory extending "west- ward from Narragansett River, 120 miles along the coast, west to the Pacific Ocean." The City of Boston founded by the English under the leadership of Winthrop. 1631 March 19-Warwick's grant was transferred from the original holder to Lord Saybrooke, and others. Mason and Gorges having partitioned their grant, Mason named his grant New Hampshire; Gorges named his grant Maine. 1632 Maryland granted to Catholic English men under the leadership of Calvert, Lord Baltimore. 1633 Windsor, Conn., settled by William Holmes, who removed from Ply- mouth, Ma . 1634 March 27-Maryland was first settled at St. Mary's by Calvert. Providence, R. I., founded by Roger Williams, who was banished from the Ma achusetts colony. Pequot War broke out in Connecticut, and was the first Indian war in New England. Delaware was first settled near Wilmington by Swedes and Finns, and called New Sweden. Claiborne's Rebellion broke out in Maryland, as a consequence of which Gor. Calvert fled to Virginia. 1650 First permanent settlement effected by the English in North Carolina, on the Chowan River, near Edenton. 1655 Religious war broke out in Maryland between Protestants and Catholics.