Plantations of New England
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–The Plantations of New England were a series of colonisation efforts by Europeans on the east coast of North America, a land that they called New England.
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The name New England dates to the earliest days of European settlement: in 1616 Captain John Smith described the area in a pamphlet "New England."[1] The name was officially sanctioned in 1620 by the grant of King James I to the Plymouth Council for New England.[2] The region was subsequently divided through further grants, including the 1629 royal grant of "Hampshire" which was issued for "making a Plantation & establishing of a Colony or Colonyes in the Countrey called or knowen by ye name of New England in America."[3]
[edit] See also
- Plymouth Colony
- New England Planters (in Nova Scotia)
- Plantations of Ireland (preceding or contemporaneous)
- Plantation (settlement or colony) 16C use of the word "Plantation".
[edit] References
- ^ Smith, John Smit (1616). A Description of New England. the Lodge, in Chancery lane: Humfrey Lownes, for Robert Clerk. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1003&context=etas.
- ^ "The Plymouth Colony Patent: The Finale". The Plymouth Colony Patent. http://www.pilgrimhall.org/PatentFinale.htm. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
- ^ "Grant of Hampshire to Capt. John Mason, 7th of Novemr., 1629". Avalon Project. http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nh01.asp. Retrieved 21 December 2011.
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