District of Virginia, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the seventh day of July, in the forty-ninth year of the independence of the United States of America, John Marshall of the said District, hath deposited in this office the Title of a book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: [SEAL.] "A History of the Colonies planted by the English on the Continent of North America, from their settlement, to the commencement of that war which terminated in their independence. By John Marshall." In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned." RD. JEFFRIES. Clerk of the District of Virginia. OF THE COLONIES PLANTED BY THE ENGLISH ON THE CONTINENT OF NORTH AMERICA, FROM THEIR SETTLEMENT, TO THE COMMENCEMENT OF THAT WAR WHICH INDEPENDENCE. BY JOHN MARSHALL. PHILADELPHIA: PUBLISHED BY ABRAHAM SMALL. 1824. PREFACE. So large a portion of the life of General Washington was devoted to the public, so elevated and important were the stations which he filled, that the history of his life is, at the same time, the history of his nation. The part he took, while commander in chief, in the civil as well as military affairs of the United States, was so considerable, that few events of general interest occurred, which were not, in some degree, influenced by him. A detail of the transactions in which he was either immediately or remotely concerned, would comprehend so great a part of those which belong to general history, that the entire exclusion of the few in which he bore no part, while it would scarcely give to the work more of the peculiar character of biography, would expose it to the charge of being an incomplete history of the times. |