![]() TROUBLE OVER THE BOUNDARY LINES Now, as you also know, when King James I died,Charles I became king of England, and in 1632 he c crivu_p/ A NY Cape FearWest 80I* from Greenwich 75 The Dutch people, however, sent Henry Hudsonout exploring in 1609, anc^ ne found the river to whichhe gave his name, whereupon a company like untothe London and Plymouth companies, was formedin Holland under the name of the West India Company, TROUBLE OVER BOUNDARY LINES 133 by which New Amsterdam was settled but the Eng-lish people captured the town and called it NewYork. All that was done in the year of grace 1606, andat that time the English people did not know howlarge was this new world of America. To the London Company he gave that part of itin the south, where Jamestown was afterward built,and the Plymouth Company landed in the northernportion where Plymouth was to be laid out. Hantsall the land in Virginia, and by that he meant thewhole country of North America, which was thenknown only as Virginia. Publisher: New York, Cincinnati American Book CompanyĬontributing Library: New York Public LibraryĬlick here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Title: Stephen of Philadelphia a story of Penn's colony ![]() Image from page 140 of "Stephen of Philadelphia a story of Penn's colony" (1910)
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