The Elizabethans' America

Purposes and policies to be observed in colonization (1578)

England's time approaches for appropriating part of the new world (1582)

Reasons for colonization (1585)

John Hawkins investigates the coast of Florida (1565)

Hawkins's and Drake's slaving expedition comes to grief at San Juan de Ulua (1567-8)

David Ingram reports an incredible journey on foot from Mexico to Nova Scotia (1568-9)

Henry Hawks reveals the rich commodities of New Spain (1572)

Fish in Newfoundland at command of fishermen! (1578)

Sir Humphrey Gilbert's tragic adventure in Newfoundland (1583)

Poetical mariners praise a colonial propagandist (1583)

Francis Drake on the California coast (1579)

A new land like unto that of the golden age (1584-5)

Glowing prospects for Raleigh's colony (1585)

Harriot tells of the goddess of Virginia (1588)

Return to Roanoke Island: the birth of Virginia Dare (1587)

A promising description of New England (1602)

Captain Waymouth explores the New England coast (1605)

Seafarers' tall tales of Virginia (1605)

Prudent advice to guide settles in establishing themselves (1606)

Michael Drayton's Ode, "To the Virginian Voyage" (1606)

George Percy gives an account of Jamestown and the early hardships (1607)

Captain John Smith's explorations and troubles with the Indians (1607)

Captain Newport reports gold and copper in Virginia (1607)

Captain Newport, with some difficulty, crowns Powhatan (1608)

Indians sound like Welshmen to Captain Wynne (1608)

King James wants a flying squirrel from America (1610?)

Strachey's description of the still vexed bermoothes (1610)

Another version of the castaways on Bermuda (1610)

Bermuda providentially saved for the English nation (1615)

The Blessed Isles [The West Indies] (1619-21)

The Virginia Indians (1612)

Virginia's natural bounty (1613)

A gossip reports on Virginia, including Pocahontas (1612-16)

Pocahontas, lured to Jamestown by a stratagem, marries John Rolfe (1614)

Rolfe marries Pocahontas to convert her, so he claims (1614)

English democratic procedures established in America (1619)

Promise of prosperity in Virginia (1619)

King James tells how to ensure prosperity in America (1622)

Fish, furs, and timber better than gold (1616)

The pilgrims seek refuge in America and find a villain at Merrymount (1620-8)

Profits in Virginia for shoemakers (1624)

The health-preserving climate of New England (1630).