New England in the sixteenth century
The forgotten century of the New England discoveries
Cabot and the shadowy period of the New World, 1497-1523
The voyage of Verrazano, 1524
The struggle for supremacy, 1525-1600
Precursors of the pilgrims
Bartholomew Gosnold in Nantucket Sound, 1602
Martin Pring explores New Plymouth, 1603
Champlain on the Penobscot, 1604
George Waymouth investigates the Monhegan area, 1605
Champlain in Massachusetts, 1605-1606
The voyage of 1605, the voyage of 1606, farewell to Champlain
A Kennebec Virginia fails, 1607-1608
Three portentous visitors, 1609-1611
Henry Hudson, 1609, Samuel Argall, 1610, Edward Harlow, 1611
Pierre Biard, Jesuit explorer of Maine, 1611.
Samuel Argall and Virginia's conquest of Maine, 1613
Adriaen Block explores Southern New England, 1614
Captain John Smith, New England's Raleigh, 1614
Smith's colonial policy for New England
Smith's campaign for New England colonization
The removal of the Indian menace
Declaration of war: Thomas Hunt and Nicholas Hobson
Plague: The voyage of Thomas Dermer, 1619