PREFACE.
BOOK I. RISE OF THE FIRST ENGLISH COLONY. CHAPTER THE FIRST.
BOOK II. THE PURITAN MIGRATION. CHAPTER THE FIRST. RISE AND DEVELOPMENT OF PURITANISM. I.
BOOK III. CENTRIFUGAL FORCES IN COLONY-PLANTING. CHAPTER THE FIRST. THE CATHOLIC MIGRATION. I.
A HISTORY OF
LIFE IN THE UNITED STATES
THE BEGINNERS OF A NATION
A HISTORY OF THE SOURCE AND RISE
OF THE EARLIEST ENGLISH SETTLEMENTS
IN AMERICA WITH SPECIAL
REFERENCE TO THE LIFE AND
CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE
BY
EDWARD EGGLESTON
Editor's logo.
NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1896
Copyright, 1896,
By EDWARD EGGLESTON.
TO
THE RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES BRYCE, M. P.
My dear Mr. Bryce:
In giving an account of the origins of the United States, I have told a story of English achievement. It is fitting that I should inscribe it to you, who of all the Englishmen of this generation have rendered the most eminent service to the American Commonwealth. You have shown with admirable clearness and candor, and with marvelous breadth of thought and sympathy, what are the results in the present time of the English beginnings in America, and to you, therefore, I offer this volume. I need not assure you that it gives me great pleasure to write your name here as godfather to my book, and to subscribe myself, my dear Mr. Bryce,
Yours very sincerely,
Edward Eggleston.
