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A company of English adventurers planted themselves on the banks of the James River and founded Virginia . The Dutch of Holland, impelled by the spirit of mercantile enterprise, established a colony on the Hudson, and founded what afterward became the city and State of New York . Then a shipload of English Puritans, flying from religious oppression, landed at Plymouth Rock and made the beginning of New England . A little later Lord Baltimore founded a colony on the Chesapeake and commenced the State of Maryland . But it was not until 1637-38 that the first permanent settlement was made in what subsequently became the State of Pennsylvania.
We are not fully informed respecting all the first instructions given to Governor Minuit when he came hither with Pennsylvania's original colony in 1637-38, but there is every reason to infer that they strictly corresponded to those given to his successor, Governor Printz, five years afterward, on his appointment in 1642, about which there can be no question.
Our limits will not allow of the relation of those campaigns in which the subject of this memoir filled a subordinate part. In 1637-38 he again served under La Valette, in Flanders and Germany, after which he was made Lieutenant-general, a rank not previously existing in France.
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