Henry Wadsworth Fletcher Collection Fletcher, Henry Wadsworth This is widely accepted as the “birthday” of the United States Navy. Louis.Ĭertificate of Membership Wheaton, WilliamMembership certificate of William Weaton for the New York Marine Society.Īt a meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress votes to fit out two sailing vessels with guns and men to send out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and provisions to the British army in America. New Haven, Connecticut, passes an act to protect natural oyster beds.įrench establish outpost at the site of St. Rhode Islanders develop method of separating oil from the waxy spermaceti found in heads of sperm whales and begin to manufacture candles.įrench Acadians evicted from Nova Scotia, some being resettled in Louisiana, becoming “Cajuns”. Large-scale German and Swiss immigration. Orne-Cushing-Baldwin-Tappan Family Collection Orne-Cushing-Family Welsh Quakers settle in the new colony of Pennsylvania.īeginning of large-scale African slave trade to North America, totaling more than 660,000 before 1808.īoston, Massachusetts, is the leading colonial port.įrench settlers establish outpost at the site of Detroit.Īn early engraving of New York depicts the sloop yacht Fancy, owned by a wealthy New Yorker.įrench establish the settlement of New Orleans.Ĭod fishermen of Marblehead and Gloucester, Massachusetts, begin to dominate New England commercial fisheries.
Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, travels down the Mississippi to its mouth and claims the region for France. Philadelphia is established as a port on the Delaware River. “Voyageurs” use the lake and river networks for fur trapping and trade with American Indians. Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet travel across the Great Lakes and explore the upper portion of the Mississippi River. Navigation Acts control trade relationships of American merchants, largely limiting them to trade within the British Empire.ĪmericaIn London, John Ogilby publishes a beautifully illustrated book entitled AMERICA without attributing the work to its Dutch author, Arnoldus Montanus. Mary’s in the new colony of Maryland.Ī Swedish settlement is established at site of Wilmington, Delaware.Īlongshore whale fishery established by European settlers on Long Island, New York, with assistance of Native American whalers. “Nieuw Amsterdam”, on Manhattan Island, is established as the Dutch entrepot for trade.Įnglish Catholics settle at St. Having landed in New England and established the Plymouth Colony, the Pilgrims plan to use fish as a trade commodity.įirst permanent Dutch settlement at New York. The Mayflower arrives in Plymouth Harbor and the English Puritans establish the Plymouth colony in Massachusetts. Oranje near present site of Albany, New York, opens Hudson River to European trade.įirst Africans in North America are brought to Jamestown. Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in North America, is established as a commercial outpost to develop sea trade with Great Britain.
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Theodore de Bry publishes impressions of coastal America in the many volumes of the illustrated series America. Inhabitants disappear and settlement becomes known as the “Lost Colony of Roanoke”. John White paints watercolors of Native American coastal residents during Sir Walter Raleigh’s unsuccessful Roanoke expedition to the Carolina coast. Augustine, Florida, established by Spanish to guard sea-lanes to Spanish America. Augustine, Florida, driving out earlier French settlers in the area. Spanish establish permanent settlement at present-day St.
Swiss naturalist Konrad Gesner publishes his NOMENCLATOR AQUATILIUM ANIMANTUM and continues his attempt to identify every known animal. Spanish subjugate and settle Puerto Rico. John Cabot brings back word of codfish resources discovered off Newfoundland.Įuropean fishing fleets are working in Newfoundland waters. Coriolis, Interdisciplinary Journal of Maritime StudiesĬhristopher Columbus makes first voyage in search of Asia, encountering islands of North America and establishing the route to the New World.19th Century American Merchant Marine Digital Library.Catalog of art, objects, photography and ships plans.Catalog of books, periodicals and manuscripts.
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