NEW FRANCE AND

NEW ENGLAND

BY

JOHN FISKE

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1902

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COPYRIGHT 1902 BY ABBY M. FISKE, EXECUTRIX
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published September, 1902

PUBLISHERS’ NOTE

The place of the present volume in the series of Mr. Fiske’s books on American history may best be indicated by a few words from his preface to “The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America.” That work, it will be remembered, comes next in order after “The Beginnings of New England,” and in describing its scope Mr. Fiske remarks: “It is my purpose, in my next book, to deal with the rise and fall of New France, and the development of the English colonies as influenced by the prolonged struggle with that troublesome and dangerous neighbour. With this end in view, the history of New England must be taken up where the earlier book dropped it, and the history of New York resumed at about the same time, while by degrees we shall find the histories of Pennsylvania and the colonies to the south of it swept into the main stream of Continental history. That book will come down to the year 1765, which witnessed the ringing out of the old and the ringing in of the new,—the one with Pontiac’s War, the other with the Stamp

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Act. I hope to have it ready in about two years from now.” This preface bears the date of Mayday, 1899.

It will be seen that “New France and New England” completes the story of the settlement and development of the colonies up to the point where Mr. Fiske’s “American Revolution” has already taken up the narrative. It therefore gives a final unity to the sequence of remarkable volumes which he has devoted to American history.

The lamented death of the brilliant author prevented him from giving the final touches to his work. Most of the material for it was delivered as lectures before the Lowell Institute during the last winter of his life; but only the first two chapters received his definite revision for the press. The third chapter was unfinished, but has been completed by a few pages, enclosed in brackets, and prepared in accordance with Mr. Fiske’s own memoranda indicating what incidents he proposed to include in the remaining paragraphs. The other chapters were in the form of carefully prepared lectures, but were not equipped with the side-notes and annotations calling attention to authorities, such as Mr. Fiske supplied freely in his “Discovery of America” and other volumes. From the third

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chapter onward, it has been thought best to provide such topical notes and references as may prove helpful to the reader. These notes are enclosed in brackets.

The text of all the chapters has been printed as it left his hand. Though he doubtless would have touched it here and there either for adornment or for a more exact precision of detail, it will on that account possess no less interest for the readers of that notable series of historical writings to which this volume now gives the desired continuity and unity.

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CONTENTS

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[Miles, H. H. The History of Canada under French Régime, 1535-1763. Montréal: Dawson Bros., 1872.]

[Miles, H. H. The History of Canada under French Régime, 1535-1763. Montréal: Dawson Bros., 1872.]