Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 137. I'm your host, Jack Heneman,

and I am recording this episode on January 2, 2024. Happy New, in New Orleans.

We are telling the history of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without intentional presentism.

In podcast time, we've been knocking around the northeast of today's United States for just about two years, starting with the Popham Colony episodes back in December

2021. The recent high water mark, as it were, is 1647 or so, with a recovery of Maryland by the

Calverts after the plundering time. We're not entirely caught up to that date, however. We need to get back to see what

happened in New Sweden since its first year in the late 1630s, and the New Haven colony,

which extended its writ to New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania also deserves a

couple of episodes. The 1640s to the 1660s are something

of a lost period in the teaching of the history of the Americans in the sense that most histories

blow through them to get to King Phillips War in New England in 1675 and maybe Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia in 1676.

Never fear those middle decades of the 17th century are not lost to us.

All of that said, in the 70-plus timeline episodes since Martin Prings' expedition of 1603

and Champlain's St. Cro, Settlement in Maine.

We've talked about English, Dutch, and French settlement and exploration in today's United

States, but always in bits and pieces, or mostly in bits and pieces.

It's been a while since we've looked at the spread of European populations in the northeast at altitude.

Even I'm getting confused.

So in this episode, we'll do our best to bring it all together.

You know the big ones.

The Mayflower landed at Patuxet Plymouth in late 1620.

The Pilgrim stayed small and insular, but poked into Maine with a fur trading

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