CONTENTS

1. AUTHOR’S NOTE
2. Introduction
3. 1.   LOOKING AHEAD
4. Wives
5. Plantation
6. Guns
7. 2.   BRINGING ALONG
8. Transients
9. Refuge
10. Animals
11. 3.   MEETING AND EXCHANGING
12. Traders
13. God
14. Tobacco
15. 4.   SETTLING IN
16. Escapees
17. A New England
18. Stockings
19. 5.   CREATING A COMMUNITY
20. Servants
21. Separatism
22. Furs
23. 6.   CONNECTING TO THE WIDER WORLD
24. Privateers
25. Kingship
26. Books
27. Conclusion
28. ABBREVIATIONS
29. NOTES
30. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
31. ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
32. INDEX