The New England that was: the land that would later become New England and the people who lived there
The fishermen: cod, the rise of the North Atlantic fishing industry and the people who worked it
New England before Salem: lords, lawyers, tribes, pilgrims, strangers and the legal wrangling and conflict over the settling of New England, 1620-1623
Roger Conant and the salt trade of seventeenth-century London
Pilgrims vs. strangers: conflict within and exodus from the Plymouth Colony
A new Colony established and a civil war averted: the settlement of Cape Ann and the invasion of the Cape Ann Colony by the Plymouth Colony
Failure and opportunity: the abandonment of the Cape Ann Colony and the establishment of the Colony at Naumkeag
Becoming Salem: the arrival of John Endicott, conflict, compromise and the establishment of a government
The first half century: 1628-1679.
