Significant Historical Happenings By Year: 1621-23.
- -1621-
- September, 1621: James I grants Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander of Menstrie, Earl of Stirling (1567- )
- "By 1621 Newfoundland had become a hopeful English colony, employing three hundred ships a year and ten thousand English seamen ... it was invested with pirates."
- By 1621 the Dutch were trading on the New England coast. While thought to be interlopers by the British, the Dutch figured they had a right to establish the New Netherlands; and they did; it centered on a river which they called Manhattan.
- -1622-
- In July of 1622, news is heard in England that the Indians, at Virginia, had "slain three hundred and forty-seven English, owing to the latter's supine negligence in living scattered among straggling houses." Still there was left "about twenty-five hundred colonists, one thousand cattle, as well as goats and swine."
