Excerpt from California Chronology: A Period of Three Hundred and Fifty Years, 1510-1860<br><br>The first settlement on the Atlantic Coast was Saint Augustine, now in Florida, in 1565, but which was not continuous. The Jamestown settle ment of 1607 and the landing of the Mayflower in 1620 are the early dates of American history; but the founding of the town of San Gabriel in later New Mexico in 1598, though not permanent, antedates the formerby nine and the latter by twenty-two years. And, Santa Fé, New Mexico, is the second, oldest and permanent city in the United States.<br><br>It is both interesting and historically important to note that King James I. Of England, in making his second grant of land on the North American Continent, in Virginia, known as the Jamestown Charter, being dated May 23, 1609, without either knowing or appreciating the territorial limits of his grant, in fact so dedicated its boundaries as to include within it the greater portion of the present State of California.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.