PART 1. A.D. 85-1777. THE EARLY DISCOVERIS OF AMFR. BANNERS HANTED ON 12 A.D. 880-1631. COLONIAL AND PROVINCIAL FLACS, 1634-1766. -AlS OF T” PRE-REVOLUTIONARY AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, PRECITING THE STARS AND STRIPES, PART II. A.D. 860-1777. THE EARLY DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA, AND THE FIRST BANNERS PLANTED ON ITS SHORES, A.D. 860-1634. COLONIAL AND PROVINCIAL FLAGS, 1634-1766. FLAGS OF THE PRE-REVOLUTIONARY AND REVOLUTIONARY PERIOD, PRECEDING THE STARS AND STRIPES, 1766-1776. THE GRAND UNION OR CONTINENTAL FLAG OF THE UNITED COLONIES, 1776-1777. "Far o'er yon azure main thy view extend, Where seas and skies in blue confusion blend: Far from all realms this world imperial lies, On yon fair strand behold that little train Here empire's last and brightest throne shall rise, And hark! what strange, what solemn breaking strain Swells, wildly murmuring o'er the far, far main! Down time's long lessening vale the notes decay, And lost in distant ages roll away." Timothy Dwight's Prophecy of America, written 1771-1774. 1 PART II. THE EARLY DISCOVERIES OF AMERICA, AND THE FIRST BANNERS PLANTED ON ITS SHORES, A.D. 860-1636. "And then the blue-eyed Norseman told 'There is,' said he, 'a wondrous book And he who looks may find therein 1 |