England's Atlantic outpost, settled after the 1609 wreck of the Sea Venture and chartered to the Somers Isles Company in 1612 — home to one of the oldest continuous legislatures in the English-speaking world (House of Assembly, seated 1620).
Remained continuously English/British; the last surviving piece of the former 'British North America' after Canadian Confederation (1867) and Newfoundland's shift to Dominion status (1907) — today a self-governing British Overseas Territory (95% 'no' vote on independence, 1995 referendum).
The definitive scholarly history of colonial Bermuda's maritime economy and society; its opening chapters cover our 1600-1700 window directly.