A General History of the United States of America, from the Discovery in 1492, Or, Sketches of the Divine Agency, in Their Settlement, Growth, and Protection: And Especially in the Late Memorable Revolution : Exhibiting a General View of the Principal Events, from the Discovery of North America to the Year 1765Farrand Mallory, and Company, Samuel T. Armstrong, printer, 1810 - 467 páginas |
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... posts , and every precaution was taken to prevent a surprise . Meanwhile great accessions had been made to the colony in Virginia . Twenty - one ships had arrived , in which came over 1300 men , women , and children . This was effected ...
... posts , and every precaution was taken to prevent a surprise . Meanwhile great accessions had been made to the colony in Virginia . Twenty - one ships had arrived , in which came over 1300 men , women , and children . This was effected ...
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... posts of their doors , or cast into the flames . Sixty per- sons perished in the massacre , and about thirty were ... post was neglected . VI . 1690 . . Falls The Mohawks joining a 216 A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE.
... posts of their doors , or cast into the flames . Sixty per- sons perished in the massacre , and about thirty were ... post was neglected . VI . 1690 . . Falls The Mohawks joining a 216 A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE.
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... posts and Indians , pursued them to the fort , and on that commenced a brisk attack . He had a sharp and brave action with the French regulars , and afterwards forcing his way through a body of the enemy , who intercepted him , on his ...
... posts and Indians , pursued them to the fort , and on that commenced a brisk attack . He had a sharp and brave action with the French regulars , and afterwards forcing his way through a body of the enemy , who intercepted him , on his ...
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... post to another . But notwithstanding their utmost exertions scarcely a year passed without repeated damages by the ... posts , and even then such was the scarcity of provisions , that , sometimes , the officers were under the necessity ...
... post to another . But notwithstanding their utmost exertions scarcely a year passed without repeated damages by the ... posts , and even then such was the scarcity of provisions , that , sometimes , the officers were under the necessity ...
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... post centinels in their fields . Troops of horse were posted , and large scouting parties , employed on the frontiers . Expeditions were undertaken to beat up the head quarters of the enemy , and to desolate their country , , But when ...
... post centinels in their fields . Troops of horse were posted , and large scouting parties , employed on the frontiers . Expeditions were undertaken to beat up the head quarters of the enemy , and to desolate their country , , But when ...
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affairs alarm Albany America Amherst appointed arms army arrived assembly attack Attakullakulla Baron Dieskau Canada captain captivated Carolina CHAP charter Cherokees coast colonel colony command commenced Connecticut Connecticut river council court Crown Point defeated defence despatched detached dians distress enemy England English enterprise expedition favourable fire Five Nations fleet force fort Edward four France French frontiers garrison gave governour granted harbour Havannah honour houses hundred Hutch Indians inhabitants island killed king lake lake George lake Ontario land laws lord loss Louisburg majesty Massachusetts ment miles nearly New-England Norridgewock Nova Scotia obliged officers party patent peace plantation planters pounds pounds sterling proprietors province provisions Quebec Rider's Hist river royal sachem sailed sent settled settlement ships Smith's hist soon South Carolina thirty thousand tion town trade treaty troops twenty vessels Virginia whole number wounded York
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Página 208 - Corporations, or having accepted any office, civil or military, or any place of trust under the Crown, to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Rites of the Church of England.
Página 81 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Página 449 - France, provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea...
Página 449 - Majesty, Florida, with Fort St. Augustin, and the Bay of Pensacola, as well as all that Spain possesses on the continent of North America, to the East or to the South East of the River Mississippi.
Página 123 - Higansetts abutting upon the main land between the two Rivers there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's River together also with the said River called Hudson's River and all the land from the west side of Connecticut to the East side of Delaware Bay.
Página 180 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Página 196 - ... shall levy, collect or pay any money or goods contrary thereunto, shall be held a public enemy to the province, and a betrayer of the liberties of the people thereof.
Página 449 - America, it is agreed that for the future the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty and those of his most Christian Majesty in that part of the world shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi from its source to the River Iberville, and from thence by a line drawn along the middle of this river and the Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain to the sea...
Página 68 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Página 101 - That church members only should be free burgesses ; and that they only should choose magistrates among themselves, to have power of transacting all the public civil affairs of the plantation ; of making and repealing laws, dividing inheritances, deciding of differences that may arise, and doing all things and businesses of like nature.