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... sent out to the South ( Delaware ) River under Captain Mey , with instructions to build a fort for the purpose of defense and for trading with the natives . This was done at the place where Gloucester , New Jersey , now stands . It was ...
... sent out to the South ( Delaware ) River under Captain Mey , with instructions to build a fort for the purpose of defense and for trading with the natives . This was done at the place where Gloucester , New Jersey , now stands . It was ...
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... sent out . He was an able man and an experienced soldier . " Physically he was a huge man weighing over four hundred pounds ; the Indians called him the ' big tub . ' " He proved himself to be one of the best colonial governors of his ...
... sent out . He was an able man and an experienced soldier . " Physically he was a huge man weighing over four hundred pounds ; the Indians called him the ' big tub . ' " He proved himself to be one of the best colonial governors of his ...
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... sent out a strong force under Colonel Richard Nicholls . Nicholls with his fleet appeared before New Amsterdam and caught the colony and their governor , Peter Stuyvesant , wholly unprepared . As resistance was hopeless , Stuyvesant sub ...
... sent out a strong force under Colonel Richard Nicholls . Nicholls with his fleet appeared before New Amsterdam and caught the colony and their governor , Peter Stuyvesant , wholly unprepared . As resistance was hopeless , Stuyvesant sub ...
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... sent an expedi- tion from New York to take possession of the Delaware . When the vessels appeared before New Amstel , the Dutch commander of that place refused to surrender , and Sir Rob- ert Carr , the English commander , attacked the ...
... sent an expedi- tion from New York to take possession of the Delaware . When the vessels appeared before New Amstel , the Dutch commander of that place refused to surrender , and Sir Rob- ert Carr , the English commander , attacked the ...
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... sent to Christ Church College , Oxford , when he was sixteen . While at Oxford he fell in with Thomas Loe , a former Oxford student , but now one of the despised Quakers . Penn was profoundly influenced by this man and refused to wear ...
... sent to Christ Church College , Oxford , when he was sixteen . While at Oxford he fell in with Thomas Loe , a former Oxford student , but now one of the despised Quakers . Penn was profoundly influenced by this man and refused to wear ...
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Page 29 - THAT all Persons living in this Province, who confess and acknowledge the One Almighty and Eternal GOD, to be the Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World, and that hold themselves obliged in Conscience to live peaceably and justly in civil Society, shall in no ways be molested or prejudiced for their religious Persuasion or Practice in Matters of Faith and Worship, nor shall they be compelled at any Time to frequent or maintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry whatever.
Page 21 - ... the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 224 - The legislature shall, as soon as conveniently may be, provide, by law, for the establishment of schools throughout the State, in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis.
Page 27 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore governments rather depend upon men, than men upon governments. Let men be good, and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But, if men be bad, let the government be never so good, they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 27 - I choose to solve the controversy with this small distinction, and it belongs to all three: any government is free to the people under it (whatever be the frame) where the laws rule and the people are a party to those laws, and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy, or confusion.
Page 17 - Wasse ; there we lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as men and Christians, that they may not be brought in bondage, but by their own consent ; for we put the power in the people...
Page 23 - You shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and if you will, a sober and industreous People. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnisht me with a better resolution, and has given me his grace to keep it.
Page 59 - Grievances; and shall have all other Powers and Privileges of an Assembly, according to the Rights of the Freeborn Subjects of England, and as is usual in any of the King's Plantations in America.
Page 187 - ... determined to sacrifice their lives in my defence ; when all were ready to make a desperate sally among the multitude, and others were with difficulty and danger dragged back by the others ; when I myself judged it prudent and necessary to order chests of arms from the war office...
Page 159 - To effect these purposes, it is proposed to carry the war into the heart of the country of the Six Nations, to cut off their settlements, destroy their next year's crops, and do them every other mischief, which time and circumstances will permit.