The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the Province of New York, and are a Barrier Between the English and the French in that Part of the World, Volume 2New Amsterdam Book Company, 1902 - Iroquois Indians |
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... tell us , that they have at this Time , ordered more of these Goods , than ever was done at any one Time before . These Matters of Fact prove beyond Con- tradiction , that this Act has been of the greatest Service to New - York , in ...
... tell us , that they have at this Time , ordered more of these Goods , than ever was done at any one Time before . These Matters of Fact prove beyond Con- tradiction , that this Act has been of the greatest Service to New - York , in ...
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... tell , nor whether they belong to this or the neighbouring Government , but one of them , as we heard , had his House burnt over his Head some Years ago , and he was brought down a Prisoner and committed to the Goal of this City : These ...
... tell , nor whether they belong to this or the neighbouring Government , but one of them , as we heard , had his House burnt over his Head some Years ago , and he was brought down a Prisoner and committed to the Goal of this City : These ...
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... Declaration , all the other Indians made frequently that par- ticular Kind of Noise which is known to be a Mark of Approbation .-- The Governor bid the Interpreter tell Canassateego , " He did not 73 FIVE INDIAN NATIONS , & c .
... Declaration , all the other Indians made frequently that par- ticular Kind of Noise which is known to be a Mark of Approbation .-- The Governor bid the Interpreter tell Canassateego , " He did not 73 FIVE INDIAN NATIONS , & c .
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Cadwallader Colden. bid the Interpreter tell Canassateego , " He did not set on foot this Enquiry from any Suspicion he had of the Six Nations wanting a due Regard for the English . - Our Experi- ence of their Honour and Faith , said he ...
Cadwallader Colden. bid the Interpreter tell Canassateego , " He did not set on foot this Enquiry from any Suspicion he had of the Six Nations wanting a due Regard for the English . - Our Experi- ence of their Honour and Faith , said he ...
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... the Southern Indians , and they believed a Peace would be concluded : The other going to meet the Gov- ernor of New - York , at Albany ; but they could not tell what had been done at either Place 75 FIVE INDIAN NATIONS , & c .
... the Southern Indians , and they believed a Peace would be concluded : The other going to meet the Gov- ernor of New - York , at Albany ; but they could not tell what had been done at either Place 75 FIVE INDIAN NATIONS , & c .
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Page 379 - BECAUSE no people can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of civil Liberties, if abridged of the Freedom of 378 their Consciences, as to their religious Profession and Worship : And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits, and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare...
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Page 298 - To support Power in Reverence with the People, and to secure the People from the Abuse of Power ; that they may be free by their just Obedience, and the Magistrates honourable for their just Administration : For Liberty without Obedience is Confusion, and Obedience without Liberty is Slavery.
Page 324 - 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...
Page 297 - 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.
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Page 322 - That all children within this province of the age of twelve years, shall be taught some useful trade or skill, to the end none may be idle, but the poor may work to live, and the rich, if they become poor, may not want.
Page 287 - Pennsylvania, for the time being, and to make war, and to pursue the enemies and robbers aforesaid, as well by sea as by land, even without the limits of the said province, and, by God's assistance, to vanquish and take them ; and being taken, to put them to death, by the law of war, or to save them, at their pleasure ; and to do all and every other thing, which...
Page 297 - 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, and confusion.
Page 108 - But we do not know whether, considering how you have demean' d yourselves, you will be permitted to live there ; or whether you have not swallowed that Land down your Throats as well as the Land on this Side. We therefore assign you two Places to go, either to 107 Wyomenor Shamokin.