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... returned , accompanied by a deputation from the Mohegans , who informed them of the success of their application to the Del- awares , and that a territory was already alloted for their reception . Upon receiving this intelli- gence , a ...
... returned , accompanied by a deputation from the Mohegans , who informed them of the success of their application to the Del- awares , and that a territory was already alloted for their reception . Upon receiving this intelli- gence , a ...
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... of the savage shrunk from the idea of committing so horrid an act , and quitting the spot they hastily returned to the Town At a and informed their companions that the Great Spir- it protected HISTORY OF WYOMING , 21.
... of the savage shrunk from the idea of committing so horrid an act , and quitting the spot they hastily returned to the Town At a and informed their companions that the Great Spir- it protected HISTORY OF WYOMING , 21.
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... returned to Bethlehem , a Town then building by his christian brethren on the north bank of the Lehigh about eleven miles from its junction with the Delaware . The English settlements were about this time rapidly increasing in the ...
... returned to Bethlehem , a Town then building by his christian brethren on the north bank of the Lehigh about eleven miles from its junction with the Delaware . The English settlements were about this time rapidly increasing in the ...
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... returned to their own territories . Du- ring the same season the Nanticokes , who , having established themselves at Chenenk and being un- willing that the bones of their brethren remaining in Maryland should be exposed to the ...
... returned to their own territories . Du- ring the same season the Nanticokes , who , having established themselves at Chenenk and being un- willing that the bones of their brethren remaining in Maryland should be exposed to the ...
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... returned into the Atlantic . Two years afterwards he made a second voyage in the employment of several merchants of Holland to whom he subsequently sold his right to the countries which he had discovered . The Amsterdam West India ...
... returned into the Atlantic . Two years afterwards he made a second voyage in the employment of several merchants of Holland to whom he subsequently sold his right to the countries which he had discovered . The Amsterdam West India ...
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Page 12 - We conquered you, we made women of you; you know you are women, and can no more sell land than women. Nor is it fit you should have the power of selling lands, since you / would abuse it.
Page 34 - Narraganset river, the space of forty leagues upon a straight line near the sea shore towards the southwest, west and by south, or west, as the coast lieth towards Virginia, accounting three English miles to the league; and also all and singular the lands and hereditaments whatsoever, lying and being within the lands aforesaid, north and south in latitude and breadth, and in length and longitude of and within, all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands there, from the western ocean to the...
Page 43 - ... but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend; and from the head of the said river, the eastern bounds are to be determined by a meridian line, to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
Page 12 - For all these reasons, we charge you to remove instantly ; we don't give you liberty to think about it. You are women.
Page 12 - You have told us a blind story, that you sent a messenger to us, to inform us of the sale; but he never came amongst us, nor did we ever hear any thing about it. This is acting in the dark, and very different from the conduct our Six Nations observe in the sales of land.
Page 15 - Zinzendorf was alone in his tent, seated upon a bundle of dry weeds which composed his bed, and engaged in writing, when the assassins approached to execute their bloody commission. It was night, and the cool air of September had rendered a -small fire necessary to his comfort and convenience. A curtain formed of a blanket and hung upon pins was the only guard to the entrance of his tent. The heat of his...
Page 128 - We are unanimously of Opinion that the State of Connecticut has no right to the Lands in controversy. "We are also unanimously of Opinion that the Jurisdiction and Preemption of all the Territory lying within the Charter boundary of Pennsylvania and now claimed by the State of Connecticut do of Right belong to the State of Pennsylvania.
Page 32 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 32 - Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
Page 97 - Crown to the lands aforesaid, within the limits and bounds of their patent aforesaid, lying westward of the province of New York, and not included in the patent of King Charles the second to the Duke of York, notwithstanding the several settlements of boundaries, between the colony on the east, and the Province on the west, made as well by agreement between the parties, as under the royal authority, and notwithstanding the subsequent charter to Sir William Penn?