The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826, Volume 2Hilliard and Brown, 1829 - America |
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... England , carrying with him Tomochichi , his queen , and several other Indians.1 The number of warriors of the principal Indian nations , in the Number of neighbourhood of Carolina and Georgia , is estimated to have Indian war- been ...
... England , carrying with him Tomochichi , his queen , and several other Indians.1 The number of warriors of the principal Indian nations , in the Number of neighbourhood of Carolina and Georgia , is estimated to have Indian war- been ...
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... England to Boston in 1674 ; and soon after Philip's war was one of the four proprietors , and the principal settler of the town of Bristol in Rhode Island . He lived there till 1724 , when he returned to Boston . Allen . In 1689 , he ...
... England to Boston in 1674 ; and soon after Philip's war was one of the four proprietors , and the principal settler of the town of Bristol in Rhode Island . He lived there till 1724 , when he returned to Boston . Allen . In 1689 , he ...
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... England . In 1710 he was appointed agent of Massachusetts , and rendered very important services to the colony . He was author of the able " Defence of the New England Charters . " A list of his other publications may be seen in the ...
... England . In 1710 he was appointed agent of Massachusetts , and rendered very important services to the colony . He was author of the able " Defence of the New England Charters . " A list of his other publications may be seen in the ...
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... England by the lords of council . 1740 . By this decision New Hampshire gained a tract of country , 14 miles in breadth , and above 50 in length , more than it had ever claimed.1 1741 . dition . 17 AN expedition against the Spanish West ...
... England by the lords of council . 1740 . By this decision New Hampshire gained a tract of country , 14 miles in breadth , and above 50 in length , more than it had ever claimed.1 1741 . dition . 17 AN expedition against the Spanish West ...
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... England , bound for Philadelphia , with about 200 lost at sea . Palatines on board , put into Hampton road in Virginia , having lost about 160 passengers from the Palatinate.3 German bible and newspaper . Indigo . A German edition of ...
... England , bound for Philadelphia , with about 200 lost at sea . Palatines on board , put into Hampton road in Virginia , having lost about 160 passengers from the Palatinate.3 German bible and newspaper . Indigo . A German edition of ...
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Page 253 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
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Page 323 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
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Page 175 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men!
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Page 254 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...
Page 505 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.