Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 2P. Force, 1838 - United States |
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... English Canaan ; Or , New Canaan , containing an abstract of New England . - Composed in three Bookes . The first setting forth the Originall of the Natives , their Manners and Customs . Toge- ther with their tractable Nature and Love ...
... English Canaan ; Or , New Canaan , containing an abstract of New England . - Composed in three Bookes . The first setting forth the Originall of the Natives , their Manners and Customs . Toge- ther with their tractable Nature and Love ...
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... English Pyrat , in a small ship , with some twelue peeces of ordinance , about thirty men , and neer all starued . They sought by curtesie releefe of vs ; who gaue them such faire promises , as at last wee betrayed Captaine Wolliston ...
... English Pyrat , in a small ship , with some twelue peeces of ordinance , about thirty men , and neer all starued . They sought by curtesie releefe of vs ; who gaue them such faire promises , as at last wee betrayed Captaine Wolliston ...
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... English red crosses . Within a very small time after , wee chased foure Spanish shippes came from the Indies : wee fought with them foure or fiue houres , tore their sayles and sides ; yet not daring to board them , lost them . A poore ...
... English red crosses . Within a very small time after , wee chased foure Spanish shippes came from the Indies : wee fought with them foure or fiue houres , tore their sayles and sides ; yet not daring to board them , lost them . A poore ...
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... English Ambassador then at Bur- deaux , where it was my chance to see the arriuall of the Kings great mariage brought from Spaine . Of the wrack of the rich prize some 36000. crownes worth of goods came a shore and was saued with the ...
... English Ambassador then at Bur- deaux , where it was my chance to see the arriuall of the Kings great mariage brought from Spaine . Of the wrack of the rich prize some 36000. crownes worth of goods came a shore and was saued with the ...
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... English blood , onely by too much confidence , but not by force . Here I must intreate a little your fauours to digresse . They did not kill the English because they were Christians , but for their weapons and commodities , that were ...
... English blood , onely by too much confidence , but not by force . Here I must intreate a little your fauours to digresse . They did not kill the English because they were Christians , but for their weapons and commodities , that were ...
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Adventurers aforesaid amongst appointed Assembly Authority Baltamore's Baron beasts Beaver better called Canaan Cape Captain Stone Carolina CHAP Charles river Charles Town Charter Colony command Commission Commissioners commodities Common-wealth of England Company contrary corne Council Country declare Delaware Bay divers doth Earl Palatine English Estates Expence fish Government Governor granted hath haue Hemp Highness the Lord Honour House howse hundred Indians Inhabitants Isle Isle of Kent Justice King labour Land Laws Liberty Lord Baltamore Lord Protector Lords Proprietors Lordships Majesty Maryland Master miles moneths neer New-England nine Worthies Oath Obedience Orders Parliament Patent persons plant Plantations Planters Ployden pound Province Province of Maryland Publick rich Right river Sachem Salvages Savanna Seal sent setled severall shee shew shipp ships skinnes sorts thereof things thither tion trade trees Trott unto Virginia wood Writs yeeld yeers
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Page 17 - For the oppression of the poor, for the sighing of the needy, now will I arise, saith the LORD; I will set him in safety from him that puffeth at him.
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Page 8 - ... what they doe: 200 whereof may, nine monethes in the yeare, be imployed in making marchandable fish, till the rest prouide other necessaries fit to furnish vs with other commodities.
Page 16 - Judgement out of their experience, when they grewe aged. What was their ruine and hurt, but this; The excesse of idlenesse, the fondnesse of Parents, the want of experience in Magistrates, the admiration of their vndeserued...
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