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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... knowne vnto you a fit place for plantation , limited within the bounds of your Patent and Commission ; hauing also receiued meanes , power , and authority by your directions to plant there a Colony , and make further search and ...
... knowne vnto you a fit place for plantation , limited within the bounds of your Patent and Commission ; hauing also receiued meanes , power , and authority by your directions to plant there a Colony , and make further search and ...
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... knowne to any Christian , but by the wonderful endeuours of Ferdinando de Soto a valiant Span- iard : whose writings in this age is the best guide knowne to search those parts . Virginia is no Ile ( as many doe imagine ) but Notes of ...
... knowne to any Christian , but by the wonderful endeuours of Ferdinando de Soto a valiant Span- iard : whose writings in this age is the best guide knowne to search those parts . Virginia is no Ile ( as many doe imagine ) but Notes of ...
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... knowne by Satquin , and foure or fiue Iles in the mouth . Smyths Iles are a heape together , none neere them , against Accominticus . The three Turks heads are three Iles seen far to Sea - ward in regard of the headland . The cheefe ...
... knowne by Satquin , and foure or fiue Iles in the mouth . Smyths Iles are a heape together , none neere them , against Accominticus . The three Turks heads are three Iles seen far to Sea - ward in regard of the headland . The cheefe ...
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... knowne abounding America ; much lesse such large Regions as are yet vnknowne , as well in America , as in Affrica , and Asia , and Terra incognita ; where were courses for gentlemen ( and them that would be so reputed ) more suiting ...
... knowne abounding America ; much lesse such large Regions as are yet vnknowne , as well in America , as in Affrica , and Asia , and Terra incognita ; where were courses for gentlemen ( and them that would be so reputed ) more suiting ...
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... knowne what I know of those Countries ; and by the proofe of that wealth I hope yearely to returne , if God please to blesse me from such accidents , as are beyond my power in reason to preuent : For , I am not so simple , to thinke ...
... knowne what I know of those Countries ; and by the proofe of that wealth I hope yearely to returne , if God please to blesse me from such accidents , as are beyond my power in reason to preuent : For , I am not so simple , to thinke ...
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