A General History of the United States of America, from the Discovery in 1492, Or, Sketches of the Divine Agency, in Their Settlement, Growth, and Protection: And Especially in the Late Memorable Revolution : Exhibiting a General View of the Principal Events, from the Discovery of North America to the Year 1765 |
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... whole country of Canada is conquered . War breaks out with the Cherokees . Their lower towns destroyed . They take fort Loudon . Colonel ' Grant desolates their country with fire and sword . They make peace , and the whole country is ...
... whole country of Canada is conquered . War breaks out with the Cherokees . Their lower towns destroyed . They take fort Loudon . Colonel ' Grant desolates their country with fire and sword . They make peace , and the whole country is ...
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... whole comprising a general history of three complete centuries . The author had written the first volume and part of the second ; but he had been so retarded , by writing the history of Connecticut , and a number of unforeseen events ...
... whole comprising a general history of three complete centuries . The author had written the first volume and part of the second ; but he had been so retarded , by writing the history of Connecticut , and a number of unforeseen events ...
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... whole number supposed to exist upon the globe , the one half are aboriginal of America . * The surface of the earth , destitute of cultivation , Cultivation . was generally loaded with rank and exuberant vegetation . Hidden , for ages ...
... whole number supposed to exist upon the globe , the one half are aboriginal of America . * The surface of the earth , destitute of cultivation , Cultivation . was generally loaded with rank and exuberant vegetation . Hidden , for ages ...
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... whole number of inhabi . Their poptants between the sea coast and the falls seems to have ulation in Virginia been about eight thousand , and the number of warriors about two thousand and four hundred . The proportion of warriors , to ...
... whole number of inhabi . Their poptants between the sea coast and the falls seems to have ulation in Virginia been about eight thousand , and the number of warriors about two thousand and four hundred . The proportion of warriors , to ...
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... Whole four or five thousands . Thus there appears to have number on , and south ' been about ninety thousand Indians in that tract of country lying upon and south of the Potowmac . In the country north of the falls of Potowmac to the ...
... Whole four or five thousands . Thus there appears to have number on , and south ' been about ninety thousand Indians in that tract of country lying upon and south of the Potowmac . In the country north of the falls of Potowmac to the ...
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affairs alarm Albany America Amherst appointed arms army arrived assembly attack Attakullakulla Baron Dieskau Canada captain captivated Carolina CHAP charter Cherokees coast colonel colony command commenced Connecticut Connecticut river council court Crown Point defeated defence despatched detached dians distress enemy England English enterprise expedition favourable fire Five Nations fleet force fort Edward four France French frontiers garrison gave governour granted harbour Havannah honour houses hundred Hutch Indians inhabitants island killed king lake lake George lake Ontario land laws lord loss Louisburg majesty Massachusetts ment miles nearly New-England Norridgewock Nova Scotia obliged officers party patent peace plantation planters pounds pounds sterling proprietors province provisions Quebec Rider's Hist river royal sachem sailed sent settled settlement ships Smith's hist soon South Carolina thirty thousand tion town trade treaty troops twenty vessels Virginia whole number wounded York
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Page 208 - Corporations, or having accepted any office, civil or military, or any place of trust under the Crown, to receive the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper according to the Rites of the Church of England.
Page 81 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 449 - France, provided that the navigation of the river Mississippi shall be equally free, as well to the subjects of Great Britain as to those of France, in its whole breadth and length, from its source to the sea...
Page 449 - Majesty, Florida, with Fort St. Augustin, and the Bay of Pensacola, as well as all that Spain possesses on the continent of North America, to the East or to the South East of the River Mississippi.
Page 123 - Higansetts abutting upon the main land between the two Rivers there called or known by the several names of Connecticut and Hudson's River together also with the said River called Hudson's River and all the land from the west side of Connecticut to the East side of Delaware Bay.
Page 180 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Page 196 - ... shall levy, collect or pay any money or goods contrary thereunto, shall be held a public enemy to the province, and a betrayer of the liberties of the people thereof.
Page 449 - America, it is agreed that for the future the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty and those of his most Christian Majesty in that part of the world shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the River Mississippi from its source to the River Iberville, and from thence by a line drawn along the middle of this river and the Lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain to the sea...
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Page 101 - That church members only should be free burgesses ; and that they only should choose magistrates among themselves, to have power of transacting all the public civil affairs of the plantation ; of making and repealing laws, dividing inheritances, deciding of differences that may arise, and doing all things and businesses of like nature.