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... Indians of the mainland were interviewed . Having taken posses- sion of the country in the name of the Queen , Amadas and Bar- lowe returned to England and made a favorable report concerning the newly acquired territory . A second ...
... Indians of the mainland were interviewed . Having taken posses- sion of the country in the name of the Queen , Amadas and Bar- lowe returned to England and made a favorable report concerning the newly acquired territory . A second ...
Page 15
... Indians , that most of the Roanoke colonists were massacred by order of Powhatan.1 If English colonial enterprises on the American coast had ended in disappointment and disaster , maritime interests meanwhile had prospered . The ...
... Indians , that most of the Roanoke colonists were massacred by order of Powhatan.1 If English colonial enterprises on the American coast had ended in disappointment and disaster , maritime interests meanwhile had prospered . The ...
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... Indians . But when these new - world products had been secured and were on board , and the vessel was ready to sail , those of the little company who had agreed to remain in the country as colonists refused to stay ; and the settlement ...
... Indians . But when these new - world products had been secured and were on board , and the vessel was ready to sail , those of the little company who had agreed to remain in the country as colonists refused to stay ; and the settlement ...
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... Indian wheat among them . In the fields we found wild peas , strawber- ries very fair and big , gooseberries ... Indians , yielding " no small gain " to the trader because of the great profit which the exchange afforded . But ...
... Indian wheat among them . In the fields we found wild peas , strawber- ries very fair and big , gooseberries ... Indians , yielding " no small gain " to the trader because of the great profit which the exchange afforded . But ...
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... Indians . Such a report could hardly have failed to make a favorable impression upon the enterprising merchant venturers of Bristol , as well as upon all others interested in the results of Pring's voyage and exploration . No expedition ...
... Indians . Such a report could hardly have failed to make a favorable impression upon the enterprising merchant venturers of Bristol , as well as upon all others interested in the results of Pring's voyage and exploration . No expedition ...
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affairs Agamenticus Aldworth American coast Aulnay Baxter Bristol Cape Captain John Smith Casco bay charter Cleeve's coast of Maine colonists concerning connection council court doubtless England English evidently expedition Farnham Papers Father Biard favorable fishing French George Cleeve George's harbor Gilbert Godfrey grant harbor Hist History hither House of Commons Indians inhabitants interests Josselyn Kennebec king Kittery land letter Levett London Lord Machegonne Maine coast Mary and John Massachusetts bay mention Monhegan narrative Parliament patent Pemaquid Penobscot Pilgrims Piscataqua plantation Plymouth Plymouth company Plymouth Plantation Popham colony possession Pring proceeded Province of Maine Puritan received record reference Relation Richard Richmond's island Rigby river Robert Jordan Robert Trelawny Rosier S. R. Gardiner Saco Sagadahoc sailed says secured settlement ship Sir Ferdinando Gorges Society's Coll territory Thomas Gorges tion trade Trelawny Papers Trelawny's vessel Vines Virginia voyage Waymouth Winter Winthrop
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Page 287 - Lord, though I am a miserable and wretched creature, I am in Covenant with Thee through grace. And I may, I will, come to Thee, for Thy People. Thou hast made me, though very unworthy, a mean instrument to do them some good, and Thee service...
Page 260 - And also, to make, ordain, and establish all manner of orders, laws, directions, instructions, forms, and ceremonies of government and magistracy, fit and necessary for and concerning the government of the said colony and plantation, so always as the same be not contrary to the laws and statutes of this our realm of England...
Page 287 - Give them consistency of judgment, one heart, and mutual love : and go on to deliver them, and with the work of reformation ; and make the name of Christ glorious in the world.
Page 172 - March a certaine Indian came bouldly amongst them, and spoke to them in broken English, which they could well understand, but marvelled at it.
Page 116 - The potentates of the Old World found no difficulty in convincing themselves that they made ample compensation to the inhabitants of the New, by bestowing on them civilization and Christianity in exchange for unlimited independence.
Page 155 - That the liberties, franchises, privileges, and jurisdictions of Parliament, are the ancient and undoubted birthright and inheritance of the subjects of England...
Page 50 - And the longer I conversed with them, the better hope they gave me of those parts where they did inhabit, as proper for our uses; especially when I found what goodly rivers, stately islands, and safe harbors, those parts abounded with...
Page 117 - This principle was, that discovery gave title to the government by whose subjects, or by whose authority, it was made, against all other European governments, which title might be consummated by possession.
Page 364 - Breadth; and in Length, and Longitude, of and within all the Breadth aforesaid, throughout the main Lands there, from the Atlantic and western Sea and Ocean on the East Part, to the South Sea on the West Part...
Page 127 - The most Northern part I was at, was the Bay of Pennobscot, which is East and West, North and South, more then ten leagues ; but such were my occasions, I was constrained to be satisfied of them I found in the Bay, that the...