The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 - Middle Atlantic States |
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... Fort James Pearl Street and Broad Street • The Water Gate and Maiden Lane Shoemaker's Land ; the Land Gate Bowery Lane and the Common . The Collect , or Fresh Water ; Wolfert's Marsh The Kissing Bridge ; the Bowery Village Kip's Bay and ...
... Fort James Pearl Street and Broad Street • The Water Gate and Maiden Lane Shoemaker's Land ; the Land Gate Bowery Lane and the Common . The Collect , or Fresh Water ; Wolfert's Marsh The Kissing Bridge ; the Bowery Village Kip's Bay and ...
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... treason • 168 € 169 170 • 170 , 171 The demand for a representative assembly is renewed The duke grants the assembly , and sends out Thomas Don- gan as governor Meeting of the first assembly in Fort James Death of viii CONTENTS .
... treason • 168 € 169 170 • 170 , 171 The demand for a representative assembly is renewed The duke grants the assembly , and sends out Thomas Don- gan as governor Meeting of the first assembly in Fort James Death of viii CONTENTS .
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John Fiske. Meeting of the first assembly in Fort James Death of Charles II .; the duke becomes king Dongan and the Marquis Denonville play a game of diplo- macy with the Long House 171 172 · 172 , 173 174 175 Louis XIV . plans the ...
John Fiske. Meeting of the first assembly in Fort James Death of Charles II .; the duke becomes king Dongan and the Marquis Denonville play a game of diplo- macy with the Long House 171 172 · 172 , 173 174 175 Louis XIV . plans the ...
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... Fort C. Leisler's Commission to be Commander - in - Chief D. Schuyler's Protest against Milborne E. Leisler to the ... James Lyne's Map of New York in 1728 258 From an original kindly lent by General James Grant Wilson . I am informed by ...
... Fort C. Leisler's Commission to be Commander - in - Chief D. Schuyler's Protest against Milborne E. Leisler to the ... James Lyne's Map of New York in 1728 258 From an original kindly lent by General James Grant Wilson . I am informed by ...
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... Fort Amsterdam , its quaint citadel , became Fort James , and far up in the northern wilderness Dutch Orange received Scotch baptism as Albany ; the revolution was more quiet a peaceful and peaceable than almost any other that ...
... Fort Amsterdam , its quaint citadel , became Fort James , and far up in the northern wilderness Dutch Orange received Scotch baptism as Albany ; the revolution was more quiet a peaceful and peaceable than almost any other that ...
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affair Albany American Andros appointed arrived assembly Bayard became Bellomont Boston brought called Captain Carteret Catholic century charter Christian church civil Connecticut Corlear council court declared Delaware Delaware River Dominie Dongan Duke of York duke's Dutch East Edmund Andros England English ernor favour Fletcher France French friends Frontenac governor grant hand heires and assignes heires and Successors History Holland Huguenots Indian Ingoldsby Iroquois Jacob Leisler Jacob Milborne James John Kidd king king's Labadist Lady land letter liberty lish Long House Long Island Lord Louis XIV Manhattan Maryland Massachusetts ment Milborne Mohawk Neighbours Netherland Nicholson Nicolls Old Virginia Onontio party Penn's Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia pirates present proprietary Protestant province Quakers refused religious royal sailed Schuyler sent ships Sir Edmund Sloughter Street sundry things thou tion town unto West Jersey William Kidd William Penn
Popular passages
Page 122 - The King's daughter is all glorious within ; her clothing is of wrought gold. She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework : the virgins her companions that follow her shall be brought unto thee.
Page 59 - The heathen are sunk down in the pit that they made : in the net which they hid is their own foot taken. 16 The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth : the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands.
Page 144 - We lay a foundation for after ages to understand their liberty as Christians and as men, that they may not be brought into bondage but by their own consent ; for we put THE POWER IN THE PEOPLE.
Page 340 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our Fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 161 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 351 - Twas one of the charmed days When the genius of God doth flow, The wind may alter twenty ways, A tempest cannot blow: It may blow north, it still is warm; Or south, it still is clear; Or east, it smells like a clover farm; Or west, no thunder fear.
Page 297 - Penn accepted the commission. Yet it should seem that a little of the pertinacious scrupulosity which he had often shown about taking off his hat would not have been altogether out of place on this occasion.
Page 254 - The practice of informations for libels is a sword in the hands of a wicked king and an arrant coward to cut down and destroy the innocent; the one cannot because of his high station, and the other dares not because of his want of courage, revenge himself in another manner.
Page 256 - ... it is not the cause of a poor printer, nor of New York alone, which you are now trying. No! It may in its consequence affect every freeman that lives under a British government on the main of America! It is the best cause. It is the cause of liberty...
Page 251 - Illlllllllllll *chief justice said, that they would neither hear nor allow the exceptions; for (said he) you thought to have gained a great deal of applause and popularity by opposing this court, as you did the court of Exchequer; but you have brought it to that point, that either we must go from the bench, or you from the bar; therefore we exclude you and Mr.