The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 - Middle Atlantic States |
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... appointed governor of New Netherland The English towns on Long Island are refractory Danger of an attack by the New England Confederacy How Governor Colve pulled down houses to improve his fort • Lovelace's purchases and debts Schemes ...
... appointed governor of New Netherland The English towns on Long Island are refractory Danger of an attack by the New England Confederacy How Governor Colve pulled down houses to improve his fort • Lovelace's purchases and debts Schemes ...
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... appointed Anthony Colve , a captain of Netherland . infantry , to be governor of New Netherland . All the places mentioned as within his jurisdiction submitted gracefully , and some of them very cheer 1 See above , vol . i . p . 257 ...
... appointed Anthony Colve , a captain of Netherland . infantry , to be governor of New Netherland . All the places mentioned as within his jurisdiction submitted gracefully , and some of them very cheer 1 See above , vol . i . p . 257 ...
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... appointed , for governor of the province , Joris Andringa , who had been secretary to Admiral de Ruyter . For the moment it looked as if New Netherland , set free from the narrow and selfish tyranny of the West India Company , was about ...
... appointed , for governor of the province , Joris Andringa , who had been secretary to Admiral de Ruyter . For the moment it looked as if New Netherland , set free from the narrow and selfish tyranny of the West India Company , was about ...
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... appointed , of whom some were Eng- lish , some Dutch , and some French ; and the An- dros government seemed to be going into peaceful operation . At Albany and Kingston there was no opposition , but on the eastern end of Long Island ...
... appointed , of whom some were Eng- lish , some Dutch , and some French ; and the An- dros government seemed to be going into peaceful operation . At Albany and Kingston there was no opposition , but on the eastern end of Long Island ...
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... plan for a Federal Union was pro- pounded . For secretary of his Board of Commis- sioners Andros appointed a young Scotchman , the scion of a family long famous in Scotland and destined 56 THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIES .
... plan for a Federal Union was pro- pounded . For secretary of his Board of Commis- sioners Andros appointed a young Scotchman , the scion of a family long famous in Scotland and destined 56 THE DUTCH AND QUAKER COLONIES .
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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.
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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.
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