The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada which are Dependent on the Province of New York, and are a Barrier Between the English and the French in that Part of the World, Volume 2New Amsterdam Book Company, 1902 - Iroquois Indians |
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... Name of Iroquois . And Goods are daily carried from this Province to the Sennekas , as well as to those Nations that lie nearer , by Water all the Way , except three Miles , ( or in the dry Sea- sons , five Miles ) where the Traders ...
... Name of Iroquois . And Goods are daily carried from this Province to the Sennekas , as well as to those Nations that lie nearer , by Water all the Way , except three Miles , ( or in the dry Sea- sons , five Miles ) where the Traders ...
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... Names had not so much as been heard of among us . In the Beginning of May 1723 , a Nation of Indians came to Albany singing and dan- cing , with their Calumets before them , as they always do when they come to any Place where they have ...
... Names had not so much as been heard of among us . In the Beginning of May 1723 , a Nation of Indians came to Albany singing and dan- cing , with their Calumets before them , as they always do when they come to any Place where they have ...
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Cadwallader Colden. In July this Year , another Nation came , whose Situation and Name we know not . And in August and September , several Parties of the same Indians that had been here last Year . But the greatest Numbers of these far ...
Cadwallader Colden. In July this Year , another Nation came , whose Situation and Name we know not . And in August and September , several Parties of the same Indians that had been here last Year . But the greatest Numbers of these far ...
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... name a Hundred that were Factors for the Merchants at Antwerp , and that he was one . That Trade cannot be in- terrupted , and that for his Part he was very free to own , that if to get any Thing by Trade it were necessary to pass ...
... name a Hundred that were Factors for the Merchants at Antwerp , and that he was one . That Trade cannot be in- terrupted , and that for his Part he was very free to own , that if to get any Thing by Trade it were necessary to pass ...
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... Name of The Praying Indians , it being customary for them to go through the Streets of Monreal with their Beads , praying and begging Alms . But notwithstanding all these Advantages , the French labour under Difficulties that no Art or ...
... Name of The Praying Indians , it being customary for them to go through the Streets of Monreal with their Beads , praying and begging Alms . But notwithstanding all these Advantages , the French labour under Difficulties that no Art or ...
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Page 299 - LAWS of this government, to the great end of all government, viz: to support power in reverence with the people, and to secure the people from the abuse of power; that they may be free by their Just obedience, and the magistrates honourable for their Just administration: for liberty without obedience is confusion, and obedience without liberty is slavery.
Page 345 - ... five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 317 - That all prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great...
Page 324 - All persons living in this province, who confess and acknowledge the One Almighty and Eternal God to be the Creator, Upholder, and Ruler of the world...
Page 107 - Delaware where you came from ; but we do not know whether, considering how you have demeaned yourselves, you will be permitted to live there, or whether you have not swallowed that Land down your Throats as well as the Land on this Side. We therefore assign you two Places to go, either to Wyomen or Shamokin.
Page 297 - Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by men, so by them they are ruined too. Wherefore, governments rather depend upon men than men upon governments. Let men be good and the government cannot be bad; if it be ill, they will cure it. But if men be bad, let the government be never so good they will endeavor to warp and spoil it to their turn.
Page 270 - ... to be determined by a meridian line to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said forty-third degree.
Page 298 - That, therefore, which makes a good constitution must keep it, namely, men of wisdom and virtue, qualities that, because they descend not with worldly inheritances, must be carefully propagated by a virtuous education of youth, for which after ages will owe more to the care and prudence of founders and the successive magistracy, than to their parents for their private patrimonies.
Page 294 - For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? Do that which is good, and thou shall have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good.
Page 108 - This string of wampum serves to forbid you, your children and grand-children to the latest posterity, for ever, meddling in land affairs; neither you nor any who shall descend from you, are ever hereafter to presume to sell any land : for which purpose you are to preserve this string, in memory of what your uncles have this day given you in charge. We have some other business to transact with our brothers; and therefore depart the Council, and consider what has been said to you.