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Page 50
... acres of land in Eliza- beth City county . Smith , as president , addressed himself most seriously to the important task to which he had been called in the very crisis in the life of the colony . He put the settlers to work to build ...
... acres of land in Eliza- beth City county . Smith , as president , addressed himself most seriously to the important task to which he had been called in the very crisis in the life of the colony . He put the settlers to work to build ...
Page 58
... acres of bog and swamps , filled with great trees growing so closely together that their branches interlocked . Almost the entire face of the country , when the Virginia settlers came , was covered by primeval forests . Here and there ...
... acres of bog and swamps , filled with great trees growing so closely together that their branches interlocked . Almost the entire face of the country , when the Virginia settlers came , was covered by primeval forests . Here and there ...
Page 67
... acres , of which there are two hundred and fifty arable acres . This tract was conceded by an act of the Colon- ial Assembly , and it is never to be alienated from their pos- session . In 1893 Mr. Pollard went to this Indian village and ...
... acres , of which there are two hundred and fifty arable acres . This tract was conceded by an act of the Colon- ial Assembly , and it is never to be alienated from their pos- session . In 1893 Mr. Pollard went to this Indian village and ...
Page 68
... acres of ground . This land or- dinarily remains in one family through generations , and is only transferred when there are no heirs laying claim to it . Upon these eight acres they build their house , usually a story and a half high ...
... acres of ground . This land or- dinarily remains in one family through generations , and is only transferred when there are no heirs laying claim to it . Upon these eight acres they build their house , usually a story and a half high ...
Page 105
... acres , of which one thousand acres should be used for the college , the other nine thousand acres to be developed and the increase to be kept for a proposed large university . Shortly after this , May 11 , 1620 , George Thorpe was sent ...
... acres , of which one thousand acres should be used for the college , the other nine thousand acres to be developed and the increase to be kept for a proposed large university . Shortly after this , May 11 , 1620 , George Thorpe was sent ...
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Page 97 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 370 - To be sure, sir, if you arrive well before Duquesne, with these fine troops, so well provided with artillery, that place, not yet completely fortified and as we hear with no very strong garrison, can probably make but a short resistance.
Page 225 - «welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond you shall be hanged in half an hour.
Page 355 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.
Page 376 - About ten o'clock I bade adieu to Mount Vernon, to private life, and to domestic felicity ; and with a mind oppressed with more anxious and painful sensations than I have words to express, set out for New York with the best disposition to render service to my country in obedience to its call, but with less hope of answering its expectations.
Page 172 - Our soul is escaped even as a bird out of the snare of the fowler ; the snare is broken, and we are delivered.
Page 333 - Whether this will prove a blessing or a curse, will depend upon the use our people make of the blessings which a gracious God hath bestowed on us.
Page 195 - There are at this time in the adjacent county not less than five or six well-meaning men in close jail for publishing their religious sentiments, which in the main are very orthodox.
Page 361 - HERE WAS BURIED THOMAS JEFFERSON AUTHOR OF THE DECLARATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, OF THE STATUTE OF VIRGINIA FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, AND FATHER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: because by these, as testimonials that I have lived, I wish most to be remembered.
Page 215 - The same course that is taken in England out of towns; every man according to his ability instructing his children. We have forty-eight parishes, and our ministers are well paid, and by my consent should be better if they would pray oftener and preach less.