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... whole country.t The Dutch colonial annals are of a tame and pacific charac- ter , and generally dry and uninteresting . The civil officers , as well as the ministers of the Dutch churches , were well - educated men , who imbibed their ...
... whole country.t The Dutch colonial annals are of a tame and pacific charac- ter , and generally dry and uninteresting . The civil officers , as well as the ministers of the Dutch churches , were well - educated men , who imbibed their ...
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... whole period of our colonial history , the general assembly rarely ceased to sustain its rights , and assert its dignity with becoming spirit , against the whole weight and influence of the delegated powers of royalty . This character ...
... whole period of our colonial history , the general assembly rarely ceased to sustain its rights , and assert its dignity with becoming spirit , against the whole weight and influence of the delegated powers of royalty . This character ...
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... whole list of persons in this first memo- rable convention , which assembled at Philadelphia with more than Amphictyonic dignity , there is but the name of a single survivor . He now lives in an adjoining county , in tranquil re ...
... whole list of persons in this first memo- rable convention , which assembled at Philadelphia with more than Amphictyonic dignity , there is but the name of a single survivor . He now lives in an adjoining county , in tranquil re ...
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... whole northern department . But within three days after the order for the treaty , congress directed his operations to a different quarter of his command . He was ordered on the 17th of June , to clear Wood Creek , and construct a lock ...
... whole northern department . But within three days after the order for the treaty , congress directed his operations to a different quarter of his command . He was ordered on the 17th of June , to clear Wood Creek , and construct a lock ...
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... whole northern department , and he made every exertion to check the progress of the enemy . He visited in person the different forts , and used the utmost activity in obtaining sup- plies to enable them to sustain a siege . While at ...
... whole northern department , and he made every exertion to check the progress of the enemy . He visited in person the different forts , and used the utmost activity in obtaining sup- plies to enable them to sustain a siege . While at ...
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Page 33 - He desired me to think no more of it, saying that the occasion justified it, according to the principles and rules of war, and that he should have done the same upon the same occasion, or words to that effect. He did more, he sent an aide-de-camp to conduct me to Albany, in order, as he expressed it, to procure me better quarters than a stranger might be able to find. This gentleman conducted me to a very elegant house, and, to my great surprise, presented me to Mrs. Schuyler and her family ; and...
Page 313 - Cabin, and gave them so much wine and aqua vitae that they were all merrie; and one of them had his wife with him, which sate so modestly, as any of our Countrey women would do in a strange place.
Page 41 - Portugal, with fifty men, having provisions sufficient for eight months, arms and other warlike munition and naval stores. * Sailing westward with a light and pleasant easterly breeze, in twenty-five days we ran eight hundred leagues. On the 24th of February we encountered as violent a hurricane as any ship ever weathered, from which we escaped unhurt by the divine assistance and goodness, to the praise of the glorious and fortunate name of our good ship, that had been able to support the violent...
Page 310 - ... a narrow river to the westward, betweene two ilands. The lands, they told us, were as pleasant with grasse and flowers and goodly trees as ever they had seene, and very sweet smells came from them.
Page 362 - The Patroons and colonists shall in particular, and in the speediest manner, endeavor to find out ways and means whereby they may support a Minister and Schoolmaster, that thus the service of God and zeal for religion may not grow cool and be neglected among them, and they shall, for the first, procure a Comforter of the sick there.
Page 315 - Beades, and gave them to our Master, and shewed him all the Countrey there about, as though it were at his command. So he made the two old men dine with him, and the old man's wife: for they brought two old women, and two young maidens of the age of sixteene or seventeene yeeres with them, who behaved themselves very modestly.
Page 320 - A Description of the Province of New Albion. And a Direction for Adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely : And for Gentlemen, and all Servants, Labourers, and Artificers to live plentifully.
Page 45 - ... heavily laden might pass, with the help of the tide, which rises eight feet. But as we were riding at anchor in a good berth, we would not venture up in our vessel, without a knowledge of the mouth ; therefore we took the boat, and entering the river, we found the country on its banks well peopled, the inhabitants not differing much from the others, being dressed out with the feathers of birds of various colours.
Page 50 - Departing from thence, we kept along the coast, steering northeast, and found the country more pleasant and open, free from woods, and distant in the interior we saw lofty mountains, but none which extended to the shore. Within fifty leagues we discovered thirty-two islands, all near the main land, small and of pleasant appearance, but high and so disposed as to afford excellent harbours and channels, as we see in the Adriatic gulf, near Illyria and Dalmatia.
Page 360 - It shall be also free for the aforesaid Patroons to traffic and trade all along the coast of New Netherland and places circumjacent, with such goods as are consumed there, and receive in return for them, all sorts of merchandise that may be had there, except beavers, otters, minks, and all sorts of peltry, which trade the company reserve to themselves. But the same shall be permitted at such places where the company have no factories, conditioned that such traders shall be obliged to bring all the...