Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 1P. Force, 1836 - Bermuda Islands |
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... generall court & our Speaker chosen , the govern'r sent for us down , where his hono'r with a pathetic emphasis made a short abrupt speech wherein were these words . " If they had killed my grandfather and grandmother , my father and ...
... generall court & our Speaker chosen , the govern'r sent for us down , where his hono'r with a pathetic emphasis made a short abrupt speech wherein were these words . " If they had killed my grandfather and grandmother , my father and ...
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... generall in that battle , where diverse years before Tatapatamoi her hus- band had led a hundred of his Indians in help to th ' English against our former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no ...
... generall in that battle , where diverse years before Tatapatamoi her hus- band had led a hundred of his Indians in help to th ' English against our former enemy Indians , and was there slaine with most of his men ; for which no ...
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... generall of the fforces , we then were raising , whereupon T being a member for Stafford , the most northern frontier , and where the war begun , considering that Mr. Bacon dwelling in the most southern ffron- tier county , might the ...
... generall of the fforces , we then were raising , whereupon T being a member for Stafford , the most northern frontier , and where the war begun , considering that Mr. Bacon dwelling in the most southern ffron- tier county , might the ...
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... generall Bacon ( as now he began to be intituled ) but first woud consult other gentlemen in the same circumstances ; who all concur'd ' twas the most safe barier in view against pernicious designes , if such shoud be put in practice ...
... generall Bacon ( as now he began to be intituled ) but first woud consult other gentlemen in the same circumstances ; who all concur'd ' twas the most safe barier in view against pernicious designes , if such shoud be put in practice ...
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... Generall for a comission , and that he was resolved to adventure his old bones against the Indian rogues with other the like discourse , and at length told me that I was in mighty favour -and he was bid to tell me , that whatever I ...
... Generall for a comission , and that he was resolved to adventure his old bones against the Indian rogues with other the like discourse , and at length told me that I was in mighty favour -and he was bid to tell me , that whatever I ...
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