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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 51 51 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 34 34 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 17 17 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition. 13 13 Browse Search
HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF MEDFORD, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT, IN 1630, TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1855. (ed. Charles Brooks) 4 4 Browse Search
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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
Horace Greeley, The American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-65: its Causes, Incidents, and Results: Intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union. Volume I. 1 1 Browse Search
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Col. O. M. Roberts, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.1, Alabama (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
were resolved to maintain themselves therein. To restore order, 1710 Edward Hyde was despatched to govern the province; 1711. but he was to receive his commission as deputy from Tynte, the governor of the southern division; and, as Chap XIX.} Tyrning. But North Carolina remained as before; its burgesses, obeying the popular judgment, refused to make provision for 1711 to 1712. defending any part of their country, unless they could introduce into the government the persons most obnoxious fy was their humor. Hence the reports forwarded to England were often contradictory. This government, wrote Spotswood, in 1711, is in perfect peace and tranquillity, under a due obedience to the royal authority, and a gentlemanly conformity to the ey dislike; and the house, remaining inflexible was dissolved. The desire to conquer Canada prevailed, in the summer of 1711, to obtain a specific grant of bills of credit for £ 10,000; but no concession was made in regard to the ordinary expenses
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
ng the canoe across lakes and rivers, to catch a poor savage who flies from us, and whom we can Lett. Ed. IV 197. tame neither by teachings nor by caresses. In 1711, on Good Friday, Marest started for the Peorias, who desired a new mission. In two days he reached Cahokia. I departed, he writes again, having nothing about me in his attachment to a woman or a friend, but Chap. XXI.} not to a principle, or a people. The rabble, he would say, is a monstrous beast, that has passions to 1711. be moved, but no reason to be appealed to;. . . . . plain sense will influence half a score of men, at most, while mystery will lead millions by the nose; and, half on England. But the assiento itself was, for English America, the 1713. most weighty result of the negotiations at Utrecht. It was demanded by St. John, in 1711; and Louis XIV. promised his good offices to procure this advantage for Cooke's Bolingbroke, i. 175. the English. Her Britannic majesty did offer and undertake,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
he exiles, accompanied by Lawson, the surveyor-general for the northern province, in September of 1711, ascended the Neuse River in a 1711. Sept. boat, to discover how far it was navigable, and throu1711. Sept. boat, to discover how far it was navigable, and through what kind of country it flowed. Seized by a party of sixty well-armed Indians, both were compelled to travel all night long, till they reached a village of the Tuscaroras, and were delivered up tod the white men sat the chiefs Chap. XXIII.} in two rows; behind them were three hundred of the 1711. people, engaged in festive dances. Yet mercy was mingled with severity; and, if no reprieve waspain and France was the half way between the Spanish garrison at Pensacola and the fort which, in 1711, the French had established on the site of the present city of Mobile: with regard to England, Lotent of the French claims had for a long time attracted the attention of the colonies. To 1710, 1711. resist it was one of the earliest efforts of Spotswood, who hoped to extend the line of the Virg
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
tated laws to England. A resolve of the commons, in the days of William and Mary, proposed to lay open the trade in negroes for the better supply of the plantations and the statute-book of England soon declared the opinion of its king and its Chap. XXIV.} parliament, that the trade is highly beneficial and advantageous to the kingdom and the colonies. In 1708, 1695. 8 and 10 Wil. III c. XXVI. a committee of the house of commons report that the trade is important, and ought to be free; in 1711, a committee once more report that the plantations ought to be supplied with negroes at reasonable rates, and recommend an increase of the trade. In June, 1712, Queen Anne, in her speech to parliament, boasts of her success in securing to Englishmen a new market for slaves in Spanish America. In 1729, George II. recommended a provision, at the national expense, for the African forts; and the recommendation was followed. At last, in 1749, to give the highest activity to the trade, every ob