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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)
annot be displaced by his parishioners; but the vestry kept themselves the parson's master by preventing his induction, so that lie Chap. XIX.} acquired no freehold in his living, and might be removed at pleasure. Nor was the character of the Hawks, 88, 89. clergy who came over always suited to win affection or respect. The parishes, moreover, were of such length, that some lived fifty miles from the parish church; and the assembly would not increase the taxes by changing the bounds, even hey were tolerated. Protestant dissent was, therefore, safe; for the difficulty of obtaining English missionaries, the remoteness of the ecclesiastical tribunals, the scandal arising from the profligate lives and impunity in crime of many cler- Hawks, 100. gymen, the zeal of the numerous Quakers for intellectual freedom, and the powerful activity of a sort of wandering pretenders from New England, deluding even Churchmen by their extemporary prayers and preachments,—all united as a barrier ag
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
onial hostilities. Its gov- 1702 Sept. ernor, James Moore, by the desire of the commons, placed himself at the head of an expedition for the states S. C. Statutes II. 189, 195. reduction of St. Augustine. The town was easily rav- Marston, in Hawks Mss. i. 180 aged; but the garrison retreated to the castle, and the besiegers waited the arrival of heavy artillery. To obtain it, a sloop was sent to Jamaica; but an emissary had already announced the danger to Bienville, at Mobile, who conveyee traders of Carolina beheld with alarm the continuous line of Chap. XXI.} communication from St. Augustine to the incipient settlements in Louisiana; and, in the last weeks of 1705, a company of fifty volunteers, under the command Marsten, in Hawks' Mss. i. 29. of Moore, and assisted by a thousand savage allies, roamed through the woods by the trading path across Carroll's Coll. II. 574 and 352. the Ocmulgee, descended through the regions whicl none but De Soto had invaded, and came upon
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
diate vicinity of the province, especially with the Yamassees, who, from impatience at the attempts at their Marston, in Hawks' Mss. i. 1. conversion to Christianity, had deserted their old abodes in Florida, and planted themselves from Port Royal Island along the north-east bank of the Savannah River. The tribes of Carolina had been regarded Hawks' Mss. i. 29, 30. as a tame and peaceable people; they were very largely in debt for the advances which had been made Hassell, Marston, Le Jeu, in Hawks' Mss. i. 407, &c. Carroll's Coll. II. 570, &c. 353, 548. Martin's Louisiana, i. 185. them; and the traders began to be hard upon them, because they would be paid. The influence of Bienville, of Louisiana, prevailed with the Choctas, and orite with the people, whom all the country had allowed to be the fittest person for undertaking its defence. The mili- Hawks' Mss. i. 414. tia of Charleston was to be reviewed on the twentyfirst of December; and that day was selected for pro Ch
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
t motive for a confederacy. The peace of the central provinces was unbroken; the government of Virginia feared dissenters more than Spaniards. Morris, in one of its interior counties, in the south-west range, chanced to have a copy of Luther on Galatians, and Bunyan's works, and read from them, every Lord's day, to his neighbors. At last, a meeting-house was burt for him to read in. His fame spread, and he was taken up for examina- 1743 tion; but when asked of what sect he was, he could Hawks, Virginia 102, 103. not tell. In the glens of the Old Dominion, he had not heard of sects; he knew not that men could disagree. The strifes of the world, in opinion and in arms, Chap. XXIV.} had not disturbed the scattered planters of Virginia. The ownership of the west was still in dispute; and 1744. at Lancaster, in Pennsylvania, the governor of that state, with commissioners from Maryland and from Virginia, met the deputies of the Iroquois, who, since tile union with the Tuscarora