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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 10 0 Browse Search
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.) 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 1 4 0 Browse Search
Wendell Phillips, Theodore C. Pease, Speeches, Lectures and Letters of Wendell Phillips: Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 9. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
tters arrived, inviting the colonial churches to send their deputies to the West minster assembly of divines, the same sagacity led them to neglect the summons. Especially Hooker, of Hartford, liked not the business and deemed it his duty rather to stay in quite and obscurity with his people in Connecticut, than to turn propogandist, and plead for Independency in England. Yet such commercial advantages were desired, as might be obtained Without a surrender of chartered rights. In 1641, Hugh Peters and two others were despatched as agents for the colonies; and their mission was favorably received. The house of commons, on the tenth of March, 1643, publicly acknowledged, that the plantations in New England had, by the blessing of the Almighty, had good and prosperous success, without any public charge to the parent state; and Chap. X.} their imports and exports were freed from all taxation, until the house of commons should take order to the contrary. The general court of Massach