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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 5 3 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
f the charter to 1664. Winthrop, and the possession of the Dutch, was, like part of Maine, given to the duke of York. The charter which secured a large and fertile province to William Penn, and thus invested philanthropy with 1681. executive power on the western bank of the Delaware, was a grant from Charles II. After Philip's war in New England, Mount Hope was hardly rescued from a 1679. courtier, then famous as the author of two indifferent comedies. The grant of Nova Scotia to Sir Thomas Temple was not revoked, while, with the inconsistency of ignorance, Acadia, with indefinite boundaries, was 1667. restored to the French. From the outer cape of Nova Scotia to Florida, with few exceptions, the tenure of every territory was changed. Nay, further, the trade with Africa, the link in the chain of universal commerce, that first joined Europe, Asia, and America together, and united the Caucasian, the Malay, and the Ethiopian races in indissoluble bonds, was given away to a compa
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
with true reports, and assisted to incense the court at St. James. Whalley and Goffe, it was currently asserted, were at the head of an army; Ms. letter of Sir T. Temple. the union of the four New England colonies was believed to have had its origin in the express purpose of throwing off dependence on England. Ms. letter of commissioners to T. Prince, of Plymouth. Sir Thomas Temple, Cromwell's Governor of Acadia, had resided for years in New England, and now appeared Chap XII.} 1663 as their advocate. I assure you—such was Claredon's message to Massachusetts—of my true love and friendship to your country; neither in your privileges, charter, government, nor church discipline, shall you receive any prejudice. Temple's Ms. letter. Yet the news was soon spread abroad, that commissioners would be appointed to regulate the affairs of New England; and at length there was room to believe that they had already 1664 embarked, and that ships of war would soon anchor in the harbor