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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gilbert , Sir Humphrey 1539 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Gorges , Sir Ferdinando 1565 -1647 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Government, instrument of. (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Grenville , Sir Richard (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Hawkins , Sir John 1520 -1595 (search)
Hawkins, Sir John 1520-1595
Naval officer; born in Plymouth, England, in 1520; carried a cargo of 300 slaves from Guinea in 1562, and sold them in Cuba.
In 1564 he attempted to capture and enslave a whole town near Sierra Leone, and narrowly escaped being captured himself and sold into slavery.
Hawkins was filled with the most pious reflections at his escape, and in his narrative (which is the first English narrative of American adventure printed) he says: God, who worketh all things for the best, would not have it so, and by Him we escaped without danger.
His name be praised for it.
His second cargo of slaves he sold in Venezuela and elsewhere.
In this second voyage he coasted the peninsula of Florida, and gives a fairly detailed account of it in his narrative.
He made a third voyage in 1568, and in spite of the King of Spain's prohibition, sold his cargoes of slaves to advantage.
In the port of San Juan de Ulloa he met a Spanish fleet much stronger than his own. He mad
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Luce , Stephen Bleecker 1827 - (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Morton , or Mourt , George 1585 - (search)
Morton, or Mourt, George 1585-
Author; born in York, England, in 1585; became a Puritan in 1600; settled in Leyden.
Holland, and acted as agent for the Puritans in London till 1620.
He then went to New England, taking reinforcements to the Pilgrims in Plymouth.
He was the author of Mourt's relation of the beginning and proceeding of the English plantation settled at Plymouth in New England.
He died about 1628.
Morton, or Mourt, George 1585-
Author; born in York, England, in 1585; became a Puritan in 1600; settled in Leyden.
Holland, and acted as agent for the Puritans in London till 1620.
He then went to New England, taking reinforcements to the Pilgrims in Plymouth.
He was the author of Mourt's relation of the beginning and proceeding of the English plantation settled at Plymouth in New England.
He died about 1628.