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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 970 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 126 0 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. 126 0 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 114 0 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 100 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 94 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition. 88 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8 86 0 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 7, 4th edition. 76 0 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 74 0 Browse Search
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The practice of selling the natives of North America into foreign bondage continued for nearly two centuries; and even the sternest morality pronounced the sentence of slavery and exile on the captives whom the field of battle had spared. The excellent Winthrop enumerates Indians among his bequests. Winthrop's N. E., II. 360. The articles of the early New England confederacy class persons among the spoils of war. A scanty remnant of the Pequod tribe Winthrop's N. E., i. 234. in Connecticut, the captives treacher- Chap V.} ously made by Waldron in New Hampshire, Belknap's Hist. of N. Hampshire, i. 75, Farmer's edition. the harmless fragments of the tribe of Annawon, Baylies' Plymouth, III. 190. the orphan offspring of King Philip himself, Davis, on Morton's Memorial, 454, 455. Baylies' Plymouth, III. 190, 191. were all doomed to the same hard destiny of perpetual bondage. The clans of Virginia and Carolina, Hening, i. 481, 482. The act, forbidding the crime,
185. Hazard, i. 390. and a transient regard for the rights of the country, could delay, but not defeat, a measure that was sustained by the personal favorites of the monarch. After two years entreaty, the ambitious adventurers gained 1620 Nov. 3. every thing which they had solicited; and King James issued to forty of his subjects, some of them members of his household and his government, the most wealthy Chap. VIII.} 1620. and powerful of the English nobility, a patent, Trumbull's Connecticut, i. 546—567. Hazard, i. 103—118. Baylies, i. 160—185. Compare Hubbard, c. XXX.; Chalmers, 81—85. which 1620. in American annals, and even in the history of the world, has but one parallel. The adventurers and their successors were incorporated as The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. The territory conferred on the patentees in absolute property, with unlimited jurisdiction, the sole pow
ment and Charles II., to be executed in Rhode Island and Connecticut; and Baltimore and Penn had an undisputed right to reside to take part in calling into being the commonwealth of Connecticut, were found at Nantasket, where they had landed just befmselves. The younger Winthrop, the future benefactor of Connecticut, one of those men in whom the elements of human excellenvisions could not arrive by way of the river; Trumbull's Connecticut, i. App. No. i imperfect shelter had been provided; cawas more thickly covered with aborignal inhabitants than Connecticut. The Pequods, who were settled round the Thames, could their courage. Continued injuries and murders roused Connecticut to action; and the court of its three infant towns May songs. Two hours be- May 26. fore day, the soldiers of Connecticut put themselves in motion towards the enemy; and, as the y may despair of a complete catalogue;—but the people of Connecticut have found no reason to deviate essentially from the fra
rather to stay in quite and obscurity with his people in Connecticut, than to turn propogandist, and plead for Independency igathered in Boston the leading magistrates and elders of Connecticut, the design of a confederacy was proposed. Many of the The next year it came again into discussion; but 1638. Connecticut, offended because some preeminence was yielded to Massacy of the Dutch, a powerful neighbor, 1639. whose claims Connecticut could not, single-handed, defeat, led the colonists of thelpless victim beyond the limits of the jurisdiction of Connecticut, put him to death. Records, in Hazard, II. 7—13. I. Me security which the confederacy afforded, the people of Connecticut desired no guaranty for their independence from the goved for the university. Col. Laws, 74, 186. So, too, in Connecticut Ms. Laws, and in the New Haven Code. The press began itsall his library. The infant institution was a favorite; Connecticut, and Plymouth, and the towns in the East, Folsom's Sa