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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 6 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
d surpassing in speculative endowments; Testimony of Friends. Compare J. F. Fisher's just and exact tribute to Penn, in Private Life of William Penn. So too R. Tyson's Discourse, 1831, and Note 2. conversant with men, and books, and governments, with various languages, and the forms of political combinations, as they existed ex parte, political argument. The author's aim in work is not truth, but victory. Its historic matter is better found in the original documents which he quotes. Tyson's judgment on it is correct. Penn had reserved large tracts of territory as his private property; he alone could purchase the soil from the natives; and he reserve. Thankful acknowledgment of kindness of God, and council, March 19, 1688, passed unanimously To freedom and justice a fair field was given, and they were safe. Tyson's censure on Chalmers and others, in Mem. P. H. S. II. Part II. p. 140, 141, is to my mind strictly just. It is the language of accurate investigation. The whol
The Daily Dispatch: March 17, 1864., [Electronic resource], 50 dollars reward. (search)
The Prisons. --William Bradshaw and R. Tyson, of Stafford county, Va., were brought to this city and lodged in Castle Thunder yesterday, charged with piloting the Yankees in one of their recent raids in this State. At the Libby thirteen escaped Yankee prisoners from Danville were booked yesterday. Four others from Georgia were also deposited in that institution. Only four thousand prisoners now remain in this city, the large number here for some time back having been reduced to that figure by sending them off to Georgia, and by flag of truce North. A white man, named Thomas Emory, was arrested yesterday and locked up in the cage, charged with stealing two trunks from Mary Johnson. This is the third person who has been arrested for this offence.