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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXII (search)
ion. Kentucky, after the expulsion of the Shawnees, remained the wide park of the Cherokees. The banished tribe easily fled up the valley of the Cumberland River, to find a vacant wilderness in the highlands of Carolina; and a part of them for years roved to and fro in wildernesses west of the Cherokees. On early maps, the low country from the Chap. XXII.} Mobile to Florida is marked as vacant. The oldest reports from Georgia exult in the entire absence of Indians from the vicinity of Savannah, and will not admit that there were more than a few within four hundred miles. There are hearsay and vague accounts of Indian war parties composed of many hundreds: those who wrote from knowledge furnish the means of comparison and correction. The whole population of the Five Nations could not have varied much from ten thousand; and their warriors strolled as conquerors from Hudson's Bay to Carolina,—from the Kennebec to the Tennessee. Very great uncertainty must, indeed, attend any estim
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ite of his chief town the high bluff on which Savannah now stands. At the distance of a half mile d midst of the pleasant region, the streets of Savannah were laid out with greatest regularity; in eape afterwards hired as his residence, when in Savannah. Erelong a walk, cut through the native woodas beyond the skies, pitched their tents near Savannah. It remained to select for them a residencears, several of the better sort of people in Savannah addressed a petition to the trustees for the lle, founded and sustained an orphan house at Savannah by contributions which his eloquence extortedhat they now had a communication by land with Savannah. The boggy places proved to be not quite impo have 1738. contained a thousand men. At Savannah, he was welcomed by salutes and bon- Oct. 20gien, <*> Urlsperger II. 1254. ing message to Savannah;—we will rather die, like Leonidas and his Spyears. Slavers from Africa sailed directly to Savannah, and the laws against them were not rigidly e
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., S. (search)
S. Sagadahock settled, I. 268. Garrison in, II. 408. St. Augustine founded, I. 69. St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, III. 219. St. Lawrence discovered, I. 20. St. Mary, central Jesuit station, III. 125 Salem, I. 339. Witchcraft in, III. 84. Salle, La, III. 162. Descends the Mississippi, 168. Leads a colony to Louisiana, 169. In Texas, 170. Murdered, 173. Saltonstall, Richard, denounces the slave trade, I. 174. Samoset, 316. Savannah, III. 420. Schenectady destroyed, III. 182. Senecas, II. 417. Separatists, 288. Shaftesbury, Lord, sketch of, II. 139 Minister, 436. Shawnees, III. 240. Silleri, II. 127. Sioux, III. 131. Slavery, history of, I. 159. In the middle ages, 161. Origin of negro slavery, 165. In Spain and Portugal, 166. Of Indians, 167. In the West Indies, 169. Opinion on, 171. In Massachusetts, 174. In Virginia, 176. In South Carolina, II. 171. In New Netherlands, 303. In New Jersey, 317. In Pennsylvania, 405.