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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Colonial history. (search)
will head and countenance. Dis- Oldmixon, 1. 486. senters having thus been excluded from the house of commons, the Church of England was easily established 1704 Nov. by law. At the same time, a body of lay commissioners was nominated by the oligarchy from its own number, to supersede the authority of the bishop. Thus the intol4. had forfeited their charter, and advised its recall by a judicial process; the intolerant acts were, by royal June 10. authority, declared null and void. In November of the same year, they were repealed by the colonial assem- Statues II. 281, 282. 282-295 bly; but, while dissenters were tolerated, and could share political pople had been tempted to become accusers by promise of favor. Yet the zeal of Stoughton was unabated, and the arbi trary court adjourned to the first Tuesday in November. Between this and then, wrote Brattle, will be the great assembly, and this matter will be a peculiar subject of agitation. Our hopes, he adds, are here. The r
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 20: (search)
e it the name of Louisiana. The year of the descent has been unnecessarily made a question; its accomplishment was known in Paris before the end of 1682. This was the period of the proudest successes and largest ambition of Louis XIV. La Salle will return, it was said, to give to the court an ample account of the terrestrial paradise of America;—there the king will at once call into being a flourishing empire. And, 1683. May 12. in fact, La Salle, remaining in the west till his exclu- Nov. La Hontan. sive privilege had expired, returned to Quebec to embark for France. Colbert, whose genius had awakened a national spirit in behalf of French industry, and who yet had rested his system of commerce and manufactures on no firmer basis than that of monopoly, was no more; but Seignelay, his son, the minister for maritime affairs, listened confidingly to the expected messenger from the land which was regarded with pride as the delight of the New World. In the early months of 1684
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
town, the yearly Hawkins, 140 and 228 festival of Our Lady of Victory was established; and in France a medal commemorated the successes of Chap. XXI.} Louis XIV. in the New World. The New England ships, on their return, were scattered by storms: of one, bearing sixty men, wrecked on Anticosti, five of the few who did not perish from the winter, boldest of navigators, landed in Boston in the following May, after a voyage of forty-four days in a skiff. Sir William Phipps reached home in November. The treasury was empty. Considering the present poverty of 1690 Dec. 10. the country, and, through scarcity of money, the want of an adequate measure of commerce, issues of bills of credit were authorized, in notes from five shillings to five pounds, to be in value equal to money, and accepted in all public payments. But, as confidence wavered, the bills of the colony, which continued to be issued, were made, in all payments, a legal tender, and, instead of bearing interest, were recei
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
es of the red men ever displayed more address or her oism than the brave John Lovewell and his companions. His volunteer associates twice returned laden with scalps. On a third expedition, falling into an am- 1725. April. bush of a larger party of Saco Indians, he lost his life in Fryeburg, near a sheet of water which has taken his name; and the little stream that feeds it is still known to the peaceful husbandman as the Battle Brook. At last, the eastern Indians, despairing of success Nov. instigated, but not supported, by the French, unable to contend openly with their opponents, and excelled even in their own methods of warfare, concluded a peace, which was solemnly ratified by the Indian 1726. Aug. 6. chiefs as far as the St. John, and was long and faithfully maintained. Influence by commerce took the place of influence by religion, and English tradinghouses supplanted French missions. The eastern boundary of New England was established. Beyond New England no armed col
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
r posts in Nova Scotia. The summer of the next year passed in that 1747. inactivity which attends the expectation of peace; and in September, the provincial army, by direction of the duke of Newcastle, was disbanded. Men believed that England, from motives of policy, had not desired success. There is reason enough for doubting whether the king, if he had the power, would wish to drive the French from their possessions in Canada. Such was public opinion at NewYork, in 1748, as pre- 1748. Nov. Kalm, II. Pinkerton, II. 461. served for us by the Swedish traveller, Peter Kalm. The English colonies in this part of the world, he continues, have increased so much in wealth and population, that they will vie with European England But to maintain the commerce and the power of the metropolis, they are forbid to establish new manufactures, which might compete with the English; they may dig for gold and silver only on condition of ship ping them immediately to England; they have, with the e