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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
its life from the vengeance of the savages? The Island of New York was then chiefly divided among farmers; the large forests which covered the Park and the adja- 1649. cent region, long remained a common pasture, where, for yet a quarter of a century, tanners could obtain bark, and boys chestnuts; Lovelace, in J. W. Moulton'shat avail were protests against actual settlers? Stuy- 1647. vesant was instructed to preserve the House of Good Hope at Hartford; but while he was claiming the 1649, 1650. country from Cape Cod to Cape Henlopen, there was danger that the New England men would stretch their Chap XV.} settlements to the North River, intercept &c. Discontents increased. Vander Donk and others were charged with leaving nothing untried to abjure what they called the galling yoke of an arbitrary gov- 1649 to 1652 ernment. A commission repaired to Holland for redress; as farmers, they claimed the liberties essential 1650 to the prosperity of agriculture; as merchan
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
Almighty's making. Thus did the mind of George Fox arrive at the conclusion, that truth is to be sought by listening to the voice of God in the soul. Not the learning of the universities, not the Roman see, not the English church, not dissenters, not the whole outward world, can lead to a fixed rule of morality. The law in the heart must be received without prejudice, cherished without mixture and obeyed without fear. Such was the spontaneous wisdom by which he was Chap. XVI.} 1648, 1649. guided. It was the clear light of reason, dawning as through a cloud. Confident that his name was written in the Lamb's book of life, he was borne, by an irrepressible impulse, to go forth into the briery and brambly world, and publish the glorious principles which had rescued him from despair and infidelity, and given him a clear perception of the immutable distinctions between right and wrong. At the very crisis when the house of commons was abolishing monarchy and the peerage, about tw
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
d abodes, including within their immediate sway the headlands not of the Hudson only, hut of the rivers that flow to the gulfs of Mexico and St. Lawrence, the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware, opened widest regions to their canoes, and invited them to make their war-paths along the channels where New York and Pennsylvania are now perfecting the avenues of commerce. Becoming possessed of fire-arms by intercourse with the Dutch, they renewed their merciless, hereditary warfare with the Hurons; 1649. and, in the following years, the Eries, on the south 1653 to 1655 shore of the lake of which the name commemorates their existence, were defeated and extirpated. The Allegha- 1656 to 1672. ny was next descended, and the tribes near Pittsburg, probably of the Huron race, leaving no monument but a name to the Guyandot River of Western Virginia, were subjugated and destroyed. In the east and in the west, from the Kennebec to the Mississippi, the Abenakis as well as the Miamis and the remote