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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Colonial history. (search)
ious freedom in a nook of a remote continent, could not appear dangerous; it might at once build up another rival to Massachusetts, and solve a curious problem in the history of man. The charter, therefore, which was delayed only by controversies 1663 July 8. about bounds, was at length perfected, and, with new principles, imbodied all that had been granted to Connecticut. Hazard, II. 612, &c.; anti also Knowles, App. G. The supreme power was committed—the rule continues to-day—to a governorears mission, had sustained himself by his own exertions and a mortgage on his estate; whose whole life was a continued exercise of benevolence, and who, at his death, be 1676. queathed all his possessions for the relief of the needy, Chap XI.} 1663. and the education of the young. Others have sought office to advance their fortunes; he, like Roger Williams, parted with his little means for the public good. He had powerful enemies in Massachusetts, and left a name without a spot. It requ
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
nce of Carolina, extending from the thirty-sixth degree of 1663 Mar. 24. north latitude to the River San Matheo, was accordtainly unsuccessful, for the patent was now declared void, 1663. because the purposes for which it was granted had Chap X was the grant of Carolina made known, before their agents 1663 Aug. 6. pleaded their discovery, occupancy, and purchase, ahe earliest settlers remain. I have no document older than 1663, and no exact account, which I dare trust, older than 1662.vernor of North Carolina, in 1835. and, in the Chap XIII.} 1663 April 1. following year, George Cathmaid could claim from Sovernment, a Carolina assembly, Richmond Records, No. 3. 1663—1668, 348—353. Wm. Drummond, governor of Carolina, and the condition, and desiring to establish a colony under their 1663. own exclusive direction, despatched a vessel to Sept. 29 er, a needy baronet, who, to mend his fortune, had become a 1663 Barbadoes planter, was appointed governor, with a jurisdict
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ellectual and social advancement. Still servants were emancipated, when their years of servitude were ended; and the law was designed to secure and to hasten their enfranchisement. The insurrection, which was plotted by a number of servants in 1663, had its origin in impatience of servitude and oppression. A few bondmen, soldiers Chap XIV.} of Cromwell, and probably Roundheads, were excited by their own sufferings, and by the nature of life in the wilderness, to indulge once more in vaguearbitrary in Vir- Chap XIV.} ginia, where property consisted chiefly in a claim to the labor of servants and slaves, than in a commercial country, or where labor is free, was yet oppressive to the less wealthy classes. The burgesses, themselves 1663 Sept. 27. great landholders, resisted the reform which Berkeley 27. had urged, Hening, ii. 204. A levy upon lands and not upon heads. and connected the burden of the tax with the privileges of citizenship. If land should be taxed, none but la
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
came over. There could not have been so many. On a later occasion, 1663, the proposed emigration failed. Albany Records, IV. 223. for the fier against the English on the south, transferred the whole country 1663 Feb. and July. on the Delaware to the city of Amsterdam. The banks himself repaired to Boston, Hazard, II. 479—483. and entered his 1663. Sept. complaints to the convention of the United Colonies. But Mas the Dutch assert their original grant from the States General? It 1663. Oct. 15 to 26. interpreted as conveying no more than a commercial p the horrors of a half-year's war with the savages round Chap XV.} 1663 June Esopus. The rising village on the banks of that stream was laite sovereign. The necessities of the times wrung from Stuyvesant 1663 Nov 1. the concession of an assembly; the delegates of the villages of Raritan Bay. More than a year earlier, New England Puritans, 1663 March 26. Albany Records IV. 415. sojourners on Long Island, solici
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
l of Independency, he had, while hardly twelve years old, learned to listen to the voice of God in his soul; and at Oxford, where his excellent genius received the benefits of learning, the words of a Quaker preacher so touched his heart, that he was fined and afterwards 1661 expelled for nonconformity. It is usual to add that Penn joined with Robert Spencer in tearing surplices. The story is one of Oldmixon's. It cannot be true Penn became first acquainted with Sunderland, in France, in 1663 Penn's letter to Sunderland, Mem. P. H. S. II. 244. His father, bent on subduing his enthusiasm, beat him and turned him into Chap XVI.} the streets, to choose between poverty with a pure conscience, or fortune with obedience. But how could the hot anger of a petulant sailor continue against an only son? It was in the days of the glory of Descartes, that, to complete his education, William Penn received a father's permission to visit the continent. From the excitements and the instruct