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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)
a result of the little colonial exchanges. To the extravagant fears of mercantile avarice, New England was become a staple. Chalmers, 262. See Hutch. Coll. 422. Parliament, 25 Car. II. c. VII. therefore, resolved to exclude New England 1672. merchants from competing with the English, in the markets of the southern plantations; the liberty of free traffic between the colonies was accordingly taken away; and any of the enumerated commodities exported from one colony to another, were sus. In 1671, the general assembly passed a law, inflicting a severe penalty on any one who should speak in town-meeting against the payment of the assessments. The law lost to its advocates their reelection in the next year, the magistrates were 1672. selected from the people called Quakers, and freedom of debate was restored. George Fox himself was present among his Friends, demanding a double diligence in guards against oppression, and in the firm support of the good of the people. The ins
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
Amidst the calmness of such prosperity, many of the patriarchs of the colony,—the hospitable, sincere, but persecuting Wilson; the uncompromising Davenport, 1667 ever zealous for Calvinism, and zealous for independ- 1670 ence, who founded New Haven on a rock, and, having at first preached beneath the shade of a forest tree, now lived to behold the country full of convenient churches; the tolerant Willoughby, who had pleaded 1671. for the Baptists; the incorruptible Bellingham, precise 1672. in his manners, and rigid in his principles of independence;—these, and others, the fathers of the people, lay down in peace, closing a career of virtue in the placid calmness of hope, and lamenting nothing so much as that their career was finished too soon for them to witness the fulness of New England's glory. This prosperity itself portended danger; for the increase of the English alarmed the race of red men, who could not change their habits, and who saw themselves deprived of their u
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
where the model became the theme of extravagant applause. It is without compare, wrote Blome, in 1672. Empires, added an admirer of Shaftesbury, will be ambitious of subjection to the noble governmenttle alluring, but so convenient to the colonists, was envied by the English merchant; the law of 1672 was now to be enforced; the traders of Boston were to be crowded from the market by an unreasonab people, constituted the legislature of the province. Representative government was established 1672. April 19. and continued to be cherished. In 1672, all previous parliaments and parliamentary co1672, all previous parliaments and parliamentary conventions were dissolved; for the colonists, now rapidly increasing, demanded a new parliament. Such was the government which South Carolina instituted for herself; it did not deem it possible to conporated as the city of 1783 Charleston, immediately gained a few inhabitants; and Chap. XIII.} 1672. on the spot where opulence now crowds the wharves of the most prosperous mart on our southern se
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
that prepensed malice, which alone makes murther felony, should induce any man to destroy his own estate. The legislature did not understand human passion; no such opinion now prevails. Finally, it was made lawful for persons, pursuing fugitive 1672. colored slaves, to wound, or even to kill them. The master was absolute lord over the negro. The slave, and the slave's posterity, were bondmen; though afterwards, when the question was raised, the devise of negro children in posse, the fixtureng legislation; Bacon, 1661, c. x.; 1662, c. VI. in part negro slaves, who were employed in the colony from an early period, and whose importation was favored both by English cupidity and by provincial statutes. Ibid. 1671, c. ii.; confirmed 1672, c. ii.; renewed Oct. 1692, c. LII. As in Virginia, the appointing power to nearly every office in the counties as well as in the province, was not with the people; and the judiciary was placed beyond their control. Macculloch's Maryland, 155,
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
rtly with the consent of Carteret himself, were, therefore, pleaded as superior to proprietary grants; the payment of quitrents was refused; disputes were followed by confusion; and, in May, 1672, the disaffected colonists, obeying the impulse of 1672 May 14. independence, rather than of gratitude, sent deputies to a constituent assembly at Elizabethtown. By that body, Philip Carteret was displaced, and his office transferred to the young and frivolous James Carteret, a natural son of Sir Georsisting chiefly of groups of Dutch round Lewistown and Newcastle, and Swedes and Finns at Christiana Creek, at Chester, and near Philadelphia, were retained as a dependency of New York. The claim of Lord Baltimore was denied with pertinacity. In 1672, the people of Maryland, desiring to stretch the boundary of their province to the bay, invaded Lewistown with an armed force. The country was immediately reclaimed, as belonging by conquest to the duke of York; Documents, in Smith's New Jers
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
d 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 Missnvasion of the country of the Mohawks? The savages disappeared, leav- 1666. ing their European adversaries to war with the wilderness. By degrees the French made firmer advances; and a fort built at the outlet of Ontario, for the purpose, as 1672. was pretended, of having a convenient place for treaties, commanded the commerce of the lake We have seen the Mohawks brighten the covenant 1673. chain that bound them to the Dutch. The English, on recovering the banks of the Hudson, confirm