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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)
ces, the city sacred to the Virgin Mary was aban- 1694 doned, and Annapolis became the seat of government. The system of a religion of state, earnestly advanced 1694 to 1698 by the boastful eagerness of Francis Nicholson, who passed from Virginia to the government of Maryland, and by the patient, the disinterested, but unhappil is my old acquaintance, answered William; he may follow his business as freely as ever; I have nothing to say against him. Appearing before the king in council, 1694 Aug. 20. his innocence was established; and, in August, 1694, the patent for his restoration passed the seals. The pressure of poverty delayed the return of theinto Hartford, in spite of his expressed determination, he fled from the scene to his government in New York. In England, the king, in council, decided, on the 1694. April 19. advice of Ward and Treves, that the ordinary power of the militia in Connecticut, and in Rhode Island, belonged to their respective governments; and Win
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXI (search)
er the neighboring region. In England, the conquest of Canada was resolved on; but Chap. XXI.} the fleet designed for the expedition, after a repulse at Martinique, sailed for Boston, freighted with the yel- 1693. low fever, which destroyed two thirds of the mariners and soldiers on board. For a season, hostilities in Aug. 11. Maine were suspended by a treaty of peace with the Abenakis; but, in less than a year, solely through the influence of the Jesuits, they were again in the field, 1694 July 18. led by Villieu, the French commander on the Penobscot; and the village at Oyster River, in New Hampshire, was the victim of their fury. Ninety-four persons were killed and carried away. The young wife of Thomas Drew was taken to the tribe at Norridgewock: there, in midwinter, in the open air, during a storm of snow, she gave birth to her first-born, doomed by the savages to instant death. In Canada, the chiefs of the Micmacs presented to Frontenac the scalps of English killed on t