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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter XXIII (search)
rce made welcome, not only revived the villages that had been desolated during the war, but, on the eastern bank of the Kennebec, laid the foundation of new settlements, and protected them by forts. The red men became alarmed. Away went their 1717 1720 chiefs across the forests to Quebec, to ask if France had indeed surrendered the country, of which they themselves were the rightful lords; and as Vaudreuil answered, that the treaty of which the English spoke made no mention of their countryish gradually appropriated the trade with the natives; and every Frenchman in Louisiana, except his agents, fomented opposition to his privileges. Crozat resigned his charter. On receiving it, Louisiana possessed twenty-eight French families: in 1717, when he abandoned it, the troops sent by the king, joined to the colonists, did not swell the inhabitants of the colony to more than seven hundred, including persons of every age, sex, and color. These few were extended 1714 1717 from the neigh
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
ch had tolerated the advancement of the plantations of South Carolina towards the Savannah. Meantime, England resolved to pass that stream, and carry her flag still nearer the walls of St. Augustine. The resolution was not hastily adopted. In 1717, a proposal was brought forward, by one whose father Mountgomery's Discourse concerning a New Colony &c. 1717. had been interested in the unfortunate enterprise of Lord Cardross, to plant a new colony south of Carolina, in the region that was her1717. had been interested in the unfortunate enterprise of Lord Cardross, to plant a new colony south of Carolina, in the region that was heralded as the most delightful country of the universe. The land was to be tilled by British and Irish laborers, exclusively, without the dangerous help of blackamoors. Three years afterwards, in the excited season of English stockjobbing and English anticipations, the suggestion was revived. When Carolina became, by purchase, a royal 1728 province, Johnson, its governor, was directed to mark Purry's Description of S Carelina, 1731. out townships as far south as the Alatamaha; and, in 1731, a