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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 46: (search)
ing fields, covered with groves of beech and walnut, were in the undisputed possession of countless buffaloes, whose bellowings resounded from hill and forest. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 105. Haywood's Civil and Political History of Tennessee, 77. Sometimes trappers and restless emigrants, boldest of their class, took t members came together as brothers in convention, and already in 1772, they founded a republic by a written association, Haywood's Hist. of Tennessee, 41; J. G. M. Ramsey's Annals of Tennessee, 107. appointed their own magistrates, James Robertson among the first; framed laws for their present occasions; and set to the people o Constitution adopted by the Settlers of Eastern Tennessee. Its existence was ascertained by Haywood, the careful historian of that com- Chap. XLVI monwealth. Ramsey has adopted all that was preserved by Haywood, and has added the results of his own persevering researches. To these authorities I am able to subjoin the evidenc
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
riot planters ever stood ready to lend their private credit and purses to the wants of their own colonial Agents or Committees. To extend the benefit of Courts of Justice into the interior, the Province, at an expense of five thousand pounds, Ramsey's History of South Carolina, II. 126. bought out the monopoly of Richard Cumberland as Provost by patent for the whole; and had offered to establish salaries for the Judges, if the Commissions of those Judges were but made permanent as in Englandes and others, their own judges, taken from among themselves, were dismissed; and an Irishman, a Scotchman, and a Welshman were sent over by Hillsborough to take their places. Compare List of Judges in South Carolina Statutes at large, i. 439; Ramsey, i. 214, II. 126. We, none of us, said the planters, can expect the honors of the State; they are all given away to worthless, poor sycophants. Compare Quincy's Quincy, 106, 107, 116. The Governor, Lord Charles Greville Montagu, had no Palace