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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 316 12 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 152 0 Browse Search
George P. Rowell and Company's American Newspaper Directory, containing accurate lists of all the newspapers and periodicals published in the United States and territories, and the dominion of Canada, and British Colonies of North America., together with a description of the towns and cities in which they are published. (ed. George P. Rowell and company) 70 0 Browse Search
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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1 44 0 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 7. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 42 4 Browse Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 28 0 Browse Search
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 11. (ed. Frank Moore) 26 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
VIII.} 1763. July. expenses. Reed's Reed, i. 32. Halifax, one of the triumvirate, had had the experience of d, as his confidential friend, Ellis, a favorite of Halifax, and for several years Governor of Georgia; a stateade chap. VIII.} 1763. July. eight years before to Halifax, for gaining an imperial revenue by issuing exchequo await the decision. But on Wednesday, the third, Halifax, with Egremont at his side, harangued the king for tration or to form another from their adversaries. Halifax turned this in all the ways that eloquence could di Your majesty has three options, said Grenville and Halifax; to strengthen the hands of the present ministry, oaudience lasted nearly two hours. The king proposed Halifax for the Treasury: Pitt was willing he should have tt for a generation. Of the Secretaries of State, Halifax, as the elder, had his choice of departments, and t details of the colonial administration belonged to Halifax. No sooner was the ministry definitively establish
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 9: (search)
nding on the east to the St. Croix, and on the north leaving to the province of Quebec the narrow strip only, from which the water flows into the St. Lawrence. Halifax to the Lords of Trade, 27 September. 1768. Representation of the Lords of Trade to the King, 5 October, 1763. For Canada, or the province of Quebec, as it waed mainly to the improvement of the finances, and the alleviation of the burdens chap IX.} 1764. Jan. which pressed upon the country gentlemen of England. When Halifax urged the payment of the salaries of the crown officers in the colonies, directly from England, in accordance with the system which he had been maturing since 1748, Grenville would not consent to it; and though Halifax, at a formal interview with him, at which Hillsborough and Jenkinson were present, became extremely heated and eager, Grenville's Diary for Friday, 6 January, 1764, in Grenville Papers, i. 48. Grenville remained inflexible. Nor would he listen to the suggestion, that th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 10: (search)
at they had cost him, but without the same reason; for none of the colonies, except Georgia and Halifax, occasioned any charge to the crown or kingdom in the settlement of them. The people of New Enalously supported, whatever they may foolishly think of intimidating ministers. To the Earl of Halifax, he signalized the lawyer, John Morin Scott, as an incendiary; and entreated the removal of Jusces of profit with sure emoluments, would place the king's authority upon a rock. Bernard to Halifax, 8 November, 1764. If the new arrangement were to be conducted by the king in parliament, td Lord Halifax, that once Massachusetts had for a season established a stamp act. Bernard to Halifax, 12 November, 1764. In Connecticut, the aged Johnson, then enjoying sweet retirement in theNo, 4, p. 54, 14 Dec. 1765. reported as a matter of the highest consequence to the kingdom; and Halifax Council Register, Geo. III., No. 4, p. 62, 19 Dec. 1765. was ordered to receive the king's p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
ct, Croghan and a party descended the Ohio from Pittsburg. The governor of North Carolina believed that, by pushing trade up the Missouri, a way to the great Western ocean would be discovered, and an open trade to it be established. Dobbs to Halifax, 26 Feb. 1765. So wide was the territory—so vast the interests for which the British Parliament was legislating! On the day after the debate on American affairs, Grenville, Lord North, and Jenkinson, with others, were ordered to bring in a Stn the Mutiny Act. were sent home by Gage, and recommended strongly to be enacted. Shelburne to Chatham, 1767, in Chatham Correspondence, III. 192 and 208. They had neither the entire conviction nor the cordial support of Grenville; Gage to Halifax, 23 January, 1765. so that they were referred by Halifax Endorsement on the Memorial, and on the Regulations. to Welbore Ellis, the Secretary at War, by whom they were introduced and carried through. In their progress, provincial barracks, i
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
l branch; and such was his own ambition of being first in place, such his sincerity, such his fidelity to his political connections, that from this time till the day of his death he remained their acknowledged standard-bearer. His deficiencies in knowledge and in rhetoric, the minister compensated by selecting as his secretary and intimate friend Edmund Burke, who had recently es- chap. XV.} 1765. July. caped from the service of one of the opposite party, and from a pension bestowed by Halifax. It was characteristic of that period for a man like Rockingham to hold for life a retainer like Edmund Burke; and never did a true-hearted, kindly and generous patron find a more faithful adherent. He brought to his employer, and gave up to his party, all that he had—boundless stores of knowledge, especially respecting the colonies, wit, philosophy, imagination, gorgeous eloquence, unwearied industry, mastery of the English tongue, and, as some think, the most accomplished intellect whic
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
Illinois since its discovery by the missionaries. Fraser was told that there were of white men, able to bear arms, seven hundred; of white women, five hundred; of their children, eight hundred and fifty; of negroes of both sexes, nine hundred; Fraser to Gage, 15 May. The banks of the Wabash, we learn from another source, were occupied by about one hundred and ten French families, most of which were at Vincennes. Croghan, in Craig's Olden Time, and in Mann Butler's Kentucky. Gage to Halifax, 10 Aug. Fraser sought to overawe the French traders with the menace of an English army that was to come among them. But they laughed him to scorn, pointing to the Mississippi, which they could so easily cross, and beyond which they would be safe from English jurisdiction. As he embarked for New Orleans, Pontiac again gave him assurances of continuing peace, if the Shawnees and other nations on the Ohio would recall their war-belts. Already Croghan, an Indian agent, was on his way from
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 24: (search)
d; but this was rejected without a division. Wedderburn would have annexed a clause enact, ing in substance, that it should be as high and mortal a crime to dispute the validity of the Stamp Act as to question the right of the House of Hanover to the British throne. While he was enforcing his sanguinary amend ment, the American colonies were everywhere in concert putting a denial on the pretension, and choosing the risk of civil war and independence, rather than compliance. Canada, Nova Scotia, and the Floridas, which were military governments, had submitted; the rest of the continent was firm. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Maryland had opened their courts. From New-York, the Governor reported that he was left entirely to himself; that nothing but a superior force would bring the people to a sense of duty; that every one around him was an abettor of resistance. Moore to Conway, 20 Feb., 1766. A merchant, who had signed a stamped bond for a Mediterranean pass, was oblige