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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)
reserves the names. Others, following the natural highways of the West, descended from Pittsburg, and from Red Stone Creek to Fort Natchez. The pilot, who conducted the party of which Samuel Wells and John MacIntire were the Chiefs, was so attracted by the lands round the Fort, that he promised to remove there in the spring with his wife and family, and believed a hundred families from North Carolina Letter dated Fort Natchez, 19 July, 1770. Compare Hillsborough to Chester, 3 Oct. 1770; Gage to Hillsborough, 24 April, 1770. would follow. The zeal of hunters and emigrants outran the concessions extorted from the Board of Trade. This year James Robertson, from the home of the Regula- Chap. XLVI.} 1770. Nov. tors in North Carolina, a poor and unlettered forester, of humble birth, but of inborn nobleness of soul, cultivated maize on the Watauga. The frame of the heroic planter was robust; his constitution hardy; he trod the soil as if he were its rightful lord. Intrepid, lovi
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 47: (search)
s from taxation, or the tax bill should be negatived; while Gage was enjoined to attend to the security of the fortress in B power in March. England was resisted also at the West. Gage to Hillsborough, 4 March, 1772. Compare Gage to HillsborouGage to Hillsborough, 6 August, 1771; Hillsborough to Gage, 4 Dec. 1771, and 18 April, 1772. In Illinois the corruption and favoritism of the Gage, 4 Dec. 1771, and 18 April, 1772. In Illinois the corruption and favoritism of the military commander compelled the people to a remonstrance. The removal of them all to places within the limits of some estaught of. A regular constitutional Government for them, said Gage, cannot be suggested. They don't deserve so much attentioheir own Governor and all civil Magistrates. Hamilton to Gage, 8 Aug. 1772. The rights of freemen were demanded as boldlyof the Colonies. Proclamation of 8 April, 1772. Compare Gage to Hillsborough, 4 March, 1772. But the men Compare Inhabitants of Vincennes to Gage, 18 Sept. 1772, and Memorial of the same date. of Indiana were as unwilling to abandon their ho
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
r scheme of keeping up a correspondence through the Province, wrote Hutchinson in a letter which was laid before the King, Dartmouth to Hutchinson, 6 January, 1773. is such a foolish one, that it must necessarily make them ridiculous. Hutchinson to the Secretary of the Board of Trade, 13 Nov. 1772. After the report of the Boston Committee was prepared, Otis was appointed to present it to the town. Samuel Adams had prepared a long report, but he let Otis appear in it. Hutchinson to Gage, 7 March, 1773. As they chose on this last great occasion of his public appearance to name him with the honors of precedence, history may express satisfaction, that he whose eloquence first awakened the thought of resistance, should have been able to lend his presence and Chap. XLVIII.} 1772. Nov. his name to the final movement for union. He was a man of many sorrows; familiar with grief, as one who had known nothing else. Of all who have played a great part in American affairs, his exist
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 50: (search)
age respecting their choice of a Government directly to Dartmouth himself. We have seen how vainly they had reasoned with Gage and Hillsborough for some of the privileges of self-direction. Here, as on other occasions, Dartmouth, with the purest iion as very extravagant; and rejected their proposition to take some part in the election of their rulers, Dartmouth to Gage, 4 Nov. 1772; Gage to Dartmouth, 6 Jan. 1773; Dartmouth to Gage, 3 March, 1773. as absurd and inadmissible. A plan of GovGage to Dartmouth, 6 Jan. 1773; Dartmouth to Gage, 3 March, 1773. as absurd and inadmissible. A plan of Government Sketch of Government, &c. &c. for Illinois. was therefore prepared of great simplicity, leaving all power with the executive officers of the Crown, and Gage had been summoned to England to give advice on the administration of the Colonies,Gage, 3 March, 1773. as absurd and inadmissible. A plan of Government Sketch of Government, &c. &c. for Illinois. was therefore prepared of great simplicity, leaving all power with the executive officers of the Crown, and Gage had been summoned to England to give advice on the administration of the Colonies, and especially on the mode of governing the West. It was on the fourth of November, that the fathers of the Commonwealth of Illinois, through their Agent Daniel Blouin, forwarded their indignant protest against the proposed form, which they rejecte
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 51: (search)
ime the Ministry and the courtiers expressed their rage against him; and talked of his dismissal from Chap. LI.} 1774. Jan. office, of his arrest, Franklin to Cushing, 15 Feb. 1774; in Works IV. 108, confirmed by the letter of Dartmouth to Gen. Gage, of 3 June, 1774. and imprisonment at Newgate; of a search among his papers for proofs of Treason; while Wedderburn openly professed the intention to inveigh personally against him. He was also harassed with a subpoena from the Chancellor, to ated no misgivings except for not having sooner enforced the claims of authority. On the fourth day of February, he consulted the American Commander-in-Chief who had recently returned from New-York. I am willing to go back at a day's notice, said Gage, if coercive measures are adopted. They will be lions, while we are lambs; but if we take the resolute part, they will undoubtedly prove very meek. Four regiments sent to Boston will be sufficient to prevent any disturbance. The King received t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 52: (search)
cted. After his splendid eloquence no more divided with him than forty-nine, just the number that had divided against the Stamp Act, while on the other side stood nearly four times as many. The repeal of the tea tax was never to be obtained, so long as the authority of Parliament was publicly rejected or opposed. With ten thousand regulars, said the creatures of the Ministry, we can march through the Continent. To bring Boston on its knees and terrify the rest of America by the example, Gage, the military Commander-in-Chief for all North America, was commissioned as the civil Governor of Massachusetts also, and was sent over with four regiments to enforce submission. He was directed to shut the port of Boston, and having as a part of his instructions the opinion of Thurlow and Wedderburn that acts of High Treason had been committed there, he was directed to take measures for bringing the ringleaders to condign punishment. Foremost among these, Samuel Adams was marked out for sa
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