The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, and New Jersey: Embracing the Following Subjects, Viz.: Discoveries and Settlements, Indian History, Indian, French, and Revolutionary Wars, Religious History, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Traditions, Remarkable and Unaccountable Occurrences, with a Great Variety of Curious and Interesting Relics of Antiquity : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings |
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... attack on · · Cabot , discoveries by Caldwell , Mrs. , murder of Cambridge Platform 399 Davenport , the enthusiast 321 Days of Fasting and Thanks- giving in N. York colony 316 427 225 Deerfield burnt Delaware Indians 12 Dermer's , Capt ...
... attack on · · Cabot , discoveries by Caldwell , Mrs. , murder of Cambridge Platform 399 Davenport , the enthusiast 321 Days of Fasting and Thanks- giving in N. York colony 316 427 225 Deerfield burnt Delaware Indians 12 Dermer's , Capt ...
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... attack on Hendrick , death of Heckewelder , Mr. , notice of Hessians , capture of Hooker , Mr. , emigration of Hooker , congregation of Hubbard's Narrative of the In- dian Wars Hudson , Henry Hudson river , discovery of . Hunt , carries ...
... attack on Hendrick , death of Heckewelder , Mr. , notice of Hessians , capture of Hooker , Mr. , emigration of Hooker , congregation of Hubbard's Narrative of the In- dian Wars Hudson , Henry Hudson river , discovery of . Hunt , carries ...
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... attack on 453 · healing of • 475 White Plains , action at Smith , Capt . , discoveries by Snow , great Standish , exploit of . Springfield , attack on Stamp Act , Stamp - masters 51 , Stanwix , Fort , siege of . Stoney Point , storming ...
... attack on 453 · healing of • 475 White Plains , action at Smith , Capt . , discoveries by Snow , great Standish , exploit of . Springfield , attack on Stamp Act , Stamp - masters 51 , Stanwix , Fort , siege of . Stoney Point , storming ...
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... attacked by different parties of French and Indians , and shocking barbarities committed . Regarding Canada as the ... attack Quebec . The season was so far advanced when the fleet arrived at Quebec , October 5th , 1690 , the French so ...
... attacked by different parties of French and Indians , and shocking barbarities committed . Regarding Canada as the ... attack Quebec . The season was so far advanced when the fleet arrived at Quebec , October 5th , 1690 , the French so ...
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... attack on their constitutional rights . The colonies petitioned the king and parliament for a redress of the grievance , and formed associations for the purpose of preventing the importation and use of British manufactures , until the ...
... attack on their constitutional rights . The colonies petitioned the king and parliament for a redress of the grievance , and formed associations for the purpose of preventing the importation and use of British manufactures , until the ...
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Page 27 - Though these agents found the Virginia company very desirous of the projected settlement in their American territory, and willing to grant them a patent with as ample privileges, as they had power to convey ; yet they could prevail with the king no farther, than to engage that he would connive at them, and not molest them, provided they should conduct peaceably. Toleration in religious liberty by his public authority, under his seal, was denied.
Page 272 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 353 - For the last Man you put to Death, here are five come in his Room. And if you have Power to take my Life from me, God can raise up the same Principle of Life in ten of his Servants, and send them among you in my Room, that you may have Torment upon Torment, which is your Portion : For there is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my God.
Page 330 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Page 32 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 425 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
Page 249 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Page 397 - By the first," said the colonists, " the property of unoffending thousands is arbitrarily taken away, for the act of a few individuals ; by the second, our chartered liberties are annihilated ; and, by the third, our lives may be destroyed with impunity.
Page 120 - The fame of this great man extended even among the whites, who fabricated numerous legends respecting him, which I never heard, however, from the mouth of an Indian, and therefore believe to be fabulous. In the revolutionary war, his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of St. Tammany, the patron saint of America.
Page 184 - Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.