The History of Pennsylvania in North America, from the Original Institution and Settlement of that Province Under the First Proprietor and Governor, William Penn, in 1681, Till After the Year 1742: With an Introduction Respecting the Life of W. Penn, Prior to the Grant of the Province, and the Religious Society of the People Called Quakers : with the First Rise of the Neighbouring Colonies, More Particularly of West-New-Jersey, and the Settlement of the Dutch and Swedes on Delaware : to which is Added a Brief Description of the Said Province and of the General States in which it Flourished, Principally Between the Years 1760 and 1770 : the Whole Including a Variety of Things, Useful and Interesting to be Known, Respecting that Country in Early Time, &c. : with an AppendixZachariah Poulson, Junior, number eighty, Chesnut-Street, 1797 - Delaware |
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Page 110
... Indians with Fire - arms , and to have taught them the ufe thereof , that by their affiftance , they might expel the English , when they began to fettle around them . Smith's biftory of New - Jersey , and others . 1627 . The Swedes ...
... Indians with Fire - arms , and to have taught them the ufe thereof , that by their affiftance , they might expel the English , when they began to fettle around them . Smith's biftory of New - Jersey , and others . 1627 . The Swedes ...
Page 111
... Indian kings ; and fixty years fince , fir Walter Raleigh feated and left thirty men , and four pieces of ordnance ; and the creek , near cape James , by the Dutch called Horekill , by us Roymount , and by the Indians , Gui Achomaca ...
... Indian kings ; and fixty years fince , fir Walter Raleigh feated and left thirty men , and four pieces of ordnance ; and the creek , near cape James , by the Dutch called Horekill , by us Roymount , and by the Indians , Gui Achomaca ...
Page 112
... Indians , the land from cape Inlopen , to the falls of Delaware , on both fides of the river ; which they called New - Swede- land ftream ; and made presents to the Indian chiefs , to obtain peaceable poffeffion of the land fo pur ...
... Indians , the land from cape Inlopen , to the falls of Delaware , on both fides of the river ; which they called New - Swede- land ftream ; and made presents to the Indian chiefs , to obtain peaceable poffeffion of the land fo pur ...
Page 113
... Indians inform me ; for I went but ten miles higher . I do account all the Indians to be about eight hundred ; and are in feveral factions and war against the Sufquaban- nocks ; and are all extreme fearful of a gun , naked and unarmed ...
... Indians inform me ; for I went but ten miles higher . I do account all the Indians to be about eight hundred ; and are in feveral factions and war against the Sufquaban- nocks ; and are all extreme fearful of a gun , naked and unarmed ...
Page 114
... Indians two thoufand bushels of corn , at twelve pence a bufhel , in truck ; fo as victuals are there cheaper and ... Indians , we find , befide the Indian kings , by him known and printed , in this province , there are , in all twenty ...
... Indians two thoufand bushels of corn , at twelve pence a bufhel , in truck ; fo as victuals are there cheaper and ... Indians , we find , befide the Indian kings , by him known and printed , in this province , there are , in all twenty ...
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