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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... river ; -Including fome account of the Maryland grant to the Lord Baltimore , in 1632 ; and of the reduction of the Dutch and Swedes under the British government in 1664 . 3. Firft rife of New - Jersey , in 1664 ; and fome account of ...
... river ; -Including fome account of the Maryland grant to the Lord Baltimore , in 1632 ; and of the reduction of the Dutch and Swedes under the British government in 1664 . 3. Firft rife of New - Jersey , in 1664 ; and fome account of ...
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... river , and on the bay and river of Delaware ; —But more particularly , of the rife , government , and early tranfactions of the colony of West New Jersey , previous to thofe of Pennsylvania . THE firft European discovery of fome of the ...
... river , and on the bay and river of Delaware ; —But more particularly , of the rife , government , and early tranfactions of the colony of West New Jersey , previous to thofe of Pennsylvania . THE firft European discovery of fome of the ...
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... river of Canada and Hudfon's ftrait ; and which he , therefore , named Prima vifia ; ( i . e . first difcovered ) which name it foon loft ; and next got the name of Corteria- lis , from a Portagueze ; who , from Libon , fell in with ...
... river of Canada and Hudfon's ftrait ; and which he , therefore , named Prima vifia ; ( i . e . first difcovered ) which name it foon loft ; and next got the name of Corteria- lis , from a Portagueze ; who , from Libon , fell in with ...
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... river , within Chesapeak bay , which they named James town ; which name it still re- tains . This is faid to have been the first English colony , on the continent of America , which took root , and has continued permanent to our days ...
... river , within Chesapeak bay , which they named James town ; which name it still re- tains . This is faid to have been the first English colony , on the continent of America , which took root , and has continued permanent to our days ...
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... river , called by him Hudson's river , so far north , as latitude 43 degrees . In confequence of which * “ Sir Thomas Weft , Lord Delaware , made Captain General of Virginia , in 1609 , in his fecond voyage to that colony , in the year ...
... river , called by him Hudson's river , so far north , as latitude 43 degrees . In confequence of which * “ Sir Thomas Weft , Lord Delaware , made Captain General of Virginia , in 1609 , in his fecond voyage to that colony , in the year ...
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