 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1909 - 446 pages
...accident," says Sir Ferdinando Gorges, later President of the Plymouth Company, "must be acknowledged as the means, under God, of putting on foot, and giving life to our Plantations." Weymouth was arrested afterward under suspicion of setting forth to betray the Virginia... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - 1909 - 446 pages
...accident," says Sir Ferdinando Gorges, later President of the Plymouth Company, "must be acknowledged as the means, under God, of putting on foot, and giving life to our Plantations." Weymouth was arrested afterward under suspicion of setting forth to betray the Virginia... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Page - Southern States - 1909 - 440 pages
...accident," says Sir Ferdinando Gorges, later President of the Plymouth Company, "must be acknowledged as the means, under God, of putting on foot, and giving life to our Plantations." Weymouth was arrested afterward under suspicion of setting forth to betray the Virginia... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - Indians of North America - 1910 - 548 pages
...all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident [italics the author's] must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." History does not record that at that time the English had any plantations in North America. Shortly... | |
 | Herbert Milton Sylvester - Indians of North America - 1910 - 540 pages
...jurisdiction. Three of these savages were Nahanada, Skittwarroes, and Tisquantum. Gorges says, "These I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of...several parts, and several families. This accident [italics the author's] must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life... | |
 | Herbert Edgar Holmes - America - 1912 - 284 pages
...disinterested efforts in their behalf, yet we feel inclined to skeptically smile when Gorges writes', — "this accident must be acknowledged the means under...putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." Rosier writes that one morning an Indian of superior rank appeared, coming from the eastward and with... | |
 | Massachusetts - 1917 - 394 pages
...Plymouth, where I then commanded. Three of whose natives, namely, Manida, Skettwarroes, and Tisquantum, I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts and several families." It is impossible that Sir Ferdinando should have been mistaken in the names of those he received from... | |
 | Local history - 1918 - 1018 pages
...says of the kidnapping of the Indians, — -"This accident must be acknowledged to be the means of God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations."" Two years later the Popham colony was sent out and Skitwarroes, with them, returned to his native shores.... | |
 | Alvin Gardner Weeks - Algonquin Indians - 1919 - 302 pages
...Gorges writes of them that when they landed at Plymouth, England, he seized them and, further, that they were all of one nation but of several parts and several families, and concludes, "This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving... | |
 | Maine - 1919 - 862 pages
...himself says of the kidnapping of the Indians, — "This accident must be acknowledged to be the means of God of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations."" Two years later the Popham colony was sent out and Skitwarroes, with them, returned to his native shores.... | |
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I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations. 
