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... neighbors . The five principal tribes of this family- Mohawks , Oneidas , Onondagas , Cay- ugas , and Senecas , all stationed in pallisaded villages south and east of Lakes Erie and Ontario - formed a loose confederacy , styled by ...
... neighbors . The five principal tribes of this family- Mohawks , Oneidas , Onondagas , Cay- ugas , and Senecas , all stationed in pallisaded villages south and east of Lakes Erie and Ontario - formed a loose confederacy , styled by ...
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... neighbors ; so that by the time of the Revolution they were not far behind the small white proprietors in industrial or domestic methods . In the Indian Territory of to - day the descendants of some of these Southern Indians are good ...
... neighbors ; so that by the time of the Revolution they were not far behind the small white proprietors in industrial or domestic methods . In the Indian Territory of to - day the descendants of some of these Southern Indians are good ...
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... neighbor , as a customer and trader , and as a foe opposed to encroach- ments upon his hunting - grounds . At first colonists . the whites were regarded by the aborigines as of supernatural origin , and hospitality , veneration , and ...
... neighbor , as a customer and trader , and as a foe opposed to encroach- ments upon his hunting - grounds . At first colonists . the whites were regarded by the aborigines as of supernatural origin , and hospitality , veneration , and ...
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... neighbor the Indian was difficult to deal with , whether in the negotiation of treaties of amity , or in the purchase of lands . Having but a loose as a neigh- system of government , there was no really responsible head , and no compact ...
... neighbor the Indian was difficult to deal with , whether in the negotiation of treaties of amity , or in the purchase of lands . Having but a loose as a neigh- system of government , there was no really responsible head , and no compact ...
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... neighbors who disputed their establishment , and where they met as well the sharp opposition , first of the Dutch , and then of the French , the latter , in their desire for the Mississippi valley , jealously endeavoring to restrict ...
... neighbors who disputed their establishment , and where they met as well the sharp opposition , first of the Dutch , and then of the French , the latter , in their desire for the Mississippi valley , jealously endeavoring to restrict ...
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Page 107 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years. For learning has brought disobedience and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both"!
Page 118 - In ye name of God, Amen. We whose names are underwriten, the loyall subjects of our dread soveraigne Lord, King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britaine, Franc, & Ireland king, defender of ye faith, &c., haveing undertaken, for ye glorie of God, and advancemente of ye Christian faith, and honour of our king & countrie...
Page 143 - They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the...
Page 156 - ... the United Colonies of New England. 2. The said United Colonies for themselves and their posterities do jointly and severally hereby enter into a firm and perpetual league of friendship and amity for offence and defence, mutual advice and succor upon all just occasions both for preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the Gospel and for their own mutual safety and welfare.
Page 71 - Our men were destroyed with cruel diseases, as swellings, flixes, burning fevers, and by wars; and some departed suddenly. But for the most part they died of mere famine. There were never Englishmen left in a foreign country in such misery as we were, in this new discovered Virginia.
Page 147 - We, whose names are underwritten do here solemnly in the presence of Jehovah incorporate ourselves into a Bodie Politick, and as he shall help, will submit our persons, lives and estates, unto our Lord Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, and to all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word of truth, to be guided and judged thereby.
Page 147 - We whose names are hereunder, desirous to inhabit in the town of Providence, do promise to subject ourselves in active or passive obedience to all such orders or agreements as shall be made for public good of the body, in an orderly way, by the major assent of the present inhabitants, masters of families, incorporated together into a town fellowship, and such others whom they shall admit unto them, only in civil things.