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... seventeenth century many articles of European make had passed inland , by means of these forest exchanges , as far as the Missis- sippi , in advance of the earliest white explorers . The trade with the Indians was one of the incentives ...
... seventeenth century many articles of European make had passed inland , by means of these forest exchanges , as far as the Missis- sippi , in advance of the earliest white explorers . The trade with the Indians was one of the incentives ...
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... seventeenth century . The great Mississippi basin had been visited by a few Spanish overland wan- derers , but as yet was practically forgotten and unclaimed , except so far as it was included in the undefined Spanish and English ...
... seventeenth century . The great Mississippi basin had been visited by a few Spanish overland wan- derers , but as yet was practically forgotten and unclaimed , except so far as it was included in the undefined Spanish and English ...
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... century , and made herself independent in 1822 , - thus following the lead of Mexico , which set up an independent govern- ment in the same year . 20. French Policy . France had no permanent colonies in America before the seventeenth ...
... century , and made herself independent in 1822 , - thus following the lead of Mexico , which set up an independent govern- ment in the same year . 20. French Policy . France had no permanent colonies in America before the seventeenth ...
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... seventeenth century took rank as a colonizing power . Her most fruitful labors were in the East rather than in the West . It was in the attempt to find the northwest passage to India that Hudson discovered the river which bears his name ...
... seventeenth century took rank as a colonizing power . Her most fruitful labors were in the East rather than in the West . It was in the attempt to find the northwest passage to India that Hudson discovered the river which bears his name ...
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... century England's resources were slender , and her government was not desirous of incurring the hostility of ... seventeenth century began . Spain , weakened by the defection of the Nether- lands , and still further humiliated by the ...
... century England's resources were slender , and her government was not desirous of incurring the hostility of ... seventeenth century began . Spain , weakened by the defection of the Nether- lands , and still further humiliated by the ...
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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.