Narrative and Critical History of America, Volume 5Justin Winsor Houghton, Mifflin, 1887 |
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Page 223 - WE do therefore hereby farther ordain, that from and after the Date hereof, no Mill or other Engine for Slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any Plating Forge to work with a Tilt-Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Page 568 - Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War between the English and French in North America, from...
Page 457 - In the last war we did, in my opinion, most inhumanly, and upon pretences that in the eye of an honest man are not worth a farthing, root out this poor innocent deserving people, whom our utter inability to govern, or to reconcile, gave us no sort of right to extirpate.
Page 586 - Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England, the Honourable the Council and House of Representatives of said Province, in General Court Assembled Dec.
Page 397 - The General Account of all Monies and Effects received and expended by the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia in America.
Page 313 - ... it was a significant concession when they confessed that the people of the settlements knew their own needs best. " As the people," they wrote, " have declared they would rather be governed by the powers granted by the charter without regard to the fundamental constitutions, it will be for their quiet, and the protection of the welldisposed, to grant their request.
Page 81 - Popple (Henry). A Map | of the British empire in | America | with the French and Spanish | Settlements adjacent thereto.
Page 168 - Family memorials. A series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of Salisbury, Aldworth-Elbridge, Sewall, Pyldren-Dummer, Walley, Quincy, Gookin, Wendell, Breese, Chevalier-Anderson, and Phillips.
Page 279 - A Plain and Friendly Perswasive to the Inhabitants of Virginia and Maryland for promoting Towns and Cohabitation.
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