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 550 - Memoirs of the Principal Transactions of the Last War between the English and French in North America, from...
Page 286 - ... to transport and make an ample colony of our subjects, natives of our kingdom of England, and elsewhere within our dominions, unto a certain country hereafter described, in the parts of America not yet cultivated or planted, and only inhabited by some barbarous people, who have no knowledge of Almighty God.
Page 576 - Journals of Major Robert Rogers : Containing An Account of the Several Excursions he made under the Generals who commanded upon the Continent of North America during the late War.
Page 598 - COMPLEAT HISTORY of the Late War; or Annual Register of its Rise, Progress, and Events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America.
Page 570 - 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 554 - Majesty's lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of Virginia, to the commandant of the French forces on Ohio. To which are added the Governor's letter: and a translation of the French officer's answer.
Page 379 - 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.