The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, and New Jersey: Embracing the Following Subjects, Viz.: Discoveries and Settlements, Indian History, Indian, French, and Revolutionary Wars, Religious History, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Traditions, Remarkable and Unaccountable Occurrences, with a Great Variety of Curious and Interesting Relics of Antiquity : Illustrated by Numerous Engravings |
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... troops . There was danger of a mutiny . In this extremity , the government of Massachusetts issued bills of credit , as a substitute for money ; and these were the first ever issued in the American colonies . The war with the French and ...
... troops . There was danger of a mutiny . In this extremity , the government of Massachusetts issued bills of credit , as a substitute for money ; and these were the first ever issued in the American colonies . The war with the French and ...
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... troops arrived at Louisburg , about the 1st of May , 1745 , and commenced the siege . For fourteen nights successively , the New England troops , sinking to their knees in mud , drew their cannons and mortars through a swamp two miles ...
... troops arrived at Louisburg , about the 1st of May , 1745 , and commenced the siege . For fourteen nights successively , the New England troops , sinking to their knees in mud , drew their cannons and mortars through a swamp two miles ...
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... troops had been stationed in Bos- ton to awe the inhabitants and enforce the measures of parliament . On the fatal day , when blood was to be shed , as a prelude to more tragic scenes , a riot was raised among some soldiers and boys ...
... troops had been stationed in Bos- ton to awe the inhabitants and enforce the measures of parliament . On the fatal day , when blood was to be shed , as a prelude to more tragic scenes , a riot was raised among some soldiers and boys ...
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... troops . On this occasion , an assembly of delegates from all the towns in Suffolk county , was called ; and several spirited resolutions were agreed to . These resolutions were prefaced with a declara- tion of allegiance ; but they ...
... troops . On this occasion , an assembly of delegates from all the towns in Suffolk county , was called ; and several spirited resolutions were agreed to . These resolutions were prefaced with a declara- tion of allegiance ; but they ...
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... troops from Boston , to take possession of some cannon at Salem . But the people had intelligence of the design - took up the drawbridge in that town , and prevented the troops from passing , until the cannon were secured ; so that the ...
... troops from Boston , to take possession of some cannon at Salem . But the people had intelligence of the design - took up the drawbridge in that town , and prevented the troops from passing , until the cannon were secured ; so that the ...
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Page 27 - Though these agents found the Virginia company very desirous of the projected settlement in their American territory, and willing to grant them a patent with as ample privileges, as they had power to convey ; yet they could prevail with the king no farther, than to engage that he would connive at them, and not molest them, provided they should conduct peaceably. Toleration in religious liberty by his public authority, under his seal, was denied.
Page 272 - Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers: the snare is broken, and we are escaped.
Page 353 - For the last Man you put to Death, here are five come in his Room. And if you have Power to take my Life from me, God can raise up the same Principle of Life in ten of his Servants, and send them among you in my Room, that you may have Torment upon Torment, which is your Portion : For there is no Peace to the Wicked, saith my God.
Page 330 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
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Page 425 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
Page 249 - You are a child — you cannot understand matters of war — let your brother or your chief come — him will I answer.
Page 397 - By the first," said the colonists, " the property of unoffending thousands is arbitrarily taken away, for the act of a few individuals ; by the second, our chartered liberties are annihilated ; and, by the third, our lives may be destroyed with impunity.
Page 120 - The fame of this great man extended even among the whites, who fabricated numerous legends respecting him, which I never heard, however, from the mouth of an Indian, and therefore believe to be fabulous. In the revolutionary war, his enthusiastic admirers dubbed him a saint, and he was established under the name of St. Tammany, the patron saint of America.
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