Richard Bland, Conservator of Self-government in Eighteenth-century Virginia |
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... Trade to set the details of the settlement . The instructions the Board of Trade sent to Din- widdie gave the Burgesses virtually all they really wanted . No fee was to be levied for grants of land under one hundred acres , no fee was ...
... Trade to set the details of the settlement . The instructions the Board of Trade sent to Din- widdie gave the Burgesses virtually all they really wanted . No fee was to be levied for grants of land under one hundred acres , no fee was ...
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... trade goods were sold along with the horses that were to trans- port them . 18 Bland continued to be interested in regulating the Indian trade , however , and as late as 1770 he took part in a convention that met in New York to draft an ...
... trade goods were sold along with the horses that were to trans- port them . 18 Bland continued to be interested in regulating the Indian trade , however , and as late as 1770 he took part in a convention that met in New York to draft an ...
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... trade where they like , that the Americans were being loaded with " Burthens at the same time that they were deprived of 43 Strength to sustain them . " Bland probably advanced his theory in defense of colonial autonomy , in part , as a ...
... trade where they like , that the Americans were being loaded with " Burthens at the same time that they were deprived of 43 Strength to sustain them . " Bland probably advanced his theory in defense of colonial autonomy , in part , as a ...
Contents
An Apprentice Burgess | 31 |
The Pistole Fee Dispute ཎྜ | 95 |
The Two Penny Controversy | 123 |
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