The History and Antiquities of New England, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania: 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 |
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... Colonel Samuel Allen was commissioned governor of New Hampshire . Eight years after , he came over to America to prosecute his clain , but died before the affair was concluded . The inhabitants about this time suffered extremely from ...
... Colonel Samuel Allen was commissioned governor of New Hampshire . Eight years after , he came over to America to prosecute his clain , but died before the affair was concluded . The inhabitants about this time suffered extremely from ...
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... colonel in the army of the celebra- ted Duke of Marlborough , was appointed governor of Massa- chusetts . For a long period afterwards , many controversies and difficulties took place between the royal governors sent from Eng- land and ...
... colonel in the army of the celebra- ted Duke of Marlborough , was appointed governor of Massa- chusetts . For a long period afterwards , many controversies and difficulties took place between the royal governors sent from Eng- land and ...
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... Colonel Leslie was sent with a detachment of 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 ...
... Colonel Leslie was sent with a detachment of 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 ...
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... Colonel Allen , and Colonel Arnold , without any public orders , surprised and took the British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point , without the loss of a man on either side . During these transactions , the Generals Howe ...
... Colonel Allen , and Colonel Arnold , without any public orders , surprised and took the British garrisons at Ticonderoga and Crown Point , without the loss of a man on either side . During these transactions , the Generals Howe ...
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... Colonel George Morgan , of Princeton , New Jersey , visited the western Indians by direction of congress , the Delawares conferred on him the name of Tamany , " in honor and remembrance of their ancient chief , and as the greatest mark ...
... Colonel George Morgan , of Princeton , New Jersey , visited the western Indians by direction of congress , the Delawares conferred on him the name of Tamany , " in honor and remembrance of their ancient chief , and as the greatest mark ...
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Page 354 - God from all eternity did, by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass; yet so as thereby neither is God the author of sin, nor is violence offered to the will of the creatures, nor is the liberty or contingency of second causes taken away, but rather established.
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Page 531 - He was ordered by his king to speak to me; and that now it was not he, but the king that spoke, because what he should say, was the king's mind.' He first prayed me ' to excuse them that they had not complied with me the last time ; he feared there might be some fault in the interpreter, being neither Indian nor English; besides, it was the Indian custom to deliberate, and take up much time in council, before they resolve; and that if the young people and owners of the land had been as ready as he,...
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Page 412 - ... that the rebels should not know that they had a man in their army who could die with so much firmness.
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