Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ..., Volumes 4-5I. Riley, 1829 - New York (State) |
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... French of the two towns of Port - Royal and St. Croix , lying on each side of the bay of Fundy in Acadia , then claimed as part of Virginia . * In his return , he visited the Dutch on Hudson's river , who being unable to resist him ...
... French of the two towns of Port - Royal and St. Croix , lying on each side of the bay of Fundy in Acadia , then claimed as part of Virginia . * In his return , he visited the Dutch on Hudson's river , who being unable to resist him ...
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... French king . The following passage from a fine writer , * shows that his pretences for entering into the war were perfectly groundless and trifling . " The king of England , on his side , reproached them with disrespect , in not ...
... French king . The following passage from a fine writer , * shows that his pretences for entering into the war were perfectly groundless and trifling . " The king of England , on his side , reproached them with disrespect , in not ...
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... French , both on account of their vicinity and warlike dispo- sition . Before the late incorporation of the Tusca- roras , a people driven by the inhabitants of Carolina from the frontiers of Virginia ; they consisted of five ...
... French , both on account of their vicinity and warlike dispo- sition . Before the late incorporation of the Tusca- roras , a people driven by the inhabitants of Carolina from the frontiers of Virginia ; they consisted of five ...
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... French beaus in Canada . Though the Indians are capable of sustaining great hardships , yet they cannot endure much labour , being rather fleet than strong . Their men are taller than the Europeans , rarely corpulent , always beardless ...
... French beaus in Canada . Though the Indians are capable of sustaining great hardships , yet they cannot endure much labour , being rather fleet than strong . Their men are taller than the Europeans , rarely corpulent , always beardless ...
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... French call Algonquins , drove them into their present possessions , lying on the south side of the Mohawks River , and the great Lake Ontario . * Towards the close of those disputes , which continued for a long series of years , the ...
... French call Algonquins , drove them into their present possessions , lying on the south side of the Mohawks River , and the great Lake Ontario . * Towards the close of those disputes , which continued for a long series of years , the ...
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Page 157 - ... let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 298 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 15 - Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Page 299 - We do further give and grant unto you full power and authority, with the advice and consent of our said council, to...
Page 296 - Now know you that we have revoked and determined, and by these presents do revoke and determine, the said recited letters patent and every clause, article, and thing therein contained. And...
Page 298 - ... not to be repugnant but as near as may be agreeable to the laws and statutes of this our kingdom of Great Britain...
Page 66 - I thank you, in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet, which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you, that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Page 298 - And our Will and Pleasure is that the Persons thereupon duly elected by the major Part of the Freeholders of the respective Counties and Places...
Page 278 - Few physicians amongst us are eminent for their skill. Quacks abound like locusts in Egypt, and too many have recommended themselves to a full practice and profitable subsistence. This is the less to be wondered at, as the profession is under no kind of regulation.
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