A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of Its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764: And to the Close of the Indian Wars ... (Google eBook)

Benjamin Trumbull

Maltby, Goldsmith and Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818 - Connecticut

Contents

• War with the Eastern Indians Attempts to quiet them by treaty: 57
• CHAPTER VI: 81
• CHAPTER VII: 114
• CHAPTER VIII: 134
• A Spanish ship arrives at NewLondon in distress The cargo is: 298
• charter granted A new college or Connecticut hall built Profes: 301
• CHAPTER XIII: 335
• CHAPTER XV: 351
• CHAPTER XVI: 372
• defeat at Ticonderoga Frontenac taken by colonel Bradstreet: 396
• CHAPTER XX: 416
• War with the Cherokees Reasons of the war The chieftains of: 429
• History of the Episcopal church and ministers in Connecticut from: 454
• CHAPTER XXIII: 457
• CHAPTER XXIV: 468
• CHAPTER XXVIII: 538
• Plan of a proposed Union of all the American colonies in 1754: 547

Popular passages

Page 153 - Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?‎

Page 311 - 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 545 - That the laws made by them for the purposes aforesaid shall not be repugnant, but, as near as may be, agreeable to the laws of England, and shall be transmitted to the king in council for approbation as soon as may be after their passing ; and if not disapproved within three years after presentation, to remain in force.‎

Page 454 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic majesty, and those of his most Christian majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...‎

Page 135 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering ; forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.‎

Page 168 - But Peter and John answered and said unto them; Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.‎

Page 326 - And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and Him crucified.‎

Page 6 - Co. of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit : " Tadeuskund, the Last King of the Lenape. An Historical Tale." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States...‎

Page 135 - ... not forsaking the assembling of yourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another: and so much the more as ye see the day approaching.‎

Page 231 - ... that nothing herein shall be intended or construed to hinder or prevent any society or church, that is or shall be allowed by the laws of this government, who soberly differ or dissent from the united churches hereby established, from exercising worship and discipline, in their own way, according to their consciences.‎

Bibliographic information

• Title: A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of Its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764: And to the Close of the Indian Wars ...; Volume 2 of A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of Its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764: And to the Close of the Indian Wars, A Complete History of Connecticut, Civil and Ecclesiastical, from the Emigration of Its First Planters, from England, in the Year 1630, to the Year 1764: And to the Close of the Indian Wars
• Author: Benjamin Trumbull
• Publisher: Maltby, Goldsmith and Co. and Samuel Wadsworth, 1818
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Nov 8, 2006