The English in America: The middle coloniesLongmans, 1907 - New England |
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¹ Brodhead Albany Amsterdam Andros appointed Assembly attack authority body Carteret charter Church citizens claim colonists colony Colve command Connecticut conquest constitution Cornbury Cornbury's Council Court Crown dealings declaration defence Delaware demand despatch dispute document Dongan Duke Duke of York Duke's Dutch East Jersey elected emigrants enemy England Five Nations Fletcher force Fort Casimir Fort Nassau French Frontenac garrison Governor grant Holland Hudson hundred Indians inhabitants instructions Iroquois Jersey Kieft King land laws Leisler letter Long Island Lovelace Maryland matter ment Millborne Mohawks N. J. Archives N. Y. Docs Netherlands Nicolls Nicolls's official once party patent peace Penn Penn's Philip Carteret political Proprietors province Quakers refused Rensselaerwyck representative savages scheme secure sent settlement settlers showed Sloughter Southold States-General Stuyvesant Stuyvesant's surrender Swedes Swedish territory tion town townships trade treaty treaty of Hartford Usselinx West India Company whole York
Popular passages
Page 495 - ... a committee of manners, education, and arts, that all wicked and scandalous living may be prevented, and that youth may be successively trained up in virtue and useful knowledge and arts...
Page 121 - The forward youth that would appear Must now forsake his muses dear, Nor in the shadows sing His numbers languishing: Tis time to leave the books in dust, And oil the unused armour's rust...
Page 509 - ... in this they are sufficiently revenged on us, if they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains. They are not disquieted with bills of lading and exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits and exchequer reckonings. We sweat and toil to live; their pleasure feeds them; I mean their hunting, fishing, and fowling, and this table is spread everywhere: they eat twice a day, morning and evening; their seats and table are the ground.
Page 509 - Every king hath his council, and that consists of all the old and wise men of his nation; which perhaps is two hundred people: nothing of moment is undertaken, be it war, peace, selling of land, or traffic, without advising with them ; and which is more, with the young men too.
Page 216 - It will prove very inconvenient to us, as the river runs all along from our lakes by the back of Virginia and Carolina. The alliance of the Five Nations is our one security.
Page 255 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Page 508 - They care for little; because they want but little; and the reason is, a little contents them. In this they are sufficiently revenged on us; if they are ignorant of our pleasures, they are also free from our pains. They are not disquieted with bills of lading and exchange, nor perplexed with chancery suits, and exchequer reckonings.
Page 494 - ... shall consist of six out of each of the three orders or yearly elections, each of which shall have a distinct portion of business, as followeth : first, a committee of plantations, to situate and settle cities, ports, markettowns and highways, and to hear and decide all suits and controversies relating to plantations.
Page 159 - The Concessions and Agreements of the Lords Proprietors of New Jersey, to and with all and every of the adventurers and all such as shall settle and plant there...
Page 492 - BUT Lastly, when all is said, there is hardly one Frame of Government in the World so ill designed by its first Founders, that in good Hands would not do well enough ; and Story tells us, the best in ill ones can do nothing that is great or good ; Witness the Jewish and Roman States.