The Genealogical Quarterly Magazine, Devoted to Genealogy, History, Heraldry, Revolutionary and Colonial Records, Volume 31902 |
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Page 240 - The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain, in the capture of one frigate, one brig, and two sloops of war of the enemy.
Page 5 - Puritans," says he, (vol. i. chap, iv.) " there were more than a few attempts of the English to people and improve the parts of New England which were to the northward of New Plymouth ; but the designs of those attempts being aimed no higher than the advancement of some worldly interests, a constant series of disasters has confounded them, until there was a plantation erected upon the nobler designs of Christianity : and that plantation, though it has had more adversaries than perhaps any one upon...
Page 241 - ... this moment doing, my indispensable duty to my king and country, and the honor of my profession, will oblige me to have recourse to those measures, which thousands of either nation may hereafter have cause to regret, and which, I solemnly appeal to God, I have used my utmost endeavors to arrest. I have the honor to be, sir, with much respect, your most obedient and very' humble servant, WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Major 24th Regiment, Commanding at Fort Miami.
Page 242 - Our guns on the starboard side being nearly al! dismounted, or not manageable, a stern anchor was let go, the bower cable cut, and the ship winded with a fresh broadside on the enemy's ship, which soon after surrendered.
Page 5 - Anne; secretly conceiving in his mind, that in following times, (as since is fallen out) it might prove a receptacle for such as upon the account of religion would be willing to begin a foreign plantation in this part of the world, of which he gave some intimation to his friends in England.
Page 242 - Our galleys were about obeying, with alacrity, the signal to follow them, when all the vessels were reported to me to be in a sinking state ; it then became necessary to annul the signal to the galleys, and order their men to the pumps.
Page 14 - And as touching the old planters, their earnest desire for the present to continue the planting of tobacco (a trade by this whole Company generally disavowed, and utterly disclaimed by some of the greatest adventurers amongst us, who absolutely declared themselves unwilling to have any hand in this Plantation if we intended to cherish or permit the plantation thereof, or any other kind, than for a man's private use, for mere necessity...
Page 242 - In this situation, the whole force on both sides, became engaged, the Saratoga suffering much from the heavy fire of the Confiance. I could perceive, at the same time, however, that our fire was very destructive to her.
Page 111 - Memorial of the Celebration of the Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Incorporation of the town of Maiden, Mass...