Antiquarian Researches: Comprising a History of the Indian Wars in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts Adjacent, and Other Interesting Events, from the First Landing of the Pilgrims, to the Conquest of Canada by the English, in 1760 : with Notices of Indian Depredations in the Neighboring Country : and of the First Planting and Progress of Settlements in New England, New York and CanadaA. Phelps, 1824 - 312 páginas |
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Página vii
... escapes with a party - Is surprised and captured by Church - Termination of the war in the southeast quarter - Losses sustained by the English - The question whether the war might have been avoided , examined - Governor Winslow's letter ...
... escapes with a party - Is surprised and captured by Church - Termination of the war in the southeast quarter - Losses sustained by the English - The question whether the war might have been avoided , examined - Governor Winslow's letter ...
Página xi
... escaped the conflagration of that place , in 1704. See page 189 . ERRATA . OWING to the absence of the author while part of the work was in press , and the indistinct hand in which the manuscript was delivered to the printer , the ...
... escaped the conflagration of that place , in 1704. See page 189 . ERRATA . OWING to the absence of the author while part of the work was in press , and the indistinct hand in which the manuscript was delivered to the printer , the ...
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... escaped from Spain , got to England , where he learned to speak English , and afterwards returned to his native country , with captain Dermer in 1619. These Indians informed the adventur- ers , that Masassoit , the great chief of the ...
... escaped from Spain , got to England , where he learned to speak English , and afterwards returned to his native country , with captain Dermer in 1619. These Indians informed the adventur- ers , that Masassoit , the great chief of the ...
Página 41
... escaped starvation , by feeding on acorns and wild meats , procured by hunting , or purchase from the natives ; but many of the cattle perished . On the opening of the next spring , most of the adventurers who had returned to Boston ...
... escaped starvation , by feeding on acorns and wild meats , procured by hunting , or purchase from the natives ; but many of the cattle perished . On the opening of the next spring , most of the adventurers who had returned to Boston ...
Página 46
... escaped to the boat with three others , and put off without further injury . The captured man was one Butterfield , and the meadow where he was taken has since been called by his name . Fourteen days after this affair , six men were ...
... escaped to the boat with three others , and put off without further injury . The captured man was one Butterfield , and the meadow where he was taken has since been called by his name . Fourteen days after this affair , six men were ...
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adventurers Albany ambuscade army arrived attack attempt body Boston camp Canada canoes captain captives captured Charlestown chief Church colonel colonies command commenced Connecticut river continued Crown Point Deerfield Deerfield river defence depredations dians discovered distance Dummer enemy England English Ephraim Williams escaped expedition fell fifty fire five force fort Dummer fort Edward fort Massachusetts fort William Henry forty French frontiers garrison governor Hadley Hampshire Hatfield hostile hundred incursions Indians inhabitants Island John joined killed lake Champlain lake George land lieutenant loss major Massachusetts meadow ment miles Mohawks Narragansets natives Nipmucks Northampton Northfield officers ordered Pennacooks Pequots Philip plantations Plymouth prisoners proceeded province provisions quarter received returned route Rouville sachem sailed savages scalps scout seized sent settlements ship shot soon Springfield suffered swamp thirty thousand tion took tribes troops twenty vicinity village whole Williams woods wounded
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Página 27 - This is a misery much to be lamented, for though they were burning and shining lights in their times, yet they penetrated not into the whole counsel of God, but were they now living, would be as willing to embrace further light as that which they first received.
Página 17 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our king and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Página ii - HOYT (E.)— ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES: Comprising A HISTORY of the INDIAN WARS in the Country Bordering Connecticut River and Parts adjacent, and other interesting Events, From the First Landing of the Pilgrims, to the Conquest of Canada by the English, in 1760...
Página 17 - Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 17 - Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the llth of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620.
Página iii - Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses ; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings. Far from me and from my friends be such frigid philosophy, as may conduct us indifferent and unmoved over any ground which has been dignified by wisdom, bravery, or virtue. That man is little to be envied, whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon, or whose piety would not grow warmer among the...
Página 42 - Esq. their heirs and assigns, and their associates forever, all that part of New England, in America, which lies and extends itself from a river there called Narraganset river, the space of forty leagues upon a straight line near the sea shore towards the southwest, west and by south, or west, as the coast lieth towards Virginia, accounting three English miles to the league...
Página 22 - Gorges and others, the council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in America.
Página 27 - If God reveal anything to you by any other instrument of his, be as ready to receive it as ever you were to receive any truth by my ministry: for I am verily persuaded, the Lord has more truth yet to break forth out of his holy word.
Página 17 - God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony : Unto which we promise all due submission and obedience...