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... NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETIES , AND CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC , GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY . TENTH EDITION . BOSTON : BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY , & Co. M.DCCC . XLVIII . us 10244.35.45 Us70566 , 3010 HARVARD COLLEGE FEB 4 1925.
... NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETIES , AND CORRESPONDING SECRETARY OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC , GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY . TENTH EDITION . BOSTON : BENJAMIN B. MUSSEY , & Co. M.DCCC . XLVIII . us 10244.35.45 Us70566 , 3010 HARVARD COLLEGE FEB 4 1925.
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... Boston about the year 1669 . The north - east people of America , that is , N. England , & c . , are judged to be Tartars , called Samoades , being alike in complexion , shape , habit and man- ners . " We have given here a larger ...
... Boston about the year 1669 . The north - east people of America , that is , N. England , & c . , are judged to be Tartars , called Samoades , being alike in complexion , shape , habit and man- ners . " We have given here a larger ...
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... Boston for him [ and gave him a half a crown for the service . ] The letter was directed to the keeper of bridewell , ordering him to give the bearer so many lashes ; but , mistrusting that all was not exactly agreeable , and meeting a ...
... Boston for him [ and gave him a half a crown for the service . ] The letter was directed to the keeper of bridewell , ordering him to give the bearer so many lashes ; but , mistrusting that all was not exactly agreeable , and meeting a ...
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... Boston used it as a term of reproach ; but after the affair at Bun- ker's Hill , the Americans gloried in it . Yankee - doodle is now their pœan , a favorite of favorites , played in their army , esteemed as warlike as the grena- dier's ...
... Boston used it as a term of reproach ; but after the affair at Bun- ker's Hill , the Americans gloried in it . Yankee - doodle is now their pœan , a favorite of favorites , played in their army , esteemed as warlike as the grena- dier's ...
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... Boston , 12mo . 1683 . There may be seen a curious passage concerning the comet of 1618 in Rushworth's Hist . Col. of that year . New English Canaan , 23 , by Thomas Morton , 4to . Amsterdam , 1637 . CHAP . II . ] SQUANTO - MASSASOIT . 17.
... Boston , 12mo . 1683 . There may be seen a curious passage concerning the comet of 1618 in Rushworth's Hist . Col. of that year . New English Canaan , 23 , by Thomas Morton , 4to . Amsterdam , 1637 . CHAP . II . ] SQUANTO - MASSASOIT . 17.
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Page 42 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat: if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, ' Logan is the friend of white men.
Page 23 - We have had some experience of it — several of our young people were formerly brought up at the colleges of the northern provinces; they were instructed in all your sciences, but when they came back to us, they were bad runners, ignorant of every means of living in the woods, unable to bear either cold or hunger, knew neither how to build a cabin, take a deer, or kill an enemy, spoke our language imperfectly, were therefore neither fit for hunters, warriors, nor counsellors; they were totally good...
Page 42 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance. For my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 4 - I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations.
Page 2 - 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 which has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Page 2 - We may go where we please, and carry with us whom we please, and buy and sell what we please : if your allies be your slaves, use them as such, command them to receive no other but your people.
Page 117 - The way, and the only way to check and to stop this evil, is, for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet ; for it never was divided, but belongs to all, for the use of each. That no part has a right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers ; those who want all, and will not do with less.
Page 112 - I was at his house, but when I started to return home, he gave me no provision to eat on the way. He gave me neither kettle nor gun, neither did he tell me that the United States were about to rebel against the government of England.
Page 94 - Brother, listen to what we say. There was a time when our forefathers owned this great island. Their seats extended from the rising to the setting sun. The Great Spirit had made it for the use of Indians.
Page 111 - FATHER: You have said that we are in your hand, and that, by closing it, you could crush us to nothing. Are you determined to crush us? If you are, tell us so, that those of our nation who have become your children, and have determined to die so, may know what to do. In this case, one chief has said he would ask you to put him out of pain.