An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the United States of America, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies |
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... confiderable fortune and rank , with their adhe- rents , chiefly Roman Catholics , who hoped to enjoy liberty of confcience under a proprietary of their own profeffion . They failed from England in November , 1632 , and landed in Mary ...
... confiderable fortune and rank , with their adhe- rents , chiefly Roman Catholics , who hoped to enjoy liberty of confcience under a proprietary of their own profeffion . They failed from England in November , 1632 , and landed in Mary ...
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... confiderable numbers to Maryland , that they might enjoy , under a Popish proprietary , that liberty of confcience of which they were deprived by their fellow Proteftants . In 1642 it was enacted , that ten members of the Affembly , of ...
... confiderable numbers to Maryland , that they might enjoy , under a Popish proprietary , that liberty of confcience of which they were deprived by their fellow Proteftants . In 1642 it was enacted , that ten members of the Affembly , of ...
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... confiderable loffes , inftead of acquiring enor- mous profits . They had obtained from individuals , who sport- ed in their lotteries from the hope of fudden riches , twenty - nine thousand pounds : but the transportation of more than ...
... confiderable loffes , inftead of acquiring enor- mous profits . They had obtained from individuals , who sport- ed in their lotteries from the hope of fudden riches , twenty - nine thousand pounds : but the transportation of more than ...
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... confiderable abilities , and more enterprife , had obtained a grant from the Cherokee tribe of Indians for this fame tract of country ; and though it was contrary to the laws of the land for any private ci- tizen to make purchases of ...
... confiderable abilities , and more enterprife , had obtained a grant from the Cherokee tribe of Indians for this fame tract of country ; and though it was contrary to the laws of the land for any private ci- tizen to make purchases of ...
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... confiderable period they formed but one colony . A few adventurers emigrated from the Maffachusetts , and fet- tled round Cape Fear , about the time of the reftoration . They confidered mere occupancy , with a transfer from the natives ...
... confiderable period they formed but one colony . A few adventurers emigrated from the Maffachusetts , and fet- tled round Cape Fear , about the time of the reftoration . They confidered mere occupancy , with a transfer from the natives ...
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