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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 33: (search)
t the wilderness spoken of in the vision of the Evangelist John, as the asylum Chap. Xxxiii} 1768. April. of persecuted multitudes, to whom the wings of a Great Eagle had been given to bear them to the place prepared by God for their rest from tribulation. Meantime, on Saturday, the second day of April, the Assembly of Virginia read the Circular letter from Massachusetts, and referred it to a committee of the whole House. Journal of Virginia House of Burgesses, from 31 March to 15 April, 1768, p. 55. The petitions of freeholders of the counties of Chesterfield, Henrico, Dinwiddie and Amelia, pointed to the Act of Parliament suspending the legislative power of New-York, as of a tendency, fatal to the liberties of a free people. The county of Westmoreland dwelt also on the new Revenue Act, as well as on the Billeting Act. The freeholders of Prince Williams enumerated all three, which, like the Stamp Act, would shackle North America with slavery. On the seventh, the illustriou
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 38: (search)
n 1768. Detroit had now about six hundred souls. See Papers in Gage to Hillsborough, 15 May, 1768. All the western villages abounded in wheat, Indian corn, and swine; of beeves there was more than one to each human being; and more than one horse to every two, counting slaves and children. The course of the rivers inclined the French inhabitants of the West, in disregard of the British Navigation Acts, to send their furs to New Orleans; Captain Forbes to Gen. Gage, Fort Chartres, 15 April, 1768. or across the river by night to St. Louis where they could be exchanged for French goods. All English merchandise came burdened with the cost of land carriage from Philadelphia to Fort Pitt. Information of the State of Commerce in the Illinois Country, given by Captain Forbes. The British Navigation Acts spread their baleful influence over the western Prairies. In November, Wilkins, the new Commandant in Illinois, following suggestions from Gage, appointed seven civil Judges to dec