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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 12: (search)
laims of affection having been acknowledged, the colony proceeded to assert its rights by a solemn decree, the first in their new code; No act, imposition, law, or ordinance, shall be valid, unless made by the assembly and approved by the people. Thus did New Hampshire seize the earliest moment of its separate existence, to express the great principle of self-government, and take her place by the side of Massachusetts and Virginia. When the code of the infant government was transmitted to England, it was disapproved both for style and matter; and its provisions were rejected as incongruous and absurd. Nor was Mason successful in establishing his claims to the soil. The colonial government protected the colonists, and restrained his exactions. Hastening to England to solicit a change, the proprietary was allowed to make such arrangement as promised auspicious results to his own interests. The scenes that occurred are instructive. Mason, a party in suits to be commenced, was au
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
ginia, or Carolina, Thurloe, II. 273, 274. Hening, i. 552. the early name, which had been retained in the days of Charles I. and of Cromwell, and which was renewed under Charles II., Compare Carolina, by T. A 1682, p. 3. continued to be encouraged by similar giants. Clayborne, Hening, i. 377. the early trader in Maryland, 1652 still cherished a fondness for discovery; and the sons of Governor Yeardley Thurloe, II. 273, 274. Letter of Francis Yeardley to John Farrar. wrote to England with exultation, that the northern country of Carolina had been explored by Virginians born. We are not left to conjecture, who of the inhabit- Chap. XIII.} ants of Nansemund of that day first traversed the intervening forests and came upon the rivers that flow into Albemarle Sound. The company was led by Roger Green, and his services were rewarded by the 1653. July. grant of a thousand acres, while ten thousand acres were offered to any hundred persons who would plant on the banks of
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 14: (search)
ed? Hening rashly ventures the conjecture, ii. 374. Yet in 1680, Hening, ii. 460, his death is called infamous and exemplary; and, in 1677, Hening, ii. 374, it is called just, and most exemplary. In Hening, ii. 426, in a subsequent order from England, all waies order from England, all waies of force and designe are sanctioned. An old poet in the Burwell Account, p. 58, writes— Virginia's foes, dreading their just desert, Corrupted Death by Paracelsian art Him to destroy. And a royalist,England, all waies of force and designe are sanctioned. An old poet in the Burwell Account, p. 58, writes— Virginia's foes, dreading their just desert, Corrupted Death by Paracelsian art Him to destroy. And a royalist, in reply, p. 59, does not hesitate to write— Then how can it be counted for a sin, Though Death, nay, though myself had bribed been, To guide the fatal shaft? We honor all, That lend a hand unto a traitor's fall. and on the first day of October he died. Seldom has a political leader Chap. XIV.} 1676 been more honored by his friends Who is there now, said they, to plead our cause? His eloquence could animate the coldest hearts; his pen and sword alike compelled the admiration of his fo<
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
he chiefs of the Five Nations as witnesses and arbitrators, and having around them the director and council of New Netherland, with the whole commonalty of the Dutch, set their marks to a solemn Chap. XV.} 1645 Sept. 6. treaty of peace. The contemporary authorities are abundant. I. The Albany Records, vol. II. contain Kieft's statement. Compare other places, as x. 139, XXIV. 55. II. The views of the Indians are given in De Vries. Compare too R. Williams in Knowles, 275. III. The N. England statements, in Winthrop, II. 96, 97, 136. Gorton, 59. Hubbard, 441, and 365. The traditionary account of the battle on Strickland Plain, preserved by Trumbull, i. 161, and repeated, but not confirmed, by Wood, p. 74, cannot be quite accurate; at least as to time. Memory is an easy dupe, and tradition a careless storyteller. An account, to be of highest value, must be written immediately at the time of the event The eyewitness, the earwitness often persuades memory into a belief of inv
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 18: (search)
Hampshire and Rhode Island, with Providence, each six thousand; Connecticut, from seventeen to twenty thousand; that is, all New England, seventy-five thousand souls; Neal, II. 601. Sir Wm. Petty, 75, says 150,000. Brattle says, in 1708, in N. England, from 100 to 120,000. This is right, and corresponds with other data. In the account for N. E. for 1688, I have confidence. Neal blunders about Boston, which, m 1790, had not 20,000, much less in 1720. The statements in the text are made bye knew the right method to hasten the coming revolution. Truth, he asserted with wisest benevolence, truth shines more brightly the more widely it is diffused; and, catching the plebeian language that lived on the lips of the multitude, he gave England the Bible in the vulgar tongue. A timely death could alone place him beyond persecution; his bones were disinterred and burnt, and his ashes thrown on the waters of the Avon. But his fame brightens as time advances; when America traces the lin