A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island: With Their Political Condition, to the End of the American RevolutionA. Spooner, 1828 - 181 páginas |
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... present enlightened age , the absolute claims of territory , by a grant from the Pope , is done away , as is the right of territory by discovery without absolute settlement . The taking possession by fixing up a cross , or any such mark ...
... present enlightened age , the absolute claims of territory , by a grant from the Pope , is done away , as is the right of territory by discovery without absolute settlement . The taking possession by fixing up a cross , or any such mark ...
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... a heifer which he consented should be retained as a present to one of the daughters of Rapelje . This seems to have been a common mode of furnishing the settlers with stock . ments seem to have been principally , if not purely 7.
... a heifer which he consented should be retained as a present to one of the daughters of Rapelje . This seems to have been a common mode of furnishing the settlers with stock . ments seem to have been principally , if not purely 7.
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... present the principal of the academy at Cambridge , in Washington county , in the state of New - York . The Rev Ezra Youngs , as is supposed , another of Mr. Youngs ' descendants , has recently entered into the ministry , and preaches ...
... present the principal of the academy at Cambridge , in Washington county , in the state of New - York . The Rev Ezra Youngs , as is supposed , another of Mr. Youngs ' descendants , has recently entered into the ministry , and preaches ...
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... present inhabitants of that town . Shortly after the settlement of the town , they found it neces- sary for their security to form a connection with some one of the New - England colonies , and it seems they were divided in opinion ...
... present inhabitants of that town . Shortly after the settlement of the town , they found it neces- sary for their security to form a connection with some one of the New - England colonies , and it seems they were divided in opinion ...
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... present minister of South Old , are descendants of Mr. Hunting . The Rev. William Leveridge is supposed to have been the first minister of Huntington . He came from England with captain Wiggin and company , in 1633 , with a view to ...
... present minister of South Old , are descendants of Mr. Hunting . The Rev. William Leveridge is supposed to have been the first minister of Huntington . He came from England with captain Wiggin and company , in 1633 , with a view to ...
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A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island: With ... Silas Wood Sin vista previa disponible - 1828 |
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appointed April assembly August authority Brookhaven Brooklyn Captain cattle chief justice colony commenced commission commissioners common pleas Connecticut constable continued convention court of assize court of sessions deputies Duke of York Dutch Dutch Governor duties Earl of Stirling East Hampton England English towns Episcopal church erected established Flatbush Flushing governor and council granted Gravesend Hartford inhabitants Island Jamaica James John judges jurisdiction Kings county land laws Leisler letters Leveridge liberty Long-Island Long-Island Indians magistrates majesty's March Massachusetts Matinecoc minister Montauk Nathaniel New-England New-Haven Newtown October ordinance Oysterbay patent peace persons preached probably purchased Queens county removed respective revolution Richard Richard Nicolls royal highness sachem Samuel seems sent settled settlement settlers society South Hampton South Old Suffolk county supposed territory Thomas Thomas Hicks tion town court town meeting town of Hempstead town of Huntington tribe troops William Nicolls Woodhull Yale
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Página 168 - ... we the Inhabitants and Residents of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield are now cohabiting and dwelling in and upon the River of Connecticut and the lands thereunto adjoining; and well knowing where a people are gathered together the word of God requires that to maintain the peace and union of such a people there should be an orderly and decent Government established according to God...
Página 106 - Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America.
Página 164 - By ordinance of the high and mighty lords the states general of the United Netherlands.
Página 136 - It is the most difficult thing in the world, Sir, to know in what manner to conduct one's self with respect to the militia. If you do not begin, many days before they are wanted, to raise them, you cannot have them in time ; if you do, they get tired and return, besides being under but very little order or government whilst in service.
Página 6 - Warwick and others, to the number of forty noblemen, knights and gentlemen, by the name 'of the Council established at Plymouth in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling and governing of New England in America...
Página 170 - ... that the creek or river called Mamaroneck which is reputed to be about thirteen miles to the east of Westchester, and a line drawn from the east point or side where the fresh water falls into the salt, at high water mark, north-northwest to the line of the Massachusetts...
Página 172 - ... foreign or domestic ; we being already well assured, that, in so doing, we perform our duty of allegiance to his majesty, as freeborn subjects of the kingdom of England inhabiting in these his majesty's dominions. We do farther beseech your royal highness to accept of this address, as the first fruits in this general meeting, for a memorial and record against us, our heirs and successors, when we or any of them shall fail in our duties.
Página 163 - That upon Long Island, a line run from the westernmost part of Oysterbay, and so in a straight and direct line to the sea, shall be the bounds between the English and the Dutch there, the easterly part to belong to the English, and the westernmost part to the Dutch.
Página 179 - ... deprived of any share, vote, or interest, in the government, to their great discouragement, and contrary to the laws, rights, liberties, and privileges, of the subject ; so that we are esteemed as nothing, and have become a reproach to the neighbours in other his majesty's colonies, who flourish under the fruition and protection of his majesty's unparalleled form and method of government in his realm of England, the undoubted birthright of all his subjects.
Página 170 - Connecticut, which are too long here to be recited, we do declare and order, that the southern bounds of his majesty's colony of Connecticut, is the sea, and that Long Island is to be under the government of his royal highness the duke of York, as is expressed by plain words, in the said patents, respectively, and also by virtue of his majesty's commission, and the consent of both the governors and the gentlemen abovenamed.