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... English sailor to discover , if possible , a northwest passage to India . So it happened that in the fall of 1609 , -nearly a dozen years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth , -Hendrick Hud- son , in his Dutch vessel the " Half Moon ...
... English sailor to discover , if possible , a northwest passage to India . So it happened that in the fall of 1609 , -nearly a dozen years before the Mayflower landed at Plymouth , -Hendrick Hud- son , in his Dutch vessel the " Half Moon ...
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... purpose might extend his limits four ( that is sixteen English ) miles on one side of the river , or half that ' O'Callaghan , History of New Netherland , I. , p . 90 . distance on both sides , " and so far into 12 Dutch Village ...
... purpose might extend his limits four ( that is sixteen English ) miles on one side of the river , or half that ' O'Callaghan , History of New Netherland , I. , p . 90 . distance on both sides , " and so far into 12 Dutch Village ...
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... English obtained possession of the territory , and before the close of the 17th century . The proprietary on the Hudson river , therefore , had the power of establishing the feudal system as they had in Maryland , where , as Mr. Geo ...
... English obtained possession of the territory , and before the close of the 17th century . The proprietary on the Hudson river , therefore , had the power of establishing the feudal system as they had in Maryland , where , as Mr. Geo ...
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... English , the advantages of repre- sentative government . 3 Brodhead's Hist . of N. Y. , p . 317 . ' Hol . , Doc . III . , pp . 175-180 , cited by O'Callaghan , Hist . N. N. , Vol . I. , pp . 248-9 . The Director evidently did not ...
... English , the advantages of repre- sentative government . 3 Brodhead's Hist . of N. Y. , p . 317 . ' Hol . , Doc . III . , pp . 175-180 , cited by O'Callaghan , Hist . N. N. , Vol . I. , pp . 248-9 . The Director evidently did not ...
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... English settlers , fleeing from the persecutions of New England , had already established themselves in towns under the Dutch govern- ment , which , in New Netherland , still allowed the broad religious toleration of Holland . With the ...
... English settlers , fleeing from the persecutions of New England , had already established themselves in towns under the Dutch govern- ment , which , in New Netherland , still allowed the broad religious toleration of Holland . With the ...
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Página 123 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 86 - And for extending the fundamental principles of civil and religious liberty, which form the basis whereon these republics, their laws, and constitutions are erected; to fix and establish those principles as the basis of all laws, constitutions and governments, which forever hereafter shall be formed in the said territory...
Página 88 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 166 - That no lands acquired under the provisions of this act shall in any event become liable to the satisfaction of any debt or debts contracted prior to the issuing of the patent therefor.
Página 109 - No colony in America was ever settled under such favorable auspices, as that which has just commenced at the Muskingum. Information, property, and strength, will be its characteristics. I know many of the settlers personally, and there never were men better calculated to promote the welfare of such a community.
Página 36 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market, and from its fertility it will ere long yield more than half of our whole produce, and contain more than half of our inhabitants.
Página 36 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 7 - Let every house be placed, if the person pleases, in the middle of its plat, as to the breadth way of it, that so there may be ground on each side for gardens or orchards, or fields, that it may be a green country town, which will never be burnt, and always be wholesome.
Página 20 - That the United States in Congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power to ascertain and fix the western boundary of such States as claim to the Mississippi or South Sea, and lay out the land beyond the boundary so ascertained into separate and independent States from time to time as the numbers and circumstances of the people thereof may require.
Página 79 - That there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in any of the States described in the resolve of Congress of the 23d of April, 1784, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been personally guilty; and that this regulation shall be an article of compact, and remain a fundamental principle of the constitutions between the thirteen original States, and each of the States described in the said resolve of the 23d of April, 1784.