A History of the Valley of VirginiaHeritage Books, 2009 - 416 страници If you'd like to know more about the history of Native Americans and early American settlers, this book is for you. Written not long after the Revolutionary War, the author was himself a young eyewitness to the life and times described, and the weight of |
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Страница vii
... town , hundred or plantation , to be chosen by the inhabitants to make up a General Assembly , who are to decide all matters by the greatest number of voices ; but the governor is to have a negative voice , to have power to make orders ...
... town , hundred or plantation , to be chosen by the inhabitants to make up a General Assembly , who are to decide all matters by the greatest number of voices ; but the governor is to have a negative voice , to have power to make orders ...
Страница viii
... town to teach some children fit for the college intended to be built : " After Sir George Yeardly has gathered the present year's crop , he is to deliver to Sir Francis Wyatt , the hundred tenants be- longing to the governor's place ...
... town to teach some children fit for the college intended to be built : " After Sir George Yeardly has gathered the present year's crop , he is to deliver to Sir Francis Wyatt , the hundred tenants be- longing to the governor's place ...
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... town ready to seize him , by whom he was carried down to the Govern'r & by him receiv'd with a surprizing civility in the following words " Mr. Bacon you had for got to be a gentleman . " No , may it please yo'r hon'r answer'd Mr. Bacon ...
... town ready to seize him , by whom he was carried down to the Govern'r & by him receiv'd with a surprizing civility in the following words " Mr. Bacon you had for got to be a gentleman . " No , may it please yo'r hon'r answer'd Mr. Bacon ...
Страница xix
... town and who were not at the Pascataway siege . But at our entrance upon businesse , some gentlemen took this opportunity to endeavour he redressing severall grievances the coun- try then labor'd under , motions were made for inspecting ...
... town and who were not at the Pascataway siege . But at our entrance upon businesse , some gentlemen took this opportunity to endeavour he redressing severall grievances the coun- try then labor'd under , motions were made for inspecting ...
Страница xxi
... town , and so she rose up and gravely walked away , as not pleased with her treatment . Whilst some dais past in settling the Quota's of men and arms and ammunic ' on provisions & c . each county was to furnish one morning early a bruit ...
... town , and so she rose up and gravely walked away , as not pleased with her treatment . Whilst some dais past in settling the Quota's of men and arms and ammunic ' on provisions & c . each county was to furnish one morning early a bruit ...
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