 I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.  Harper's New Monthly Magazine - Seite 201883Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ripley Hitchcock - 1909 - 454 Seiten
...policy, it was the general disposition of the English settlers to obtain lands by honest purchase ; indeed, Governor Josiah Winslow, of Plymouth, declared,...Richmond, Virginia, for some copper. The Dutch Governor Minuit bought the island of Manhattan, in 1626, for sixty gilders. Lord Baltimore's company purchased... | |
 | Winnifred Cockshott - 1909 - 392 Seiten
...doubtless for a very inadequate price, and in 1676 Josiah Winslow could write, " I think I can clearly say that, before these present troubles broke out, the...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition, and the Indians in their straits are... | |
 | Charles Edwin Booth - 1910 - 292 Seiten
...says, "I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out (King Philip's War), the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition, and the Indians are in their straits... | |
 | 1892 - 848 Seiten
...come by the land, as a letter written by Governor Winslow in 1676 proves : " I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out the English...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." But Washington Irving's words throw a different light on the subject : " It may be said that the soil... | |
 | 1917 - 394 Seiten
...it was as truly as proudly said by Governor Josiah Winslow, of Plymouth, "I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the...but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of th1: Indian proprietors." See Hutchinson's Mass., ii. 266; Hazard's State Papers, i. 263 ; Hubbard's... | |
 | Charles Lemuel Thompson - 1917 - 334 Seiten
...Winslow, Governor of Plymouth, in a report to the Federal Commissioners, says: " I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out the English...colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase from the Indian proprietors. Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition, and the... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - 1920 - 402 Seiten
...Commissioners: "I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out [King Philip's War], the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition and the Indians are in their straits... | |
 | william christie macleod - 1928 - 586 Seiten
...of King Philip's War, Governor Winslow of Plymouth could say, honestly: "I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out the English...was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors."3 The same could probably be said in the other New England colonies. But it must again... | |
 | Richard Slotkin, James K. Folsom - 1978 - 508 Seiten
...faithfully towards them at all times, and friendly beyond their deserts. I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian Proprietors: Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition, and the Indians are in their Streits... | |
 | D'Arcy McNickle - 1993 - 214 Seiten
...wrote, "I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out [King Philip's War], the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first made a law that none should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians, without the... | |
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