Indian Wars and Massacres...

Course of Massachusetts after the Restoration .......

Massachusetts sends Commissioners to England.........................

Claim of Massachusetts to Maine

Discontents in Virginia.

Nathaniel Bacon

Bacon's Rebellion.......

James Town burnt...

Character of Bacon

Culpeper's Insurrection.......................

New Netherlands captured by the Dutch.....

East and West Jersey....

William Penn

Settlement of Pennsylvania...........

Penn founds Philadelphia

Andrew Andros........

Leisler's Insurrection .....

Population of the Colonies

Colleges.....

Proceedings of the Crown against the Colonies..

Lord Cornbury......

Unsuccessful Expedition

Cession of Nova Scotia and Annapolis

Six Nations.......

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Blood first spilt at Lexington.....

British Soldiers resisted and repulsed.....

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Capture of Ticonderoga and Crown Point.......

Proceedings of Congress

Washington Commander-in-chief.

Appointment of other Generals

The first Issue of Paper-money..

Declaration of the Causes of taking up arms.....

Arrival of British Forces at Boston.....

Battle of Bunker's Hill

Doctor Joseph Warren..

Addresses by Congress

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Lord North's Propositions rejected....

Petition to Congress from Bermuda....

Reprisals at sea ordered

Ships-of-war fitted out......

Measures in the several Provinces ....

Lord Dunmore in Virginia.

Royal Authority terminated in the Colonies

Proceedings in Parliament.......

Burke's Resolutions..

Hessian Mercenaries....................

Invasion of Canada by the Colonists ....

Successes in Canada......

Junction of Montgomery and Arnold.......................................

Death of Montgomery...

Arnold at Quebec......

Canada evacuated....

Battle of Moore's Creek, in North Carolina.......

British repulsed at Charleston...

Independence proposed in Congress.................

Mecklenburg. Declaration.....

Evacuation of Boston.

Declaration of Independence.....

Independence discussed....

Committee to draw the Declaration.......

The Declaration adopted by a majority......

The final adoption unanimous

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THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE.

How the Declaration was received by the People........

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Arrival of the British Armament

Howe's Letter to Washington...

Preparations for defence

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