Lectures on the Growth and Development of the United States: Illustrated, Volume 2Edwin Wiley, Irving Everett Rines, Albert Bushnell Hart American Educational Alliance, 1916 - United States |
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... governor was appointed in the person of Benjamin Fletcher , who was of much the same character as Slough- ter , being in want and ready to grasp any and every opportunity to place a little money in his own pocket . † He the colonists ...
... governor was appointed in the person of Benjamin Fletcher , who was of much the same character as Slough- ter , being in want and ready to grasp any and every opportunity to place a little money in his own pocket . † He the colonists ...
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... governor saw that to continue the dispute any longer was useless , he swallowed the affront and de- 5 parted . * Shortly afterward , Fitz- John Winthrop , who had recently been sent to England by the colony to protest against the ...
... governor saw that to continue the dispute any longer was useless , he swallowed the affront and de- 5 parted . * Shortly afterward , Fitz- John Winthrop , who had recently been sent to England by the colony to protest against the ...
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... GOVERNOR . Dutch Reformed churches at Albany and Kingston , and meeting houses in almost every town on Long Island . The statements made by Mr. Miller show that New York at this time was much divided in religious sentiment . * Frontenac ...
... GOVERNOR . Dutch Reformed churches at Albany and Kingston , and meeting houses in almost every town on Long Island . The statements made by Mr. Miller show that New York at this time was much divided in religious sentiment . * Frontenac ...
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... GOVERNOR . brought ) and the calling of Leisler's friends about him . * Bellomont also originated a Court of ... governor , who proceeded with some haste and violence against Robert Livingston and Bayard , who had been active in the anti ...
... GOVERNOR . brought ) and the calling of Leisler's friends about him . * Bellomont also originated a Court of ... governor , who proceeded with some haste and violence against Robert Livingston and Bayard , who had been active in the anti ...
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... governor . He was deeply in debt , and immediately upon his arrival used every means in his power , legal or illegal , to divert money from its proper channel to his own pocket , and his whole administration was marked by rapacity and ...
... governor . He was deeply in debt , and immediately upon his arrival used every means in his power , legal or illegal , to divert money from its proper channel to his own pocket , and his whole administration was marked by rapacity and ...
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