Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal: A History, 1608-1903, Band 1Pennsylvania historical publishing association, 1903 |
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Pennsylvania, Colonial and Federal: A History, 1608-1903, Band 1 Howard Malcolm Jenkins Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2012 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
acres America appointed arrived asked Assembly bills of credit called Captain Castle Charles charter Chester Chester county chief Christina claim Colonel colony command commissioners Council councillors Court creek Croghan declared deeds Delaware Delaware bay Denny Dutch England English estates Fort Augusta Fort Casimir Fort Duquesne Franklin French Friends Governor grant guilders Hamilton Indians inhabitants James John John Penn killed King King's land Lenâpé letter Lieutenant-Governor Lloyd Logan Lord Baltimore Lower Counties Manhattan March Markham Maryland meeting ment miles Morris officers Ohio passed peace Penn's Pennsyl Pennsylvania persons Peter Philadelphia present Printz Proprietaries province purchase Quakers quit rents river says Scarrooyady sent settled settlement settlers Shamokin Shawanees ship Sir William Johnson Six Nations soldiers Stuyvesant Susquehanna Susquehannocks Swedes Swedish Teedyuscung Thomas Penn tion town trade treaty tribes troops Upland Virginia Weiser William Penn York
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 263 - That all persons living in this province who confess and acknowledge the one almighty and eternal God to be the creator, upholder, and ruler of the world...
Seite 203 - ... you shall be governed by laws of your own making, and live a free, and, if you will, a sober and industrious people. I shall not usurp the right of any, or oppress his person. God has furnished me with a better resolution, and has given me His grace to keep it. In short, whatever sober and free men can reasonably desire for the security and improvement of their own happiness, I shall heartily comply with, and in five months resolve, if it please God, to see you.
Seite 220 - Successors, two Beaver Skins to bee delivered att our said Castle of Windsor, on the first day of January, in every yeare; and also the fifth parte of all Gold and silver Oare, which shall from time to time happen to be found...
Seite 219 - Whereas our Trustie and well beloved Subject, William Penn, Esquire, sonn and heire of Sir William Penn, deceased, out of a commendable desire to enlarge our English Empire and promote such...
Seite 348 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Seite 262 - Worship: And Almighty God being the only Lord of Conscience, Father of Lights and Spirits; and the Author as well as Object of all divine Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and persuade and convince the Understandings of People, I do hereby grant and declare.
Seite 220 - Assignes, all that Tract or Parte of Land in America, with all the Islands therein conteyned, as the same is bounded on the East by Delaware River, from twelve miles...
Seite 281 - ... the younger fry, in the same figure. Having consulted and resolved their business, the king ordered one of them to speak to me; he stood up, came to me, and in the name of his king saluted me, then took me by the hand, and told me...
Seite 280 - ... to love the Christians, and particularly live in peace with me, and the people under my government : that many governors had been in the river, but that no governor had, come himself to live and stay here before ; and having now, such an one that had treated them well, they should never do him or his any wrong.
Seite 281 - He first prayed me to excuse them, that they had not complied with me the last time. He feared there might be some fault in the interpreter, being neither Indian nor English. Besides, it was the Indian custom to deliberate and take up much time in council before they resolved ; and that, if the young people and owners of the land had been as ready as he, I had not met with so much delay.