 | Abiel Holmes - 1805 - 504 pàgines
...M.irJificld I May 1676, observes : • I think I can clearly say, that before these present trouble* broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony, but what wJi fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first made a law, that none should... | |
 | 1809 - 688 pàgines
...upright and pious governor Winslow, in a letter dalcd at Marsh&eld, 1 May, 1676, observes : " I think 1 can clearly say, that before these present troubles...out, the English did not possess one foot of land iu this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first... | |
 | 1809 - 672 pàgines
...clearly say, that 'before these present troubles broke out, the Engluh did not possess one font of bind m this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We lirit made a law, that none should purchase ot receive of gift any laud of the Indium, without the... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1813 - 432 pàgines
...The upright and pious governor Winslow, in a letter dated at Marshfield, 1 May, 1 676, observes : " I think I can clearly say, that before these present...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first made i\ law, that now should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians, without... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1816 - 458 pàgines
...their part. The worthy governor Winslow, in a letter, dated May 1st, 1676, observed : " I think I ran clearly say, that, before these present troubles broke...did not possess one foot of .'land in this colony, which was not fairly obtained, by honest purchase, from the Indian proprietors."* • For the preceding'... | |
 | James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - 1820 - 378 pàgines
...Governor Winslow, in a letter dated lit Marshfield, 1st May, 1676, observes: ' I think I can clearIv say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess ono foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 542 pàgines
...specific encroachment. It was as truly as proudly sa;d by (iuvernor Winslow of Plymouth, in 1676, ' I think I can clearly say, that before these present...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.' Massassoit, the father of I'hilip, came voluntarily to Plymouth within three months after the first... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1821 - 536 pàgines
...encroachment. It was as truly as proudly said by Governor Winslow of Plymouth, in 1676, « I think 1 can clearly say, that before these present troubles...out, the English did not possess one foot of land in tliis colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.' Massassoit,... | |
 | David Tenney Kimball - 1823 - 120 pàgines
...to purchase of the natives all the laud they possessed. For, said he, in 1676, " I think I can truly say, that before these present troubles broke out,...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." — [Hubbard's Indian Wars.] This probably was equally true with respect to the Massachusetts colony.... | |
 | Abiel Holmes - 1829 - 612 pàgines
...The upright and respected governor Winslow, in a letter dated at Marshfield 1 May 1676, observes : " I think I can clearly say, that before these present...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... | |
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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. 
