The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909 |
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... soon became as busy and enterprising as their transatlantic kinsmen in the Low Countries . The Dutch West India Company supplied cattle and horses and land for the ask- ing , while the crops raised were sufficient for the support of the ...
... soon became as busy and enterprising as their transatlantic kinsmen in the Low Countries . The Dutch West India Company supplied cattle and horses and land for the ask- ing , while the crops raised were sufficient for the support of the ...
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... soon became one of the wealthiest citizens of New York , his estate being valued at 15,000 guilders , and only six citizens being richer than himself . One of the three barks owned in New York in 1684 belonged to him , and in the year ...
... soon became one of the wealthiest citizens of New York , his estate being valued at 15,000 guilders , and only six citizens being richer than himself . One of the three barks owned in New York in 1684 belonged to him , and in the year ...
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... soon assumed an orderly and peaceful aspect . An effort was made to capture Leisler on the streets of New York , but , the attempt proving unsuccessful , the ring- leaders , Bayard , Van Cortlandt , Nicolls , and others were themselves ...
... soon assumed an orderly and peaceful aspect . An effort was made to capture Leisler on the streets of New York , but , the attempt proving unsuccessful , the ring- leaders , Bayard , Van Cortlandt , Nicolls , and others were themselves ...
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... soon disclosed the secret of their purchase of fifteen thousand acres in that remote district , and the purpose some of their number to migrate thither with their fami- lies . " This begat , " says Pastorius , " a desire in my soul to ...
... soon disclosed the secret of their purchase of fifteen thousand acres in that remote district , and the purpose some of their number to migrate thither with their fami- lies . " This begat , " says Pastorius , " a desire in my soul to ...
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... soon was appointed agent of the company in America . The first actual immigrants were Mennonites from Cre- feld , some of whom had become converts to Quakerism through the preaching of William Penn , while most of the others joined the ...
... soon was appointed agent of the company in America . The first actual immigrants were Mennonites from Cre- feld , some of whom had become converts to Quakerism through the preaching of William Penn , while most of the others joined the ...
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Halaman 431 - This brief official statement marks the closing of a great historical movement. Up to our own day American history has been in a large degree the history of the colonization of the West. The existence of an area of free
Halaman 18 - addressed to Francis Nicholson, " or in his absence to such as for the time being take care for Preserving the Peace and administering the Lawes in our said Province of New York in America."
Halaman 431 - be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it cannot, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports." Bulletin of the Superintendent of the Census
Halaman 81 - Light, The spectre kindles and burns in sight. Now low and dim, now clear and higher, Leaps up the terrible Ghost of Fire, Then, slowly sinking, the flames expire. And the wise Sound skippers, though the skies be fine, Reef their sails, when they see the sign, Of the blazing wreck of the Palatine
Halaman 109 - You, as Men who have baffled the Attempt of Tyranny; and by an impartial and uncorrupt Verdict, have laid a noble Foundation for securing to ourselves, our Posterity and our Neighbors, That, to which Nature and the Laws of our Country have given us a Right—The Liberty — both of exposing and opposing arbitrary Power (in these Parts of the World, at least) ... by speaking and writing Truth!
Halaman 238 - Why (what of all I least expected) that I, who went to America to convert' others, was never myself converted to God." The voyage to America, with the impressions received from the pious
Halaman 26 - became the wife of the brilliant young Huguenot, Abraham Gouverneur. Mary's son, Nicholas Gouverneur, married Hester's daughter, Gertrude Rynders, and a son of this marriage, Isaac Gouverneur, was the grandfather of Gouverneur Morris, one of the ablest members of the convention that framed the constitution of the United States. "This
Halaman 6 - him, taking twelve men with him. They had proceeded but a short distance from the house, when they were met by Tyrker, whom they received most cordially. Leif observed at once that his foster-father was in lively spirits. . . . Leif addressed him, and asked: " Wherefore art thou so belated,
Halaman 5 - (as will appear in what follows), I do not see why any one may justly forbid it to be named after Americus, its discoverer, a man of sagacious mind, Amerige, that is the land of Americus, or America, since both Europe and Asia derived their names from women.
Halaman 289 - New York and Pennsylvania were so nearly divided, if their propensity was not against us, that if New England on one side and Virginia on the other had not kept them in awe, they would have joined the British.