A History of the American People
thing. Most did not. Williams was actually governor of his colony only in the years 1654-7, but he was always the power behind t ...
religious enthusiasm and attended the charismatic sermons given by John Cotton at St Botolph's in Lincoln. Under the Godless tyr ...
York State. There, all but one daughter were killed by Indians in 1643. The violent death of Mrs Hutchinson and her brood was pr ...
As far back as 1623, David Thompson had founded a settlement at Rye on the Piscataqua, the nucleus of what was to become New Ham ...
Various attempts were made by religious enemies to sabotage the venture and in the end Baltimore had to stay behind to protect i ...
apart from the fact that, from 1640, the Long Parliament in England systematically demolished what was left of the feudal system ...
milking the cow, making cheese and butter, raising chickens, tending to the vegetable garden- mainly peas, beans, squash, and pu ...
Mariland.' But once the Puritans were pushed out and the Toleration Act came back into force, the Calverts got the Quakers back, ...
secondary-it was successful farming and ownership of land which brought you personal independence, the only kind which really ma ...
Barbadian slave-owning colony transported to the American mainland. This gave the place a distinctive social, political, and cul ...
Into this colony radiating from Philadelphia, Penn poured multitudes of Quakers, from Bristol and London, many of considerable p ...
Bostonian historians of the late 19th century were inclined to dismiss their forebears as horribly uncivilized. Charles Francis ...
man to raise a family. The towns, he said, abound with young tradesmen and the hospitals are full of the ancient. The country is ...
It is, however, a futile quest to look for much in the way of fine art produced in 17th-century America. Only about thirty paint ...
And it was the earliest settlers who counted most. It is almost a law of colonization that the first group, however small, to se ...
made no difference. Early laws laid down that baptism did not change a person's free or unfree status. Such laws spread north. T ...
during Charles II's reign, its main concern was with regulated trade. By an Act of 1660, enumerated' commodities from the Englis ...
occurred, the settlers were usually to blame. But not always. The Indians were capable of unpredictable changes of mood, and dow ...
remonstrate with the governor. Berkeley accused Bacon of treason and had him arrested when he arrived in Jamestown with 500 men ...
The ravages of King Philip's War, the break-up of families it brought about, and the widespread feeling that the godly people of ...
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