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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 15 15 Browse Search
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 8 8 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition. 3 3 Browse Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 3 3 Browse Search
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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry Walcott Boynton, Reader's History of American Literature 2 2 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 2 2 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 2: (search)
looked round upon the immense oaks, which were venerable from the growth of centuries, the profusion of wild fowls, the groves of pine, the flowers so fragrant that the whole air was perfumed, they already regarded the country as a province of their native land. Ribault determined to leave a colony; twenty-six composed the whole party, which was to keep possession of the continent. Fort Charles, the Carolina, Munitionem Carolinam, de regis nomine dictum. De Thou, l XLIV. 531, edition of 1626. so called in honor of Charles IX. of France, first gave a name to the country, a century before it was occupied by the English. The name remained, though the early colony perished. Hening, i. 552; and Thurloe, II. 273, 274. Ribault and the ships arrived safely in France. But July 20. the fires of civil war had been kindled in all the provinces of the kingdom; and the promised reinforcements for Carolina were never levied. The situation of the French became precarious. The native
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter VI (search)
ard, i. 202—205. Burk, II. 14, 15. There is no room to suppose that Charles nourished the design of suppressing the colonial assemblies. For some months, the organization of the government was not changed; and when Wyatt retired, Sir George 1626. Yeardley was appointed his successor. This appointment was in itself a guaranty, that, as the former interests of Virginia were to be kept inviolate, Letter of the privy council, in Burk, II. 18 so the representative government, the chief polhe settling of the plantation of Virginia, partook largely of the same character. In a series of public acts, King Charles attempted during his reign to procure a revenue from this source. The authority of the star-chamber was invoked to assist 1626. in filling his exchequer by new and onerous duties on tobacco; March 2, 1626. Ibid. 224—230. his commissioners were ordered to con- Chap VI.} 1627 tract for all the product of the colonies; Jan. 1627. Rymer, XVIII. 831. though the Spani