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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 13: (search)
Narrative of the Indian and Civil Wars in Virginia, in Mass. Hist. Coll. XI. 79 in Force's edition, p. 46 to be the governor of Northern Carolina; and, instituting a simple form of government, a Carolina assembly, Richmond Records, No. 3. 1663—1668, 348—353. Wm. Drummond, governor of Carolina, and the assembly there. p. 349. This was July 12, 1666. and an easy tenure of lands, he left the infant people to take care of themselves; to enjoy liberty of conscience and of conduct in the entire ffrom abroad was anticipated; for freedom of religion, and security against taxation, except by the colonial legislature, were solemnly conceded. The colonists were satisfied; the more so, as their lands were confirmed to them, by a solemn grant, 1668, May 1. on the terms which they themselves had proposed. Williamson, i. 259. Martin, i. 146. The authentic record of the legislative history of 1669 North Carolina, begins with the autumn of 1669, Chalmers, 525, 555, from proprietary p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
e Raritan. Immediately, an association 1666. of church members from the New Haven colony sailed into the Passaic, and, at the request of the governor, holding a council with the Hackensack tribe, themselves extinguished the Indian title to Newark. With one May 21. heart, they resolved to carry on their spiritual and town affairs according to godly government; to be ruled un- 1667. der their old laws by officers chosen from among themselves; and when, in May, 1668, a colonial legislative 1668. May 26. assembly was for the first time convened at Elizabethtown, the influence of Puritans transferred the chief features of the New England codes to the statute book of New Jersey. The province increased in numbers and prosperity. The land was accessible and productive; the temperate climate delighted by its salubrity; there was little danger from the neighboring Indians, whose strength had been broken by long hostilities with the Dutch; the Five Nations guarded the approaches from th
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
am Penn was a Quaker again, or some very melancholy thing;; Pepys, II. 172. and his father, in anger, turned him penniless out of doors. 1667. The outcast, saved from extreme indigence by a mother's fondness, became an author, and announced 1668. to princes, priests, and people, that he was one of the despised, afflicted and forsaken Quakers; and repair- Penn, i. 125. ing to court with his hat on, he sought to engage the Chap XVI.} duke of Buckingham in favor of liberty of conscience, d to a long and close imprisonment in the tower. Penn's Apology for himself. Mem. P. H. S. 238, 239. His offence was heresy: the bishop of London menaced him with imprisonment for life unless he would recant. My prison shall be my grave, an- 1668 1669 swered Penn. The kind-hearted Charles II. sent the humane and candid Stilling fleet to calm the young enthusiast. The tower—such was Penn's message to the king—is to me the worst argument in the world. In vain did Stilling fleet urge the
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 17: (search)
old man's going away. The Pepya. gallants of Whitehall crowded to talk to her in her bird-cage.—You, said they to her, as they glanced at the retiring chancellor, you are the bird of passage. The administration of the king's cabal followed. 1668 to 1671 England had demanded a liberal ministry; it obtained a dissolute one: it had demanded a ministry not enslaved to prelacy; it obtained one indifferent to all religion, and careless of every thing but pleasure. Buckingham, the noble buffoon at its head, debauched other men's wives, fought duels, and kept about him a train of vo- Chap. XVII.} 1668 to 1671. luptuaries; but he was not, like Clarendon, a tory by system; far from building up the exclusive Church of England, he ridiculed bishops as well as sermons; and when the Quakers went to him with their hats on, to discourse on the equal rights of every conscience, he told them, that he was at heart in favor of their princi- Penn ple. English honor was wrecked; English finances