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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 5, 13th edition., Chapter 11: (search)
. Officers from West Florida reached Fort Chartres. Lieut. Ross to Major Farmar, Fort Chartres, 21 Feb. 1765. preparatory to taking possession of the country, which was still delayed by the discontent of the Indians. With the same object, Croghan and a party descended the Ohio from Pittsburg. The governor of North Carolina believed that, by pushing trade up the Missouri, a way to the great Western ocean would be discovered, and an open trade to it be established. Dobbs to Halifax, 26 Feb. 1765. So wide was the territory—so vast the interests for which the British Parliament was legislating! On the day after the debate on American affairs, Grenville, Lord North, and Jenkinson, with others, were ordered to bring in a Stamp-bill for America, which on the thirteenth was introduced by Grenville himself, and read the first time without a syllable of debate. Journals of the House of Commons. Letter to New-York of 16 Feb. 1765, in Boston Gazette of 3 June, 1765. Among the papers