 | James Thacher - 1832 - 460 σελίδες
...1st, 1676, as follows : ' I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this...should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians, without the knowledge of our court. And lest they should be straitened, we ordered that Mount... | |
 | Elihu Hoyt - 1833 - 64 σελίδες
...1st, 1676, wherein he says, " I think I can clearly say that before the present trouble broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. Nay, because some of our people are of a covetous disposition and the Indians are in straits, easily... | |
 | Robert Charles Sands - 1834 - 446 σελίδες
...1st May, 1676, observes i ' I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this...should purchase, or receive of gift, any land of the Indians, without the knowledge and allowance of our court. And lest yet they should be streightened,... | |
 | James Thacher - 1835 - 426 σελίδες
...May 1st, 1676, as follows: ' I think I can clearly say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this...first made a law that none should purchase or receive by gift any land of the Indians, without the knowledge of our court. And lest they should be straitened,... | |
 | Benjamin Church - 1836 - 376 σελίδες
...I think I can clearly say, that befoM these present troubles broke out, the English did not possea one foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors: Nay, because1 some of our people are of a covetous disposition, and the lit. dians are in their straits... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 σελίδες
...present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in the colony of Plymouth, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.' But, however justly we may defend the memory of our fathers, against the charge of wantonly pursuing... | |
 | 1819 - 588 σελίδες
...governor Winslow observes, in a letter written at the time, " that before the present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." The planters had protected them in their rights, by their laws ; and had attempted to introduce them... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1837 - 594 σελίδες
...clearly say," said Governor Winslow, of Plymouth, in 1676, "that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony, but what was obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." Always watchful of the great interest, and... | |
 | Barnstable (Mass.) - 1840 - 158 σελίδες
...said, " Before the present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in the colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors ; " but I cannot learn, that, at any time since the settlement, a single act of hostility has taken... | |
 | Henry White - 1841 - 440 σελίδες
...covetous disposition, and the Indians are in straits, easily prevailed with to part with their lands, we first made a law that none should purchase, or receive of gift any lands of the Indians, without the knowledge and allowance of the court, and a penalty of a fine of... | |
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I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. 
