 | Richard Markham - 1883 - 340 σελίδες
...of his letters, says : ' ' I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one Foot of Land in this...but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase." Whether the white men believed that the land was given them by the Lord or that they had come by it... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - 1883 - 706 σελίδες
...parted with was worth to the settler." Governor Winslow said, in 1676, that before King Philip's war, "the English did not possess one foot of land in this Colony (Massachusetts) but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors," adding... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1885 - 492 σελίδες
...Plymouth, declared, in reference to King Philip's War, that " before these present troubles broke out the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." This policy was quite general. Captain West, in 1610, bought the site of what is now Richmond, Virginia,... | |
 | Charles Brooks - 1886 - 738 σελίδες
...to be kept out. Gov. Winslow, in a letter dated May i, 1676, says, — " I think I can clearly say that the English did not possess one foot of land...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." In 1698 there were more than four thousand Indians in Massachusetts, and there were enough of them... | |
 | Thomas Wentworth Higginson - 1886 - 504 σελίδες
...Plymouth, declared, in reference to King Philip's War, that " before these present troubles broke out the English did not possess one foot of land in this...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." This policy was quite general. Captain West, in 1610, bought the site of what is now Richmond, Virginia,... | |
 | Charles W. Jenkins - 1889 - 144 σελίδες
...Gov. Winslow dated Marshfield, May i, 1676, and found in Holmes' Annals. "I think I can clearly say that the English did not possess one foot of land...should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians without the knowledge of our Court. And lest they should be straightened, we ordered that Mount... | |
 | John Fiske - 1889 - 328 σελίδες
...other colonies. Says Winslow, " I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles 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 their straits... | |
 | John Fiske - 1889 - 338 σελίδες
...other colonies. Says Winslow, " I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles 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 their straits... | |
 | John Fiske - 1889 - 338 σελίδες
...covetous disposition, and the Indians are in their straits easily prevailed with to part with their lands, we first made a law that none should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians without the knowledge and allowance of our Court. . . . And if at any time they have brought... | |
 | 1894 - 744 σελίδες
...the other English colonies. " I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles 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 their straits... | |
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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. 
