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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. "
The Pilgrim Fathers, Their Church and Colony - Page 271
by Winnifred Cockshott - 1909 - 348 pages
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A Narrative of the Indian Wars in New-England: From the First Planting ...

William Hubbard - Indians of North America - 1803 - 402 pages
...think I can clearly fay, that before thefc. prefent troubles broke out, the Englifh did not"' pofTefs one foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honeft purchafe of the, Indian proprietor^ : Nay, becaufe fome of our. people are of a covetous difpofition,...
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American Annals: Or, a Chronological History of America, from Its ..., Volume 1

Abiel Holmes - America - 1805 - 504 pages
...M.irJificld I May 1676, observes : • I think I can clearly say, that before these present trouble* broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony, but what wJi fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first made a law, that none should...
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The Literary Panorama, Volume 5

English literature - 1809 - 688 pages
...upright and pious governor Winslow, in a letter dalcd at Marsh&eld, 1 May, 1676, observes : " I think 1 can clearly say, that before these present troubles...out, the English did not possess one foot of land iu this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first...
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The Literary panorama, Volume 5, Issue 1809

1809 - 672 pages
...clearly say, that 'before these present troubles broke out, the Engluh did not possess one font of bind m this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We lirit made a law, that none should purchase ot receive of gift any laud of the Indium, without the...
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American Annals: Or, A Chronological History of America, from Its ..., Volume 1

Abiel Holmes - America - 1813 - 432 pages
...The upright and pious governor Winslow, in a letter dated at Marshfield, 1 May, 1 676, observes : " I think I can clearly say, that before these present...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors. We first made i\ law, that now should purchase or receive of gift any land of the Indians, without...
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History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as ..., Volume 1

David Ramsay - History - 1816 - 458 pages
...their part. The worthy governor Winslow, in a letter, dated May 1st, 1676, observed : " I think I ran clearly say, that, before these present troubles broke...did not possess one foot of .'land in this colony, which was not fairly obtained, by honest purchase, from the Indian proprietors."* • For the preceding'...
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Yamoyden, a Tale of the Wars of King Philip: In Six Cantos

James Wallis Eastburn, Robert Charles Sands - King Philip's War, 1675-1676 - 1820 - 378 pages
...Governor Winslow, in a letter dated lit Marshfield, 1st May, 1676, observes: ' I think I can clearIv say, that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess ono foot of land in this colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors....
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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 12

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 542 pages
...specific encroachment. It was as truly as proudly sa;d by (iuvernor Winslow of Plymouth, in 1676, ' I think I can clearly say, that before these present...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.' Massassoit, the father of I'hilip, came voluntarily to Plymouth within three months after the first...
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North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 12

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1821 - 536 pages
...encroachment. It was as truly as proudly said by Governor Winslow of Plymouth, in 1676, « I think 1 can clearly say, that before these present troubles...out, the English did not possess one foot of land in tliis colony, but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.' Massassoit,...
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A Sketch of the Ecclesiastical History of Ipswich: The Substance of a ...

David Tenney Kimball - Ipswich (Mass.) - 1823 - 120 pages
...to purchase of the natives all the laud they possessed. For, said he, in 1676, " I think I can truly say, that before these present troubles broke out,...obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors." — [Hubbard's Indian Wars.] This probably was equally true with respect to the Massachusetts colony....
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