 | Charles Edwin Booth - Massachusetts - 1910 - 298 pages
...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." What Winslow says of Plymouth Colony was equally true of the others (see page 103). The deeds covering... | |
 | Charles Lemuel Thompson - United States - 1917 - 334 pages
...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." If our " courts " had always maintained and exercised a similar guardianship over the rights of Indians,... | |
 | Mary Caroline Crawford - History - 1920 - 402 pages
...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 any time they have brought complaints before us, they have had justice impartial and speedy,... | |
 | Richard Slotkin, James K. Folsom - History - 1978 - 508 pages
...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 penalty of a fine, five pound per Acre, for all that should be so bought or obtained. And lest... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1873 - 540 pages
...prevailed with to part with their lands, we first made a taw that none should purchase or recrire of yifi any land of the Indians, without the knowledge and allowance of our Court." — Increate Mather's Brief History, postscript, pp. 1, 2. t " On the discoverv of this immense continent,... | |
 | CHARLES LEMUEL THOMPSON, D.D., LL.D. - 1917 - 324 pages
...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." If our "courts" had always maintained and exercised a similar guardianship over the rights of Indians,... | |
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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 : Nay, because some of our people are of a... 
