A Junior Class History of the United States: To which are Added the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States ...Maynard, Merrill & Company, 1899 - 382 pages |
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... grant blossoms . It was Easter Sunday when this land was reached , and the mariners had abundance of flowers to celebrate that festival . De Leon , a few years afterward , returned to his newly - found land , and was mortally wounded in ...
... grant blossoms . It was Easter Sunday when this land was reached , and the mariners had abundance of flowers to celebrate that festival . De Leon , a few years afterward , returned to his newly - found land , and was mortally wounded in ...
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... grant of land lying between the thirty - fourth and thirty - eighth parallels , which they were empowered to settle and govern . This company provided three small ships , provisions , tools , etc. , and sent out a colony consisting of ...
... grant of land lying between the thirty - fourth and thirty - eighth parallels , which they were empowered to settle and govern . This company provided three small ships , provisions , tools , etc. , and sent out a colony consisting of ...
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... grant , and Virginia once more became a royal province , and so remained till the Revolution in 1776 . CHAPTER V New England 1. The Plymouth Company . It has already been stated that King James , in 1606 , granted to the London Company ...
... grant , and Virginia once more became a royal province , and so remained till the Revolution in 1776 . CHAPTER V New England 1. The Plymouth Company . It has already been stated that King James , in 1606 , granted to the London Company ...
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... grant from the London Company ; and leaving their pastor , as many as could be provided with quarters in 5. In what vessel did they sail from Holland ? Whom did they leave in Holland ? What port , in England , did they reach ? With how ...
... grant from the London Company ; and leaving their pastor , as many as could be provided with quarters in 5. In what vessel did they sail from Holland ? Whom did they leave in Holland ? What port , in England , did they reach ? With how ...
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... grant of the land which they occupied , from the Council of Plymouth , who had succeeded to the powers and rights of the Plymouth Company . The colony , at that time , numbered about three hundred persons . 12. As the Puritans were ...
... grant of the land which they occupied , from the Council of Plymouth , who had succeeded to the powers and rights of the Plymouth Company . The colony , at that time , numbered about three hundred persons . 12. As the Puritans were ...
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Page 7 - Delaware, December 7, 1787. Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787. New Jersey, December 18, 1787. Georgia, January 2, 1788. Connecticut, January 9, 1788. Massachusetts, February 6, 1788. Maryland, April 28, 1788. South Carolina. May 23, 1788. New Hampshire, June 21, 1788.
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Page 16 - No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.