The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America

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The Minerva Group, Inc., 2002 - 428 pages
 

Contents

CHAPTER
1
Constitutional troubles in New Jersey
15
The postmans route
21
Lovelaces purchases and debts
23
Andross zeal for municipal improvements
44
Jesuit intrigues with the Long House
52
Andros arrives in the Oneida country and holds a grand pow
59
War with the Tarratines
60
The golden age of piracy
222
Fletcher is accused of complicity with the pirates and
228
Strange rumours about Kidd Bellomont goes to Boston
231
The Aristocrats petition the crown
237
Another abortive attempt against Canada
243
William Bradford and John Peter Zenger their newspapers
249
His peroration
256
KNICKERBOCKER SOCIETY
257

They cross the East River and pass through Brooklyn
83
55 56
88
and religious life
100
From a religious point of view the innovator should
106
and the oath of allegiance
113
No Cross no Crown
122
Thee and thou
128
Penn tells the ladies of his conversion
134
How Penn became interested in West Jersey
140
Penns claim against the crown
147
Penns humane and reasonable policy
153
Some incorrect impressions regarding the purchase of Indian
160
Penns return to England
166
Penns ingenious though defective argument
170
Meeting of the first assembly in Fort James
171
And sends out Sir Edmund Andros as viceroy
177
Jacob Leisler refuses to pay duties
183
A committee of safety appoints Leisler to be commanderin
189
Robert Livingston
192
The massacre
195
The king sends Henry Sloughter to be governor of
198
Trial and sentence of the Leislerites
204
The war with France 210
210
Fletcher rebukes the assembly
216
Whigs and Tories
262
The servants quarters
269
The stoop
275
Dress
281
The negro plot of 1712
288
Hughsons Tavern and the informer Mary Burton
290
The Maids of Taunton
296
Absurd stories about him
302
Disagreements between Delaware and Pennsylvania
309
Penns wretched son
315
The first schools in Pennsylvania
321
Printing and the Bradfords
322
Andrew Hamiltons tribute to Penn
328
The synagogue in New York
335
Walloon settlements on the Hudson River
341
Jay Laurens and Boudinot
347
Migration of Palatines to New York and Pennsylvania 350
350
SOME LEISLER DOCUMENTS
357
CHARTER FOR THE PROVINCE OF PENN
370
Andross relations with New England
389
83
390
MAPS
395
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John Fiske was born in Hartford, Connecticut on March 30, 1842. After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1865, he opened a law practice in Boston but soon turned to writing. His career as an author began in 1861, with an article on "Mr. Buckle's Fallacies," published in the National Quarterly Review. Since that time he had been a frequent contributor to American and British periodicals. Early in his career Fiske also achieved popularity as a lecturer on history and in his later life was occupied mostly with that field. In 1869 to 1871 he was University lecturer on philosophy at Harvard, in 1870 an instructor in history there, and in 1872 to 1879, assistant librarian. On resigning as librarian in 1879, he was elected as a member of the board of overseers, and at the end of the six year term, was reelected in 1885. Since 1881 he had lectured annually on American history at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, and since 1884 had held a professorship of American history there. He lectured on American history at University College, London, in 1879, and at the Royal institution of Great Britain in 1880. A large part of his life had been devoted to the study of history; but at an early age, inquiries into the nature of human evolution led him to carefully study the doctrine of evolution, and it was of this popularization of European evolutionary theory that the public first knew him. Fiske's historical writings include The Critical Period of American History, 1783-1789, The Beginnings of New England, The American Revolution, The Discovery of America, Old Virginia and Her Neighbors, Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America, The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War, and New France and New England. John Fiske died in 1901.

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