The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn, 1891 - 359 pages |
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Page 37
... dollars He could do no more ; but he said , " I shall live to see it an English nation . " He did live to see a permanent English settlement established in Virginia in 1607. A hundred and eighty- five years after that event ( 1792 ) Sir ...
... dollars He could do no more ; but he said , " I shall live to see it an English nation . " He did live to see a permanent English settlement established in Virginia in 1607. A hundred and eighty- five years after that event ( 1792 ) Sir ...
Page 67
... dollars ' worth of scarlet cloth , brass buttons , and other trinkets , or at the rate of about one - sixth of a cent an acre . The city of New York now occupies that land , which is valued and taxed at a good deal more than a thousand ...
... dollars ' worth of scarlet cloth , brass buttons , and other trinkets , or at the rate of about one - sixth of a cent an acre . The city of New York now occupies that land , which is valued and taxed at a good deal more than a thousand ...
Page 115
... dollar and a half a pound ; and shortly before the Revolution Charleston exported over a million pounds in a single year . ' Later , cotton 2 was found to be more profitable than indigo even , and so the culture of that plant was given ...
... dollar and a half a pound ; and shortly before the Revolution Charleston exported over a million pounds in a single year . ' Later , cotton 2 was found to be more profitable than indigo even , and so the culture of that plant was given ...
Page 117
... dollars have since had to be spent in straight- ening or widening streets , that work having been done once for all in Penn's orderly brain before the first house was built in 1683 . Penn landed at Newcastle , in what is now Delaware ...
... dollars have since had to be spent in straight- ening or widening streets , that work having been done once for all in Penn's orderly brain before the first house was built in 1683 . Penn landed at Newcastle , in what is now Delaware ...
Page 121
... dollars to - day.1 An 127. The Settlement at Savannah ; Silk Culture . association of twenty - two persons was formed with Oglethorpe as leader . Out of compliment to King George II . , who favored the undertaking , the new colony was ...
... dollars to - day.1 An 127. The Settlement at Savannah ; Silk Culture . association of twenty - two persons was formed with Oglethorpe as leader . Out of compliment to King George II . , who favored the undertaking , the new colony was ...
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