The Leading Facts of American HistoryGinn & Company, 1895 - 365 pages |
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... Philadelphia 1682 Annapolis 1683 FRANCE LAND NEW NETHERLAND Z السيار Salem 1629 Boston 1630 Plymouth 1620 New Amsterdam 1623 Jamestown 16 POTOMAC Charleston 1670 Port Royal 1562 ROANOKE ISLAND 1.585-87 French Settlement 1564 St ...
... Philadelphia 1682 Annapolis 1683 FRANCE LAND NEW NETHERLAND Z السيار Salem 1629 Boston 1630 Plymouth 1620 New Amsterdam 1623 Jamestown 16 POTOMAC Charleston 1670 Port Royal 1562 ROANOKE ISLAND 1.585-87 French Settlement 1564 St ...
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... Philadelphia now stands . The whole coun- try between these forts they claimed as part of New Netherland , ' though the English maintained that as the Cabots had discovered the coast , it belonged by right to them.2 3 In 1664 , after ...
... Philadelphia now stands . The whole coun- try between these forts they claimed as part of New Netherland , ' though the English maintained that as the Cabots had discovered the coast , it belonged by right to them.2 3 In 1664 , after ...
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... Philadelphia , in Pennsylvania , and from that time for many years there were bitter disputes about the boundary between that Province and Maryland . At length Mason and Dixon , two eminent English surveyors , were employed ( 1763-1767 ) ...
... Philadelphia , in Pennsylvania , and from that time for many years there were bitter disputes about the boundary between that Province and Maryland . At length Mason and Dixon , two eminent English surveyors , were employed ( 1763-1767 ) ...
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... Philadelphia Help 1682 1667 ER SEE Wilmington 1638 DELAWARE LONG 1 . T CE But the dream of a New Sweden was not to be realized . The Dutch had at- tempted to settle Delaware in 1629 ; they claimed the territory ; and in 1654 Gov- ernor ...
... Philadelphia Help 1682 1667 ER SEE Wilmington 1638 DELAWARE LONG 1 . T CE But the dream of a New Sweden was not to be realized . The Dutch had at- tempted to settle Delaware in 1629 ; they claimed the territory ; and in 1654 Gov- ernor ...
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... Philadelphia ; Land- ing at Newcastle . — The first emigrants were sent out under the charge of Penn's commissioners in 1681. They appear to have spent the winter on the western bank of the Delaware at a Swedish settlement which was ...
... Philadelphia ; Land- ing at Newcastle . — The first emigrants were sent out under the charge of Penn's commissioners in 1681. They appear to have spent the winter on the western bank of the Delaware at a Swedish settlement which was ...
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