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Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 1903 by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2003-03-01 | Author:Benjamin Franklin [Franklin, Benjamin]

[73] This is a marginal memorandum.—B. * * * X POOR RICHARD'S ALMANAC AND OTHER ACTIVITIES N 1732 I first publish'd my Almanack, under the name of Richard Saunders; it ...
( Category: Colonial Period August 27,2014 )
Tobacco by Iain Gately
epub |eng | 2001-08-19 | Author:Iain Gately

‘As a rule,’ said Holmes, ‘the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it appears to be. It is your common, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as ...
( Category: Colonial Period August 20,2014 )
Love and Hate in Jamestown by Price David A
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Price, David A.

12 POCAHONTAS IN LONDON Within a few months of Pocahontas’s marriage in April 1614, Dale began to think of bringing her to England for the company’s benefit. It was such ...
( Category: Colonial Period June 24,2014 )
Extraordinary Patriots of the United States of American: Colonial Times to Pre-Civil War by Nancy Robinson Masters
mobi |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Nancy Robinson Masters

Henry Knox The “Ox” of the Revolutionary War 1750-1806 He is too valuable to me. —General George Washington Henry Knox looked up from the manual of military strategy he was ...
( Category: Colonial Period May 28,2014 )
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity by Jill Lepore
epub |eng | 1998-01-20 | Author:Jill Lepore [Lepore, Jill]

It is unlikely that Eliot received any assistance from Boyle, or that any Algonquians still alive in Tangier or elsewhere ever made it to England, much less to New England. ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 26,2014 )
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War by Nathaniel Philbrick
mobi, epub, pdf, azw3 |eng | 2007-05-14 | Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

Three times Philip had avoided what seemed like certain capture, but he had been driven from his homeland. His original fighting force of approximately 250 warriors was down to 40, ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
Making Haste from Babylon
mobi |eng | 2010-08-28 | Author:Nick Bunker

CONVOYS TO RUSSIA On October 20, 1621, boatmen on the Thames saw moored in the river five ships that had recently returned from the distant north. They came from the ...
( Category: State & Local March 25,2014 )
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Charles Mann

Sugar mills were smoky, steamy places that required many workers, as shown in this engraving of a Sicilian mill around 1600 (it is based on a painting by Jan Van ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 25,2014 )
Founding America: Documents From the Revolution to the Bill of Rights by Jack N. Rakove
mobi |eng | 2006-04-01 | Author:Jack N. Rakove

RESOLUTION OF CONGRESS FEBRUARY 21, 1787 FEBRUARY 21ST 1787. WHEREAS THERE IS PROVISION in the Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union for making alterations therein by the assent of a ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 25,2014 )
Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer
mobi, epub |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:David Hackett Fischer

Penrith Beacon stands high on a hill near the Cumbrian town of the same name. Its purpose was to warn the English countryside when Scottish raiders were over the border. ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 25,2014 )
Cadwallader Colden by Seymour I. Schwartz
epub |eng | 2013-11-10 | Author:Seymour I. Schwartz

Doctor Garden writes Doctor Whytt, that, in the summer 1754, he met, about a mile from the town of New York in New England, with a plant, which, at first, ...
( Category: Colonial Period March 25,2014 )

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