 | JOHN ROMEYN BRODHEAD - 1853 - 838 pages
...immediately "seized upon" by Sir Ferdinando Gorges, the governor of Plymouth, who afterward declared that " this accident must be acknowledged the means, under...on foot and giving life to all our plantations.'^ * Purchas, iv., 1654. t Rymer, Federa, xvi., 516. \ Sir F. Gorges, "Brief Narration," &c., in Mass.... | |
 | Protestant Episcopal Historical Society - 1853 - 416 pages
...extreme severity of the climate. In midwinter fire consumed their storehouse, with the provisions it * " This accident must be acknowledged the means, under...putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." — Sir Ferdinando Gorga' Sriefe Narration. London : I6oS. fTo the two companies all North America,... | |
 | Samuel G. Drake - America - 1854 - 782 pages
...Plymouth, where I then commanded." Three * of whose natives, namely, Afanida, SkeUuxuroet and Tasqvantvm, " I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of...several families. This accident must be acknowledged the meana, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantation*" Paying great attention... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1854 - 668 pages
...and had three of them in his own family for three years ; and " this accident must be acknowledged as the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." He obtained much information from the Indians, and became, from that time, deeply interested in schemes... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Massachusetts - 1855 - 544 pages
...were the natural result ; though in the popular language of the day it was termed " an accident, which must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." ' The discoveries of Gosnold, Pring, and Weymouth, the descriptions of voyagers and fishermen, the... | |
 | John Stetson Barry - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 542 pages
...were the natural result ; though in the popular language of the day it was termed " an accident, which must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations." ' The discoveries of Gosnold, Pring, and Weymouth, the descriptions of voyagers and fishermen, the... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 644 pages
...Penobscoi, from whence he carried to England five of the natives, ' three of whornj' says Gorges, ' I seized upon ; they were all of one nation, but of...putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations. He retained these Indians in his family three years, and obtained from them much information respecting... | |
 | John Warner Barber - New England - 1856 - 636 pages
...river Penobscui, fromwhence he carried to England five of the natives, ' three of whom ' says Gorges, ' I seized upon ; they were all of one nation, but of...putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations. He retained these Indians in his family three years, and obtained from them much information respecting... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - Pemaquid (Me.) - 1857 - 184 pages
...Gorges was in command. He took the Indians into his special custody, and the Knight declared that " this accident must be acknowledged the means, under...on foot, and giving life to all our plantations." Verily, Pemaquid forms the initial in New England Colonization, and this we have on the high authority... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1857 - 550 pages
...Gorges was in command. He took the Indians into his special custody, and the Knight declared that " this accident must be acknowledged the means, under...on foot, and giving life to all our plantations." 1 Verily, Pemaquid forms the initial in New England Colonization, and this we have on the high authority... | |
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I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts, and several families. This accident must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to all our plantations. 
