 | Samuel Gardner Drake - Social Science - 2001 - 469 pages
...Plymouth, where I then commanded." Threet of whose natives, namely, Manida, Skettwarroes and Tasquantum, "I seized upon. They were all of one nation, but of...enough by them about the country from whence they came to establish a belief that it was of great value; not perhaps making due allowance for its being... | |
 | Alexander Young - History - 2005 - 373 pages
...where I then commanded. Three of whose natives, namely, Manida, Skettwarroes, and Tisquantum, I sei2ed upon. They were all of one nation, but of several parts and several families.'^ It is impossible that Sir Perdinando should have been mistaken in the names of those he received from... | |
 | Barbara Olexer - History - 2005 - 260 pages
...Plymouth, Gorges kept three of them and Popham kept two. "I seized upon the Indians," wrote Gorges. "They were all of one Nation, but of several parts and several families... And, having kept them full three years, I made them able to set me down what great rivers run up into... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English literature - 1921 - 496 pages
...his day both a participant in Ralegh's Guiana Expedition and a Cavalier in the Great Civil War — "must be acknowledged the means, under God, of putting on foot and giving life to our plantation." (Ever since the sojourn in England — some eleven years later — of poor Pokahontas,... | |
 | American essays - 1892 - 960 pages
...from a voyage to America ; " which accident," says Sir Ferdinando Gorges, " must be acknowledged as the means under God of putting on foot and giving life to our plantations." Among the most active and influential men in putting this movement on foot were Sir... | |
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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. 
