The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological OrderBancroft, Charles
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The Footprints of Time: And a Complete Analysis of Our American System of Government, with a Concise History of the Original Colonies and of the United States, in Chronological Order
Bancroft, Charles
United States -- History; United States -- Politics and government
—Massachusetts having disregarded the Navigation Act, Edward
Randolph was sent as Inspector of Customs. He failed to
enforce the act, and in 1682 the charter of Massachusetts was
annulled.
1680—Charleston, South Carolina, founded.
1681—Wm. Penn receives a grant of Pennsylvania from Charles
II.
—Penn restores the proprietary government in the Jerseys.
—He founds Philadelphia; makes a treaty with the Indians; and
governs East Jersey.
1682—La Salle visits and names Louisiana.
1686—Sir Edmund Andross being made Governor-General over New
England, proceeds in a very tyrannical manner. He endeavored
to get possession of the charter of Connecticut, but failed,
though he took possession of the government.
1688—New York and New Jersey came under the jurisdiction
of Andross; but James II., the tyrannical King of England,
being deposed, Massachusetts imprisoned Andross. Rhode
Island and Connecticut resumed their charter governments;
but Massachusetts, having given offense by resistance to the
Navigation Act, never recovered her original charter.
—France having espoused the cause of the dethroned king, a
war broke out between France and England, known as “King
William’s” war.
1689—The government of New York is seized by Jacob Leisler
for King William.
1690—May 1st, a Congress of colonial delegates meets at New
York to concert measures for the common defense.
February 18th, destruction of Schenectady, N. Y., and
massacre of the inhabitants by the Indians, sent by the
French, from Canada.
—March 18th, Salmon Falls, New Hampshire, on the Piscataqua
river, is destroyed by the French and Indians. Casco, Maine,
is also destroyed.
—Sir William Phipps, Governor of Massachusetts, invades
Canada, unsuccessfully.
—French Protestants settle in Virginia and Carolina.
1691—Slaughter becomes Governor of New York. He executes
Leisler.
1692—Massachusetts receives a new charter. Her limits are
enlarged, but her privileges restricted.
—Texas settled by the Spaniards, at Bexar.
1695—Rice brought to Carolina, from Africa.
1697—The Peace of Ryswick terminates King William’s war.
1698—Piracies of Captain Kidd. He was tried and executed in
England, in 1701.
1699—Pensacola is settled by the Spaniards.
1701—William Penn grants a new charter to Pennsylvania.
1702—The Jerseys united and joined to New York.
“Queen Anne’s war” breaks out. New England suffered much from
the ravages of the Indians.
—Governor Moore, of South Carolina, attacks St. Augustine,
but without success.
—Mobile founded by d’Iberville, with a colony of Canadian
French.
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