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Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)
Biography of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence Vol 1 - Classic Reprint Author:John Sanderson INTRODUCTION. — A VIEW OF THE BRITISH COLONIES OP NORTH AMERICA FROM THEIR ORIGIN TO THEIR INDEPENDENCE. — CHAPTER I. — Of the first settlements, character, and condition of — the inhabitants. — To the influence of commercial enterprize, we owe the commencement of the British empire in America; to religious and political persecutions, the growth and ... more »subversion of it. The original incentive to the colonization of Virginia, was the hope of possessing the rich mines that were supposed to exist in the unexplored regions of that province. But the rapid torrent of population, which afterwards flowed into it, and which covered, by its successive inundations. the other portions of this vast territory, was
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