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Contents PREFACE 9 INTRODUCTION The Colonies in the Eighteenth Century 13 PART I Developments in the Separate Colonies 15 1. Liberalism in Massachusetts 17 2. Presbyterian Connecticut 25 3. Libertarianism in Rhode Island 26 4. Land Tenure and Land Allocation in New England 28 5. New Hampshire Breaks Free 32 6. The Narragansett Planters 34 7. New York Land Monopoly 36 8. Slavery in New York 44 9. Land Conflicts in New Jersey 47 10. The Ulster Scots 53 11. The Pennsylvania Germans 57 12. Pennsylvania: Quakers and Indians 59 13. The Emergence of Benjamin Franklin 64 14. The Paxton Boys 73 15. The Virginia Land System 76 16. The Virginia Political Structure 80 17. Virginia Tobacco 83 18. Slavery in Virginia 86 19. Indian War in North Carolina 89 20. The North Carolina Proprietary 91 21. Royal Government in North Carolina 94 7
22. Slavery in South Carolina 97 23. Proprietary Rule in South Carolina 101 24. The Land Question in South Carolina 104 25. Georgia: The "Humanitarian" Colony 107 PART II Intercolonial Developments 121 26. Inflation and the Creation of Paper Money 123 27. The Communication of Ideas: Postal Service and the Freedom of the Press 141 28. Religious Trends in the Colonies 156 29. The Great Awakening 159 30. The Growth of Deism 170 31. The Quakers and the Abolition of Slavery 174 32. The Beginning of the Struggle over American Bishops 181 33. The Growth of Libertarian Thought 186 PART III Relations with Britain 199 34. Assembly Versus Governor 201 35. Mercantilist Restrictions 205 36. King George's War 215 37. Early Phases of the French and Indian War 226 38. The Persecution of the Acadians 238 39. Total War 245 40. The American Colonies and the War 250 41. Concluding Peace 256 42. Administering the Conquests 265 BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 269 INDEX 279
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Page 3 and 4: CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY VOLUME II "SAL
Page 5: By Liberty, I understand the power
Page 9 and 10: fruits of liberty and production. P
Page 11 and 12: Introduction The Colonies in the Ei
Page 13 and 14: PART I Developments in the Separate
Page 15 and 16: General Court, representing the vie
Page 17 and 18: chusetts Bay. Mather, Willard, and
Page 19 and 20: Half-Way Covenant, eliminating the
Page 21 and 22: widened his focus to society and go
Page 23 and 24: Libertarianism in Rhode Island Thou
Page 25 and 26: Land Tenure and Land Allocation in
Page 27 and 28: ing a separate absentee oligarchy,
Page 29 and 30: New Hampshire Breaks Free Conflicts
Page 31 and 32: The Narragansett Planters Another i
Page 33 and 34: 7 New York Land Monopoly As early a
Page 35 and 36: manor (the "highland patent") began
Page 37 and 38: ecame mainly squabbles of family an
Page 39 and 40: Crown and for Robert Livingston to
Page 41 and 42: 8 Slavery in New York Of all the No
Page 43 and 44: Roman Catholic priest found in the
Page 45 and 46: arms, and threatened Coxe with assa
Page 47 and 48: twenty of the rioters for high trea
Page 49 and 50: Hunter Morris sailed to London to p
Page 51 and 52: The first great wave of Ulster Scot
Page 53 and 54: idled, and therefore few Ulstermen
Page 55 and 56: While the great bulk of Pennsylvani
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scouts and Indian fighters. And by
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(Nova Scotia). The Assembly, urged
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13 The Emergence of Benjamin Frankl
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and influential men. Hardly had Fra
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getting ready to strike a mortal bl
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uncollectible quitrents. The upshot
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farmers, in contrast, retired from
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pains, jeered and cursed at every s
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15 The Virginia Land System The Sou
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first imported Germans were Swiss,
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16 The Virginia Political Structure
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ludicrous. If each voter gave his v
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British merchant-creditors, that is
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18 Slavery in Virginia As tobacco p
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the free Negroes [that the Assembly
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defeated the Tuscaroras, captured o
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collection of the rents. All in all
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21 Royal Government in North Caroli
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and taxes ceased to be paid through
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whites, whereas Negro slaves outnum
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esult could only be a rout. Fifty o
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colony and thrust into Florida by 1
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24 The Land Question in South Carol
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wicke, Izard, and Middleton. (Gover
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upon the Westo Indians in 1680, the
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colony in Gualé (to be called "Geo
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his chief ally, Viscount Percival,
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Since the funds all came philanthro
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the Assembly who did not have at le
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the Jews from the colony. Particula
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would shut off an expected flow of
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Courtesy of The New-York Historical
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New York Public Library Robert Walp
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26 Inflation and the Creation of Pa
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paper made a compulsory medium for
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As befitted their undeveloped econo
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violation of the law, the Assemblie
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pounds; for then no one would have
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price of silver in New England shil
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followed each new emission of paper
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in Massachusetts. In 1744, the tota
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If merchants were the leaders in ag
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27 The Communication of Ideas: Post
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None of these actions and restricti
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censorship through licensing of the
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sick wife; the lower house finally
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indeed for a despotically inclined
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egard to the laws." And the laws, l
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indefinitely and to ignore any writ
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his guilt was sentenced to the pill
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By the first decades of the eightee
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29 The Great Awakening Into this re
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University, which stressed evangeli
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In New Jersey the battle between th
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individualist, rationalist, and Arm
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isters were to be fined or expelled
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petition, but wiser heads prevailed
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Briant's essay led to a wave of Arm
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inant. Like their counterparts in A
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Meanwhile, similar protests were gr
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The great impact of John Woolman is
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tation, but all the time that they
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32 The Beginning of the Struggle ov
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grand design for an American establ
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opinion to open them again; and Wil
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oretical articulation and groundwor
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ights to popular government. There
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keep this property, exchange it for
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authority; that is, they are void;
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great for the sake of the public, a
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work of his hands are properly his
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PART III Relations with Britain
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decisions of governor and Council t
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of the Assemblies, which won for th
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purchasers or English shippers. Tob
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American woolens, the industry was
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twelve-inch diameters or more (but
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place, a virtual monopoly of the na
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The Walpoles were willing to appeas
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England had attacked France in two
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Spain in October 1739. A new wave o
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in England over the unexpected capt
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still held several British officers
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or Assembly, took the lead in this
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37 Early Phases of the French and I
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ginia, in particular, began to pres
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All in all, nearly one million, fiv
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iver." Only North Carolina voted su
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itterly, denouncing it as "against
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cajoling the Virginia Assembly into
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38 The Persecution of the Acadians
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four prisoners had been "guilty of
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tion of the New Brunswick area. Nai
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quered Quebec later in the war, man
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Indian tribes to join the French si
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against Fort Duquesne with a force
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40 The American Colonies and the Wa
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was the English army, and that if t
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England had long been the major opp
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41 Concluding Peace Although the co
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ing the French fort at Louisbourg.
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manuscript of Henry McCulloh, a Bri
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In the meanwhile, Pitt's acceptance
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William Burke's Examination of the
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The immigrants arrived in midsummer
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liament. Enjoying the blessings of
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known to historians. The definitive
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Land-grabbing and Indian conflicts
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considerable historical controversy
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The best '::story of eighteenth-cen
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Index Abercromby, James, 247 abolit
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Burling, William, 175 Burr, Aaron,
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Duane, James, 41 Duane manor, 39 Du
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Hawley, Thomas, 36 Hayward, John, 1
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Maine, 55, 211; settlement of, 140
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pamphlets, 64, 66, 131, 132, 146, 1
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St. John, James, 104-105 salutary n
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Virginia, 54, 118, 154, 235, 243, 2
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