Identifier: americaencyclopa00newm (find matches)
Title: America: an encyclopaedia of its history and biography
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: Newman, Stephen Morrell. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Chicago, Coburn & Cook publishing company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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the usual privileges of courtshij^and marriage were as few as in the Eng-lish colony of Jamestown at an earlierdate. This year a better class were sent,and during the next few years largenumbers came. One thousand weresent by the year 1673. Sometimesthirty settlers were married at a time.It was once in a while found that someyoung woman had come and left a law-ful husband at home. We do not learnthat these French girls were ever soldas were the English women at James-town. 1667. July 31. The Treaty of Bredabetween England, Holland, France andDenmark, confirmed New Netherlandto the former power in return for Suri-nam in Guiana, S. A., which was to begiven up to Holland. Nova Scotia wasto be returned to France. 1667. The Cathedral of Mexico, be-gun in 1573, was finished. It cost $2,000,-000, and is full of great wealth inornaments and altars. Its length is fivehundred feet, and its breadth four hun-dred and twenty. The site of the cathe-dral is the spot on which Montezumastemple stood.
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FRONT OF CATHEDRAL OF MEXICO I 1662-1692.) THE WIDENING FIELD. 225 1668. Jacques Marquette was sentinto the upper lake region to preach tothe Indians. He visited the outlet ofLake Superior whithcr the Indians camein large numbers to fish, and then wenton to the western end of the lake, wherehe established the mission of St. Esprit.He here first learned of the Mississipj^iRiver from the Illinois Indians who cameto the lake to fish, and formed the desireto explore its course. 1669. First Survey of MagellansStraits. Sir John Narborough was sentout by Charles II. to explore the regionof Magellans Straits, and to make plansof the coast and anchorages. 1669. May. The Old South Churchwas organized in Boston by a minorityof the Boston church. The separationoriginated in the trouble which arosefrom the Half Way Covenant, bywhich those ^vho were not church mem-bers were admitted to the sacraments asa means of grace. 1669. The Grand Model. JohnLocke finished drawing up the GrandModel, or Fundame

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