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... estate in private legacies and to private uses which might better have been spared and to give little or nothing to ... estates and willing minds to have done more and to have helped to carry them on to more perfection . For I have held ...
... estate in private legacies and to private uses which might better have been spared and to give little or nothing to ... estates and willing minds to have done more and to have helped to carry them on to more perfection . For I have held ...
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... estates , but they have in some respects a great superiority : they have more liberty in many instances , and are quite exempt from the overbearing influence of any neighbouring nobleman , which in England is very mis- chievous to many ...
... estates , but they have in some respects a great superiority : they have more liberty in many instances , and are quite exempt from the overbearing influence of any neighbouring nobleman , which in England is very mis- chievous to many ...
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... estates . Those of fortune erect saw mills on their new grants , by which means they are enabled to make a very considerable profit by the woods at the same time that they lay the foundation of future estates for their posterity ...
... estates . Those of fortune erect saw mills on their new grants , by which means they are enabled to make a very considerable profit by the woods at the same time that they lay the foundation of future estates for their posterity ...
Contents
PART ONE The First Settlements 1 5 841660 | 1 |
LEGAL FOUNDATIONS | 12 |
FROM OUTPOSTS TO PLANTATIONS ON THE CHESAPEAKE | 34 |
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