Word: jamestowne
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...Jamestown, N. Y., James C. Norton urged a beetle 617 times round the brim of a derby hat. Said he: "I guess I got the record...
...Lackawanna; Niagara Falls Trust Co., Niagara Falls; Niagara County National Bank and Trust Co., Lockport; State Trust Co., North Tonawanda; Workers Trust Co., Johnson City; The Bank of East Aurora, East Aurora; Bank of La Salle, Niagara Falls; First Trust Co., Tonawanda; Peoples Trust Co., Binghamton; Union Trust Co., Jamestown; Orleans County Trust Co., Albion; Bank of Snyder, Snyder...
...offered white man's medicine. All must drink. The King and his bodyguard agreed. Faithfully they drank the prescribed drink. It came in cases labeled HOLLAND GIN. After the warriors were quite senseless, 16 girls and four boys were kidnapped, to be sold as the first slaves at Jamestown, Va. Next morning the Dutchmen were far out and the Herreros could not chase them...
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...Almost every early history of the western hemisphere tells of some part taken by Negroes. As early as 1645 there were free Negroes in New York, and it is common knowledge that the first Negroes in Virginia arrived in 1619, but a few years after the white colonists at Jamestown. In the French and Indian Wars, black men did their bit, and a Negro was first to fall in the War for Independence. They were with Perry at the battle of Lake Erie and they helped Jackson repulse the British at the Battle of New Orleans. The first chief...