Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...objection that the occasion offers an acceptable opportunity for the settlement of past grievances is a matter difficult to determine, but doubtless the committee has obtained testimony on this point, as positive as that which props their first indictment. Certainly the present writer in his generation did not go hence unscathed, but he is equally certain that the trifling irregularity in which his collar button suffered fracture was untainted by any ignoble motives of revenge. However, this whole question is one to be determined by the individual members of the class. They might draw up a solemn covenant...
...summer of 1669, Bacon, the great philosopher, drew up a constitution for Carolina, one of its central ideas being that of complete religious freedom. Emigration from Virginia began as early as 1653, the emigrants settling north of Albemarle Sound. Another settlement was made at the mouth of the Cape Fear River by people from the Barbadoes, and still a third near the site of the present Charleston...
...unharbored coast and the malarial swamps of North Carolina had turned the course of the earliest settlers northward toward Virginia. Soon the discontented and lawless from the latter colony emigrated southward and formed a separate settlement, which on account of its make-up was in a condition bordering on anarchy. The industries-purely agricultural-were, however, more varied than in Virginia. The main staples were tobacco in the north and rice in the south. The absence of manufactures and commerce made town life uncommon, most of the people being small farmers and living on small and widely scattered plantations...
...trouble constantly threatened by the Spaniards caused the settlement of Georgia by Gen. James Oglethorpe in 1732. He brought many insolvent English debtors to this place to serve as an outpost against the Spanish. The colony was to be governed by trustees, but this proved unpopular, and a representative system was introduced...
Last evening the 'Varsity Glee, Mandolin and Guitar Clubs gave a concert at Newton for the benefit of the Willard "Y" Settlement of the Y. W. C. T. U. Miss Daisy Grace Earle recited several character selections. The musical clubs were taken to Newton and back by a special electric car. The concert was over at 9.45 and the men returned at once to Cambridge...