Identifier: unitedstateshist00ridp (find matches)
Title: United States; a history: the most complete and most popular history of the United States of America from the aboriginal times to the present day..
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
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Publisher: Boston, New York, The United States history co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d that the English government would do something to repair theheavy losses which the colonists had sustained; but not so. Instead ofhelp came Edward Randolph, a royal emissary, with authority to collectduties and* abridge colonial liberties. Governor Leverett received himcoldly, and told him in plain words that not even the king could right-fully restrict the freedom of his American subjects; that the people of thecolonies had finished the Indian war without a cent of expense to theEnglish treasury, and that they were now fairly entitled to the enjoymentof their chartered rights. After a six weeks sojourn at Boston, RandolphBailed back to London, bearing to the ministry an exaggerated accountof colonial arrogance. The king was already scheming to revoke all theNew England charters; Randolphs reception furnished a further pretextfor such a course of action. The next trouble was concerning the jurisdiction of Maine. SirFerdinand Gorges, the old proprietor of that province, was now dead;
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DEATH OF KING PHILIP. MASSACHUSETTS.—KING PHILIPS WAR. 145 but his heirs had never relinquished their claims to the territory. Thepeople of Maine had meanwhile put themselves under the authority ofMassachusetts; but the representatives of Gorges carried tbe matter beforethe privy council, and in 1677 a decision was rendered in their favor.Thereupon the Boston government made a proposition to the Gorgesfamily to purchase their claims; the proposition was accepted, and on the6th of May the heirs signed a deed by which, in consideration of twelvehundred and fifty pounds sterling, the soil and jurisdiction of the provincewere transferred to Massachusetts. A similar difficulty arose in regard to New Hampshire. As farback as 1622 the Plymouth council had granted this territory to two oftheir own number—Gorges, just mentioned, and Captain John Mason.Seven years after the grant was made, Gorges surrendered his claim toMason, who thus became sole proprietor. But this territory was alsocove

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