Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference
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ISBN13: 9780217945684
Paperback|9780217945684
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: AMERICAN HISTORY. 19 called upon by any department of the national government. Of the latter class, a few dozen were in existence in 1789. Perhaps the most famous of these are Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., and Phillips Academy, Exeter, N. H., founded in 1780 and 1781, respectively. Acadia, or Acadie, the name given by the French to a province of their colonial empire in America, consisting of what is now Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and part of Maine, the important part being Nova Scotia. De Monts settled it in 1604. It was claimed by England. Argall conquered it in 1613. James I. gave it to Sir William Alexander, but he could not hold it. It was in English hands from 1654 to 1657. It was conquered by Sir William Phipps and New England troops in 1690, but retaken in 1691. Further attempts were made in 1704, 1707 and 1710. The last was successful, and in 1713 the treaty of Utrecht gave Acadia to England. Under British government the Acadians were accused of abusing their privileges as neutrals. In 1755 several thousand of them were transported, with much harsh treatment, to the British provinces southward. (Longfellow's Evangeline is founded upon this act of expatriation.) Many made their way to Louisiana. Acre Right, the share owned by any one in the common lands of New England towns. Their value varied in different towns, but was a fixed quantity in each town. In Billerica, for instance, a ten-acre lot or right vas equivalent to 113 acres of upland and twelve acres of meadow, and so on in exact proportion. Acts and Resolves, a publication issued by the government of Massachusetts, edited by Abner C. Goodell, Jr. It comprises all the acts and resolves of the Massachusetts I/egislature from 1691 to 1780, including those obsolete and repealed. Publication began i...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217945684 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217945686 |
| Weight | 1.18 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.81 In |
| List Price | $28.76 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 364 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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