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xvi, 345 p. port. 21 cm. |
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Essay index reprint series
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| Note |
"First published 1931." |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
Preface, by J.F. Jameson.--Introduction, by N. Neilson.--Land tenure in English colonial charters of the seventeenth century, by V.F. Barnes.--Land tenure in New Netherland, by C.W. Rife.--The Earl of Stirling and the colonization of Long Island, by I.M. Calder.--The four independent companies of New York, by S.M. Pargellis.--Parliamentary privilege in the American colonies, by M.P. Clarke.--The early careers of the royal governors, by L.W. Labaree.--Jonathan Belcher, junior, chief justice and lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, by R.G. Lounsbury.--The impressment of seamen in the American colonies, by D.M. Clark.--The economic causes of the rise of Baltimore, by C.P. Gould.--The settlement and financing of British West India plantations in the eighteenth century, by F.W. Pitman.--The taxation of the Connecticut towns, 1750-1775, by L.H. Gipson.--Some political ideals of the colonial period as they were realized in the old northwest, by B.W. Bond. |
| Subject |
Andrews, Charles McLean, 1863-1943.
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United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- Administration.
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