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Lincoln was historian and economist enough to know that a substantial portion of this wealth had accumulated in the hands of the descendants of New Englanders engaged in the slave trade.
It is a question which New Englanders long ago put out of their minds.
As many of the New Englanders were originally from England game hunting was often a pastime from back home that paid off when they immigrated to the New World.
Prior to the Revolution, New Englanders consumed large quantities of rum and beer, as maritime trade provided them relatively easy access to the goods needed to produce these items: Rum was the distilled spirit of choice, as the main ingredient, molasses, was readily available from trade with the West Indies.
Although Louisbourg was captured by New Englanders with British naval assistance in 1745 and by the British again in 1758, Île Royale remained formally part of colonial France until it was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Paris in 1763.
In 1667, New Englanders sent to King Charles 10 barrels of cranberries, 3 barrels of codfish and some Indian corn as a means of appeasement for his anger over their local coining of the Pine Tree shilling.
Calef's book was inspired by the fear that Mather would succeed in once again stirring up new witchcraft trials, and the need to bear witness to the horrible experiences of New Englanders in 1692.
The New Englanders established Puritanism — for better or worse — as one of the continuous factors in American life and thought.
Beginning February 29, 1928 on NBC, Socony Oil reached radio listeners with a comedy program, Soconyland Sketches, scripted by William Ford Manley and featuring Arthur Allen and Parker Fennelly as rural New Englanders.
After the Siege of Louisbourg ( 1745 ) during King George's War, the New Englanders also captured Île Saint-Jean ( Prince Edward Island ).
The troops fled and New Englanders burned the capital to the ground.
Duvivier and the twenty men retreated up the Northeast River ( Hillsborough River ), pursued by the New Englanders until the French troops received reinforcements from the Acadian militia and the Mi ' kmaq.
The French troops and their allies were able to drive the New Englanders to their boats, nine New Englanders killed, wounded or made prisoner.
The New Englanders took six Acadian hostages, who would be executed if the Acadians or Mi ' kmaq rebelled against New England control.
The New Englanders had a force of two war ships and 200 soldiers stationed at Port-La-Joye.
Montesson and his troops killed forty New Englanders and captured the rest.
Perhaps the best summation of his career is in the biographical entry in Robert Charles Anderson's The Great Migration Begins ( NEHGS, Boston 1995 ): " Among the many remarkable lives lived by early New Englanders, Bachiler's is the most remarkable.
" The Federalist party became popular with businessmen and New Englanders ; Republicans were mostly farmers who opposed a strong central government.
New Englanders themselves employed the word in a neutral sense: the " Pennamite-Yankee War ", for example, was the name given to a series of clashes in 1769 over land titles in Pennsylvania, in which the " Yankees " were the Connecticut claimants.

New and were
As best as I could determine, we were some 700 miles west of New Guinea, in the Bismark Archipelago.
Just six weeks after Dandy Brandon's arrival at the mansion, the little surgeon and his svelte young wife gave their annual open house and ball, to which only New Orleans' oldest and wealthiest families were invited.
The contributors to this testament were all well-known: a former Democratic candidate for President, a New Deal poet, the magazine's chief editorial writer, two newspaper columnists, head of a national broadcasting company, a popular Protestant evangelist, etc..
New ideas were dangerous and must be repressed, no matter how.
Exhibited in shows in London in 1935, and in New York the following year, the new, more elaborated abstracts were much favored in the circles of the modernists as three-dimentional dramas of great intellectual coherence.
Baptists and Congregationalists in New England were on friendly terms.
In his own state of New York, the two Democratic bellwethers, State Leader Hill and Tammany Boss Murphy, were saying nothing openly against Hearst but industriously boosting their own favorites, Murphy being for Cleveland and Hill for Parker.
Blackman was to be in New York by February 2, because they were sailing at 12:01 next morning.
Lewis's remarks about his marriage were suggestive enough to induce American reporters to invade the offices of Harcourt, Brace & Company for information, to pursue Mrs. Lewis to Cromwell Hall, and, after she had returned to New York, to ferret her out at the Stanhope on upper Fifth Avenue where she had taken an apartment.
It met a serious rebuff in New Orleans, where the two schools selected for the first moves toward integration were boycotted by white parents.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
In addition to the regular schedule, advertisements were run for maximum impact in special editions of the New York Times, Boston Herald, American Banker, Electronic News and, for local promotion, the Providence Sunday Journal.
More than 25 carefully selected cities were visited, including New York, Brooklyn, Long Island City, Newark, Elizabeth, Stamford, Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport, Boston, Cambridge, Worcester, and Waltham.
New computer and automation techniques were applied to these spectra with considerable success.
Years later, franks-in-buns were accepted as the `` first to go '' at the New York Polo Grounds.
Other pilot programs were conducted by A & S, Babylon, New York ; ;
As controls, other sections were similarly treated with Af or conjugated antiserum to the New York strain of potato yellow-dwarf virus ( Wolcyrz and Black, 1956 ).
New Yorkers were kept informed of scores by reporters who telegraphed fifteen to twenty thousand words daily to the metropolitan newspapers.
The first superhighways -- New York's Henry Hudson and Chicago's Lake Shore, San Francisco's Bay Bridge and its approaches, a good slice of the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- were built as part of the federal works program which was going to cure the depression.
Thomas's principal influence lay in the communication of an attitude -- that of the now extinct British romantic school of the New Apocalypse -- Henry Treece, J. F. Hendry, and others -- all of whom were quite conventional poets.
If it were primarily a believing fellowship, it would recruit believers from all social and economic ranks, something which most congregations of the New Protestantism ( with a few notable exceptions ) have not been able to do.
Dependent upon it were posts on the lower Mississippi and the region westward to the frontiers of New Spain.
Only two principal storehouses were actually established -- one at Mobile, the other at New Orleans.

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