History of the state of New-York - including its aboriginal and colonial annals (1824) (14755582826)

Identifier: historyofstateof12moul (find matches)
Title: History of the state of New-York : including its aboriginal and colonial annals
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Moulton, Joseph W. (Joseph White), 1789-1875 Yates, John V.N. (John Van Ness), 1777-1839
Subjects: Indians of North America Indians of North America
Publisher: New-York : A.T. Goodrich
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation



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hey should be rescued from the dreadful stateof misery into which they had been plunged by the most hardened of vil-lains. The society, therefore, fitted two ships, named the Resolution andthe Discovery,* (the latter being the one Hudson commanded. HabakukPricket was in this expedition. They reached Diggss Island, staid eightdays, wintered in the Bay, made discoveries, and gave names to severalislands, and returned to England in the Autumn of 1613, without effectingeither object of their search. (Forster, 344-7. The Discovery performed five voyages to the north, the two last in 1615and 1616, were under the command of Robert Bylot, who was one of thesurvivers of Hudson, and were all under the same society, composed ofSmith, Diggs, Wolstenhome, Alderman Jones, and others. The ill successof these voyages discouraged this enterprising society, and for a Ions; timeextinguished the British spirit of northern adventure. * The TgT-y namfis also of Cook ships in his last vinrortiinats voyag-p.historyofstateof12moul
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