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EDMUND FARWELL SLAFTER THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORTHMEN

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Edmund-Farwell, (son of Sylvester, John, Samuel, John,) b. may 30, 1816; m. Mary-Anne, daughter of Charles and Elizabeth [more]

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Christine P. Travers The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2)

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The present work is the outcome of two lines of study pursued, with more or less interruption from other [more]

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EDMUND FARWELL SLAFTER THE DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORTHMEN, 985-1015

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A privately printed book documenting the first eight generations of the Slafter family in America, starting from John Slafter, who came to America about 1680, first settling in Lynn, MA where he had ten children. Sometime about 1710 the family moved to the Tolland County, CT area, where John lived at least until 1739 and as late as 1754. The Slafter name was carried on by three sons, although the line of one of the three modified the name to Slater. [more]

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Julian Hawthorne The History Of The United States From 1492 To 1910 Volume 1 From Discovery Of America October 12 1492

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The Records Will Have It That America Was Discovered In Consequence Of The Desire Of Europe To [more]

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Julian Hawthorne The History Of The United states From 1492 To 1910, Volume 1 (fiscle part-IV)

From Discovery Of America October 12, 1492 To Battle Of Lexington April 19, 1775

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Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 21, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. As a journalist he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine, and the Spanish–American War for the New York Journal. [more]

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Julian Hawthorne The History Of The United states From 1492 To 1910, Volume 1

From Discovery Of America October 12, 1492 To Battle Of Lexington April 19, 1775

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Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 21, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mystery/detective fiction, essays, travel books, biographies and histories. As a journalist he reported on the Indian Famine for Cosmopolitan magazine, and the Spanish–American War for the New York Journal. [more]

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Robert Michael Ballantyne The Norsemen in the West

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Keywords: Discovery of America, Vikings, Leifs Eriksson, Greenland, Vinland

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Alastair Macleod The Zeno Brothers

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Who were the Zeno brothers? How and why might they have led an expedition to America in 1398, well before Chistopher Columbus? Why were Knights Templar involved? And the young King Erik of Norway? And what role did the Earl of Orkney and Shetland play? Alastair Macleod uses historic sources to frame the background of this controversial expedition undertaken before Orkney and Shetland came under Scottish rule. [more]

Keywords: Discovery of America, Knights Templar, Venice, The Zeno Brothers, Prince Henry Sinclair, Earl of Orkney

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Stephen Leacock My Discovery Of England (Fiscle Part-9)

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For Some Years Past A Rising Tide Of Lecturers And Literary Men From England Has Washed Upon The Shores Of Our North American Continent. The Purpose Of Each One Of Them Is To Make A New Discovery Of America. They Come Over To Us Travelling In Great Simplicity, And They Return In The Ducal Suite Of The Aquitania. They Carry Away With Them Their Impressions Of America, And When They Reach England They Sell Them. This Export Of Impressions Has Now Been Going On So Long That The Balance Of Trade In Impressions Is All Disturbed. There Is No Doubt That The Americans And Canadians Have Been Too Generous In This Matter Of Giving Away Impressions. We Emit Them With The Careless Ease Of A Glow Worm, And Like The Glow-Worm Ask For Nothing In Return. [more]

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Leonard Woolsey Bacon A History Of American Christianity (fiscle Part-11)

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Providential Preparations For The Discovery Of America--Spiritual Revival Throughout Christendom, And Especially In the Church Of Spain. The Heroic Discovery Of America, At The Close Of The Fifteenth Century After Christ, Has Compelled The Generous And Just Admiration Of The World; But The Grandeur Of Human Enterprise And Achievement In the Discovery Of The Western Hemisphere Has A Less Claim On Our Admiration Than That Divine Wisdom And Controlling providence Which, For Reasons Now Manifested, Kept The Secret Hidden Through So Many Millenniums, In Spite Of Continual Chances Of Disclosure, Until The Fullness Of Time. [more]

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