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3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of president shall be eligible to that of vice president of the United States.

ART. XIII.-If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them,

The following Table gives a View of the absolute and relative Population of the States and Territories in 1830; of the Number of the different Classes of the Population; of the Rate of Increase from 1820 to 1830; and of the Area and Number of Representatives of each State in the Federal Congress.

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Including 5.602 not regularly returned.

It appears that the actual number of slaves in Pennsylvania was only 67, the number here given including indented apprentices.

4Every child born after 1801 is free. Population in 1835.

Population in 1935.

Including 210 not regularly returned. **Population in 1835.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

(The figures on the right hand refer to the page of the history on which an account of each event referred to may be found.)

Year
1492 Columbus discovers the New World

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1497 The Cabots discover the Continent of North America 1499 Vespucci's voyage with Ojeda

1501 Voyage of Cortereal

1512 Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

1523 Verrazani explores the American coast

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1525 Narvaez attempts the conquest of Florida 1534 Jaques Cartier sails up the St. Lawrence

1539 Ferdinand de Soto commences the conquest of Florida 1541 Soto discovers the Mississippi river

1562 Ribault leaves a French colony on the coast of Florida
1564 Laudonniere begins a French settlement on the river May
1565 Laudonniere's colony destroyed by the Spaniards

St. Augustine, the oldest town in the United States, founded
by Pedro Melendez

1568 The Spanish colony on the river May destroyed by De
Gourgues

1576 Frobisher's expedition.

1579 First voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert

1584 Raleigh's first expedition sent to Carolina commanded by Amidas and Barlow

1603 Gosnold's voyage to New England

1605 First permanent French settlement in North America made

at Port Royal

1606 First charter of Virginia issued

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1607 Jamestown in Virginia founded; the earliest permanent English settlement in North America

1608 Quebec settled by Champlain

1609 Henry Hudson discovers the Hudson river.

Second charter of Virginia granted

1610 The starving time in Virginia

1611 Sir Thomas Dale arrives in Virginia 1613 New York settled by the Dutch

1619 First General Assembly in Virginia

1620 Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth.

1621 Charter granted to the Dutch West India Company for settling the territory between the Connecticut and the Delaware

1622 Patent granted to Gorges and Mason by the Plymouth Com

pany

1623 Portsmouth and Dover settled by Gorges and Mason

Albany settled by the Dutch.

1624 Dissolution of the London Company

1627 The Swedes settle on the Delaware, and call their colony New

Sweden

1630 Heath's patent for Carolina granted

1631 Clayborne forms a settlement on Kent Island

Windsor in Connecticut settled

1633 Maryland settled by Lord Baltimore

The Dutch settle at Hartford

1634 Banishment of Roger Williams

Representative form of government first adopted in New Eng

land

1635 Saybrook settled by John Winthrop

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1643 Confederation of the New England colonies

1641 New Hampshire annexed to Massachusetts

1644 Roger Williams obtains a charter for Rhode Island 1650 Connecticut abandoned by the Dutch

1651 Virginia capitulates to the parliament Risingh takes Fort Casimir from the Dutch

1655 Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor of New York, conquers New

Sweden

1660 Charles II proclaimed in Virginia

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Arrival of the regicides Whalley and Goffe in Boston 1663 Lord Clarendon obtains a charter for Carolina. 1664 Commissioners sent to New England to regulate the colonies. 71 New York taken from the Dutch by the English Charles II grants to the Duke of York a patent for the country from the Delaware to the Connecticut

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The Duke of York grants New Jersey to Berkeley and Car

teret

1670 Port Royal in South Carolina settled by Governor Sayle. 1671 Charleston settled

1673 New York re-conquered by the Dutch

1674 New York restored to the English at the treaty of Westminster. 1675 Commencement of King Philip's war

1676 Bacon's rebellion in Virginia

Death of King Philip

Maine purchased by Massachusetts

1681 First representative assembly in New Jersey Penn receives a charter for Pennsylvania .

1682 Philadelphia founded

1684 Colonel Dongan and Lord Effingham's treaty with the Five

Nations

1685 Charles II dies, and is succeeded by James II

1686 Sir Edmund Andros appointed president of New England 1687 Andros attempts to deprive Connecticut of its charter

1688 New York and New Jersey added to the jurisdiction of An-
dros

Revolution in England, which gives the sovereignty to Wil
liam and Mary.

1689 Andros deposed and imprisoned, aad William and Mary pro
claimed at Boston

Jacob Leisler usurps the government of New York.

War on the Canada border. Port Royal in Nova Scotia taken
from the French

1691 Colonel Sloughter appointed governor of New York.

Leisler deposed and executed

1694 Culture of rice introduced into South Carolina

1697 Peace of Ryswick

1701 Penn grants a new charter to Pennsylvania Lord Cornbury appointed governor of New York

1702 War with France and Spain

Expedition against St. Augustine

War on the Canada border

1706 Unsuccessful attack of the Spaniards on Charleston

1711 Unsuccessful invasion of Canada

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1712 War in North Carolina with the Tuscarora and Coree Indians 105

1715 War of the Yemassees.

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1729 North and South Carolina separated

1732 General Oglethorpe obtains a charter for Georgia 4733 General Oglethorpe colonises Georgia

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1740 Oglethorpe besieges St. Augustine

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1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle

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1742 nvasion of Georgia by the Spaniards successfully resisted

1744 War between France and England

1745 Louisbourg taken.

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1752 Charter of Georgia surrendered to the king
1754 Commencement of the old French War

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Congress of Delegates from seven colonies meet at Albany

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1755 Nova Scotia conquered by the British.
Defeat of General Braddock

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1757 Fort William Henry taken by Montcalm.

1756 War formally declared between France and England
Fort Oswego taken by Montcalm

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Nov.

1759 Forts Du Quesne and Frontignac taken by the English
1759 Quebec taken. General Wolfe killed

1765 Stamp act passed.

First Continental Congress meets at New York

1766 Stamp act repealed

1768 Boston garrisoned by British troops

1770 Boston massacre

1772 Affair of the schooner Gaspee

1773 Tea destroyed in Boston

1774 Boston Port bill passed

Continental Congress assembles at Philadelphia
1775 April 19 Battle of Lexington and Concord
May Ticonderoga and Crown Point taken
June 17 Washington appointed commander in chief
Battle of Breed's Hill

Dec.

19 Montreal taken

31 Attack on Quebec defeated. Montgomery killed

1776 March 17 Boston evacuated by the British

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15 Articles of confederation of the United States ratified 166

172

11 Washington retires to Valley Forge
Treaty between France and the United States.
Retreat of Barren Hill

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June

18 The British evacuate Philadelphia

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July

Aug.

28 Battle of Monmouth

Arrival of Count D'Estaing with a French fleet
Massacre at Wyoming.

Unsuccessful attempt to recover Rhode Is'ani

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1778 Dec.

28 The British take Savannah

1779 Feb.

April

12 Charleston capitulates.

Unsuccessful attempt of the British on Port Royal

March 3 Battle of Briar Creek

May

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General Prevost advances towards Charleston.
Descent of the British on Virginia

June 20 Defeat of General Lincoln at Stono Ferry
Descent of the British on Connecticut
15 Storming of Stony Point

July

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Oct.

1780 May

19 Storming of Paulus Hook

25 Defeat of the Americans at Penobscot
Arrival of the French fleet at Savannah

23 Battle of the Bon Homme Richard and Serapis
4 Siege of Savannah

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29 Battle at the Waxhaws

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27 General Conway makes a motion in the British Par-
liament for discontinuing the American war.

227

Lord North retires from the ministry

228

Treaty of peace between the United States and
Great Britain signed.

228

American officers petition Congress for payment of

arrears

229

Meeting of the officers.

299

1783 March

April 19 Cessation of hostilities between the United States and
Great Britain proclaimed by General Washington 230
4 Washington takes leave of the officers of the army
23 Washington resigns his commission

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Convention meets at Philadelphia for framing the
Federal Constitution.

Sept. 17 Constitution made public

1789 March 4 Washington's Administration commences

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Vermont admitted into the Union

1794 Aug. 20 General Wayne defeats the Indians on the Miami 1797 March 4 Commencement of John Adams's Administration 1799 Dec. 14 Death of General Washington

1800 Sept. 30 Treaty of peace between the United States and

Nov.

France signed

Congress first sits at Washington

Administratio

901 March 4 Commencement of Jefferson's Administration 1902 July 20 Louisiana ceded to France

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