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xx colonies... Treaty of neutrality between the French and Five Nations... Expedition against Port Royal fails... Incursion into Massachussetts... Plan for invasion of Canada... Port Royal taken... Expedition against Quebec... Treaty of Utrecht... Affairs of Carolina... Expedition against St. Augustine... Attempt to establish the episcopal church in Carolina... That colony invaded... Bills of credit issued... Legislature continues itself... Massacre in North Carolina by the Indians... Tuscaroras defeated... Scheme of a bank... Contests of the legislature of New York with lord Cornbury... Expedition against Montreal... Adjustment of boundary line between Massachussetts and Connecticut.

CHAPTER VIII.

Proceedings of the legislature of Massachussetts... Intrigues of the French among the Indians... War with the savages... Peace... Points of controversy with the governor, decided in England against the house... Contests concerning the governor's salary... Adjournment of the assembly to Salem... Contest concerning the salary terminated... Great depreciation of the paper currency... Scheme for a land bank... Company dissolved by act of parliament... Governor Shirley arrives... Review of transactions in New York.

CHAPTER IX.

War with the southern Indians... Various causes of dissatisfaction given by the proprietors to the assembly of Carolina... Rupture with Spain... Governor endeavours to prepare the militia to repel an invasion... Combination throughout the colony to subvert the proprietary government... Revolution completed... Expedition against Charleston from the Havanna... Peace with Spain... Many of the proprietors surrender their interest to the crown... The province divided... Georgia settled... Impolicy of the first regulations... Intrigues of the Spaniards with the Indians... And with the slaves of South Carolina... Insurrection of the slaves.

CHAPTER X.

War declared against Spain... Expedition against St. Augustine... Georgia invaded... Spaniards land on an island