Few characters in history are indispensable.

From William of Orange to William Pitt the younger there was but one man without whom English history must have taken a different turn, and that was William Pitt the elder.

In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.

On March 10, 1764, preliminary resolutions passed the House of Commons looking towards the Stamp Act.

The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.

In any event, colonization and the grant of lands were provincial matters.