"country" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- One issue facing this administration was the land speculation of Humphrey Atherton in the Narragansett country (later to become Washington County, Rhode Island).
- In addition, he was also hired by the Connecticut Colony as their agent to support their claims to the Narragansett country.
- Members of the Atherton Company, which had extensive land holdings in the Narragansett country, were asked under whose jurisdiction they chose to be, and they promptly decided on Connecticut.
- The Crown, tired of dealing with the constant claims and counter claims, turned the Narragansett country into a separate royal province known as King's Province in March 1665.
- In 1675 Gorton had received word that the Indians living in the Connecticut Colony intended to invade the Narragansett country.
- The Narragansett country was given to both colonies by their respective charters, creating many decades of friction.
- In a separate issue, he also directed that taxes not be collected in the Narragansett country until the dispute with Connecticut had been resolved.
- Also during this October session, a letter of remonstrance was sent to the Connecticut colony concerning claims in the Narragansett country.
- Before the commission arrived, trouble had already erupted in Narragansett country.
- Also, the township of Kingston was established in the Narragansett country, and became incorporated as the seventh town of the colony.
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