The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Band 4author, 1788 |
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... return , p . 198 . De Graffe fails for the Weft Indies , p . 199. Acts of congress on their hearing of the reduction of the British army , p . 200 . They They attend at the Roman Catholic chapel , and hear CONTENT S.
... return , p . 198 . De Graffe fails for the Weft Indies , p . 199. Acts of congress on their hearing of the reduction of the British army , p . 200 . They They attend at the Roman Catholic chapel , and hear CONTENT S.
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... congress , p . 297. General Wayne's operations in Georgia , p . 298. Savannah evacuated by the British , p . 301. General Leflie fends out parties from Charlestown to procure provifions , p . 302. Lieut . colonel Laurens mortally ...
... congress , p . 297. General Wayne's operations in Georgia , p . 298. Savannah evacuated by the British , p . 301. General Leflie fends out parties from Charlestown to procure provifions , p . 302. Lieut . colonel Laurens mortally ...
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... congress that the fouthern army had fafely croffed the Dan into Vir- ginia , they returned on the 9th of March the thanks of the United States to gen . Morgan , and the officers and men under his command . They refolved alfo to honor ...
... congress that the fouthern army had fafely croffed the Dan into Vir- ginia , they returned on the 9th of March the thanks of the United States to gen . Morgan , and the officers and men under his command . They refolved alfo to honor ...
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... congress . The finall fquadron which the captain commanded in 1779 , was fitted out at the expence of his moft Chriftian majesty , who honored him with a French commiffion . Monf . Monf . de Sartine , the minifter of the marine 64 THE ...
... congress . The finall fquadron which the captain commanded in 1779 , was fitted out at the expence of his moft Chriftian majesty , who honored him with a French commiffion . Monf . Monf . de Sartine , the minifter of the marine 64 THE ...
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... congress . I hope in the courfe of the fum- mer , the admiral and you will be able to spare a force fufficient to effect an establishment at Casco Bay , and re- duce that country to the king's obedience . As the ex- changes ( as it ...
... congress . I hope in the courfe of the fum- mer , the admiral and you will be able to spare a force fufficient to effect an establishment at Casco Bay , and re- duce that country to the king's obedience . As the ex- changes ( as it ...
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Seite 361 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River; thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Seite 260 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Seite 362 - Lawrence ; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the Bay of Fundy and the Atlantic Ocean ; excepting such islands as now are, or heretofore have been, within the limits of the said province of Nova Scotia.
Seite 365 - ... his Britannic Majesty shall, with all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction, or carrying away any negroes or other property of the American inhabitants...
Seite 419 - Almighty God hath created the mind free ; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the Holy author of our religion...
Seite 361 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie...
Seite 420 - ... to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion, and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency, is a dangerous fallacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty, because he being of course judge of that tendency will make his opinions the rule of judgment, and approve or condemn the sentiments of others only as they shall square with or differ from his own; that it is time enough for the rightful purposes of...
Seite 421 - ... yet we are free to declare, and do declare, that the rights hereby asserted are of the natural rights of mankind, and that if any act shall be hereafter passed to repeal the present, or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Seite 361 - St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 362 - Cauihouche ; thence along the middle thereof to its junction with the Flint river; thence straight to the head of St. Mary's river; and thence down along the middle of St. Mary's river to the Atlantic ocean.