The American Historical Record, Volume 1Benson John Lossing Chase & Town, 1872 - United States |
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... March 1871 the old " Catamount Tavern " House , which had long been the most notable relic of early times in the Center Village of Bennington , Vermont , was burnt to the ground . It had been unoccupied for a short time and the origin ...
... March 1871 the old " Catamount Tavern " House , which had long been the most notable relic of early times in the Center Village of Bennington , Vermont , was burnt to the ground . It had been unoccupied for a short time and the origin ...
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... March a bill was passed for closing your Port and removing Government Offices of every kind to Salem . So pre- pare for Trouble . The measure will certainly be enforced , for General Gage is appointed to be the successor of Gov- erner ...
... March a bill was passed for closing your Port and removing Government Offices of every kind to Salem . So pre- pare for Trouble . The measure will certainly be enforced , for General Gage is appointed to be the successor of Gov- erner ...
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... march at the head of my congregation to the polls to vote for him . " I mention this as characteristic of his manner and temperament . No minister of religion was ever , I be- lieve , more in earnest than he was , and none more free ...
... march at the head of my congregation to the polls to vote for him . " I mention this as characteristic of his manner and temperament . No minister of religion was ever , I be- lieve , more in earnest than he was , and none more free ...
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... March 19 , 1781.1 I send by permission , and with proper passports of General Washington , Captain Gerlach , Deputy Quarter Master General of His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick's Troops , to Lieutenant Col- onel de Mengen with ...
... March 19 , 1781.1 I send by permission , and with proper passports of General Washington , Captain Gerlach , Deputy Quarter Master General of His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick's Troops , to Lieutenant Col- onel de Mengen with ...
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... March , operated in the West Indies , and finally assisted the combined American and French forces in the capture of Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown , Virginia .- [ EDITOR . ] in readiness to join this army ; and should the. AMERICAN ...
... March , operated in the West Indies , and finally assisted the combined American and French forces in the capture of Cornwallis and his army at Yorktown , Virginia .- [ EDITOR . ] in readiness to join this army ; and should the. AMERICAN ...
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Page 171 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 154 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Page 154 - ... a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada; and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 389 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 157 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
Page 154 - The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 427 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 323 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 550 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 65 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance,, as they have already done the forms, of the British government.