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... hundred pounds sterlinge to perform the trust and administer on our fathers estatte and to bare the Court harmless according to law JAMES COFFIN JOHN COFFIN STEPHIN COFFIN " At a Court of Sessions held the 29th of November 1681 there ...
... hundred pounds sterlinge to perform the trust and administer on our fathers estatte and to bare the Court harmless according to law JAMES COFFIN JOHN COFFIN STEPHIN COFFIN " At a Court of Sessions held the 29th of November 1681 there ...
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... hundred and fifty names in the list , and when it was printed twenty - eight were known to be dead . The list is headed by " His Excellency JONATHAN BELCHER , Esq . , " who took six copies ; " The Hon- orable SPENCER PHIPPS , Esq ...
... hundred and fifty names in the list , and when it was printed twenty - eight were known to be dead . The list is headed by " His Excellency JONATHAN BELCHER , Esq . , " who took six copies ; " The Hon- orable SPENCER PHIPPS , Esq ...
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... hundred and seventy pounds . Five feet ten inches was his height . He had a high , projecting forehead , and broad , open countenance ; and there was something noble and commanding in all his actions . He was brave , humane and generous ...
... hundred and seventy pounds . Five feet ten inches was his height . He had a high , projecting forehead , and broad , open countenance ; and there was something noble and commanding in all his actions . He was brave , humane and generous ...
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... hundred slaves .- [ EDITOR . ] MAJ . GENL . HEATH . Sir : [ PHILIP MAZZEI . ] Paris , April 21 , 1780 . The first time I spoke , according to my instructions , to Dr. Franklin on the pur- port of my mission , he observed that so many ...
... hundred slaves .- [ EDITOR . ] MAJ . GENL . HEATH . Sir : [ PHILIP MAZZEI . ] Paris , April 21 , 1780 . The first time I spoke , according to my instructions , to Dr. Franklin on the pur- port of my mission , he observed that so many ...
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... hundred persons . Hallam's company came over from England in the ship Charming Sally , rehearsed on her quarter- deck to the great amusement of the crew , landed at Yorktown , in Virginia , in the month of June , and had their first ...
... hundred persons . Hallam's company came over from England in the ship Charming Sally , rehearsed on her quarter- deck to the great amusement of the crew , landed at Yorktown , in Virginia , in the month of June , and had their first ...
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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.