American Annals: Or, A Chronological History of America, from Its Discovery in 1492 to 1806, Volume 2printed; London, 1813 - America |
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... soon after conducted from his house to the town house by the re- giment of Boston , the militia companies of Charlestown , magistrates , ministers , and principal gentlemen of Boston and the adjacent towns . The charter was first ...
... soon after conducted from his house to the town house by the re- giment of Boston , the militia companies of Charlestown , magistrates , ministers , and principal gentlemen of Boston and the adjacent towns . The charter was first ...
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... soon disallowed . Many acts however , which were then passed , were approved , viz . one for pre- vention of frauds and perjuries ; others for punishing criminal offences , in many parts mitigating the penalties at common law ; for the ...
... soon disallowed . Many acts however , which were then passed , were approved , viz . one for pre- vention of frauds and perjuries ; others for punishing criminal offences , in many parts mitigating the penalties at common law ; for the ...
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... soon after , on board a vessel in Port Royal harbour , observes : " It is a sad sight to see all this harbour , one of the fairest and goodliest I ever saw , covered with the dead bodies of people of all conditions , floating up and ...
... soon after , on board a vessel in Port Royal harbour , observes : " It is a sad sight to see all this harbour , one of the fairest and goodliest I ever saw , covered with the dead bodies of people of all conditions , floating up and ...
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... soon after sued for peace 2. Coming into the fort at Pema- quid , appointed for the place of treaty , they entered into a solemn covenant on the eleventh of August . By this cove nant they acknowledged subjection to the crown of England ...
... soon after sued for peace 2. Coming into the fort at Pema- quid , appointed for the place of treaty , they entered into a solemn covenant on the eleventh of August . By this cove nant they acknowledged subjection to the crown of England ...
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... soon became the chief support of the colony , and the great source of its opulence ' . Sir William Phips died of a malignant fever in London , on the eighteenth of February , at the age of forty - five years ; and was honourably ...
... soon became the chief support of the colony , and the great source of its opulence ' . Sir William Phips died of a malignant fever in London , on the eighteenth of February , at the age of forty - five years ; and was honourably ...
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Page 416 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 419 - States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 325 - Neither of the two parties shall conclude either truce or peace with Great Britain without the formal consent of the other first obtained; and they mutually engage not to lay down their arms until the independence of the United States shall have been formally or tacitly assured by the treaty or treaties that shall terminate the war.
Page 220 - Inhabitants thereof, as near as may be agreeable to the Laws of England, and under such Regulations and Restrictions as are used in other Colonies...
Page 267 - America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there ; and, above all, for preventing in the mean time any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes, posted in their town, — it may graciously please His Majesty that immediate orders...
Page 259 - By shutting up the port of Boston, some imagine that the course of trade might be turned hither and to our benefit; but...
Page 217 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Page 232 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Page 218 - His Britannic Majesty shall cause to be demolished all the fortifications which His subjects shall have erected in the Bay of Honduras, and other places of the Territory of Spain in that part of the world...
Page 219 - ... degrees of north latitude, passes along the high lands which divide the rivers that empty themselves into the said River St Lawrence from those which fall into the sea; and also along the north coast of the...