The American Historical Record, Volume 1Benson John Lossing Chase & Town, 1872 - United States |
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... friends Robert Hodgson and John Hudson to Gravesand , and left my wife with me . She went away the next second day morning , being the first day of the roth month , old style . Then on the 5th day of the week , the 4th day of the month ...
... friends Robert Hodgson and John Hudson to Gravesand , and left my wife with me . She went away the next second day morning , being the first day of the roth month , old style . Then on the 5th day of the week , the 4th day of the month ...
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... friends in any particular , tending to the liking of any thing the Governor had done against me or any other , but ... friend came expecting an op- portunity of speech with them but had it So when they were risen , the spea- ker called ...
... friends in any particular , tending to the liking of any thing the Governor had done against me or any other , but ... friend came expecting an op- portunity of speech with them but had it So when they were risen , the spea- ker called ...
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... friends . Here is an interest- ing item : " 1700 the 7th month , then disburst Jamaica on the account of entertainment for William Penn and other Friends . £ 1 , 10 8. " In this account book he has also some poetry ad- dressed to one he ...
... friends . Here is an interest- ing item : " 1700 the 7th month , then disburst Jamaica on the account of entertainment for William Penn and other Friends . £ 1 , 10 8. " In this account book he has also some poetry ad- dressed to one he ...
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... Friends ' meeting house once stood . Two furrows turned together around several acres of pasture land , and one ... friend , " I shall never lose the impression this first com- munion with the Indians in North Ame- rica made upon me ...
... Friends ' meeting house once stood . Two furrows turned together around several acres of pasture land , and one ... friend , " I shall never lose the impression this first com- munion with the Indians in North Ame- rica made upon me ...
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... friend Heath , master of the vessel , Sally Ann , hence from this Port to - mor- row , for Boston . " Your City is ... friends and foes here , because of your audacity . At first there was a powerful reaction against you , and before ...
... friend Heath , master of the vessel , Sally Ann , hence from this Port to - mor- row , for Boston . " Your City is ... friends and foes here , because of your audacity . At first there was a powerful reaction against you , and before ...
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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 355 - 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 154 - Miami aforesaid ; and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake Erie or the territorial line, and thence with the same, through Lake Erie, to the Pennsylvania line...
Page 393 - 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 63 - When a retrospect is taken of the Washingtonian administration for eight years, it is a subject of the greatest astonishment that a single individual should have cankered the principles of republicanism in an enlightened people, just emerged from the gulf of despotism, and should have carried his designs against the public liberty so far, as to have put in jeopardy its very existence. Such however are the facts, and with these staring us in the face, this day ought to be a JUBILEE in the United States.
Page 307 - 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 508 - 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 477 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...