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... Month . Resolved [ Waldron ] the scout ' came to my house at Vlishing [ Flushing ] with a company of men with swords and guns ( where I was tending my wife being sick in bed , and my youngest child sick in my arms , which were both so ...
... Month . Resolved [ Waldron ] the scout ' came to my house at Vlishing [ Flushing ] with a company of men with swords and guns ( where I was tending my wife being sick in bed , and my youngest child sick in my arms , which were both so ...
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... month . Then came the Fiscal and scout in great rage and demanded of me to answer the Court's sentence , which I denied as before . So I was presently car- ried or guarded away to the dungeon and there put . A strict charge being given ...
... month . Then came the Fiscal and scout in great rage and demanded of me to answer the Court's sentence , which I denied as before . So I was presently car- ried or guarded away to the dungeon and there put . A strict charge being given ...
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... month , the ship being fallen down the Bay , before the boat came up to fetch the passengers aboard , so I walked to ... month , old style , we set sail about the middle of the day , and went out to sea . ***** On the 29th of 2nd month ...
... month , the ship being fallen down the Bay , before the boat came up to fetch the passengers aboard , so I walked to ... month , old style , we set sail about the middle of the day , and went out to sea . ***** On the 29th of 2nd month ...
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... month . O. S. Then the next day to have the goods which were ordered to be delivered ; but after consul- tation amongst some underlings , they were denied , except I would pay for my pass- age . This put me upon a 2d writing to them ...
... month . O. S. Then the next day to have the goods which were ordered to be delivered ; but after consul- tation amongst some underlings , they were denied , except I would pay for my pass- age . This put me upon a 2d writing to them ...
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... month waiting of them at their house , eleven sittings , being pretty clear of them I came away on the 30th day , and the 2d of 4th month , at Rotterdam came aboard the same ship that carried me thither . **** 1664 , 30th of Ist month ...
... month waiting of them at their house , eleven sittings , being pretty clear of them I came away on the 30th day , and the 2d of 4th month , at Rotterdam came aboard the same ship that carried me thither . **** 1664 , 30th of Ist month ...
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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...