Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events which Produced, and Terminated in the Establishment and Independence of the American Republic ... ; to which is Prefixed a Summary Account of the First Settlement of the Country, and Some of the Principal Indian Wars ... ; to which is Added ... an Appendix, Containing a Biography of the Principal Military Officers, who Were Instrumental in Achieving Our Independence ... |
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... Militia by the last returns ; and the number of Revolutionary Pensioners . POPULATION POPULATION STATES . win 1790. Citos in 1820.4 % . Slaves N. Hampshire 141,097 Massachusetts 373,324 Rhode - Island 64,470 Connecticut 232,374 Vermont ...
... Militia by the last returns ; and the number of Revolutionary Pensioners . POPULATION POPULATION STATES . win 1790. Citos in 1820.4 % . Slaves N. Hampshire 141,097 Massachusetts 373,324 Rhode - Island 64,470 Connecticut 232,374 Vermont ...
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... militia throughout New - England had been slain in the war . * So costly is the inheritance we have received from our valiant fore- fathers . The land we sow has been stained with their blood . In this war , which threatened the ...
... militia throughout New - England had been slain in the war . * So costly is the inheritance we have received from our valiant fore- fathers . The land we sow has been stained with their blood . In this war , which threatened the ...
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... militia , in scarlet , with laced hats . They had marched , some twenty and some thirty miles , in three divisions , through the country in the most orderly man- ner , and made a junction at Wethersfield . From Wethersfield they ...
... militia , in scarlet , with laced hats . They had marched , some twenty and some thirty miles , in three divisions , through the country in the most orderly man- ner , and made a junction at Wethersfield . From Wethersfield they ...
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... militia approached . General Gage , apprehensive of some violence , had the precaution to seize the magazines of ammunition and stores at Cambridge and Charlestown , and lodged them in Boston . This measure , with the fortifying of the ...
... militia approached . General Gage , apprehensive of some violence , had the precaution to seize the magazines of ammunition and stores at Cambridge and Charlestown , and lodged them in Boston . This measure , with the fortifying of the ...
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... militia , made provision for supplying the treas- ury , and furnishing the people with arms ; and such was the enthu- siasm and union of the people , that the recommendations of the provincial congress had the force of laws . General ...
... militia , made provision for supplying the treas- ury , and furnishing the people with arms ; and such was the enthu- siasm and union of the people , that the recommendations of the provincial congress had the force of laws . General ...
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Page 214 - Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established, should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.
Page 34 - I thank God, there are no free schools nor printing, and I hope we shall not have these hundred years; for learning has brought disobedience, and heresy, and sects into the world, and printing has divulged them, and libels against the best government. God keep us from both!
Page 144 - Countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such Acts of the British Parliament, as are, bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole Empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of Taxation, internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America, without their consent.
Page 1 - As a remarkable instance of this, I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.
Page 66 - And now will these Americans, children planted by our care, nourished up by our indulgence until they are grown to a degree of strength and opulence, and protected by our arms, will they grudge to contribute their mite to relieve us from the heavy weight of that burden which we lie under ?" Colonel Barre arose, and, echoing Townshend's words, thus commented :
Page 144 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Page 144 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy. 4. That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Page 335 - And let me conjure you, in the name of our common country, as you value your own sacred honor, as you respect the rights of humanity, and as you regard the military and national character of America...
Page 192 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 94 - It is my opinion that this kingdom has no right to lay a tax upon the colonies. At the same time, I assert the authority of this kingdom over the colonies to be sovereign and supreme, in every circumstance of government and legislation whatsoever.