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... Thomas West , Lord Delaware , is also said to have discovered and given his Dame to this river . The bay has also been known as New Port May and Godyn's Bay.1 Captain Cornelis Jacobsen Mey , [ 1614 ] commanding the Fortune owned by ...
... Thomas West , Lord Delaware , is also said to have discovered and given his Dame to this river . The bay has also been known as New Port May and Godyn's Bay.1 Captain Cornelis Jacobsen Mey , [ 1614 ] commanding the Fortune owned by ...
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... Thomas Olive , Daniel Wills , John Kinsey , John Pen- ford , Joseph Helmsley , Robert Stacey , Benjamin Scott , Thomas Foulke , and Richard Guy , commissioners , appointed by the proprietaries to su- perintend their interests in the ...
... Thomas Olive , Daniel Wills , John Kinsey , John Pen- ford , Joseph Helmsley , Robert Stacey , Benjamin Scott , Thomas Foulke , and Richard Guy , commissioners , appointed by the proprietaries to su- perintend their interests in the ...
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... Thomas Holme , Lacy Cock , William Haige , John Moll , Ralph Withers , John Sim- cock , Edward Cantwell , William Clayton , William Biles , James Harri- 1 Gordon . The following form of these writs is taken from the original , viz : [ L ...
... Thomas Holme , Lacy Cock , William Haige , John Moll , Ralph Withers , John Sim- cock , Edward Cantwell , William Clayton , William Biles , James Harri- 1 Gordon . The following form of these writs is taken from the original , viz : [ L ...
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... Thomas Fitzwater , Robert Hall , James Boyden . For Philadelphia - John Songhurst , John Hart , Walter King , Andros Binkson , John Moon , Thomas Wynne , speaker , Griffith Jones , William Warner , Swan Swanson . For Chester - John ...
... Thomas Fitzwater , Robert Hall , James Boyden . For Philadelphia - John Songhurst , John Hart , Walter King , Andros Binkson , John Moon , Thomas Wynne , speaker , Griffith Jones , William Warner , Swan Swanson . For Chester - John ...
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... Thomas Wynne was Speaker of the Assembly during the two first years , and was at other times a member of it . He was one of the people called Quakers , a preacher among them , and came from North Wales ; a person of note and good ...
... Thomas Wynne was Speaker of the Assembly during the two first years , and was at other times a member of it . He was one of the people called Quakers , a preacher among them , and came from North Wales ; a person of note and good ...
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Page 90 - That government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Page 121 - Each house may determine the rules of its proceedings, punish its members for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member, but not a second time for the same cause; and shall have all other powers necessary for a branch of the legislature of a free State.
Page 122 - No senator or representative shall, during the time for which he shall have been elected, be appointed to any civil office under this Commonwealth which shall have been created, or the emoluments of which shall have been increased during such time...
Page 107 - ... that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered; and if approved by two-thirds of that House, it shall be a law; but, in such cases, the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays...
Page 102 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature, for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public, as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Page 356 - For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the spirit, the things of the spirit.
Page 91 - That the people have a right to assemble together, in a peaceable manner, to consult for their common good, to instruct their representatives, and to apply to the legislature for redress of grievances.
Page 89 - God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Page 99 - The person of a debtor, where there is not a strong presumption of fraud, shall not be continued in prison, after delivering up „bona fide" all his estate real and personal for the use of his creditors, in such manner as shall be hereafter regulated by law. All prisoners shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, unless for capital offences, when the proof is evident or presumption great.
Page 115 - The citizens have a right in a peaceable manner to assemble together for their common good, and to apply to those invested with the powers of government for redress of grievances or other proper purposes by petition, address, or remonstrance.