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... South Carolina , and John Jay of New York - Jefferson was already known to the leading men of Philadelphia . " He brought with him , " wrote John Adams , " a reputa- tion for literary science and a happy talent of com- position ...
... South Carolina , and John Jay of New York - Jefferson was already known to the leading men of Philadelphia . " He brought with him , " wrote John Adams , " a reputa- tion for literary science and a happy talent of com- position ...
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... South Carolina , and Virginia to follow the lead of Massachusetts in establishing such forms of 1 When Benjamin Franklin returned to America in March , 1775 , after ten years ' official residence in London as " agent " of several ...
... South Carolina , and Virginia to follow the lead of Massachusetts in establishing such forms of 1 When Benjamin Franklin returned to America in March , 1775 , after ten years ' official residence in London as " agent " of several ...
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... south of the Potomac . Only the middle group - New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Maryland - held firm in their allegiance , instructing their delegates in Congress as late as January , 1776 , to resist any proposition for a ...
... south of the Potomac . Only the middle group - New York , Pennsylvania , New Jersey , and Maryland - held firm in their allegiance , instructing their delegates in Congress as late as January , 1776 , to resist any proposition for a ...
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... South Carolina were not yet ma- tured for falling off from the parent stem , but were fast advancing to that state , it was thought most prudent to wait a while for them and to postpone the decision . " At the same time a committee of ...
... South Carolina were not yet ma- tured for falling off from the parent stem , but were fast advancing to that state , it was thought most prudent to wait a while for them and to postpone the decision . " At the same time a committee of ...
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... South Carolina , attached by long tradi- tion to their colonial institutions , and owing a larger but remote allegiance only to a King or Parliament across the ocean . Their " land " was not England , however , nor yet America , but the ...
... South Carolina , attached by long tradi- tion to their colonial institutions , and owing a larger but remote allegiance only to a King or Parliament across the ocean . Their " land " was not England , however , nor yet America , but the ...
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