Side-lights on Maryland History: With Sketches of Early Maryland Families, by Hester Dorsey Richardson ...Williams and Wilkins Company, 1913 - Maryland |
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... Mary- land Original Research Society ; Member of The American Historical Association ; The Maryland Historical Society ; President of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America ; A Fellow of The Manorial Society of England . T ...
... Mary- land Original Research Society ; Member of The American Historical Association ; The Maryland Historical Society ; President of The Order of Colonial Lords of Manors in America ; A Fellow of The Manorial Society of England . T ...
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... Mary V. Dorsey and Miss Nellie Calvert Carroll of Dorchester County , Mrs. Horace Massey of Chestertown , Md . , Mrs. Jesse Habersham , Mr. John Read Magruder , and the Misses Walton of Annapolis , Miss Rebecca L. Webster of Rochester ...
... Mary V. Dorsey and Miss Nellie Calvert Carroll of Dorchester County , Mrs. Horace Massey of Chestertown , Md . , Mrs. Jesse Habersham , Mr. John Read Magruder , and the Misses Walton of Annapolis , Miss Rebecca L. Webster of Rochester ...
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... Mary- land has suffered from some of her old historians ; for while the latter have claimed convict and plebian classes as Maryland settlers , the author's researches have taught her that Maryland , the Palatinate of the Lords Baltimore ...
... Mary- land has suffered from some of her old historians ; for while the latter have claimed convict and plebian classes as Maryland settlers , the author's researches have taught her that Maryland , the Palatinate of the Lords Baltimore ...
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... Mary- land's past struck a responsive chord in the hearts of many thousand descendants of the old blood of the State , and their tributes of appreciation are still preserved as valued evidences of good will . Among these are two from Mary ...
... Mary- land's past struck a responsive chord in the hearts of many thousand descendants of the old blood of the State , and their tributes of appreciation are still preserved as valued evidences of good will . Among these are two from Mary ...
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... Mary land , made nationally historic by Washington's resigning his Commission there . The Baltimore " Sun , " in an editorial on May 21 , 1904 . under the caption " A graceful recognition of good work , " said : " Governor Warfield made ...
... Mary land , made nationally historic by Washington's resigning his Commission there . The Baltimore " Sun , " in an editorial on May 21 , 1904 . under the caption " A graceful recognition of good work , " said : " Governor Warfield made ...
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Page 377 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet ; That was all ; and yet, through the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that night ; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 116 - And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
Page 4 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 388 - An incessant attention to preserve inviolate those exalted rights and liberties of human nature, for which they have fought and bled, and without which the high rank of a rational being is a curse instead of a blessing. " An unalterable determination to promote and cherish, between the respective states, that union and national honor, so essentially necessary to their happiness, and the future dignity of the American empire.
Page 129 - Assigns, all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West...
Page 388 - To perpetuate, therefore, as well the remembrance of this vast event, as the mutual friendships which have been formed under the pressure of common danger, and in many instances cemented by the blood of the parties, the officers of the American army do hereby, in the most solemn manner, associate, constitute, and combine themselves into one SOCIETY OF FRIENDS, to endure as long as they shall endure, or any of their eldest male posterity, and in failure thereof, the collateral branches, who may be...
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Page 250 - that is no subject for the tongue of a lawyer, nor is it lawful to be disputed. It is atheism and blasphemy to dispute what God can do : good Christians content themselves with His will revealed in His word ; so it is presumption and high contempt in a subject to dispute what a king can do, or say that a king cannot do this or that ; but rest in that which is the king's will revealed in his law.