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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... appears to us , we cease to wonder when reading a little further on that the virgin soil is composed of " a black moulde a foote deepe , and then comes after red earth . ” Alsop , writing of Maryland a few years later for the ...
... appears to us , we cease to wonder when reading a little further on that the virgin soil is composed of " a black moulde a foote deepe , and then comes after red earth . ” Alsop , writing of Maryland a few years later for the ...
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... appear at this writing , but no doubt it had its uses to the young " macaronies " of that day . This piece of silk reminds me of a roll of 12 yards of figured " taffeta " which has descended from one of the Colonial dames of " Myrtle ...
... appear at this writing , but no doubt it had its uses to the young " macaronies " of that day . This piece of silk reminds me of a roll of 12 yards of figured " taffeta " which has descended from one of the Colonial dames of " Myrtle ...
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... appears that more pre - eminently here than at any known place " the gold was but the guinea's stamp and the man the man for a ' that . " The spirit that prevailed in Colonial Maryland must have been the forerunner of that of the ...
... appears that more pre - eminently here than at any known place " the gold was but the guinea's stamp and the man the man for a ' that . " The spirit that prevailed in Colonial Maryland must have been the forerunner of that of the ...
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... appears that the burgesses en- acted a law that all who held lands should relinquish them and then the inhabitants of the province should all cast lots as to where they should live . Evidently this ingenious plan was the result of the ...
... appears that the burgesses en- acted a law that all who held lands should relinquish them and then the inhabitants of the province should all cast lots as to where they should live . Evidently this ingenious plan was the result of the ...
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... appears in the early proceedings of the Provincial Court , when a christening party at home is the sole apology for delay- ing the prosecution of a criminal until the next court . Mr. John Washington , of Westmoreland County , Vir ...
... appears in the early proceedings of the Provincial Court , when a christening party at home is the sole apology for delay- ing the prosecution of a criminal until the next court . Mr. John Washington , of Westmoreland County , Vir ...
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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...
Page 3 - King of this realm and all other his Majesty's dominions and countries thereunto belonging. And I do solemnly and sincerely declare that I do believe in my conscience that...
Page 4 - And all these things I do plainly and sincerely acknowledge and swear according to these express words by me spoken, and according to the plain and common sense and understanding of the same words without any equivocation, mental evasion, or secret reservation whatsoever.
Page 58 - YIELDING therefore unto US, our heirs and successors, TWO INDIAN ARROWS of those parts, to be delivered at the said castle of Windsor, every year, on Tuesday in Ester-week; and also the fifth part of all gold and silver, ore, which shall happen from time to time, to be found within the aforesaid limits.
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.