Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an Historical Essay, Volume 1 |
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Addresser of Hutchinson aged American appointed attainted Battalion became born Boston British Army brother Brunswick Canada captain cause Charleston Chester County Church Colonel Colony command commission Commissioners Committee confiscated Connecticut corps Council County Court Crown daughter death decease died at St England father friends Gage gentleman Georgia Government Governor graduated at Harvard granted Halifax Hampshire Harvard University Henry honor hundred jail James John Judge King King's King's County Lancey land letter lieutenant lived London Lord Loyal Loyal American Regiment Loyalists married Maryland Massachusetts merchant militia North Nova Scotia party peace Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia political prisoner proscribed and banished Province Provincial Congress Queen's Rangers received half-pay Rector Regiment retired returned Revolution Rhode Island Royal Army Samuel sent settled Shelburne Sir William soon South Carolina Thomas tion Tories town treason troops Virginia Washington Whigs widow wife wrote Yale College York
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Page 578 - A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city; and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.
Page 95 - ... or acts perfectly consistent not only with justice and equity, but with that spirit of conciliation which on the return of the blessings of peace should universally prevail.
Page 95 - And that persons of any other description shall have free liberty to go to any part or parts of any of the thirteen United States, and therein to remain twelve months, unmolested in their endeavors to obtain the restitution of such of their estates, rights and properties as may have been confiscated...
Page 174 - The General went up to see her, and she upbraided him with being in a plot to murder her child. One moment she raved, another she melted into tears. Sometimes she pressed her infant to her bosom and lamented its fate, occasioned by the imprudence of its father, in a manner that would have pierced insensibility itself. All the sweetness of beauty, all the loveliness of innocence, all the tenderness of a wife, and all the fondness of a mother, showed themselves in her appearance and conduct.
Page 138 - Mercy to him that shows it is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves in pardoning guilty man : And he that shows none, being ripe in years, And conscious of the outrage he commits, Shall seek it, and not find it, in his turn.
Page 95 - ... now in possession, the bona fide price (where any has been given) which such persons may have paid on purchasing any of the said lands, rights or properties, since the confiscation. And it is agreed, that all persons who have any interest in confiscated lands, either by debts, marriage settlements, or otherwise, shall meet with no lawful impediment in the prosecution of their just rights.
Page 451 - As matters have gone, it was plainly a blunder, But then I expected the Whigs must knock under, And I always adhere to the sword that is longest, And stick to the party that's like to be strongest...
Page 150 - I am wearied to death with the wrangles between military officers, high and low. They quarrel like cats and dogs. They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.
Page 142 - I would to God, that some one of the most atrocious in each State was hung in gibbets upon a gallows five times as high as the one prepared by Haman. No punishment, in my opinion, is too great for the man, who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin.
Page 221 - Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends ; for the hand of God hath touched me.