the documentary history

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Oct 2 Governor of New York to the Governor of New Hampshire relative to the ex parte
445
Jan 8 Gov Wentworth to Gov Tryon enclosing
459
List of civil officers appointed for Cumberland county
471
Dec 3 Report of the Board of Trade to the Lords Committee of the Privy Council with a plan
488
Feb Petition of the freeholders of Charlotte praying that Skenesboro be the county town
496
Lieut Gov Colden to Lord Dartmouth communicating an account of the whipping
544
VOL IV
552
Minute of a conversation which took place at Windsor with the delegates from the west
556
Rectors of St Peters Church Albany XXII Appendix
560
April 25 Declaration by the people of Brattleboro of their allegiance to New York
564
Feb 3 Proclamation of Gov Clinton offering certain terms to the people of the grants for
573
June 7 Gov Clinton to the President of Congress complaining of the late conduct of Ethan Allen
585
Feb 28 List of civil and military officers in Cumberland county commissioned by New York
610
Petition of Col Patterson and others to the legislature of the state of New York pray
614
Portraits of the Governor Lieut Gov of the State and Speaker of the Assembly of N Y in 1798
615
MEMOIR OF JAMES DELANCEY Lieut Gov of the Prov of New York
625
MEMOIR OF HON JAMES DUANE Judge of the U S District Court of New York
641
PROCLAMATION OF THE LAST OF THE ROYAL GOVERNORS OF NEW YORK
655
Manuscripts of Sir Wm Johnson
657
Map of the Country of the VI Nations Proper 1771
659
MEMORIAL CONCERNING THE IROQUOIS By Rev Charles Inglis of Trinity Church
687

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Page 331 - Wentworth, out of our especial grace, certain knowledge, and mere motion, have thought fit to constitute and appoint, and by these presents do constitute and appoint you, the said...
Page 337 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 563 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 376 - His Majesty taking the said Report into Consideration, was pleased with the Advice of his Privy Council to approve thereof, and to Order, as it is hereby Ordered, that the said Petition...
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