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... soon pub- lished an account of the country , with the Kings patent and other papers relating thereto , describing the situation & soil and what it produced , as well as he then could , and proposing an easy purchase of lands , and good ...
... soon pub- lished an account of the country , with the Kings patent and other papers relating thereto , describing the situation & soil and what it produced , as well as he then could , and proposing an easy purchase of lands , and good ...
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... soon appeared , from London , Liverpool , and es- pecially about Bristol , among these were James Claypoole , Nicholas Moore , Philip Ford and others who formed a company , and having purchased 20,000 acres of land , they published ...
... soon appeared , from London , Liverpool , and es- pecially about Bristol , among these were James Claypoole , Nicholas Moore , Philip Ford and others who formed a company , and having purchased 20,000 acres of land , they published ...
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... soon to be recorded . 45. Wills shall convey land as well as chattels . 46. Will of non compos mentis void . 47. Registry for wills . 48. Reg- istry for servants & c . 49. Factors and their employers . 50. Against defacers , corrupters ...
... soon to be recorded . 45. Wills shall convey land as well as chattels . 46. Will of non compos mentis void . 47. Registry for wills . 48. Reg- istry for servants & c . 49. Factors and their employers . 50. Against defacers , corrupters ...
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... soon peopled from the Falls to Chester , about fifty miles distance on the river Delaware , near which they generally chose their first settlements , their first care was to keep up religious worship , in the different parts of the ...
... soon peopled from the Falls to Chester , about fifty miles distance on the river Delaware , near which they generally chose their first settlements , their first care was to keep up religious worship , in the different parts of the ...
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... soon found a way to make better houses.- These difficulties however , and others of a like sort were discouragements . Europeans generally speaking had then but very little notion of improvements among woods ; indeed , to come from an ...
... soon found a way to make better houses.- These difficulties however , and others of a like sort were discouragements . Europeans generally speaking had then but very little notion of improvements among woods ; indeed , to come from an ...
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Page 184 - Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed; but in all things approving ourselves as the ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings...
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Page 172 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool : neither by Jerusalem ; for it is the city of the great King...
Page 184 - ... as unknown, and yet well known ; as dying, and behold, we live ; as chastened, and not killed ; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich ; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.
Page 173 - Lord thine oaths; but I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven, for it is God's throne; nor by the earth, for it is his footstool; neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King. Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay; for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
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