A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution: With an Appendix, Containing Important Letters, Depositions, &c., Written During the WarE. Gleason, 1842 - 643 strani |
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... proper to relieve us from the burthens we now feel , and secure us from greater evils we fear will follow from the principles adopted by the British Parliament respecting the town of Boston . In the war against the French , a woman by ...
... proper to relieve us from the burthens we now feel , and secure us from greater evils we fear will follow from the principles adopted by the British Parliament respecting the town of Boston . In the war against the French , a woman by ...
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... proper measures to procure the repeal of the act . On the first Tuesday in October , 1765 , twenty - eight deputies from the colonies of Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , the counties of ...
... proper measures to procure the repeal of the act . On the first Tuesday in October , 1765 , twenty - eight deputies from the colonies of Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , New York , New Jersey , Pennsylvania , the counties of ...
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... proper to be transmitted to future times , in such a manner that all may have access to them on every proper occasion . The extreme distress to which our brethren of Boston are reduced by the merciless arm of tyranny , was then brought ...
... proper to be transmitted to future times , in such a manner that all may have access to them on every proper occasion . The extreme distress to which our brethren of Boston are reduced by the merciless arm of tyranny , was then brought ...
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... proper , at so alarming and critical a period as this , in which nothing less is attacked than the lives and liberties of all the free born inhabitants of British America . Most cheerfully engaging , to the utmost of our power and in ...
... proper , at so alarming and critical a period as this , in which nothing less is attacked than the lives and liberties of all the free born inhabitants of British America . Most cheerfully engaging , to the utmost of our power and in ...
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... proper to come into a joint agreement to break off all commercial intercourse with Great Britain and the West Indies , except for the necessaries of life , ( if such there be included in it ) until American liberties are restored and ...
... proper to come into a joint agreement to break off all commercial intercourse with Great Britain and the West Indies , except for the necessaries of life , ( if such there be included in it ) until American liberties are restored and ...
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1st lieutenant 2d lieutenant aforesaid Andrew Huntington appointed arms Assembly battalions Benjamin Benjamin Huntington bills Boston brig brig Defence brigade British bushels cannon Capt captain clothing colony command commissary committee of pay Congress Connecticut continental army Continental Congress Council of Safety Danbury David deliver directed Ebenezer Elderkin enemy enlisted ensign Esq'rs Fairfield favor forthwith Governor and Council Groton guns harbor Hartford Haven horse Huntington inhabitants Jabez Jabez Huntington John Jonathan JONATHAN TRUMBULL Joseph lawful money Lebanon Legislature letter liberty Lieut London Long Island Nathaniel Nathaniel Shaw non-commissioned officers Norwalk Norwich officers and soldiers Oliver Cromwell ordered pay table Peekskill permitted persons pounds powder prisoners procure purchase raised receive resolved Salisbury salt Samuel selectmen sent SESSION shillings ship sloop Stonington taken Thomas tories town troops Trumbull vessels voted wages William Windham Wolcott York
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Stran 107 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Stran 106 - States, and from the list of such persons each party shall alternately strike out one, the petitioners beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names, as Congress shall direct, shall in the presence of Congress be drawn out by lot; and the persons whose names shall be so drawn, or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges, who...
Stran 105 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Stran 103 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Stran 105 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states, in proportion to the value of all land within each state...
Stran 100 - He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states ; for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands.
Stran 105 - Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint.
Stran 105 - When land forces are raised by any State, for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of Colonel, shall be appointed by the Legislature of each State respectively by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such State shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the State which first made the appointment.
Stran 104 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince, or state, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.
Stran 107 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated, "A Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State ; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction...