The Pioneer Mothers of America: A Record of the More Notable Women of the Early Days of the Country, and Particularly of the Colonial and Revolutionary Periods, Količina 3G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1912 |
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Abigail afterward American Revolution Anne Anne Aylett Aylett Bartlett bears her name became the wife Benjamin Betsy Betsy Ross Boston British brother Captain Carolina Chapter child children were born Colonel Colonies Connecticut Continental Army Continental Congress County daugh death Deborah Read Declaration of Independence Delaware descendants died educated elected Elizabeth England father Fort Griswold Francis Franklin George girl Governor Hannah Hart Hayward Henry History honour husband Indians James John Adams John Hancock Jonathan Trumbull lady lawyer letter Lewis lived Livingston marriage married Martha Mary Middleton miles mother patriotic patron saint Pennsylvania Philadelphia President prison prominent Quincy returned Richard Robert Morris Robert Treat Paine Ross Rutledge Samuel Adams Sarah second wife signer sister Smith soldiers sons South Carolina Stockton Thomas tion Tories town Trumbull Virginia Washington widow William Wolcott woman women wrote York young
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Stran 53 - him an understanding heart, that he may know how to go out and come in before this great people ; that he may discern between good and bad. For who is able to judge this thy so great people
Stran 89 - has bought And your sons reap the soil which their fathers defended. 'Mid the reign of mild peace, May your nation increase, With the glory of Rome and the wisdom of Greece; And ne'er shall the sons of Columbia be slaves, While the earth bears a plant or the sea rolls its waves.
Stran 81 - made his proclamation offering pardon "to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their Arms and return to the Duties of peaceable Subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose Offences were of too flagitious a Nature to admit of any other Consideration than that of condign Punishment.
Stran 183 - passing by the door of Mr. Read, my future wife's father; when she, standing at the door, saw me and thought I made, as I most certainly did, a most awkward, ridiculous appearance.
Stran 53 - by a sense of the obligations, the important trusts, and numerous duties connected with it. That you may be enabled to discharge them with honour to yourself, with justice and impartiality to your country, and with satisfaction to this great people shall be the daily prayer of your—
Stran 53 - The sun is dressed in brightest beams To give thy honours to the day. And may it prove an auspicious prelude to each ensuing season. You have this day to declare yourself head of a nation. 'And now, O Lord my God, thou hast made thy servant ruler over the people; give
Stran 46 - of our worthy pastor for a reconciliation between our no longer parent state but tyrant state and these Colonies. Let us separate ; they are unworthy to be our brethren. Let us renounce them; and instead of supplications, as formerly, for their prosperity,
Stran 253 - how many. When at last he left his room, he rode out and from that time he was incessantly on horseback rambling about the mountain in the least frequented roads and just as often through the woods. In those melancholy rambles, I was his
Stran 53 - words of a royal sovereign and not less applicable to him who is invested with the Chief Magistracy of a nation, though he wear not a crown nor the robes of royalty. My thoughts and my meditations are with you, though personally absent; and my petitions to Heaven are that 'the things that make for peace may not be hidden from your
Stran 196 - If there are in Europe any women who need a model of attachment to domestic duties and love for their country, Mrs. Bache may be pointed out to them as such. She passed a part of last year in exertions to rouse the zeal of the Pennsylvania ladies, and she made on