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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... Long Island sound , and on the 11th day of July , she came to anchor at Branford . July , 1775. The regiment , quartered at Cambridge , Mass . , were assembled on parade , when the Rev. Dr. Langdon read to the general officers and ...
... Long Island sound , and on the 11th day of July , she came to anchor at Branford . July , 1775. The regiment , quartered at Cambridge , Mass . , were assembled on parade , when the Rev. Dr. Langdon read to the general officers and ...
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... long as I have breath , I will never give over exhort- ing and teaching the people . " Major Skeen had a commission appointing him Governor of Ticonderoga , Crown Point , and Montreal , with orders to raise a regiment of Canadians to ...
... long as I have breath , I will never give over exhort- ing and teaching the people . " Major Skeen had a commission appointing him Governor of Ticonderoga , Crown Point , and Montreal , with orders to raise a regiment of Canadians to ...
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... long as the stream ran down the Susquehannah river . That should a difference arise , they would try every healing measure for the redress of the greivance ; that as Col. Grey Johnson had left his habitation and they had no superin ...
... long as the stream ran down the Susquehannah river . That should a difference arise , they would try every healing measure for the redress of the greivance ; that as Col. Grey Johnson had left his habitation and they had no superin ...
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... long to be here recited , though re- plete with arbitrary , threatening resolutions , threatening destruc- tion to all corporations in Great Britain , and all chartered rights in America . In view of these , as well as many other ...
... long to be here recited , though re- plete with arbitrary , threatening resolutions , threatening destruc- tion to all corporations in Great Britain , and all chartered rights in America . In view of these , as well as many other ...
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... Long Island , on the 22d of August , was more than 25,000 men . This was the largest body of American troops ever collected at one point during the revolution ; and the British force was proportionately large . The fourteen regiments of ...
... Long Island , on the 22d of August , was more than 25,000 men . This was the largest body of American troops ever collected at one point during the revolution ; and the British force was proportionately large . The fourteen regiments of ...
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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 pence 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 101 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Stran 98 - He has endeavoured 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 102 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Stran 104 - ... 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 shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination...
Stran 105 - 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 103 - States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article, of sending and receiving ambassadors, entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation...
Stran 101 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Stran 101 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Stran 107 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Stran 101 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, 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 pretence whatever.