History and Description of New England: MaineA.J. Coolidge, 1860 - 281 strani |
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History and Description of New England: Maine Austin Jacobs Mainsfield Coolidge,John Brainard Predogled ni na voljo - 2019 |
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Stran 724 - ... and they shall have all other powers necessary for the legislature of a free and sovereign state. But they shall have no power to add to, alter, abolish, or infringe any part of this constitution.
Stran 713 - ... from its local situation to Canada, obliged to encounter, the whole force of that province, or give up its claim to independence and run away, Vermont being thus driven to desperation by the injustice of those who should have been her friends, was obliged to adopt policy in the room of power.
Stran 813 - I, Ethan Allen, declare that unless the people of Guilford peaceably submit to the authority of Vermont the town shall be made as desolate as were the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Stran 714 - 'in the name of the great Jehovah and of the continental congress.
Stran 820 - Burlington, or to Vergennes, for their grinding. The river Laplot rises in the southeastern part of the town, and takes a northwesterly course, running through a rich tract of intervale, which is from one half to a mile and a half in width and about four and a half in length. This land is not exceeded for fertility and beauty by any in the county. Pond brook is the outlet of a natural pond which lies in the north part of the town, and in Williston and joins into the river Laplot a little northwest...
Stran 759 - ... and dancing, carried it away to their canoes. At another time, a party of Indians, coming up the bank, were discovered by Mrs. Stone, in season to throw some things out of a back window into the weeds, put a few in her bosom, and sit down to her carding. The Indians, after taking what they could find elsewhere, came about Mrs. Stone and the children. One of them seeming to suspect that she had some valuable articles concealed about her person, attempted to pull them from her bosom, whereupon...
Stran 708 - York, but choosing no longer to rely on so precarious a tenure, application was now made to the crown for a confirmation of the claim. This application was supported by a petition, purporting to be signed by a great number of the settlers on the New Hampshire grants, representing that it would be for their advantage to be annexed to the colony of New York, and praying that the western bank of Connecticut river might be established as the eastern boundary of that province.
Stran 948 - Vermont, from 1795 to 1S01 — during two years of Washington's Administration, and during the whole of that of the elder Adams. He was appointed in 1801, by the elder Adams, to be Judge of the District Court of Vermont, which office he held till within a month of his decease. He was the first President of the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Harvard College, and pronounced the first oration before that Society. He was distinguished as an able and upright judge, a good citizen, and a revered neighbor and...
Stran 806 - COKE. they left ihe pond. Nothing now remains of the pond but its bed, a part of which is cultivated, and a part overgrown with trees, bushes and wild grass, with a small brook running through it, which is now the head branch of Barton river. The channel, through which the waters escaped, is 127 feet in depth and several rods in width. A pond, some distance below, was, at first, entirely filled with sand, which has since settled down, and it is now about one half iti former dimensions. Marks of the...
Stran 936 - The degree of Doctor of Laws was conferred upon him by Trinity College in 1849, and by Dartmouth College in 1855.