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... town and district in the county of Middlesex , in the said province , communicated to the Congress the proceedings of those committees at Concord , on the 30th and 31st days of August last , which were read . Adjourned until to - morrow ...
... town and district in the county of Middlesex , in the said province , communicated to the Congress the proceedings of those committees at Concord , on the 30th and 31st days of August last , which were read . Adjourned until to - morrow ...
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... town , more especially as the commander in chief has , in a very extraordinary manner , removed the powder from the magazine at Charlestown , and has also forbidden the keeper of the magazine at Boston , to deliver out to the owners ...
... town , more especially as the commander in chief has , in a very extraordinary manner , removed the powder from the magazine at Charlestown , and has also forbidden the keeper of the magazine at Boston , to deliver out to the owners ...
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... towns and districts , who are qualified , do use their utmost diligence to acquaint themselves with the art of war as soon ... town adjoining , where such hostilities shall commence , or shall be expected to com- mence , shall despatch ...
... towns and districts , who are qualified , do use their utmost diligence to acquaint themselves with the art of war as soon ... town adjoining , where such hostilities shall commence , or shall be expected to com- mence , shall despatch ...
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... town , and to confer with him upon those subjects . Attest , WILLIAM THOMPSON , Clerk . " To his excellency THOMAS GAGE , Esq . captain - general , and commander in chief of his majesty's province of Massachusetts - Bay . " May it ...
... town , and to confer with him upon those subjects . Attest , WILLIAM THOMPSON , Clerk . " To his excellency THOMAS GAGE , Esq . captain - general , and commander in chief of his majesty's province of Massachusetts - Bay . " May it ...
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... town to its former state , and an effectual stop of all insults and abuses in future , can place the inhabitants of this county in that state of peace and tranquillity , in which every free subject ought to be . " His excellency was ...
... town to its former state , and an effectual stop of all insults and abuses in future , can place the inhabitants of this county in that state of peace and tranquillity , in which every free subject ought to be . " His excellency was ...
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Side 30 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment, that a British parliament should ever consent to establish in that country, a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Side 20 - ... in all cases of taxation and internal polity, subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...
Side 84 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare, with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Side 84 - As to pay, sir, I beg leave to assure the congress, that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment, at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it. I will keep an exact account of my expenses. Those, I doubt not, they will discharge, and that is all I desire...
Side 139 - Colony, for contributing their Proportion to the common Defence, (such Proportion to be raised under the Authority of the General Court, or General Assembly of such Province or Colony, and disposable by Parliament,) and shall engage to make Provision also, for the support of the Civil Government, and the Administration of Justice...
Side 43 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Side 20 - That by such emigration they by no means forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of those rights, but that they were, and their descendants now are entitled to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them, as their local and other circumstances enable them to exercise and enjoy.
Side 407 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Side 85 - And you are to observe and follow such orders and directions from time to time as you shall receive from this or a future Congress...
Side 21 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.