The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independence of the United States of America, Volum 1Samuel Campbell, no. 124, Pearl-street, 1801 "The following work is not confined to the contest between Great Britain and the United States of America, but includes all the other parts of the war which originated from that contest. ... The form of letters, instead of chapters, is not altogether imaginary, as the author, from his arrival in America in 1770, maintained a correspondence with gentlemen in London, Rotterdam and Paris, answering in general to the prefixed dates."--Preface. |
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... expected . We live but as exiles now , and are in a poor condition . The truce with the Spaniards is hastening to a close . Nothing but preparations for war are going forward . The Spaniards may be as cruel as the Savages ; and famine ...
... expected . We live but as exiles now , and are in a poor condition . The truce with the Spaniards is hastening to a close . Nothing but preparations for war are going forward . The Spaniards may be as cruel as the Savages ; and famine ...
Side 32
... expected a body of laws to aid and pro- tect them in all their just rights and previleges * . It was the more necessary to comply with the prevailing expectation , for the busi- ness had been long in agitation : not only so , but a ...
... expected a body of laws to aid and pro- tect them in all their just rights and previleges * . It was the more necessary to comply with the prevailing expectation , for the busi- ness had been long in agitation : not only so , but a ...
Side 34
... expected the charter would have been surrendered into his hands , the candle was blown out , and the charter withdrawn from the table , carried off and secreted by one of the company whose extraordinary ser- vice was afterwards rewarded ...
... expected the charter would have been surrendered into his hands , the candle was blown out , and the charter withdrawn from the table , carried off and secreted by one of the company whose extraordinary ser- vice was afterwards rewarded ...
Side 85
... expected that they should raise at least 5,000 men ; they voted 8,200 ; and the Massachusetts , to the amount of 3,500 , were ready to embark by the middle of July , about six wecks from the first notice . ‡ Though the expedition was ...
... expected that they should raise at least 5,000 men ; they voted 8,200 ; and the Massachusetts , to the amount of 3,500 , were ready to embark by the middle of July , about six wecks from the first notice . ‡ Though the expedition was ...
Side 95
... expected , that you oppose every thing that shall have the remotest tendency to raise a revenue in the plantations , for any public uses or services of government ; " he wrote to them the twenty - ninth of May following , " The ...
... expected , that you oppose every thing that shall have the remotest tendency to raise a revenue in the plantations , for any public uses or services of government ; " he wrote to them the twenty - ninth of May following , " The ...
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