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 من الصفحات |
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... taken from ancient and modern history . The three newspapers then published in the colony , were all faithful to the cause of freedom ; but the one in New London , called the " Connecticut Gazette , and Uni- versal Intelligencer ...
... taken from ancient and modern history . The three newspapers then published in the colony , were all faithful to the cause of freedom ; but the one in New London , called the " Connecticut Gazette , and Uni- versal Intelligencer ...
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... taken the aforesaid measure so effectually to surprise them , that little or no resistance was made . One corner of the fort having fallen down , and all their powder being wet and unfit for use , the officers and soldiers were obliged ...
... taken the aforesaid measure so effectually to surprise them , that little or no resistance was made . One corner of the fort having fallen down , and all their powder being wet and unfit for use , the officers and soldiers were obliged ...
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... taken from Hartford to West Hartford , on an order of the Assembly , for their better security - they boarded in the family of widow Hooker in West Hartford about a year , at their own expense . Gov. Skeen had his family with him . They ...
... taken from Hartford to West Hartford , on an order of the Assembly , for their better security - they boarded in the family of widow Hooker in West Hartford about a year , at their own expense . Gov. Skeen had his family with him . They ...
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... taken from the other two Islands were taken without paying any consideration . General Wooster , of Connecticut , soon arrived at Oyster Pond , from New York , with four hundred troops , who took the stock that was left on Gardner's and ...
... taken from the other two Islands were taken without paying any consideration . General Wooster , of Connecticut , soon arrived at Oyster Pond , from New York , with four hundred troops , who took the stock that was left on Gardner's and ...
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... taken . Aye , says Amherst , I would give the world if she was taken . I'll take her , says Putnam . Amherst smiled and asked how ? Give me some wedges , a beetle , and a few men of my own choice . Amherst could not conceive how an ...
... taken . Aye , says Amherst , I would give the world if she was taken . I'll take her , says Putnam . Amherst smiled and asked how ? Give me some wedges , a beetle , and a few men of my own choice . Amherst could not conceive how an ...
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.