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... Majesty's Council in New Jersey : " Concerning the Riots & Insurrections in New Jersey , " 1744-1748 31. Robert Proud : Politics in Pennsylvania , 1740-1754 32. Reverend Andrew Burnaby : · • • " New - York City , " 1760 . • • PAGE 49 52 ...
... Majesty's Council in New Jersey : " Concerning the Riots & Insurrections in New Jersey , " 1744-1748 31. Robert Proud : Politics in Pennsylvania , 1740-1754 32. Reverend Andrew Burnaby : · • • " New - York City , " 1760 . • • PAGE 49 52 ...
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... Majesty's Province of Massa chusetts Bay , in North America . ( Compiled by Peter Orlando Hutchinson . ) 2 vols . Boston , 1884-1886 . Charles Lee , Memoirs . To which are added his Political and Military Essays also , Letters to , and ...
... Majesty's Province of Massa chusetts Bay , in North America . ( Compiled by Peter Orlando Hutchinson . ) 2 vols . Boston , 1884-1886 . Charles Lee , Memoirs . To which are added his Political and Military Essays also , Letters to , and ...
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... Majesty gives us to understand , that severall ships of force have been fitted out of Scotland , with an intent to settle in some parts of America , contrary to his Majesty's knowledge , forbidding of us to hold any correspondency with ...
... Majesty gives us to understand , that severall ships of force have been fitted out of Scotland , with an intent to settle in some parts of America , contrary to his Majesty's knowledge , forbidding of us to hold any correspondency with ...
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... Majesty's interest , and once more humbly begging your Lordships ' favorable con- structions in what of weakness may appear in us . We being a plain and mean sort of people , yet true and loyall subjects to his Most Excellent Majesty ...
... Majesty's interest , and once more humbly begging your Lordships ' favorable con- structions in what of weakness may appear in us . We being a plain and mean sort of people , yet true and loyall subjects to his Most Excellent Majesty ...
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... to the state of his majesty's provinces of East and West - Jersey , in America : We have considered all the said papers , 68 [ 1701 Middle Colonies Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations: Proposal to Unite the two Jerseys, 1701.
... to the state of his majesty's provinces of East and West - Jersey , in America : We have considered all the said papers , 68 [ 1701 Middle Colonies Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations: Proposal to Unite the two Jerseys, 1701.
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