Historical Collections of Georgia: Containing the Most Interesting Facts, Traditions, Biographical Sketches, Anecdotes, Etc., Relating to Its History and Antiquities, from Its First Settlement to the Present Time. Comp. from Original Records and Official Documents. Illustrated by Nearly One Hundred Engravings ... |
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... Colony 631 Ball - ground 390 427 Ball - play , Indian 670 279 Baptist Female College of Southwestern Georgia . 590 ... Colonists at Charletown . Association of Deputies . Atlanta • Atlanta Tanning Company . Atlanta Machine Shop ...
... Colony 631 Ball - ground 390 427 Ball - play , Indian 670 279 Baptist Female College of Southwestern Georgia . 590 ... Colonists at Charletown . Association of Deputies . Atlanta • Atlanta Tanning Company . Atlanta Machine Shop ...
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... Colony . Chatham County 586 De Kalb County . 421 519 Denmead's Mills . 401 286 , 671 De Soto's visit to Rome 453 • • Cessna , murder of Miss . 480 • 1 302 Chatooga County Charlton , Hon . T. U. P .. Cheha , destruction of Indian town of ...
... Colony . Chatham County 586 De Kalb County . 421 519 Denmead's Mills . 401 286 , 671 De Soto's visit to Rome 453 • • Cessna , murder of Miss . 480 • 1 302 Chatooga County Charlton , Hon . T. U. P .. Cheha , destruction of Indian town of ...
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... COLONY . GEORGE THE SECOND : By the grace of God , of Great Britain , France , and Ireland , King , Defender of the Faith , & c . To all to whom these presents shall come , greeting : Whereas we are credibly informed , that many of our ...
... COLONY . GEORGE THE SECOND : By the grace of God , of Great Britain , France , and Ireland , King , Defender of the Faith , & c . To all to whom these presents shall come , greeting : Whereas we are credibly informed , that many of our ...
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... Colony of Georgia in America ; and them and their successors by the same name , we do , by these presents , for us , our heirs and successors , really and fully make , ordain , constitute and declare , to be one body politic in deed and ...
... Colony of Georgia in America ; and them and their successors by the same name , we do , by these presents , for us , our heirs and successors , really and fully make , ordain , constitute and declare , to be one body politic in deed and ...
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... which oath the president of the said corporation for the time being , is hereby author- ized and required to administer to such person or persons elected as aforesaid . And our will and pleasure is , that CHARTER OF THE COLONY . 3.
... which oath the president of the said corporation for the time being , is hereby author- ized and required to administer to such person or persons elected as aforesaid . And our will and pleasure is , that CHARTER OF THE COLONY . 3.
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Page 3 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 56 - ... as the English colonists are not represented, and from their local and other circumstances, cannot properly be represented in the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several Provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, 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...
Page 56 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Page 13 - ... of our especial grace, certain knowledge,- and mere motion, have given and granted, and by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do...
Page 69 - ... whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the rights of British America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies...
Page 38 - An Act for the further security of His Majesty's person and Government, and the succession of the Crown in the Heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants, and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abettors...
Page 57 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Page 60 - ... That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association...
Page 577 - ... greatly embarrass the exercise of his office as an itinerant general superintendent, if not in some places entirely prevent it ; therefore, Resolved, That it is the sense of this general conference, that he desist from the exercise of this office, so long as this impediment remains ! The yeas and nays were taken, and the resolution was adopted, in to 69.
Page 56 - 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.