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... miles from New - York . He was not long there before he was summoned , 3d June , 1777 , to attend the council of safety at Kingston , and being introduced before them , he was asked whether he considered himself a subject of the ...
... miles from New - York . He was not long there before he was summoned , 3d June , 1777 , to attend the council of safety at Kingston , and being introduced before them , he was asked whether he considered himself a subject of the ...
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... miles , on each side , along the coast , one hundred miles into the country , and all the islands within one hundred miles opposite to their plantations , were * Some authors alledge , that Columbus first offered his services to the ...
... miles , on each side , along the coast , one hundred miles into the country , and all the islands within one hundred miles opposite to their plantations , were * Some authors alledge , that Columbus first offered his services to the ...
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... miles northwest into their country . That Sir Francis Drake visited the new colony in 1586 , after burning St ... mile south - west from a hill called Kych - Uyt , in a pine wilderness , remote from any settlement , one of the axe - men ...
... miles northwest into their country . That Sir Francis Drake visited the new colony in 1586 , after burning St ... mile south - west from a hill called Kych - Uyt , in a pine wilderness , remote from any settlement , one of the axe - men ...
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... miles from an English settlement ; and that they first seat- ed themselves there in 1636 , at Hartford , near fort Good - Hope , at Weathersfield , Windsor and Spring- field . Four years after , they seized the Dutch gar- rison , and ...
... miles from an English settlement ; and that they first seat- ed themselves there in 1636 , at Hartford , near fort Good - Hope , at Weathersfield , Windsor and Spring- field . Four years after , they seized the Dutch gar- rison , and ...
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... that in 1660 , he had not the patent to the West - India Company , to lay before the English in America , who disputed the Dutch right to this county . our neighbours lay the boundaries a mile and a half 12 [ Part I.
... that in 1660 , he had not the patent to the West - India Company , to lay before the English in America , who disputed the Dutch right to this county . our neighbours lay the boundaries a mile and a half 12 [ Part I.
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Page 157 - ... let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another ; and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.
Page 298 - 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 15 - Hudson's river, and all the lands from the west side of Connecticut river, to the east side of Delaware bay.
Page 299 - We do further give and grant unto you full power and authority, with the advice and consent of our said council, to...
Page 296 - Now know you that we have revoked and determined, and by these presents do revoke and determine, the said recited letters patent and every clause, article, and thing therein contained. And...
Page 298 - ... not to be repugnant but as near as may be agreeable to the laws and statutes of this our kingdom of Great Britain...
Page 66 - I thank you, in their name, for bringing back into their country the calumet, which your predecessor received from their hands. It was happy for you, that you left under ground that murdering hatchet that has been so often dyed in the blood of the French.
Page 298 - And our Will and Pleasure is that the Persons thereupon duly elected by the major Part of the Freeholders of the respective Counties and Places...
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Page 300 - And we do hereby give and grant unto you full Power and Authority by and with the Advice and Consent of our said Council...