The Annals of America: From the Discovery by Columbus in the Year 1492, to the Year 1826, Volume 2Hilliard and Brown, 1829 - America |
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... Britain for a grant of land there for settlement . The government having enter into a contract with him , and agreed to give lands and £ 400 sterling for every 100 effective men whom he should transport from Switzerland to Carolina ; he ...
... Britain for a grant of land there for settlement . The government having enter into a contract with him , and agreed to give lands and £ 400 sterling for every 100 effective men whom he should transport from Switzerland to Carolina ; he ...
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... Britain , and to the who renew agreements made in 1733 with the trustees of Georgia . They their cove- farther declared , that all the dominions , territories , and lands from the Savannah river to St. John's river and all the islands ...
... Britain , and to the who renew agreements made in 1733 with the trustees of Georgia . They their cove- farther declared , that all the dominions , territories , and lands from the Savannah river to St. John's river and all the islands ...
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... Britain against France . M. Du March 31 . Quesnel , governor of Cape Breton , sent about 900 men under Duvivier ... Britain's Declaration of war against the French king is dated at St. James's 29th March , and was published at London on ...
... Britain against France . M. Du March 31 . Quesnel , governor of Cape Breton , sent about 900 men under Duvivier ... Britain's Declaration of war against the French king is dated at St. James's 29th March , and was published at London on ...
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... Britain to purchase a peace , yet it excited her envy and jealousy against the colonies , by whose exertions it was acquired . " 2 The news of this important victory flew through the continent . Considerate and pious persons remarked ...
... Britain to purchase a peace , yet it excited her envy and jealousy against the colonies , by whose exertions it was acquired . " 2 The news of this important victory flew through the continent . Considerate and pious persons remarked ...
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... Britain from the place of its growth.3 This year , 500 vessels cleared out from the port of Bos- Trade of ton for a foreign trade , and 430 entered inwards , exclusive Boston , of coasting and fishing vessels.4 The clearances from Ports ...
... Britain from the place of its growth.3 This year , 500 vessels cleared out from the port of Bos- Trade of ton for a foreign trade , and 430 entered inwards , exclusive Boston , of coasting and fishing vessels.4 The clearances from Ports ...
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Page 277 - 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 ; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 277 - 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...
Page 347 - It is agreed that the people of the United States shall continue to enjoy unmolested the right to take fish of every kind on the Grand Bank, and on all the other banks of Newfoundland ; also, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and at all other places in the sea, where the inhabitants of both countries used at any time heretofore to fish...
Page 418 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
Page 197 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat : if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not. During the course of the last long and bloody war, Logan remained idle in his cabin, an advocate for peace. Such was my love for the whites, that my countrymen pointed as they passed, and said, " Logan is the friend of white men!
Page 418 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened; the honest payment of our debts, and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Page 374 - No people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the United States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency...
Page 348 - It is agreed, that the Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...
Page 348 - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
Page 278 - Every State shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this confederation are submitted to them. And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...