Albany Chronicles: A History of the City Arranged Chronologically, from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time; Illustrated with Many Historical Pictures of Rarity and Reproductions of the Robert C. Pruyn Collection of the Mayors of Albany, Owned by the Albany Institute and Historical and Art Society |
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Abraham Abraham Ten Broeck aged Albany county Amsterdam appointed April April 17 April 20 army arrives Bank Beaver Bleecker British Broadway Broeck building Burgoyne Capitol Capt Captain Charles Charter election citizens City Hall city of Albany Clinton closed to navigation colony Common Council Company Congress corner Cuyler Date of office death Dirck Douw Dutch Church Dutch Reformed Eli Perry English Erastus Corning erected Eyck feet Fort Orange Gansevoort Gates George Gerrit Governor Hansen Hendrick Henry Indians Jacob James Johannes July June Kiliaen Van Rensselaer land Lansing Legislature Manor March Mayor of Albany miles Mohawk Orange Patroon Pearl street Peter Peter's Church Philip Schuyler Pieter Schuyler president Province Pruyn railroad record Rensselaerswyck River closed River open Robert Livingston Roseboom Schaick Schenectady Sept Steamboat Stephen Van Rensselaer sworn Thomas Vechten votes West India William Yates
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Page 145 - I do declare that no foreign prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate hath, or ought to have, any jurisdiction, power, superiority, preeminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, within this realm : So help me God.
Page 94 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 15 - I shot a falcon at them, and killed two of them : whereupon the rest fled into the woods. Yet they manned off another canoe with nine or ten men, which came to meet us. So I shot at it also a falcon, and shot it through, and killed one of them. Then our men with their muskets killed three or foure more of them.* So they went their way...
Page 145 - I, AB, do swear, That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical, that damnable doctrine and position, That princes excommunicated or deprived by the pope, or any authority of the see of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Page 276 - Measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Provincial Convention for the purpose of preserving our Constitution, and opposing the Execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive Acts of the British Parliament...
Page 275 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America, depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government...
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Page 333 - Should the army under Lieutenant-General Burgoyne find it necessary to send for their clothing and other bagirage to Canada, they are to be permitted to do it in the most convenient manner, and the necessary passports granted for that purpose.