The History of Georgia: Containing Brief Sketches of the Most Remarkable Events, Up to the Present Day, Volume 1Seymour & Williams, 1811 - Georgia |
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... prisoners . No state in the union suffered more than Georgia - none made greater struggles- none had such difficulties to encounter , and none has been so little noticed in the general history of the war . Every read- er is capable of ...
... prisoners . No state in the union suffered more than Georgia - none made greater struggles- none had such difficulties to encounter , and none has been so little noticed in the general history of the war . Every read- er is capable of ...
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... with- out finding the prisoner guilty of any crime , but that of having used some unguarded expressions : Causton desired the jury to return , find him guil ty , and recommend him to the mercy of the HISTORY OF GEORGIA , 1735 . 58.
... with- out finding the prisoner guilty of any crime , but that of having used some unguarded expressions : Causton desired the jury to return , find him guil ty , and recommend him to the mercy of the HISTORY OF GEORGIA , 1735 . 58.
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... prisons and log - houses of vari- ous sorts were alternately built and razed , and that most part of them were better calculated for dungeons in the Spanish inquisition , than British goals . Irons , whipping - posts , gibbets , & c ...
... prisons and log - houses of vari- ous sorts were alternately built and razed , and that most part of them were better calculated for dungeons in the Spanish inquisition , than British goals . Irons , whipping - posts , gibbets , & c ...
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... prisons ; rose at 4 o'clock in the morning and refrained from all amusements . From the exact method in which they disposed of every hour , they acquired the appellation of methodists , by which their follow- ers have since been ...
... prisons ; rose at 4 o'clock in the morning and refrained from all amusements . From the exact method in which they disposed of every hour , they acquired the appellation of methodists , by which their follow- ers have since been ...
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... prisoners , that there would be more difficulty attending this enterprise than he had at first expected : it is pro- bable he might have been successful if he had not halted at Diego , but pressed all his force imme- diately against ...
... prisoners , that there would be more difficulty attending this enterprise than he had at first expected : it is pro- bable he might have been successful if he had not halted at Diego , but pressed all his force imme- diately against ...
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Page 332 - ... to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 355 - ... 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 311 - 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.
Page 312 - 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.
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