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" Mr. Drummond! You are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour... "
Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and ... - Page 5
by Peter Force - 1836
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A Popular History of the United States: From the First Discovery ..., Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant, Sydney Howard Gay - United States - 1878 - 740 pages
...hated them with a positive ferocity. He greeted the prisoner with a low bow. "Mr. Drummond," lie said, "you are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." Drummond answered with courage and dignity, " What...
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Stories of the Old Dominion: From the Settlement to the End of the Revolution

John Esten Cooke - History - 1879 - 358 pages
...cruel triumph when he was brought before him. "Mr. Drummond," said the governor, in a sneering voice, " you are very welcome ! I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ! Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour !" Drummond was tried at once; and as there was no trouble...
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Stories of the Old Bay State

Elbridge Streeter Brooks - Massachusetts - 1879 - 342 pages
...triumph when he was brought before him. " Mr. Drummond," said the governor, in a sneering voice, " you are very welcome ! I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ! Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour !" Drummond was tried at once ; and as there was no trouble...
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The English in America: Virginia, Maryland, and the Carolinas

John Andrew Doyle - Maryland - 1882 - 606 pages
...how he welcomed Drummond who, though no soldier, was Bacon's chief counsellor, with a ' Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; you shall be hanged in half an hour ; '2 and how when the wife of Colonel Cheeseman Hung herself...
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Virginia: A History of the People

John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...and the Governor, when he was brought before him, exclaimed with bitter irony : — "Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome! I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour ! " " What your Honor pleases," was the cool reply of...
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History of the United States of America: From the Discovery of the Continent

George Bancroft - United States - 1883 - 660 pages
...are very welcome," exulted Berkeley, with a low bow, on meeting William Drummond, as his prisoner ; " I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; you shall be hanged in half an hour." The patriot, on the twentieth of January, 1677, avowing the...
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A Library of American Literature...

Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...complimented him with the ironical sarcasm of a low bend, saying, "Mr. Drumond! you are very weleome; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drumond, you shall be hanged in half an hour ; " who answered, " What your Honor pleases ; " and as soon as a council of...
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English Colonies in America ...: Virginia, Maryland and the Carolinas

John Andrew Doyle - United States - 1889 - 460 pages
...how he welcomed Drummond who, though no soldier, was Bacon's chief counselor, with a " Mr. Drummond, you are very welcome ; I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia ; you shall be hanged in half an hour;"2 and how when the wife of Colonel Cheeseman flung herself at...
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The Leading Facts of American History

David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1891 - 516 pages
...chief supporters, named Drummond, fell into the governor's hands. "Mr. Drummond," said the governor, " you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." He was executed forthwith. In all, Governor Berkeley...
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The Leading Facts of American History

David Henry Montgomery - United States - 1891 - 528 pages
...chief supporters, named Drummond, fell into the governor's hands. " Mr. Drummond," said the governor, " you are very welcome. I am more glad to see you than any man in Virginia. Mr. Drummond, you shall be hanged in half an hour." He was executed forthwith. In all, Governor Berkeley...
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