An Impartial History of the Present War in America: Containing an Account of Its Rise and Progress, the Political Springs Thereof, with Its Various Successes and Disappointments, on Both Sides. By the Rev. James Murray, ...T. Robson, Head of the Groat-Market, R. Baldwin, No. 47, Pater-noster-Row, London, N. Frobisher, York, C. Elliot, Edinburgh, and Dunlop and Wilson, Glasgow, 1780 - United States - 575 pages |
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... houses , for laying a duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America , fome of them extremely ...
... houses , for laying a duty upon ftamps in all the American colonies . This law impofed no less than fifty - three different forts of ftamps and other duties upon the co- lonies and plantations in America , fome of them extremely ...
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... house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri- vileges they had fo long enjoyed ; and they might be heard by their council against a bill that might be in- tended to charge ftamp or any other duties on the co- lony of ...
... house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri- vileges they had fo long enjoyed ; and they might be heard by their council against a bill that might be in- tended to charge ftamp or any other duties on the co- lony of ...
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... house in the laft feffion of parliament , might not be carried into exe , cution , by a bill for impofing stamp duties on the co- lonies . William Middleton , Efq . Daniel Hughes , Efq . and Jofeph Nitt , Efq . alfo offered a petition ...
... house in the laft feffion of parliament , might not be carried into exe , cution , by a bill for impofing stamp duties on the co- lonies . William Middleton , Efq . Daniel Hughes , Efq . and Jofeph Nitt , Efq . alfo offered a petition ...
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... houses of par- liament , and the parliament of Britain never claimed a fight to tax the people of Ireland , in confequence of this virtual reprefentation . It was objected that the mother country had given great affiftance to the ...
... houses of par- liament , and the parliament of Britain never claimed a fight to tax the people of Ireland , in confequence of this virtual reprefentation . It was objected that the mother country had given great affiftance to the ...
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... house of commons . Their speeches against it , and their pictures were requested from England ; the pictures to be hung up in their places of meeting , and the fpeeches to be inferted in the books defigned to re- cord their principal ...
... house of commons . Their speeches against it , and their pictures were requested from England ; the pictures to be hung up in their places of meeting , and the fpeeches to be inferted in the books defigned to re- cord their principal ...
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