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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... province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri- vileges they had fo long enjoyed ; and they might be heard by their ...
... province of Virginia , praying to take their unhappy circumftances into confideration ; and that their house of burgeffes might be continued in the rights and pri- vileges they had fo long enjoyed ; and they might be heard by their ...
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... province of South Caro- lina , praying that the house would not approve of any bill that might be offered , charging stamp duties in the province of Carolina . A motion was made with re- fpect to each of these questions , that they ...
... province of South Caro- lina , praying that the house would not approve of any bill that might be offered , charging stamp duties in the province of Carolina . A motion was made with re- fpect to each of these questions , that they ...
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... provincial affemblies , were not very cordial in their affections to one another ; they pro- ceeded upon different ... provinces , were now paid by the crown , which gave them a bias towards the fide of the miniftry , which was not ...
... provincial affemblies , were not very cordial in their affections to one another ; they pro- ceeded upon different ... provinces , were now paid by the crown , which gave them a bias towards the fide of the miniftry , which was not ...
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... province . They faid , as F that The writer of the Annual Register lays , " At laft the governors of fome of the provinces , though bound by the act to swear to see it ob- ferved , under the fevereft penalties , thinking the total ...
... province . They faid , as F that The writer of the Annual Register lays , " At laft the governors of fome of the provinces , though bound by the act to swear to see it ob- ferved , under the fevereft penalties , thinking the total ...
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... province , and the attorney - ge- neral when in it , could not , with regard to this com- munication , be confidered in any other light than as private perfons . They gave feveral inftances of the province having fuffered from the ...
... province , and the attorney - ge- neral when in it , could not , with regard to this com- munication , be confidered in any other light than as private perfons . They gave feveral inftances of the province having fuffered from the ...
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