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Page 147 - State, and each and every of them who shall at any time hereafter be found in any part of this State, shall be and are hereby adjudged and declared guilty of felony, and shall suffer death as in cases of felony without benefit of clergy.
Page 143 - July last past, unanimously resolve that the reasons assigned by the Continental Congress for declaring the united colonies free and independent States are cogent and conclusive-; and that while we lament the cruel necessity which has rendered that measure unavoidable, we approve the same, and will, at the risk of our lives and fortunes, join with the other colonies in supporting it.
Page 127 - Government in America, and the Government of the United States, for making a joint Survey of the said River, from one Degree of Latitude below the falls of St Anthony, to the principal Source or Sources of the said River...
Page 146 - AN ACT,* for the forfeiture and sale of the estates of persons who have adhered to the enemies of this State, and for declaring the sovereignty of the people of this State in respect to all property within the same.
Page 144 - Convention hath by their suffrages and free choice been appointed. and among other things, authorized to institute and establish such a government as they shall deem best calculated to secure the rights and liberties of the good people of this State, most conducive of the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and of America in general.
Page 322 - Friend of Mankind? But, to covet political Fame Was in him a degrading Ambition, A Spark that from Lucifer came, And kindled the Blaze of Sedition. Let Candor then write on his Urn, Here lies the renowned Inventor, Whose Flame to the Skies ought to burn, But, inverted, descends to the Centre.
Page 269 - I made no money from my Estate during the nine years I was absent from it, and brought none home with me...
Page 183 - Illand, whear the Crosse Standeth and thear we heard a Sermon delyvred unto us by our preacher gyvinge God thanks for our happy Metinge & Saffe aryvall into the Country & So retorned abord aggain.
Page 135 - Company contenting themselves in this wilderness for 10, 15, and some of them for 20 years, by the attachment they contract for the Indian women. It appears to me that the wealth of nations would not induce me to remain secluded from the society of civilized mankind, surrounded by a savage and unproductive wilderness, without books or other sources of intellectual enjoyment, or being blessed with the cultivated and feeling mind of a civilized fair [one]. Tuesday, Jan. 28tk. [My party joined Boley...
Page 9 - Nation never to desert or to abandon it, and that under no circumstances will they permit the Northern States or any other enemy to overcome them and sever the Cherokees from the Confederacy; but that they will, at any cost, and all hazards, protect and defend them and maintain unbroken the ties created by identity of interests and institutions, and strengthened and made perpetual by this treaty.