Annals of Annapolis: Comprising Sundry Notices of that Old City from the Period of the First Settlements in Its Vicinity in the Year 1649, Until the War of 1812 : Together with Various Incidents in the History of Maryland, Derived from Early Records, Public Documents, and Other Sources ; with an Appendix, Containing a Number of Letters from General Washington, and Other Distinguished Persons, which Letters Have Never Been Published BeforeDavid Ridgely |
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... determined to seek for a settlement further down . He , therefore , returned down the Poto- mac , taking captain Fleet with him . They proceeded to a small river on the north side of the Potomac , within four or five leagues of its ...
... determined to seek for a settlement further down . He , therefore , returned down the Poto- mac , taking captain Fleet with him . They proceeded to a small river on the north side of the Potomac , within four or five leagues of its ...
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... determined to seize the first vessel that should arrive , but being dis- covered , the ringleaders were executed ; and , says the narrator , ' our vessel being the first that touched the shore , was the destined prize , and the very day ...
... determined to seize the first vessel that should arrive , but being dis- covered , the ringleaders were executed ; and , says the narrator , ' our vessel being the first that touched the shore , was the destined prize , and the very day ...
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... determined to visit him , to explain the objects of our coming ; that having conciliated his good will , our settlement might be more favourably regarded by the rest . Having , therefore , joined to our pinnace another , which he had ...
... determined to visit him , to explain the objects of our coming ; that having conciliated his good will , our settlement might be more favourably regarded by the rest . Having , therefore , joined to our pinnace another , which he had ...
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... determination , they express it briefly , and adhere to it most obstinately . If they were once imbued with the principles of Christianity ( for which indeed nothing seems to be wanting but a knowledge of their language ) they would ...
... determination , they express it briefly , and adhere to it most obstinately . If they were once imbued with the principles of Christianity ( for which indeed nothing seems to be wanting but a knowledge of their language ) they would ...
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... determined to resist the authority set up by the commissioners ; and to make one more struggle for that power and authority which he had held from , and exercised under the Lord Proprietary's commission . In virtue of his official ...
... determined to resist the authority set up by the commissioners ; and to make one more struggle for that power and authority which he had held from , and exercised under the Lord Proprietary's commission . In virtue of his official ...
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Page 175 - That no man shall be taken or imprisoned, or disseized of his freehold, liberties, or privileges, or outlawed, or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, or deprived of his life, liberty, or property, but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Page 212 - ... to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country. 'Happy in the confirmation of our independence and sovereignty, and pleased with the opportunity offered the United States of becoming a respectable nation, I resign...
Page 111 - The sot-weed factor: or, A voyage to Maryland. A satyr. In which is describ'd, the laws, government, courts and constitutions of the country; and also the buildings, feasts, frolicks, entertainments and drunken humours of the inhabitants of that part of America.
Page 212 - MR. PRESIDENT : The great events on which my resignation depended having at length taken place, I have now the honor of offering my sincere congratulations to Congress, and of presenting myself before them, to surrender into their hands the trust committed to me, and to claim the indulgence of retiring from the service of my country.
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Page 180 - ... procure an exemption from parliamentary .taxation, and to continue to the legislatures of these colonies the sole and exclusive right of regulating their internal polity, was our original and only motive. To maintain inviolate our liberties and to transmit them unimpaired to posterity, was our duty and first wish ; our next, to continue connected with, and dependent on, Great Britain. For the truth of these assertions...
Page 212 - While I repeat my obligations to the army in general, I should do injustice to my own feelings not to acknowledge in this place the peculiar services and distinguished merits of the gentlemen who have been attached to my person during the war. It was impossible the choice of confidential officers to compose my family should have been more fortunate. Permit me, sir, to recommend in particular those who have continued in the service to the present moment as worthy of the favorable notice and patronage...
Page 179 - States, in framing such further confederation between them, in making foreign alliances, and in adopting such other measures as shall be judged necessary for the preservation of their liberties...
Page 226 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 254 - I do therefore by and with the advice of the Counsel, and at the desire of the Representatives in General Court assembled, issue this PROCLAMATION, and make the solemn Appeal to the Virtue and public Spirit of the good People of this Colony. Affairs are hastening fast to a Crisis, and the approaching Campaign will in all Probability determine forever the fate of AMERICA.