The Scotch-Irish in America: Proceedings of the Scotch-Irish Congress, Volumen9,Parte1900Robert Clarke & Company, 1900 |
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Alexander ancestors Andrew appointed Augusta County Beatty married became Blair born Bryson Bucks County Carolina Charles Charles Beatty Chester County Chicago Christian College congregation Congress County Antrim court Covenanter daughter Dauphin County death descendants died early East Tennessee elected Elizabeth Executive Committee father Fithian friends George Hall Harrisburg Herron Hoge honor Hugh Hugh Lawson White Indians interest Ireland Irish Jackson John John Sevier Judge Scott Knoxville land Lexington lived MacIntosh Margaret Mary meeting minister Neshaminy North of Ireland O. P. Temple organization pastor Pennsylvania Philadelphia Pittsburg preached Presbyterian Church prominent pulpit race Ramelton record Robert Bonner Rutherford Samuel Scotch Scotch-Irish Society Scotch-Irishman Scotland settled settlement Society of America South Steubenville Stewart Street Synod Tenn Thomas Thompson tion Ulster Vice President Virginia Washington Washington County West White wife William York City
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Página 181 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Página 284 - Support, and ornament of Virtue's cause. There stands the messenger of truth : there stands The legate of the skies ! — His theme divine, His office sacred, his credentials clear. By him the violated law speaks out Its thunders ; and by him, in strains as sweet As angels use, the Gospel whispers peace.
Página 155 - Finding ourselves on the Frontiers and being apprehensive that for want of a proper legislature we might become a shelter for such as endeavored to defraud their creditors, considering also the necessity of recording Deeds, Wills and doing other public business, we by consent of the people formed a Court for the purposes above mentioned, taking (by desire of our constituents) the Virginia laws for our guide so near as the situation of affairs would admit; this was intended for ourselves and was done...
Página 71 - ... necessitous from the late calamities of the war in these parts. And also, that they visited the Indians at the chief town of the Delaware Nation, on the Muskingum, about one hundred and thirty miles beyond Fort Pitt, and were received much more cheerfully than they could have expected. That a considerable number of them waited on the preaching of the gospel with peculiar attention, many of them appearing solemnly concerned about the great matters of religion, that they expressed an earnest desire...
Página 59 - Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere; In action faithful, and in honor clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end; Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.
Página 68 - It is, perhaps, below the dignity of your profession to act as steward of the rum, but if you were to deal it out, and only just after prayers, you would have them all about you.
Página 138 - I have no authority by law to make that disposition of this money ; it belongs to the impoverished treasury of North Carolina, and I dare not appropriate a cent of it to any purpose ; but, if the country is over-run by the British, our liberty is gone. Let the money go, too. Take it. If the enemy, by its use, is driven from the country, I can trust that country to justify and vindicate my conduct — so take it...
Página 284 - He stablishes the strong, restores the weak, Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart, And, arm'd himself in panoply complete Of heavenly temper, furnishes with arms Bright as his own, and trains, by every rule Of holy discipline, to glorious war The sacramental host of God's elect...
Página 68 - We had for our chaplain a zealous Presbyterian minister, Mr. Beatty, who complained to me that the men did not generally attend his prayers and exhortations. When they enlisted, they were promised, besides pay and provisions, a gill of rum a day, which was punctually served out to them, half in the morning and the other half in the evening; and I observed they were as punctual in attending to receive it; upon which I said to Mr.