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... Court or Council of said Province , respecting the troops under your command , if not incompatible with any order received from me , or which has been , or may be , sent you from Congress . * The British evacuated Boston on the 17th of ...
... Court or Council of said Province , respecting the troops under your command , if not incompatible with any order received from me , or which has been , or may be , sent you from Congress . * The British evacuated Boston on the 17th of ...
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... Court or Council , I shall have no objection to it . Some men should be kept on Bunker Hill , and should be employed in levelling the lower lines of that work next Prospect and Winter Hills . All the lines on Boston Neck ought also , in ...
... Court or Council , I shall have no objection to it . Some men should be kept on Bunker Hill , and should be employed in levelling the lower lines of that work next Prospect and Winter Hills . All the lines on Boston Neck ought also , in ...
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... Court of Ad- miralty of the District to which they may be carried . All officers , soldiers , and men - of - war's - men are considered as prisoners , the former to be sent , and confined to some town , the others sent to such gaols as ...
... Court of Ad- miralty of the District to which they may be carried . All officers , soldiers , and men - of - war's - men are considered as prisoners , the former to be sent , and confined to some town , the others sent to such gaols as ...
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... court - martial at your quarters , for the trial of offenders ( in cases not capital ) , would be useful and proper . The Quartermaster - Gen- eral informs me he has sent up a person last week for the purpose of securing the sails and ...
... court - martial at your quarters , for the trial of offenders ( in cases not capital ) , would be useful and proper . The Quartermaster - Gen- eral informs me he has sent up a person last week for the purpose of securing the sails and ...
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... court , and desire you will order them to be executed . I am , with respect , your most obedient servant , GO WASHINGTON . TO MAJOR - GENERAL HEATH . HAERLEM HEIGHTS , 11th Oct. , 1776 . DEAR SIR , - The ships which have got up the ...
... court , and desire you will order them to be executed . I am , with respect , your most obedient servant , GO WASHINGTON . TO MAJOR - GENERAL HEATH . HAERLEM HEIGHTS , 11th Oct. , 1776 . DEAR SIR , - The ships which have got up the ...
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Página 458 - Virginia, have nominated, constituted, and appointed, and by these presents do nominate, constitute, and appoint, the said Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Henry Laurens, and Thomas Jefferson...
Página 348 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Página 348 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization ; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Página 460 - ... of them, and that we will never act nor suffer any- person to act contrary to the same, in whole or in any part. In witness whereof, we have caused these presents to be signed by our President, and sealed with his seal. Done at Philadelphia, the fifteenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-one, and in the fifth year of our independence by the United States in Congress assembled. " SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, and a seal. " Attest : CHARLES THOMSON, Secy.
Página 354 - I love to pour out all myself as plain As downright Shippen, or as old Montaigne...
Página 457 - Adams, esqr., late a commissioner of the United States of America at the Court of Versailles, late Delegate in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, and chief justice of the said State...
Página 480 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Página 379 - Articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.