Pennsylvania Archives, Volume 9Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban 1854 - Pennsylvania A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. |
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... Company voted for the War , will be raised early in the Summer , & by that Means a standing Defence provided . You ... Companies raised , & which is by some ascribed to Inattention & Partiality , have proved very discouraging - We hope ...
... Company voted for the War , will be raised early in the Summer , & by that Means a standing Defence provided . You ... Companies raised , & which is by some ascribed to Inattention & Partiality , have proved very discouraging - We hope ...
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... Company with him a Person who calls himself Capt Freeland - Bamper is a Man about five feet ten Inches high , full faced , large blue Eyes , wairs a short scarlet Coat . I have wrote to Coll . Barber , who is under the Command of the ...
... Company with him a Person who calls himself Capt Freeland - Bamper is a Man about five feet ten Inches high , full faced , large blue Eyes , wairs a short scarlet Coat . I have wrote to Coll . Barber , who is under the Command of the ...
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... Company of a similar nature was rais'd by the Town Major , some time since , many of those Men , are not to this day , paid for their services and unless some mode is adopted for regular pyaments it may be their case ( should they ...
... Company of a similar nature was rais'd by the Town Major , some time since , many of those Men , are not to this day , paid for their services and unless some mode is adopted for regular pyaments it may be their case ( should they ...
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... these we must now advise you what we are persuaded , you will in Expe- rience find necessary for the County , viz . to fill up Shrawders Company as soon as possible , then you will have PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES 1781 . 113.
... these we must now advise you what we are persuaded , you will in Expe- rience find necessary for the County , viz . to fill up Shrawders Company as soon as possible , then you will have PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES 1781 . 113.
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... Company as soon as possible , then you will have a trained and constant Defence int he County to which the militia would gather . For this Purpose we have supplied him with money to pay Bounties , & give every possible Encouragement ...
... Company as soon as possible , then you will have a trained and constant Defence int he County to which the militia would gather . For this Purpose we have supplied him with money to pay Bounties , & give every possible Encouragement ...
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Page 569 - The united states in congress assembled shall also be the last resort on appeal in all disputes and differences now subsisting or that hereafter may arise between two or more states concerning boundary, jurisdiction or any other cause whatever; which authority shall always be exercised in the manner following.
Page 169 - And the articles of this confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them; unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the Legislatures of every State.
Page 705 - Bay, where the said river falleth into the sea; and on the north by the line of the Massachusetts plantation; and on the south by the sea; and in longitude as the line of the Massachusetts colony, running from east to west, that is to say, from the said Narraganset Bay on the east, to the south sea on the west part, with the islands thereunto adjoining...
Page 584 - Congress, to the legislative or executive authority of the other State in controversy, and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents, who shall then be directed to appoint, by joint consent, commissioners or judges to constitute a court for hearing and determining the matter in question...
Page 700 - ... to be determined by a meridian line, to be drawn from the head of the said river, unto the said IK forty-third degree.
Page 700 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 169 - ... fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
Page 700 - Castle town, unto the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, if the said river doth extend so far northward, but if the said river shall not extend so far northward, then by the said river so far as it doth extend...
Page 539 - caution and circumspection, and by all means to keep our arms firm in our hands ; and instead of relaxing one iota in our exertions, rather to spring forward with redoubled vigor, that we may take the advantage of every favorable opportunity, until our wishes are fully obtained. No nation yet suffered in treaty by preparing, even in the moment of negotiation, most vigorously for the field.
Page 538 - ... meant to amuse this country with a false idea of peace, to draw us off from our connexion with France, and to lull us into a state of security and inactivity, which having taken place, the ministry will be left to prosecute the war in other parts of the world with greater vigor and effect.