The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America, Volume 5John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson Henry B. Dawson, 1861 - United States |
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... Town this evening , we shall march with all speed in hopes of Meeting you at Meteteconk tomorrow afternoon , there to consult what farther moves to make.- Information was given me of John Lawrence , Nothing of much importance has ...
... Town this evening , we shall march with all speed in hopes of Meeting you at Meteteconk tomorrow afternoon , there to consult what farther moves to make.- Information was given me of John Lawrence , Nothing of much importance has ...
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... town , it has been stated that Providence was the first town , but this is an error , inasmuch as performances were given in Newport in the year 1761 , the year before any plays were enacted here . In 1762 , David Douglass came here ...
... town , it has been stated that Providence was the first town , but this is an error , inasmuch as performances were given in Newport in the year 1761 , the year before any plays were enacted here . In 1762 , David Douglass came here ...
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... town of Gloucester , Mass .; S. C. Newman ; John M. Car- gill ; and Don Bartolome Mitre , of Buenos Ayres . Mr. Amos Perry read a paper on the life and ser- vices of Dr. Albigence Waldo , a surgeon in the army of the Revolution . A ...
... town of Gloucester , Mass .; S. C. Newman ; John M. Car- gill ; and Don Bartolome Mitre , of Buenos Ayres . Mr. Amos Perry read a paper on the life and ser- vices of Dr. Albigence Waldo , a surgeon in the army of the Revolution . A ...
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... town officers , from gov- ernor down to hog - reeves , at one town meeting -the annual March meeting . As the town offi- cers were very numerous , it was customary , as fast as they were chosen , to walk them up before a justice of the ...
... town officers , from gov- ernor down to hog - reeves , at one town meeting -the annual March meeting . As the town offi- cers were very numerous , it was customary , as fast as they were chosen , to walk them up before a justice of the ...
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... town of Salem to the said Hugh Peters , decd . " 999 I can now merely add , that it is not in the text of the " Field Book of the Revolution , " that the John Nixon who first read the Declaration of Inde- pendence in public and who was ...
... town of Salem to the said Hugh Peters , decd . " 999 I can now merely add , that it is not in the text of the " Field Book of the Revolution , " that the John Nixon who first read the Declaration of Inde- pendence in public and who was ...
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Page 161 - The Dutch here shall enjoy the liberty of their consciences in divine worship and church discipline.
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