 That a meeting of committees from the several colonies on this continent is highly expedient and necessary, to consult upon the present state of the colonies, and the miseries to which they are and must be reduced by the operation of certain acts of Parliament...  Collections of the American Statistical Association - Page 391by American Statistical Association - 1847 - 596 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Justin Winsor - America - 1887 - 800 pages
...establishment of thei^^Bl^its and liberties, civil and religious,1 and the restoration of union ancrWRnony between Great Britain and the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." Rhode Island's charter governor empowered the delegates "to join in consulting upon proper measures... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1890 - 600 pages
...Great Britain and the American Colonies, do Resolve, That a meeting of Committees from the several Colonies on this continent is highly expedient and...the Colonies most ardently desired by all good men. Therefore Resolved, That the honorable James Bowdoin, Esquire, the honorable Thomas Cushing, Esil'r,... | |
 | Virginia - Virginia - 1890 - 600 pages
...Great Britain and the American Colonies, do Resolve, That a meeting of Committees from the several Colonies on this continent is highly expedient and...the Colonies most ardently desired by all good men. Therefore Resolved, That the honorable James Bowdoin, Esquire, the honorable Thomas Cushing, Esq'r,... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1890 - 718 pages
...Resolves, recommending an invitation to " the several Colonies on this continent" to meet in Congress " to consult upon the present state of the Colonies,...the Colonies, most ardently desired by all good men ; " proposing " to all, and more especially the inhabitants of this Province, to afford them [the inhabitants... | |
 | John Gorham Palfrey - New England - 1890 - 720 pages
...Resolves, recommending an invitation to " the several Colonies on this continent" to meet in Congress " to consult upon the present state of the Colonies,...Britain and the Colonies, most ardently desired by all pc-od men ; " proposing " to all, and more especially the inhabitants of this Province, to afford them... | |
 | Andrew Carnegie - United States - 1893 - 592 pages
...of the province of Massachusetts Bay, Samuel and John Adams among them, were charged to seek — " The restoration of union and harmony between Great...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." The great province of Pennsylvania sent delegates for conference — " And for establishing that union... | |
 | Eben Greenough Scott - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...America ; and to deliberate and determine upon wise and proper measures to be by them recommended to all colonies, for the recovery and establishment of their...colonies, most ardently desired by all good men." Rhode Island. " To consult on proper measures to obtain a repeal of the several acts of the British... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1896 - 268 pages
...Massachusetts), "to deliberate upon wise and proper measures, to be by them recommended to all the colonies for the restoration of union and harmony between Great Britain and the Colonies," etc. It was a congress of deputies, spontaneously selected by each colony, for consultation as to the... | |
 | Moses Coit Tyler - American literature - 1897 - 586 pages
...quietly made their way into Carpenters' Hall, in Philadelphia, and there sitting down together began " to consult upon the present state of the colonies,...and the colonies, most ardently desired by all good men."1 Thus came into life the first Continental Congress, and with it the permanent political union... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - United States - 1898 - 546 pages
...subsisted between the parent country and her colonies.' Massachusetts spoke of ' the restoration o: union and harmony between Great Britain and the colonies most ardently desired by all good men/ Pennsylvania enjoined its representatives to aim not only at the redress of American grievances and... | |
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