The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British West Indies and Bahamas: A Chapter Out of the History of the American LoyalistsOhio State University, 1913 - 50 páginas |
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... establishing them in settlements on the St. John's River , and Brigadier - General Archibald McArthur , who was in command in East Florida , soon designated a committee of four of the principal refugees - Colonels Ball and Cassells for ...
... establishing them in settlements on the St. John's River , and Brigadier - General Archibald McArthur , who was in command in East Florida , soon designated a committee of four of the principal refugees - Colonels Ball and Cassells for ...
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... established a plantation , for which he had a supply of negroes . In February , 1783 , having met Major Deveaux ... establishing a plantation . He , therefore , moved into St. Augustine , but only to fall desperately ill himself ...
... established a plantation , for which he had a supply of negroes . In February , 1783 , having met Major Deveaux ... establishing a plantation . He , therefore , moved into St. Augustine , but only to fall desperately ill himself ...
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... established on Crooked Island alone , and that on Long Island , which was settled at an earlier date , and which had been more extensively improved , there were in 1783 nearly 4,000 acres in cultivation . The combined yield from Long ...
... established on Crooked Island alone , and that on Long Island , which was settled at an earlier date , and which had been more extensively improved , there were in 1783 nearly 4,000 acres in cultivation . The combined yield from Long ...
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... established themselves here were , or had been , slaveowners , there can be no doubt that they held the same views on the abolition of the slave - trade , the compulsory improvement of the slave code , and emancipation as did their ...
... established themselves here were , or had been , slaveowners , there can be no doubt that they held the same views on the abolition of the slave - trade , the compulsory improvement of the slave code , and emancipation as did their ...
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... establishing a new military post on the Penob- scot ... Knox's plan for a loyalist province between the Penobscot and the St. Croix .... John Nutting and the British expedition to establish the post .... The unsuccessful siege of the ...
... establishing a new military post on the Penob- scot ... Knox's plan for a loyalist province between the Penobscot and the St. Croix .... John Nutting and the British expedition to establish the post .... The unsuccessful siege of the ...
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The Legacy of the American Revolution to the British West Indies and Bahamas ... Wilbur Henry Siebert Vista previa limitada - 1972 |
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Página 32 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 39 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Página 46 - The inhabitants of our western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head ; they have seen, in the negotiation by the executive, and in the unanimous ratification by the senate, of the treaty with Spain, and in the universal satisfaction at that event, throughout the United States, a...
Página 31 - Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever He had a chosen people, whose breasts He has made His peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue.
Página 22 - Their creed is, that the property of the United States has been protected from the confiscation of Britain by the joint exertions of all, and therefore ought to be the common property of all; and he that attempts opposition to this creed, is an enemy to equity and justice, and ought to be swept from off the face of the earth.
Página 32 - The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Página 17 - That It be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the United Colonies where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs, has been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents In particular, and America In general.
Página 32 - While we have land to labor then, let us never wish to see our citizens occupied at a work-bench, or twirling a distaff. Carpenters, masons, smiths, are wanting in husbandry; but, for the general operations of manufacture, let our workshops remain in Europe.
Página 26 - Resolved therefore, that the rights of suffrage in the National Legislature ought to be proportioned to the quotas of contribution, or to the number of free inhabitants, as the one or the other rule may seem best in different cases.