The History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment, of the Independence of the United States of America: Including an Account of the Late War ; and of the Thirteen Colonies, from Their Origin to that Period, Band 2Author, 1788 |
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... party has thus coalefced with a view of ferving its own particular interest . The tories have joined , to prevent the violences which might otherwise exist , and to check the progress of the fons of liberty . The whigs have joined , in ...
... party has thus coalefced with a view of ferving its own particular interest . The tories have joined , to prevent the violences which might otherwise exist , and to check the progress of the fons of liberty . The whigs have joined , in ...
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... party of men , thirty in all , officers included , to march early in the morning for Skeenfborough , and fecure major Skeen , his negroes and tenants . This council might have been occafioned by the return of captain Noah Phelps , who ...
... party of men , thirty in all , officers included , to march early in the morning for Skeenfborough , and fecure major Skeen , his negroes and tenants . This council might have been occafioned by the return of captain Noah Phelps , who ...
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... party , he was fent off to take poffeffion of Crown Point , where a fergeant and twelve men performed garrifon duty ; but the greatest acquifition was that of Between 112 and 120 iron cannon from 6 to 24 pounders - 50 fwivels of ...
... party , he was fent off to take poffeffion of Crown Point , where a fergeant and twelve men performed garrifon duty ; but the greatest acquifition was that of Between 112 and 120 iron cannon from 6 to 24 pounders - 50 fwivels of ...
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... party . The surprise of Skeensborough was fo conducted , that the negroes were all fecured , and major Skeen , the fon , taken while out a fhooting , and his ftrong ftone house poffeffed , and the pafs completely gained , without any ...
... party . The surprise of Skeensborough was fo conducted , that the negroes were all fecured , and major Skeen , the fon , taken while out a fhooting , and his ftrong ftone house poffeffed , and the pafs completely gained , without any ...
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... party to carry off stock from the small islands , with which the bay of Bof- ton is agreeably interfperfed , and afforded the mixt fpectacle of fhips boats and men engaged by land and water . These small engagements were not trifling in ...
... party to carry off stock from the small islands , with which the bay of Bof- ton is agreeably interfperfed , and afforded the mixt fpectacle of fhips boats and men engaged by land and water . These small engagements were not trifling in ...
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