A Historical Collection from Official Records, Files, &c., of the Part Sustained by Connecticut, During the War of the Revolution: With an Appendix, Containing Important Letters, Depositions, &c., Written During the WarE. Gleason, 1842 - 643 Seiten |
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... Continental Congress , and that other towns were expected to follow the example . In the latter part of January , 1775 , a gentleman of Hartford went to New York , to procure a town stock of powder , where he purchased it , and on his ...
... Continental Congress , and that other towns were expected to follow the example . In the latter part of January , 1775 , a gentleman of Hartford went to New York , to procure a town stock of powder , where he purchased it , and on his ...
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... Continental Congress established a continental post office , and appointed Dr. Benjamin Franklin , post master , with a salary of $ 1,000 per annum . About sixty aged gentlemen at Middletown , ( as was the case in other towns in ...
... Continental Congress established a continental post office , and appointed Dr. Benjamin Franklin , post master , with a salary of $ 1,000 per annum . About sixty aged gentlemen at Middletown , ( as was the case in other towns in ...
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... continental army ; consequently Samuel was obliged to conduct with caution , and counterfeit as well as he could , a whigish phiz while he tarried , which however , was but for a short time , before he made his escape to Gen. Howe , in ...
... continental army ; consequently Samuel was obliged to conduct with caution , and counterfeit as well as he could , a whigish phiz while he tarried , which however , was but for a short time , before he made his escape to Gen. Howe , in ...
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... continental service , and two for the special defence of the State . The nine regiments raised for the continental ser- A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR GENERAL PARSONS . Major General Samuel Holden Parsons , was born at Lyme , in New London ...
... continental service , and two for the special defence of the State . The nine regiments raised for the continental ser- A SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF MAJOR GENERAL PARSONS . Major General Samuel Holden Parsons , was born at Lyme , in New London ...
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... continental troops , assisted by considerable bodies of Connecticut militia , under General Erastus Wolcott , Gen. Parsons attacked the British in the morning of the 12th , immediately after their landing at Norwalk ; and although too ...
... continental troops , assisted by considerable bodies of Connecticut militia , under General Erastus Wolcott , Gen. Parsons attacked the British in the morning of the 12th , immediately after their landing at Norwalk ; and although too ...
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Seite 101 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Seite 98 - He has endeavoured to prevent the Population of these States for that Purpose obstructing the Laws for naturalization of Foreigners refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither and raising the Conditions of new appropriations of Lands...
Seite 102 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 104 - ... beginning, until the number shall be reduced to thirteen ; and from that number not less than seven, nor more than nine names as congress shall direct, shall in the presence of congress be drawn out by lot, and the persons whose names shall be so drawn or any five of them, shall be commissioners or judges, to hear and finally determine the controversy, so always as a major part of the judges who shall hear the cause shall agree in the determination...
Seite 105 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Seite 103 - States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article, of sending and receiving ambassadors, entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation...
Seite 101 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Seite 101 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed in such manner as the legislature of each State shall direct...
Seite 107 - 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.
Seite 101 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.