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 páginas |
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... sent to the relief of the distressed inhabitants of Boston and Charlestown . Live stock , bread stuff , & c . , were sent in great abundance . The town of Windham , at one time , generously gave two hundred and fifty fat sheep ...
... sent to the relief of the distressed inhabitants of Boston and Charlestown . Live stock , bread stuff , & c . , were sent in great abundance . The town of Windham , at one time , generously gave two hundred and fifty fat sheep ...
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... sent forth her thousands to the aid of Mas- sachusetts ; and not only this , but she was the first to commence offensive operations against Great Britain . Her citizens , unaided by any other colony , had conquered the forts on Lake ...
... sent forth her thousands to the aid of Mas- sachusetts ; and not only this , but she was the first to commence offensive operations against Great Britain . Her citizens , unaided by any other colony , had conquered the forts on Lake ...
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... sent to New York city , together with the Connecticut quota in the regular army , constituted at least one - third of Gen. Washington's army in the neighborhood of New York , at the commencement of operations on Long Island . Shortly ...
... sent to New York city , together with the Connecticut quota in the regular army , constituted at least one - third of Gen. Washington's army in the neighborhood of New York , at the commencement of operations on Long Island . Shortly ...
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... sent us by Maj . Bigelow , who went with a flag , and was detained 24 days . Brig . Gen. Gordon was killed within about 60 rods of the enemy's camp . August 12 , 1776. Last week from twenty to thirty tories arrived in Hart- ford from ...
... sent us by Maj . Bigelow , who went with a flag , and was detained 24 days . Brig . Gen. Gordon was killed within about 60 rods of the enemy's camp . August 12 , 1776. Last week from twenty to thirty tories arrived in Hart- ford from ...
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... sent to Norwich . Last Monday , David Matthews , Mayor of the city of New York , was brought from Litchfield , and on Friday was returned to Litchfield , to remain under the care of Capt . Moses Seymour . All the women and children ...
... sent to Norwich . Last Monday , David Matthews , Mayor of the city of New York , was brought from Litchfield , and on Friday was returned to Litchfield , to remain under the care of Capt . Moses Seymour . All the women and children ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.