The Loyalists of America and Their Times: from 1620 to 1816, Volumen1

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W. Briggs, 1880 - 489 páginas
 

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Petition of the Massachusetts Bay Court to the Long Parliament in 1651
108
Letters of remonstrance against these persecutions by the distinguished
116
Summary of the first thirty years of the Massachusetts Bay Government
122
CHAPTER V
130
When and under what circumstances the Massachusetts Bay Government pro
132
The Kings Puritan Councillors and kindly feelings for the Colony of Massa
138
On account of the complaints and representations made to England the King
145
Settlement of New Plymouth
149
They address the King and enclose copies of their address with letters
152
Letters of Lord Clarendon and the Honourable Robert Boyle to the Massachu
160
The Kings reply to the long address or petition of the Massachusetts
166
Royal Charters to Connecticut and Rhode Island in 1663 with remarks upon
172
The narrative of the discussion of questions between Charles the Second and
178
Meetings and proceedings of the Massachusetts Bay Court on the Royal Mes
180
What known of the harbour and coast before the landing of the Pilgrims
184
Efforts by addresses gifts and compliance in some matters to propitiate
186
Remarks on the unfair statements and unjust imputations against the British
190
Nineteen years evasions and disregard of the conditions on which the King
193
CHAPTER II
204
Resolutions of the two Houses of the Court on the subject
210
Toleration first proclaimed in Massachusetts by James the Second thanked
216
They promptly proclaim King James the Second take the oath of allegiance
226
How the second Charter was prepared and granted Dr Increase Mather first
233
The spirit of the old leaven of bigotry still surviving and stung with the facts
239
Encroachments of the French on the British Colonies from 1748 to 1756
243
Debts incurred by the New England Colonies in the Indian Wars issue
247
Contests chiefly between the Colonists the French and the Indians from
250
Divided counsels and isolated resources and action of the Colonies
257
Generals Abercrombie and Loudon at Albany hesitate and delay while
258
Attempt of the French to recover Quebec
266
CHAPTER IX
273
APPENDIX A TO CHAPTER X
294
Similar replies from the Legislative Assemblies of other Colonies
343
CHAPTER XV
353
Governor Barnards recall and character in a note
359
Collisions between the soldiers and inhabitants in Boston
365
Associations in the Colonies against the use of tea imported from England
370
The Governor Hutchinson of Massachusetts and his sons the consignees
376
The King the author of the scheme His Majestys condemnation of the
382
CHAPTER XVIII
388
Load North explains the American policy the Bill to punish the town of Bos
394
The fourth Act of Parliament legalizing the quartering of the troops in Boston
397
Third penal Bill for the immunity of governors magistrates and other public
403
The Act of Parliament changing the Constitution of Massachusetts without
407
The Governor of Virginia recommends Washington but his services are
410
The explicit loyal and touching address and petition of this Congress to
414
Opposition in both Houses protest in the Lords
420
CHAPTER XXI
422
Remarks on the gross inaccuracies and injustice and empty promises of this
428
1775 CONTINUED
433
Governor Johnstone justifies the reception of it by example
439
The Kings answer a proclamation declaring the petition rebellion and
445
The effect of this proclamation upon the Continental Congress and of the
446
Disclaimed by Dr Franklin in 1773
452
CHAPTER XXIV
459
The affair of Concord and Lexington followed by the Battle of Bunkers Hill
460
Lord Dunmore issues a proclamation to free the slaves on the night of
466
Lord Dunmores conduct unlawful as well as unjust and inhuman
470
CHAPTER XXV
479
Committee to prepare a Declaration appointed
485
CHAPTER XXVI
492
The Declaration of Independence was a violation of good faith to those
499
Numbers character and position of Loyalists at the time as stated by Ameri
504
The Declaration of Independence was the avowed expedient and prelude
513

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Página 403 - That the foundation of English liberty, and of all free government, is a right in the people to participate in their legislative council...
Página 477 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 478 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Página 4 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation...
Página 228 - And further, full power and authority are hereby given and granted to the said General Court from time to time to make, ordain, and establish, all manner of wholesome and reasonable orders, laws, statutes and ordinances...
Página 485 - With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have been compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties ; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.
Página 4 - Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 313 - At the same time let the sovereign authority of this country over the colonies be asserted in as strong terms as can be devised, and be made to extend to every point of legislation whatsoever. That we may bind their trade, confine their manufactures, and exercise every power whatsoever, except that of taking their money out of their pockets without their consent.
Página 403 - Resolved, 6. That they are entitled to the benefit of such of the English statutes, as existed at the time of their colonization; and which they have, by experience, respectively found to be applicable to their several local and other circumstances.
Página 407 - You have been told that we are seditious, impatient of government and desirous of independency. Be assured that these are not facts, but calumnies. — Permit us to be as free as yourselves, and we shall ever esteem a union with you to be our greatest glory and our greatest happiness...

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