History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 ... Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury, Bind 1Bronson Brothers, 1854 |
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... George , on the 8th of September , Capt . Adam Hinman was wounded in the shoulder by a grape - shot . In 1756 , twenty - five hundred men were raised in Connecticut for the invasion of Canada , and the quota from Woodbury was increased ...
... George , on the 8th of September , Capt . Adam Hinman was wounded in the shoulder by a grape - shot . In 1756 , twenty - five hundred men were raised in Connecticut for the invasion of Canada , and the quota from Woodbury was increased ...
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... George ; nothing , in their besotted imagination , could be done while there was no " viceroy or superintendent over all the provinces . " With such imbecile commanders to ruin everything , the patriotism and means of the provincials ...
... George ; nothing , in their besotted imagination , could be done while there was no " viceroy or superintendent over all the provinces . " With such imbecile commanders to ruin everything , the patriotism and means of the provincials ...
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... George Ross Cesar Rodney Thomas McKean George Read Mathew Tiglhman Thomas Johnson William Paca Samuel Chase Virginia North Carolina South Carolina . . Richard H. Lee HISTORY OF ANCIENT WOODBURY . 181.
... George Ross Cesar Rodney Thomas McKean George Read Mathew Tiglhman Thomas Johnson William Paca Samuel Chase Virginia North Carolina South Carolina . . Richard H. Lee HISTORY OF ANCIENT WOODBURY . 181.
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... George Norton , Nathan Rumsey , Eldad Baker . " Scarcely any thing could show the indomitable spirit of the people better than this inlistment out of a single company , under the circum- stances in which it was made . It was but a few ...
... George Norton , Nathan Rumsey , Eldad Baker . " Scarcely any thing could show the indomitable spirit of the people better than this inlistment out of a single company , under the circum- stances in which it was made . It was but a few ...
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... GEORGE P. PRUDDEN ; LIST OF DEA- CONS ; SOUTH BRITAIN PETITIONS FOR WINTER PRIVILEGES , 1761 , WHICH ARE GRANTED ; INCORPORATED AS A SOCIETY , MAY , 1766 ; FIRST MEETING HOUSE , 1770 ; REV . JEHU MINOR SETTLED AND CHURCH GATHERED , 1769 ...
... GEORGE P. PRUDDEN ; LIST OF DEA- CONS ; SOUTH BRITAIN PETITIONS FOR WINTER PRIVILEGES , 1761 , WHICH ARE GRANTED ; INCORPORATED AS A SOCIETY , MAY , 1766 ; FIRST MEETING HOUSE , 1770 ; REV . JEHU MINOR SETTLED AND CHURCH GATHERED , 1769 ...
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Side 165 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts, are forfeited to the Crown ; with all other your effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his Province.
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Side 178 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.