Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and AdditionsLeavitt, Trow, 1846 - 264 halaman |
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... private property . Dated at Cow Neck , Jan. , 1776. " [ This paper has thirty names , and is the only one relating to our county I can find . The others have been , doubtless , lost or destroyed . ] - Ed . John Sands , John Burtis ...
... private property . Dated at Cow Neck , Jan. , 1776. " [ This paper has thirty names , and is the only one relating to our county I can find . The others have been , doubtless , lost or destroyed . ] - Ed . John Sands , John Burtis ...
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... privates of the said company , have elected the following gentlemen for our com- missioned officers , to wit : John Skidmore , Esq . , Captain ; Jacob Wright , Gent . , first Lieutenant ; Nicholas Everit , Gent . , second Lieutenant ...
... privates of the said company , have elected the following gentlemen for our com- missioned officers , to wit : John Skidmore , Esq . , Captain ; Jacob Wright , Gent . , first Lieutenant ; Nicholas Everit , Gent . , second Lieutenant ...
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... private information that might be depended upon . But this having no other foundation than his own assertions , the means were unequal to the end . Here , with an air of import- ance equal to its absurdity , [ he ] asserts , " Capt ...
... private information that might be depended upon . But this having no other foundation than his own assertions , the means were unequal to the end . Here , with an air of import- ance equal to its absurdity , [ he ] asserts , " Capt ...
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... private as possible till Aug. 27 - Ed . ] 57. John Livingston , Jr. , had a furlough for eight days ' absence , but on being questioned by the Jamaica committee , he refused either to show his furlough or return to New- York . He , with ...
... private as possible till Aug. 27 - Ed . ] 57. John Livingston , Jr. , had a furlough for eight days ' absence , but on being questioned by the Jamaica committee , he refused either to show his furlough or return to New- York . He , with ...
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... of the 2nd battalion for the city and county of New - York , consisting of two captains , three 1st lieutenants , two 2nd lieutenants , appointed from Queens county , and 175 privates , including 66 RISE AND PROGRESS OF.
... of the 2nd battalion for the city and county of New - York , consisting of two captains , three 1st lieutenants , two 2nd lieutenants , appointed from Queens county , and 175 privates , including 66 RISE AND PROGRESS OF.
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Halaman 30 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America, depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government...
Halaman 30 - ... and love to our country, to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution, whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our provincial convention, for the purpose of preserving our constitution...
Halaman 31 - ... may be recommended by the continental congress, or resolved upon by our provincial convention, for the purpose of preserving our constitution and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts of the British parliament...
Halaman 113 - I was appointed Provost Marshal to the royal army, which placed me in a situation to wreak my vengeance on the Americans. I shudder to think of the murders I have been accessory to, both with and without orders from Government, especially while in New York — during which time there were more than two thousand prisoners starved in the different churches, by stopping their rations, which I sold.
Halaman 113 - Barrack street, and the neighborhood of the upper barracks, to order the people to shut their window shutters, and put out their lights, forbidding them at the same time to presume to look out of their windows and doors on pain of death, after which the unfortunate prisoners were conducted, gagged, just behind the upper barracks, and hung without ceremony, and...
Halaman 24 - Memorial to the House of Lords, and a Remonstrance to the House of Commons, on the subject of the proposed Stamp Act.
Halaman 117 - Commissioners for restoring peace to his Majesty's Colonies in North America : The humble Representation and Petition of the Freeholders and Inhabitants of Queens County, on the Island of Nassau, in the Province of New- York : Your Excellencies having, by your Declaration of July last, opened to us the pleasing prospect of returning peace and security, long banished by the many calamities surrounding us, we entertained the most sanguine expectations that the Colonies would at length have submitted...
Halaman 113 - I have however candor enough to assure you, as much as I abhor every principle of inhumanity, or ungenerous conduct, I should were I in more authority, burn every committee-man's house within my reach. As I deem those agents the wicked instruments of the continued calamities of this country; and in order sooner to purge this country of them I am willing to give twenty-five dollars for every acting committeeman, who shall be delivered up to the King's troops.
Halaman 116 - Whose breast expands with generous warmth A stranger's woes to feel; .And bleeds in pity o'er the wound He wants the power to heal.