Documents and Letters Intended to Illustrate the Revolutionary Incidents of Queens County: With Connecting Narratives, Explanatory Notes, and Additions

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Leavitt, Trow, 1846 - 264 halaman

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Congress opened with daily prayers
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List of Committee Men in Queens County
24
Form of Association
25
Congress consider the state of Queens County
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Congress order Members from Queens to take their seats
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SEC
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Congress appoint a day of fasting and prayer 1 cwt of gunpowder voted Joseph Robinson A Lawrence and G Bethune examined
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List of Jamaica Minute
32
Cow and Great Neck separate from Hempstead
33
Vote of Queens County for Deputies
34
The Asia supplies arms c to the disaffected
35
Resolutions of Congress against Queens County
36
Continental Congress order delinquents to be disarmed
37
Col Heards Expedition into Queens County
38
Evidence against one of the disaffected
39
Congress order Queens County to be regimented
40
Expedition of Ward and Seers in Queens County Guard stationed at Rockaway
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Disaffected not to move into Cow and Great Neck
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A delinquent at Cow Neck advertised
44
Arms of NonAssociators to be given to recruits
45
Association of forty Jamaica Militia
46
British pilot boat taken at Rockaway
47
Petition of twelve disarmed Jamaica Militia
48
Election of Deputies in Queens County
49
Jamaica Committee revived
50
Disobedience in Capt Sandss Company
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List of the Militia of Cow and Great Neck
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Currency counterfeited at Cold Spring
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List of Militia Companies in Queens
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Congress order ablebodied citizens to return to NewYork
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Disaffected not to move into or pass through Jamaica
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Jamaica Committee send a delinquent to NewYork
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Congress vote gunpowder to Jamaica Militia
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Newtown boys raise the Kings standard
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Proceedings against the disaffected of Queens
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Congress vote 100 and 1 cwt powder to Queens County
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Gen Scott orders Queens County drafts to NewYork
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Defaulting Militia hunted in the swamps
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Information respecting certain persons at Jamaica
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All secreted persons to be apprehended
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Congress approve the Declaration of Independence
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Boats hauled up at Hog Island
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Congress vote 10000 cartridges and 1000 flints to Queens County
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Congress vote 10 bounty to recruits
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Report on the state of Stock in Queens County
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Militia drafted to drive off the Stock
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List of Officers of drafted troops
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Gen Woodhulls Letters to Queens County Militia
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List of Recruits in Queens County
83
Congress grant money to Queens County
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Officers of Jamaica Minute Company
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Howes Declaration posted in Queens County
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Col Birdsall ordered to Rockaway
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Defaulters hide in Massapequa Swamp
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Lieut J Townsend stationed at Matinecock
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Sergeant Manee stationed at Sandss Point
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Sergeant Hicks stationed at Hewletts Point
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Warrant to take security for removal of Stock
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Gen Greene orders the new Levies to his Camp
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Half the militia of Queens ordered to Brooklyn
94
Congress vote 200 to Flushing for support of fugitives from N
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List of Capt Nostrands men stationed at Rockaway
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Capt Suydam seizes a boat at Rockaway
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List of Officers of Col Smiths Regiment
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Congress order Gen Woodhull to drive off Stock
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Woodhull writes to Congress for assistance
100
The enemys ships off Great Neck
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Queens County Militia recross to Long Island
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Pay Rolls of Queens County Militia
103
British Army march to Newtown
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British erect a Fort at HellGate
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British embark at Newtown Creek and land at Kips
106
British Officers quartered at Newtown
107
Other Whigs of Jamaica seized
114
Kings County LightHorse cross the Sound
120
PART IV
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PART V
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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.

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