Manual of the Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, for the Years from Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Three to Eighteen Hundred and Ninety Nine Both Inclusive: Illustrated with Many Portraits and Photographs of Historic InterestThe Society, 1900 - 328 halaman |
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1892 Providence AMASA MASON EATON American Revolution annual meeting appointed April 19 Archives Arthur Assembly August Barrington battle Benjamin Board of Managers Boston Bowen Bristol County British By-Laws Captain John Charles CHARLES WARREN LIPPITT CHRISTOPHER RHODES Colonel Colonel John command committee Commonwealth of Massachusetts Company in Colonel Compatriot Congress Conn Connecticut Continental army Cranston Daniel December Ebenezer Edward Field EDWIN elected enlisted Ensign Esek Hopkins February 22 FREDERICK Gaspee George grandson graves great-great-grandson Henry Hill History Isaac James January John Waterman Joseph July June Lieutenant in Captain Lippitt March markers Mass Militia Munro Nathanael Greene Nathaniel National Society Newport October officers Olney Arnold patriotism Pension Bureau President private in Captain R. I. Colonial Records Regi Registrar Revolutionary Rhode Island Regiment Rhode Island Society Robert Samuel Secretary September soldiers Sons Theodore Foster Tillinghast town Treasurer troops Warren Warwick Wheaton WILFRED HAROLD MUNRO
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Halaman 13 - AMENDMENTS. These By-Laws may be altered or amended by a vote of three-fourths of the members present at any meeting of the General Board of Managers, notice thereof having been given at a previous meeting.
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Halaman 166 - Having redeemed your country, and secured the blessing to future generations, who, fired by your example, shall emulate your virtues, and learn from you the heavenly art of making millions happy ; with heartfelt joy, with transports all your own, you cry, the glorious work is done ; then drop the mantle to some young Elisha, and take your seats with kindred spirits in your native skies!
Halaman 18 - Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman, or minute man in the armed forces of the Continental Congress, or of any one of the several Colonies or States; or as a signer of the Declaration of Independence; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial Congress or Legislature; or as a recognized patriot who performed actual service by overt acts of resistance to the authority of Great Britain.
Halaman 13 - SECTION 2. The rosette shall be seven-sixteenths of an inch in diameter, of usual pattern, displaying the colors of the Society blue, white and buff, and may be worn by all members at discretion in the upper left-hand buttonhole of the coat. ARTICLE XVI.— INDEBTEDNESS. No debts shall be contracted on behalf of the National Society. Every obligation for the payment of money, except checks drawn against deposits, executed in the name or on behalf of the National Society shall be null and void. ARTICLE...
Halaman 7 - ARTICLE VIII.— AMENDMENTS. This Constitution may be altered or amended at any meeting of the Congress of the National Society, provided that sixty days' notice of the proposed alterations or amendments, which shall first have been recommended by a State Society, or by a prior Congress, or by the Executive Committee of the National Society, shall be sent by the Secretary General to the President of each State Society. A vote of two-thirds of those present shall be necessary to their adoption.
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Halaman 165 - I know you want not zeal or fortitude. You will maintain your rights or perish in the generous struggle. However difficult the combat, you never will decline it when freedom is the prize. An independence of Great Britain is not our aim. No, our wish is that Britain and the colonies may, like the oak and ivy, grow and increase in strength together.
Halaman 2 - ... an ancestor, who was at all times unfailing in his loyalty to and rendered actual service in the cause of American Independence, either as an officer, soldier, seaman, marine, militiaman or minute man, in the armed forces of the Continental Congress; or of any one of the several Colonies or States; or as a Signer of the Declaration of Independence ; or as a member of a Committee of Safety or Correspondence; or as a member of any Continental, Provincial, or Colonial Congress or Legislature...