Morris's Memorial History of Staten Island, New York, Volume 1Memorial Publishing Company, 1898 - 568 halaman Morris'S Memorial History of Staten Island, New York by Ira K. 4n Morris, first published in 1898, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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... East India Company - Signal Stations . CHAPTER IV SETTLEMENT OF STATEN ISLAND . Fur Ship Here , 1610 - Anchored in the Narrows - An Attempt to Land - Hen- drick Cortiansen - Successful Expedition - Other Enterprises - Grant Expired ...
... East India Company - Signal Stations . CHAPTER IV SETTLEMENT OF STATEN ISLAND . Fur Ship Here , 1610 - Anchored in the Narrows - An Attempt to Land - Hen- drick Cortiansen - Successful Expedition - Other Enterprises - Grant Expired ...
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... East Jersey Records , New Haven Colonial Records , Bolton's History of Westchester , Journal of Congress , the public records of Richmond County , and many other sources . Many an old garret and secluded nook , too , where had been col ...
... East Jersey Records , New Haven Colonial Records , Bolton's History of Westchester , Journal of Congress , the public records of Richmond County , and many other sources . Many an old garret and secluded nook , too , where had been col ...
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... eastern shore and touching it at both ends . This ex- tends from the village of New Brighton , on the northeastern extrem- ity , with an elevation of three hundred and ten feet , and sweeping inland behind Tompkinsville and Stapleton ...
... eastern shore and touching it at both ends . This ex- tends from the village of New Brighton , on the northeastern extrem- ity , with an elevation of three hundred and ten feet , and sweeping inland behind Tompkinsville and Stapleton ...
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... east from Washington , or 74 ° 8 ' west from Greenwich . The center of the Island , ( i.e. , a point near Richmond ) ... eastern end , at St. George , to the extreme southwestern point , below Tottenville , is a few feet more than thirteen ...
... east from Washington , or 74 ° 8 ' west from Greenwich . The center of the Island , ( i.e. , a point near Richmond ) ... eastern end , at St. George , to the extreme southwestern point , below Tottenville , is a few feet more than thirteen ...
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... East Shore . The Island is watered with an abundance of springs of excellent quality , some of them being fed by veins leading all the way from the Catskill and Orange mountains , and which will be treated more fully in a subsequent ...
... East Shore . The Island is watered with an abundance of springs of excellent quality , some of them being fed by veins leading all the way from the Catskill and Orange mountains , and which will be treated more fully in a subsequent ...
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Halaman 86 - A pleasing land of drowsy-head it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye ; And of gay castles in the clouds that pass, For ever flushing round a summer sky...
Halaman 187 - 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 perseverance, employ for the preservation of our liberties...
Halaman 322 - For my own part there was not a moment during the Revolution when I would not have given everything I possessed for a restoration to the state of things before the contest began, provided we could have had a sufficient security for its continuance.
Halaman 107 - Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations ; they call their lands after their own names.
Halaman 175 - That an humble address be presented to his Majesty, humbly h> desire and beseech his Majesty, that in order to open the way towards a happy settlement of the dangerous troubles in America, by beginning to allay ferments and soften animosities there ; and, above all, for preventing, in the mean time, any sudden and fatal catastrophe at Boston, now suffering under the daily irritation of an army before their eyes» posted in their town, it may graciously please his Majesty, that immediate orders be...
Halaman 174 - The object which had called them together, was of incalculable magnitude. The liberties of no less than three millions of people, with that of all their posterity, were staked on the wisdom and energy of their councils.*
Halaman 166 - It appears to me the worst instrument of arbitrary power, the most destructive of English liberty and the fundamental principles of law, that ever was found in an English law book.
Halaman 171 - ... accordingly done. The funeral of the victims was attended with extraordinary pomp. Most of the shops were closed, all the bells of the town tolled on the occasion, and the corpses were followed to the grave by an immense concourse of people, arranged six abreast, the procession * Hutchison, pp. 272-275. being closed by a long train of carriages belonging to the principal gentry of the town.* Captain Preston and the party of soldiers were afterward tried.
Halaman 174 - ... echoed back the consciousness of every other heart in deploring his inability to do justice to the occasion, he launched gradually into a recital of the colonial wrongs. Rising, as he advanced, with the grandeur of his subject, and glowing at length with all the majesty and expectation of the occasion, his speech seemed more than that of mortal man.
Halaman 187 - Our union is perfect. Our internal resources are great; and, if necessary, foreign assistance is undoubtedly attainable.... we gratefully acknowledge, as signal instances of the divine favour towards us, that his providence would not permit us to be called into this severe controversy, until we were grown up to our present strength, had been previously exercised in warlike operation, and possessed of the means of defending ourselves.