The Bernards of Abington and Nether Winchendon: A Family History, Volumen2Longmans, Green, and Company, 1903 |
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... course , for many years been elected annually to the Council ; but unhappily Secretary Oliver was the person appointed by the British Government to the office of Stamp Distributor . Up to that time he had been a general favourite ; now ...
... course , for many years been elected annually to the Council ; but unhappily Secretary Oliver was the person appointed by the British Government to the office of Stamp Distributor . Up to that time he had been a general favourite ; now ...
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... 25th . One of these two dates must , of course , be wrong , and the date of the Governor's Reply appears to be sufficiently corroborated . THE GOVERNOR'S REMONSTRANCE 19 speech of the House . ' 18 THE BERNARDS OF ABINGTON.
... 25th . One of these two dates must , of course , be wrong , and the date of the Governor's Reply appears to be sufficiently corroborated . THE GOVERNOR'S REMONSTRANCE 19 speech of the House . ' 18 THE BERNARDS OF ABINGTON.
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... course of action . ' His answer was that it was impossible ; that he had no real authority in the place , but was left totally in the hands of the people . ' ' 1 So writes his son , who continues : " He could not , however , help adding ...
... course of action . ' His answer was that it was impossible ; that he had no real authority in the place , but was left totally in the hands of the people . ' ' 1 So writes his son , who continues : " He could not , however , help adding ...
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... course , intended for Mr. Hutchinson , Lieutenant - Governor and Chief Justice . A day or two after the Governor's speech he received a letter from General the Hon . Henry Conway , Secretary of State , which he laid before the House ...
... course , intended for Mr. Hutchinson , Lieutenant - Governor and Chief Justice . A day or two after the Governor's speech he received a letter from General the Hon . Henry Conway , Secretary of State , which he laid before the House ...
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... course , eagerly grasped , and every hindrance thrown in the way of feeding these destitute soldiers and sheltering them from the inclemency of a Boston winter . The Governor's arrangements were censured by the House of Representatives ...
... course , eagerly grasped , and every hindrance thrown in the way of feeding these destitute soldiers and sheltering them from the inclemency of a Boston winter . The Governor's arrangements were censured by the House of Representatives ...
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Página 78 - I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands. Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could.
Página 48 - Whether it be lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved...
Página 56 - This day learned that the Caucus Club meets, at certain times, in the garret of Tom Dawes, the Adjutant of the Boston Regiment. He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly; and selectmen...
Página 250 - ... recall and reward them with pensions. You may make them baronets too, if that respectable order should not think fit to resent it. All will contribute to encourage new governors in the same practice, and make the supreme government detestable.
Página 63 - To be always running three or four thousand miles with a tale or a petition, waiting four or five months for an answer, which, when obtained, requires five or six more to explain it in, will in a few years be looked upon as folly and childishness. There was a time when it was proper, and there is a proper time for it to cease.
Página 56 - He has a large house, and he has a movable partition in his garret which he takes down, and the whole club meets in one room. There they smoke tobacco till you cannot see from one end of the garret to the other. There they drink flip, I suppose, and there they choose a moderator, who puts questions to the vote regularly; and selectmen, assessors, collectors, wardens, fire-wards, and the representatives, are regularly chosen before they are chosen in the town.
Página 178 - ... day of December, 1767, and to transmit the same, together with the names of the persons, who were most active in the commission of such offences, to one of the secretaries of state, in order that his majesty might issue a...
Página 58 - Hancock was dressed in a red velvet cap, within which was one of fine linen. The latter was turned up over the lower edge of the velvet one, two or three inches. He wore a blue damask gown lined with silk, a white stock, a white satin embroidered waistcoat, black satin small-clothes, white silk stockings, and red morocco slippers.
Página 18 - It by no means appertains to us to presume to adjust the boundaries of the power of Parliament ; but boundaries there undoubtedly are. We hope we may, without offence, put your Excellency in mind of that most grievous sentence of excommunication solemnly denounced by the Church in the name of the sacred Trinity, in the presence of King Henry the Third and the estates of the realm, against all those who should make statutes or observe them being made contrary to the liberties of Magna Charta.
Página 3 - Continent, to consult together on the present Circumstances of the Colonies, and the Difficulties to which they are and must be reduced, by the Operation of the Acts of Parliament for levying Duties and Taxes on the Colonies, and to consider of a general and united, dutiful, loyal and humble Representation of their Condition to His Majesty and the Parliament; and to implore Relief.