History of Eastern Vermont: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth CenturyAppleton, 1858 - 799 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
allegiance appointed arms Assembly authority Bennington Brattleborough Capt charge Charles Phelps colony command committee of safety conduct Connecticut river controversy Convention Council county of Cumberland court Cumberland county declared defence delegates Dummer Dummerston endeavored enemy engaged Ethan Allen favorable February force Fort Dummer George Clinton Papers Gloucester counties government of Vermont Governor Chittenden Governor Clinton Grout Guilford Hampshire Grants held Hist Indians informed inhabitants Ira Allen Israel Smith jail John John Sessions June jurisdiction justice land laws Legislature letter March Massachusetts measures meeting ment militia N. Y. State Lib obtained occasion October office Sec party passed peace persons petition present prisoners proceedings province punishment Putney received regiment relating to Vt residing resolutions resolves Samuel sent session settlement Shattuck sheriff Slade's Vt taken Thomas Chittenden Timothy Church Timothy Phelps tion town township Westminster William Windham county Windsor York Yorkers
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Página 572 - As every freeman, to preserve his independence, (if without a sufficient estate) ought to have some profession, calling, trade, or farm, whereby he may honestly subsist, there can be no necessity for, nor use in, establishing offices of profit, the usual effects of which are dependence and servility, unbecoming freemen, in the possessors, or expectants, and faction, contention and discord among the people.
Página 49 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Página 223 - Fast as the fatal symbol flies, In arms the huts and hamlets rise; From winding glen, from upland brown, They poured each hardy tenant down. Nor slacked the messenger his pace; He showed the sign, he named the place, And, pressing forward like the wind, Left clamour and surprise behind.
Página 570 - A school or schools shall be established in each county by the legislature for the convenient instruction of youth, with such salaries to the masters paid by the public as may enable them to instruct youth at low prices: And all useful learning shall be duly encouraged and promoted in one or more universities.
Página 335 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 571 - ... laws shall direct. And any person who shall directly or indirectly give, promise or bestow any such rewards to be elected, shall be thereby rendered incapable to serve for the ensuing year.
Página 569 - ... nor can any man, who acknowledges the being of a God, be justly deprived or abridged of any civil right as a citizen, on account of his religious sentiments or peculiar mode of religious worship...
Página 128 - Hudson's River, and all the Land from the West side of Connecticut River, to the East side of Delaware Bay...
Página 266 - Officers ; according to the rules and discipline of war, in pursuance of the trust reposed in you. This Commission to continue in force until revoked by this, or a future Congress, the Committee of Congress before mentioned, or a Committee of States.
Página 564 - received and admitted into this Union as a new and entire member of the United States." CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...