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... Command the People in Case of Invasion These things , we hope , by your honour's influence , will Incite his Majesty ... Commands so far as our Religious per- swasions shall permitt , as becomes Loyal and faithful subjects so to do ...
... Command the People in Case of Invasion These things , we hope , by your honour's influence , will Incite his Majesty ... Commands so far as our Religious per- swasions shall permitt , as becomes Loyal and faithful subjects so to do ...
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... command of Baron Knyphausen ; " while on a farm , surveyed in 1686 to Johannes Haes and Ephraim Herman , " Brigadier - General Cæsar Rodney encamped for a season , with his corps of Delaware militia , at the period when General Howe ...
... command of Baron Knyphausen ; " while on a farm , surveyed in 1686 to Johannes Haes and Ephraim Herman , " Brigadier - General Cæsar Rodney encamped for a season , with his corps of Delaware militia , at the period when General Howe ...
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... command distinguished itself , but especially the First Battalion . " Most of the following winter he passed at Valley Forge . During the summer of 1778 he was with General Lafayette , occupied in harassing General Clinton's forces in ...
... command distinguished itself , but especially the First Battalion . " Most of the following winter he passed at Valley Forge . During the summer of 1778 he was with General Lafayette , occupied in harassing General Clinton's forces in ...
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... command the Ranger , on which vessel he hoisted it , soon afterwards , at Portsmouth - the flag , doubtless , rendered historic by receiving the first salute granted the star - spangled banner in Europe , and by the fact of its display ...
... command the Ranger , on which vessel he hoisted it , soon afterwards , at Portsmouth - the flag , doubtless , rendered historic by receiving the first salute granted the star - spangled banner in Europe , and by the fact of its display ...
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... command the Lexington , a little brig of fourteen 4 lb. guns , and a crew of seventy men , with which he cleared the coast of the small hostile cruisers that in- fested it ( notwithstanding the presence of a British forty - two gun ship ...
... command the Lexington , a little brig of fourteen 4 lb. guns , and a crew of seventy men , with which he cleared the coast of the small hostile cruisers that in- fested it ( notwithstanding the presence of a British forty - two gun ship ...
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The Descendants of Joran Kyn of New Sweden Gregory Bernard Keen,Swedish Colonial Society No preview available - 2015 |
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2dly acres afterwards America Anna Anne Anne Yeates appointed April Assembly attorney-at-law August Bayard born brother buried Cadwalader Captain Castle County Catharine Cecil County Charles Chester Chester County Christ Church Ground Church Register Churchyard Colonel Company Court Creek daughter of John death December Delaware delphia descendant of Jöran died Edward Edward Shippen Elizabeth father February Finney George Governor grandson Henry Historical Society History husband ibid James January Jasper Yeates John Keen Jöran Kyn July June Keen's Kent County Lancaster land left issue letter Lower Counties Lower Dublin Township Manor March Margaret married Mary Maryland McCall Member Montgomery November October Oxford Township parents Peter Phila Philadelphia Co Philadelphia County Pilesgrove Township Provincial Council Rebecca Regiment resided Richard river Robert Samuel Sandelands Sarah second wife September Shippen Society of Pennsylvania Street Sweden Swedish Thomas Trenton Upland Vestryman Wethered William Penn Wilmington York
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