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Page 45
... better happe , or otherwise to retire our selves backe againe . And for that they might be the better advised , I willed them to deliberate all night upon the matter , and in the morning at our going aborde to set our course according ...
... better happe , or otherwise to retire our selves backe againe . And for that they might be the better advised , I willed them to deliberate all night upon the matter , and in the morning at our going aborde to set our course according ...
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... better acquaintance with these our deliverers , we learn'd that we were about fifty English miles from Virginia : That part of it where Jenkin did govern , was call'd Littleton's Plantation , and was the first English ground we did ...
... better acquaintance with these our deliverers , we learn'd that we were about fifty English miles from Virginia : That part of it where Jenkin did govern , was call'd Littleton's Plantation , and was the first English ground we did ...
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... better for my having lived at all ? I do not know that it is . I have been the instrument of doing the following things ; but they would have been done by others ; some of them , perhaps , a little better . The Rivanna had never been ...
... better for my having lived at all ? I do not know that it is . I have been the instrument of doing the following things ; but they would have been done by others ; some of them , perhaps , a little better . The Rivanna had never been ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 13 |
GEORGE MASON 17251792 | 17 |
JOHN RANDOLPH 17731833 | 19 |
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