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... Jersey , Pennsylva- nia , and Delaware . 2. In 1609 , Henry Hudson , in his little Dutch vessel , the Half Moon , sailed up the river which now bears his name . He claimed the country on its banks for the States of Holland . When he ...
... Jersey , Pennsylva- nia , and Delaware . 2. In 1609 , Henry Hudson , in his little Dutch vessel , the Half Moon , sailed up the river which now bears his name . He claimed the country on its banks for the States of Holland . When he ...
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... Jersey . In 1702 , the two provinces were united , but long kept their old name of " The Jerseys . ' 6. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn . His father , Admiral Penn , had lent large sums of money to King Charles II . The English ...
... Jersey . In 1702 , the two provinces were united , but long kept their old name of " The Jerseys . ' 6. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn . His father , Admiral Penn , had lent large sums of money to King Charles II . The English ...
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... Jersey belong ? What was done with New Jersey when the English took it ? By whom was New Jersey settled ? Name the capital of West Jersey in 1664. Of what did it consist ? When were East and West Jersey united ? 6. By whom was ...
... Jersey belong ? What was done with New Jersey when the English took it ? By whom was New Jersey settled ? Name the capital of West Jersey in 1664. Of what did it consist ? When were East and West Jersey united ? 6. By whom was ...
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... Jersey , and afterwards into Pennsylvania . During this retreat , the army suffered the greatest hardships . The soldiers had poor provisions , and not enough even of them . They had few blankets and few shoes . The ground over which ...
... Jersey , and afterwards into Pennsylvania . During this retreat , the army suffered the greatest hardships . The soldiers had poor provisions , and not enough even of them . They had few blankets and few shoes . The ground over which ...
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... Jersey and wickedly burned several villages . At one place , called " Con- necticut Farms , " a British soldier walked up to the windows of the minister's house and shot his wife in the midst of her little family . 4. In July an ...
... Jersey and wickedly burned several villages . At one place , called " Con- necticut Farms , " a British soldier walked up to the windows of the minister's house and shot his wife in the midst of her little family . 4. In July an ...
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Page 26 - And the heavy night hung dark The hills and waters o'er, When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came ; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame ; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear ; — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 26 - This was their welcome home! There were men with hoary hair Amidst that pilgrim band; — Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 108 - Oh ! say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through, the night that our flag was still there.
Page 108 - And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave?
Page 109 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Page 108 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 108 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On that shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep. Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes. What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 109 - Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-rescued land Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation ! Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto:
Page 59 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour.
Page 92 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.