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... Hundred Years Ago , or the Reign of Conti- nental Money . By Frederick D. Stone . An Address read at the Meeting of the Historical Society , May 5 , 1879 Report of Council to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , May 6 , 1879 ...
... Hundred Years Ago , or the Reign of Conti- nental Money . By Frederick D. Stone . An Address read at the Meeting of the Historical Society , May 5 , 1879 Report of Council to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania , May 6 , 1879 ...
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... hundred and three had just been sent to Maryland , Mr. Dulany says : " The effects of war are so calami- tous , that give us peace on any terms is always part of my prayer . " While , with our present views , we may regret the part that ...
... hundred and three had just been sent to Maryland , Mr. Dulany says : " The effects of war are so calami- tous , that give us peace on any terms is always part of my prayer . " While , with our present views , we may regret the part that ...
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... twenty or more men on horseback , with flambeaux and spears , fishing in the James River , about one hundred miles above Rich- mond.-T. W. When the English troops arrived at Alexandria , 1 having 12 The Middle Colonies in 1755 .
... twenty or more men on horseback , with flambeaux and spears , fishing in the James River , about one hundred miles above Rich- mond.-T. W. When the English troops arrived at Alexandria , 1 having 12 The Middle Colonies in 1755 .
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... Indians , who have since his flight cut off many hundred people , and are daily perpetrating the most horrid cruelties . The Provincial 1 Of Virginia . troops had suffered so much in the action , that 16 The Middle Colonies in 1755 .
... Indians , who have since his flight cut off many hundred people , and are daily perpetrating the most horrid cruelties . The Provincial 1 Of Virginia . troops had suffered so much in the action , that 16 The Middle Colonies in 1755 .
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... hundred of them , had he thought their friendship worth conciliating , and taken prompt measures for that purpose . It is said they had declared their attachment to the English , and that they were willing to attend the army . Upon ...
... hundred of them , had he thought their friendship worth conciliating , and taken prompt measures for that purpose . It is said they had declared their attachment to the English , and that they were willing to attend the army . Upon ...
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Page 373 - If I were to be called upon to draw a picture of the times and of men, from what I have seen, heard, and in part know, I should in one word say, that idleness, dissipation, and extravagance seem to have laid fast hold of most of them; that speculation, peculation, and an insatiable thirst for riches seem to have got the better of every other consideration, and almost of every order of men...
Page 250 - Since our arrival at this happy spot, we have had a ham, sometimes a shoulder of bacon, to grace the head of the table; a piece of roast beef adorns the foot; and a dish of beans, or greens, almost imperceptible, decorates the centre. When the cook has a mind to cut a figure, which I presume will be the case tomorrow, we have two beefsteak pies, or dishes of crabs, in addition...
Page 250 - When the cook has a mind to cut a figure, which I presume will be the case to-morrow, we have two beef-steak pies, or dishes of crabs, in addition, one on each side of the...
Page 377 - I expected you would conclude with telling me, that everybody as well as yourself was grown frugal and industrious; and I could scarce believe my eyes in reading forward, that "there never was so much pleasure and dressing going on;" and that you yourself wanted black pins and feathers from France to appear, I suppose, in the mode ! This leads me to imagine, that perhaps it is not so much that the goods are grown dear, as that the money is grown cheap...
Page 250 - ... twelve feet apart. Of late he has had the surprising sagacity to discover that apples will make pies, and it is a question if, in the violence of his efforts, we do not get one of apples instead of having both of beefsteaks. If the ladies can put up with such entertainment, and will submit to partake of it on plates once tin but now iron (not become so by the labor of scouring), I shall be happy to see them.
Page 236 - But if you would have a real friendly as well as able ally in America, and avoid all occasion of future discord, which will otherwise be continually arising on your American frontiers, you should throw in those countries. And you may call it, if you please, an indemnification for the burning of their towns, which indemnification will otherwise be some time or other demanded. I know your people will not see the utility of such measures, and will never follow them, and even call it insolence and impudence...
Page 379 - The extravagant luxury of our country, in the midst of all its distresses, is to me amazing. When the difficulties are so great to find remittances to pay for the arms and ammunition necessary for our defence, I am astonished and vexed to find upon inquiry, that much the greatest part of the Congress interest bills come to pay for tea, and a great part of the remainder is ordered to be laid out in gewgaws and superfluities.
Page 118 - I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should com"pel me to it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted by which slavery, in this country, may be abolished by law.
Page 236 - ... barbarity with which it has been carried on, not only the government and commerce of America, and the public revenues and private wealth arising from that commerce, but what is more, you have lost the esteem, respect, friendship, and affection of all that great and growing people, who consider you at present, and whose posterity will consider you, as the worst and wickedest nation upon earth.
Page 120 - Some Remedies proposed for the restoring the Sunk Credit of the Province of Pennsylvania...