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Francis Jackson Garrison, William Lloyd Garrison, 1805-1879; the story of his life told by his children: volume 1, Chapter 1: Ancestry.—1764-1805. (search)
then Voted. 1. That the above named Committee shall be a standing Committee to make application to the Massachusetts Congress. Also to Conduct all Matters Civil or Military in the County till further Regulations be made. Voted that we will have no Dealings or Connections with any Person or Persons for the future that shall Refuse to Enter into the foregoing or similar Resolutions. A true Copy from the Minutes. Israel Perley Clerk. Dated at Maugervile on the River St. Johns May the 21, 1776. Memorandum—by desire of the Committee. Represent the Conduct of the Indians that Gen'll Washington's Letter Of February, 1776. See the reference to it in Washington's subsequent letter, Dec. 24, on p. 59 of Kidder's Maine and Nova Scotia. See, also, for the state of mind of the Indians, ibid., pp. 165-179, seq., 310, etc. set them on fire, and they are Plundering all People they think are torys and perhaps when that is Done, the others may share the same fate. We thin
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States. (search)
. That a plan of confederation be prepared and transmitted to the respective colonies for their consideration. Thus was outlined the policy of Virginia. By the adoption of the motion of her delegates, July 2, 1776, it became the policy of the United States. (Am. Arch., Fourth Series, Vol. 6, p. 1699.) Let us now examine the policy of Maryland. Her state convention met May 15, 1776, the day on which the convention of Virginia adopted the instructions in favor of independence. May 21, 1776, the Maryland convention gave to its delegates the following instructions: Resolved, unanimously, That, as this convention is firmly persuaded that a reunion with Great Britain on constitutional principles would most effectually secure the rights and liberties, and increase the strength and promote the happiness of the whole empire, objects which this province has ever had in view, the said deputies are bound and directed to govern themselves by the instructions given to them by this c
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 10, Chapter 3: (search)
trength; he cares for every one of its disconnected parts, and gathers them all under his wings. But he connects his policy with the movement of the world towards light and reason, the amelioration of domestic and international law. When in May, 1776, the Prussian minister in 1776. London offered to submit a plan for a direct commerce with America, so as to open a sale for Silesian cloths, and at the same time to procure American products at the cheapest rate, Maltzan to Frederic, 21 May, 1776. Frederic answered: The plan appears to me very problematical. Without a fleet, how could I cause such a commerce to be respected? Frederic to Maltzan, 3 June, 1776. I shall never be able to form a navy strong enough to protect it. Frederic to Maltzan, 1 July, 1776. In September, he received from his minister in London Maltzan to Frederic, 20 Aug., 1776. Frederic to Maltzan, Potsdam, 2 Sept., 1776. a French version of the American declaration of independence. He had predic