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Page 61 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 105 - About ten o'clock, Dr. Warren sent in great haste for me, and begged that I would immediately set off for Lexington, where Messrs. Hancock and Adam's were, and acquaint them of the movement, and that it was thought they were the objects.
Page 59 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 105 - April, about 12 o'clock at night, the boats belonging to the transports were all launched and carried under the sterns of the men-of-war. (They had been previously hauled up and repaired.) We likewise found that the grenadiers and light infantry were all taken off duty.
Page 105 - In the fall of 1774 and winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers. and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. We held our meetings at the Green Dragon tavern.
Page 23 - Witness my hand and seal, this day of in the year of our Lord and in the year of the independence of the United States of America.
Page 32 - Society of Colonial Wars," and such funds shall be drawn thence on a check of the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be ordered by the Society or the Council, or his office may require.
Page 106 - I then went home, took my boots and surtout, went to the north part of the town, where I had kept a boat; two friends rowed me across Charles River, a little to the eastward where the Somerset man of war lay. It was then young flood, the ship was winding, and the moon was rising.
Page 31 - He, together with the presiding officer, shall certify all acts of the Society. He shall give due notice of the time and place of all meetings of the Society or Managers, and attend the same.
Page 8 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this commonwealth in such case made and provided...

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