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... Washington appointed adjutant - general of Virginia troops . John Adams enters Harvard College . James Madison , fourth President of the United States , born at Post Conway , King George County , Virginia . Francis Barber , military ...
... Washington appointed adjutant - general of Virginia troops . John Adams enters Harvard College . James Madison , fourth President of the United States , born at Post Conway , King George County , Virginia . Francis Barber , military ...
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Washington is aide - de - camp to Braddock . John Adams graduates from Harvard College . Aaron Bancroft , who wrote " The Life of George Washington , ' ' born . John Marshall , Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of ...
Washington is aide - de - camp to Braddock . John Adams graduates from Harvard College . Aaron Bancroft , who wrote " The Life of George Washington , ' ' born . John Marshall , Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court and one of ...
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... Washington born in Virginia , jurist . George L. Anson , navigator , dies . First printing press established in Savannah , Georgia , by Johnson . 1763 May , Stephen Hopkins , Royal Governor of Rhode Island . July 17 , John Jacob Astor ...
... Washington born in Virginia , jurist . George L. Anson , navigator , dies . First printing press established in Savannah , Georgia , by Johnson . 1763 May , Stephen Hopkins , Royal Governor of Rhode Island . July 17 , John Jacob Astor ...
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... Washington humorously bestowed upon him the name " Brother Jonathan , " since applied to the United States . ) Cadwallader Colden , Governor of the New York colony . Robert Eden , Proprietary Governor of Maryland . William Bull , Royal ...
... Washington humorously bestowed upon him the name " Brother Jonathan , " since applied to the United States . ) Cadwallader Colden , Governor of the New York colony . Robert Eden , Proprietary Governor of Maryland . William Bull , Royal ...
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... Washington , commander - in - chief of the American forces . June 17 , Battle of Bunker ( Breeds ) Hill , and Charlestown , Massachusetts , burned . June 22 , Congress resolves that a sum not exceeding 2,000,000 Spanish milled dollars ...
... Washington , commander - in - chief of the American forces . June 17 , Battle of Bunker ( Breeds ) Hill , and Charlestown , Massachusetts , burned . June 22 , Congress resolves that a sum not exceeding 2,000,000 Spanish milled dollars ...
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Page 253 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 286 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered. That of neither has been answered fully. The Almighty has his own purposes. " Woe unto the world because of offenses, for it must needs be that offenses come ; but woe to that man...
Page 110 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Page 89 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the United States in Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several States, in proportion to the value of all land within each State, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled, shall...
Page 134 - Citizens by birth or choice, of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you., in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations.
Page 134 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 135 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance ; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected ; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation ; when we may choose peace or war, as our interests, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Page 270 - West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkley, Accomac, Northampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Ann, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are, for the present, left precisely as if this Proclamation were not issued.
Page 108 - The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district, such laws of the original states, criminal and civil, as may be necessary, and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress, from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the general assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterwards, the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit.
Page 90 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same, as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office: appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States...