Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Volumen 9The Society, 1898 |
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12th Massachusetts regiment appointed April April 15 Barrack Master Benjamin bill Boothbay born Boston British brother Capt captain church command Congress Corps Court court-house Daniel daughter December died Discharged Sept duty Ebenezer Elizabeth England Ensign Falmouth father February Feby Fort Ontario Fort Ticonderoga France Genl Hospital George Goldthwait Goold Hampshire Hannah Henry hundred Indians Island jail James John Chamberlain Joseph Goldthwait July June Kittery land letter Lieut Maine Historical Society March March 11 married Mary Massachusetts ment Missouri Nathan Noble Nathaniel October officers Paugus Pepperrell's regiment Portland President Reengaged Nov regiment January Richard Cutts river Saco Samuel Sarah Senate September Sick in barracks Sick in Genl Sir William Sir William Pepperrell soldiers Sparhawk Thomas Cutts Ticonderoga tion town troops vote Washington wife William Pepperrell Windham ye Army York
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Página 156 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the Federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the Religion which they profess.
Página 196 - The heroes' sepulchre. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead! Dear as the blood ye gave ; No impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where Valor proudly sleeps.
Página 348 - ... among these men are to be found the brightest specimens and the chief benefactors of mankind! It is they that keep awake the finer parts of our souls ; that give us better aims than power or pleasure, and withstand the total sovereignty of Mammon in this earth. They are the vanguard in the march of mind ; the intellectual Backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and the activity of their happier brethren.
Página 308 - The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.
Página 156 - And provided, That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been [duly] convicted; and that all children born within the said State, after the admission thereof into the Union, shall be free at the age of twenty-five years.
Página 106 - They went where duty seemed to call, They scarcely asked the reason why ; They only knew they could but die, And death was not the worst of all ! Of man for man the sacrifice, All that was theirs to give they gave.
Página 30 - France. 2. Resolved, That it is expedient to prohibit by law the admission into the ports of the United States of all public or private armed or unarmed ships or vessels belonging to Great Britain or France, or to any other of the belligerent powers having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the United States...
Página 29 - The instructions to our ministers, with respect to the different belligerents, were necessarily modified with a reference to their different circumstances, and to the condition annexed by law to the executive power of suspension, requiring a degree of security to our commerce which would not result from a repeal of the decrees of France. Instead of a pledge, therefore...
Página 49 - The reflection on my situation, and that of this army, produces many an unhappy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in, on a thousand accounts ; fewer still will believe, if any disaster happens to these lines, from what cause it flows.
Página 156 - Provided, That the further introduction of slavery or involuntary servitude be prohibited, except for the punishment of crimes whereof the party shall have been duly convicted ; and that all children born within the said State after the admission thereof into the Union shall be free, but may be held to service until the age of twenty-five years.