Guide to the Materials for American History, to 1783, Volume 2Carnegie institution of Washington, 1914 - History |
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Page 266 - Pounds, to be applied to the relief of the widows, orphans, and aged parents of our beloved American fellow-subjects, who, faithful to the character of Englishmen, preferring death to slavery, were, for that reason only, inhumanly murdered by the King's troops, at or near Lexington and Concord, in the Province of Massachusetts, on the 19th of last April.
Page 361 - A Provisional Act, for settling the Troubles in America, and for asserting the Supreme Legislative Authority and Superintending Power of Great Britain over the Colonies.
Page 235 - An Act for the better securing and encouraging the trade of his Majesty's Sugar Colonies in America...
Page 360 - ... done by them in the execution of the law, or for the suppression of riots and tumults in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in New England...
Page 262 - into the losses of all such persons who have suffered in their properties in consequence of the cession of East Florida to the King of Spain.
Page 259 - Transcripts of various papers relating to the Losses, Services, and Support of the American Loyalists and His Majesty's Provincial Forces during the War of American Independence, preserved amongst the American Manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 17771783.
Page 120 - Towards the end of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries, cocoa was largely and successfully cultivated, but in 1725 a blight fell upon the plantations.
Page 323 - They find themselves in a slippery situation, and are glad to throw their burden upon the first simpleton of consequence that would take it.
Page 359 - An act for granting certain duties in the British colonies and plantations in America; for allowing a drawback of the duties of customs upon the exportation from this kingdom, of coffee and...
Page 143 - A Miscellaneous Essay Concerning the Courses Pursued by Great Britain in the Affairs of Her Colonies: With Some Observations on the Great Importance of Our Settlements in America, and the Trade Thereof (London, 1755).