Collections of the New York Historical Society: The John Watts De Peyster publication fund series, Volume 11The Society, 1879 - New York (State) |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
affairs America answer appointed ARMAND army BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Britain British Capt Carolina cavallery Charles Thomson Charlestown charter charter of Carolina Colonies command commission conduct Congress considered copy Cornwallis corps DEAR SIR ellency enclosed enemy esteem Exellency Exellency's favour France FRANKLIN French give granted gress half pay hble head quarter honor hope horses humble informed instructions JOHN JOHN DICKINSON JOHN JAY king lands legion letter matter ment mentioned ministers motion N. Y. City nation Nova Scotia objection obliged occasion officers opinion papers peace petition Philadelphia present proper received request resolution respect river Robert Morris Rouerie sent servant settled South Carolina Spain Stamp act taken TENCH TILGHMAN THOMAS JEFFERSON THOMAS PAINE Thomson thought tion treaty troops Virginia Washington wish York
Popular passages
Page 268 - say nothing of my religion. It is known to my God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life; if that has been honest and dutiful to society, the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Page 5 - We might as well have hindered the sun's setting. That we could not do. But since it is down, my friend, and it may be long before it rises again, let us make as good a night of it as we can. We may still light candles. Frugality and industry will go a great way towards indemnifying us. Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former we may easily bear the latter.
Page 112 - States hold, or shall hereafter hold, as well as the inhabitants of the United States, from fishing in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, coasts or places which the most Christian king possesses, or shall hereafter possess. But this exclusion is to take place only so long and so far as an exemption shall not in this respect have been granted to some other nation. The tenth article binds the United States and their citizens not to disturb the subjects of the most Christian king in the exercise of the...
Page 262 - A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen; it is a document in proof that I am a real Christian, that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus...
Page 112 - States hold, or shall hereafter hold ; and in like manner the subjects, people, and inhabitants of the said United States shall not fish in the havens, bays, creeks, roads, coasts, or places which the Most Christian King possesses, or shall hereafter possess. And if any ship or vessel shall...
Page 227 - That there is an absolute necessity, that a congress of deputies from the several colonies be immediately assembled to consult together and form a general plan of conduct to be observed by all the colonies...
Page 69 - Resolved, that a commissioner be appointed by Congress with full power and authority to liquidate, and finally to settle, the accounts of all the servants of the United States, who have been intrusted with the expenditure of public money in Europe, and...
Page 125 - The Treasurer and Company of Adventurers and Planters of the City of London for the first Colony in Virginia.
Page 159 - That in the rise and progress of the war, he extended every act of kindness in his power to persons called Loyalists and Quietists, as well as to British prisoners of war ; very ample proofs of which he can produce.
Page 142 - ... to be by him digested, completed and transmitted to the ministers plenipotentiary for negotiating a peace, for their information and use.