At a General Assembly of the governor and Company of the English colony of Connecticut: ... holden at Hartford, on the second Thursday of May ... 1776. Whereas the article of salt is of great importante [sic] and necessity ... it is therefore judged necessary to encourage the manufacturing thereof in this colony
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Connecticut ; General Assembly.
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At a meeting of the governor and Council of Safety, holden at Hartford, on the 19th day of June A.D. 1781: Whereas ... His Excellency the governor hath received from His Excellency General Washington, a very pressing and earnest requisition for eight hundred men ... Therefore resolved, by the governor and Council of Safety, that there be forthwith raised in this state, eight hundred able bodied effective men
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Council of Safety (Conn.) ; Hudson, Barzillai ; 1741-1823 ; Goodwin, George ; 1757-1844 ; Connecticut ; Governor (1769-1784 : Trumbull).
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At an adjourned town meeting, holden at Norwich, in Connecticut, on the 29th day of March, 1779: We, the freemen and other inhabitants of this town, having for a long time conceived the mode of taxation in this state to be unequal, have once and again petitioned the Honorable General Assembly to change the present for a mere equal mode of drawing from their constituents, money to defray the public exigencies
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Norwich (Conn.) ; Selectmen.
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The Carrier's address to the generous subscribers of the Independent journal ; Time posting on with full career ; Independent journal, or, The general advertiser
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Catalogus recentium, in Collegio-Yalensi, MDCCLXXXI
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Yale College (1718-1887) ; Hudson, Barzillai ; 1741-1823 ; Goodwin, George ; 1757-1844
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The Cruel murder; or A Mournful poem: occasioned by sentence of death being pass'd upon William Brooks, James Buhannon [sic], Ezra Ross and Bethsheba Spooner, who were tried and found guilty of murdering Mr. Joshua Spooner, of Brookfield, and who are all ordered to be executed at Worcester on Thursday the 2d day of July next, which awful sight God grant, may be a warning to all ; You sinners all, both young and old
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Coverly, Nathaniel ; 1744?-1816
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The Extraordinary intelligencer: (To be continued occasionally.) : Tuesday, October 2, 1781. Providence. We are happy to announce to the public the following important intelligence, which was received this morning in a letter from a gentleman of veracity at camp
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Wheeler, Bennett ; 1756-1806
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A Few lines composed on the Dark Day, of May 19, 1780 ; Let us adore, and bow before, the sovereign Lord of might
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From the Bristol gazette of October 10, 1782: At the request of many friends, we have obtained the consent of Mr. Cruger to print the substance of his speech on going out of office, as it was taken down at the time of delivering it in the Guildhall, (on the 29th of Sept.) and was nearly as follows
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Cruger, Henry ; 1739-1827 ; Oakley, Walton Livingston ; Oakley, Matilda C. Cruger
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In Congress, April 14, 1779: Whereas Congress, on the twenty-first day of August last, did resolve, that when any persons are desirous of going within the enemy's lines, they shall apply to the executive power of the state to which they belong ... Resolved, that any officer, who shall permit a person to go within the enemy's lines without such recommendation ... shall thereby forfeit his commission
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Hall & Sellers ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Hall, David ; 1755-1821 ; Sellers, William ; 1725?-1804 ; Gates, Horatio ; 1728-1806
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In Congress, January 17, 1776: Resolved, that the colonels of the several battalions, ordered to be raised, do immediately order their officers on recruiting service, to such parts where they are best known and have the greatest probability of success
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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In Congress, May 2, 1780: Instructions to the captains and commanders of private armed vessels which shall have commissions or letters of marque and reprisal
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Franklin, Benjamin ; 1706-1790
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Instructions to the officers appointed to recruit in New-York, for the service of the United States of America
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; United States ; Continental Army. ; Loudon, Samuel ; 1727?-1813 ; Yates, Robert ; 1738-1801 ; Harpur, Robert ; 1731-1825
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Instructions to the officers appointed to recruit in New-York, for the service of the United States of America
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; United States ; Continental Army. ; Loudon, Samuel ; 1727?-1813
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Meditations on death: Composed on the death of Mr. John Pierson, junr. of Killingworth, who died April 8th, A.D. 1776; in the thirty-first year of his age. Directed in particular to the bereaved friends ; Lord Jehovah reigns on high
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Green, Thomas ; 1735-1812 ; Green, Samuel ; 1743-1799 ; Pierson, Lydia
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Newport, April 17, 1783: Proposals for printing, by subscription, an inquiry concerning the future punishment of those who die in their sins ... By Samuel Hopkins, A.M. Pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport. This work ... will be printed in a short time ... Those who subscribe for six books, or more, shall for every six have a seventh gratis
The News carrier, to the generous customers of the New Hampshire gazette. A New Year's wish ; Around the circling year has whirl'd ; New-Hampshire gazette, or, state journal and general advertiser
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The News-carriers address, to his customers. January 1st, 1782 ; Once more the New Years morn returns
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Oppression: a poem. Or, New-England's lamentation of the dreadful extortion and other sins of the times: Being a serious exhortation to all to repent and turn from the evil of their ways, if they would avert the terrible and heavy judgments of the Almighty that hang over America at this alarming and distressing day ; Come all you friends to goodness, I pray you do attend
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Russell, Ezekiel ; 1743-1796
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Peace. Salem, February 21, 1783: By Captain John Osgood in twenty-nine days from Martinico (arrived this day) we have the Martinico gazette of the 9th and 16th of January, from which we have translated the following interesting intelligence relative to peace