Advertisement: The General Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New-Jersey, will attend at the court-house in Freehold, in the County of Monmouth ... to dispose of rights to locate vacant lands, adjacent to the salt-works in said county
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Board of Proprietors of the Eastern Division of New Jersey
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Boston, September 26, 1777: Last evening a gentleman arrived here from Providence, by whom we are favour'd with the following, fresh advices from the northern army
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By Commodore Sir George Collier, commander in chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in North-America; and Major-General William Tryon: To the inhabitants of Connecticut ... Given on board His Majesty's ship Camilla, in the Sound, July 4th, 1779
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Great Britain ; Royal Navy. ; Great Britain ; Army. ; Collier, George ; 1738-1795 ; Tryon, William ; 1729-1788 ; Howe, John ; 1754-1835
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By His Excellency George Clinton, Esquire, governor of the state of New-York, &c. &c. &c. To [blank] greeting: Pursuant to the authority in me vested, by an act of the legislature, entitled, "An act for raising two regiments for the defence of this state, on bounties of unappropriated lands: I do by these presents ... appoint you a [blank] in one of the said regiments
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New York (State) ; Governor (1777-1795 : Clinton). ; Clinton, George ; 1739-1812
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By the United States in Congress assembled, April 7, 1781: Be it ordained and it is hereby ordained, by the United States in Congress assembled, that the following instructions be observed by the captains or commanders of private armed vessels, commissioned by letters of marque or general reprisals, or otherwise by the authority of the United States in Congress assembled
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Claypoole, David C. ; 1757?-1849
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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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Council-Chamber, Philadelphia, [blank] 1781: Instructions for recruiting a corps of rifle men, to serve until the first of January next
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Pennsylvania ; Supreme Executive Council. ; Reed, Joseph ; 1741-1785 ; Weidman, John ; 1756-1830
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Covention [sic] at Concord, Sept. 22, 1779 for stating the prices of sundry articles: At a convention of delegates, met at Concord, for the state of New-Hampshire, on Wednesday the 22d of September, A.D. 1779,--for the purpose of endeavouring to lay some plan to appreciate the paper currency,-- ; Convention at Concord, Sept. 22, 1779 for stating the prices of sundry articles
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Convention begun and held at Concord (1779 Sept. 22-23) ; Fowle, Zechariah ; d. 1784 ; Langdon, John ; 1741-1819
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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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Extract of a letter from General Gates, dated camp at Saratoga, October 18, 1777: Sir, I have the satisfaction to present your excellency with the convention of Saratoga; by which His Excellency Lieutenant General Burgoyne has surrendered himself
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Gates, Horatio ; 1728-1806 ; Vaughan, John ; 1747 or 8-1795 ; Bailey, Francis ; 1735?-1815 ; United States ; Continental Congress.
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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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Gen. Washington: a new favourite song, at the American camp. To the tune of the British grenadiers ; Vain Britons boast no longer, with proud indignity ; War and Washington ; British grenadier (Tune)
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Sewall, Jonathan Mitchell ; 1748-1808
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I [blank] being made a prisoner of war, by the Army of the Thirteen United Colonies in North-America, do promise and engage, on my word and honour, and on the faith of a gentleman, to depart from hence to [blank] in the province of [blank] being the place of my destination, and residence
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United States ; Continental Army.
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In Congress, 27th May, 1778: Establishment of the American Army. I. Infantry. Resolved, that each battalion of infantry shall consist of nine companies ... II. Artillery ... III. Cavalry ... IIII. Provost
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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In Congress, April 1, 1777: For the better regulating the pay of the army, resolved, that the paymaster or deputy paymaster general shall pay no money but by warrants from the commanders in chief in their respective departments, countersigned by their respective secretaries
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United States ; Continental Congress. ; Thomson, Charles ; 1729-1824 ; Dunlap, John ; 1747-1812
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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, April 14th, 1778: Resolved, that the commissary general of purchases have full power to appoint and remove every officer in his department
