Bibliotheca Americana: A Dictionary of Books Relating to America, from Its Discovery to the Present Time, Volume 4

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Page 382 - Extracts from the Votes and Proceedings of the American Continental- Congress, Held at Philadelphia on the 5th of September 1774. Containing The Bill of Rights...
Page 201 - COOKINGS (GEORGE). War: An Heroic Poem, from the Taking of Minorca, by the French; to the Reduction of the Havannah, By the Earl of Albemarle, Sir George Pocock, &c. The Second Edition, to the raising The Siege of Quebec: With large Amendments, and Additions.
Page 239 - A Collection of Memorials Concerning Divers Deceased Ministers and Others of the People Called Quakers, in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Parts Adjacent, from Nearly the First Settlement Thereof to the Year 1787, with Some of the Last Expressions and Exhortations of Many of Them; also an Alphabetical Index.
Page 554 - The United States in Congress assembled, ordered this statue to be erected in the year of our Lord 1783, in honor of George Washington, the illustrious commander in chief of the armies of the United States of America, during the war which vindicated and secured their liberty, sovereignty and independence.
Page 371 - ... owned and consented to by the elders and messengers of the churches...
Page 122 - An Impartial and Authentic Narrative of the Battle | Fought on the lyth of June, 1775, between His Britannic Majesty's Troops | and the | American Provincial Army, | on Bunker's Hill, near Charles Town, in New-England.
Page 448 - States, and the Constitutions of the several states comprising the Union. pp. 409. 12° boards, uncut. Washington, 1820 856 CONSTITUTIONS (The) of the several Independent States of America; the Declaration of Independence; the Articles of Confederation between the said States; the Treaties between His Most Christian Majesty and the United States of America.
Page 363 - Report of evidence taken before a joint special committee of both houses of the Confederate Congress, to investigate the affairs of the Navy Department.
Page 376 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 282 - Memorials of Columbus : or a Collection of Authentic Documents of that Celebrated Navigator, now first published from the Original Manuscripts, by Order of the Decurions of Genoa; preceded by a Memoir of his Life and Discoveries. Translated from the Spanish and Italian.

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