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" I do hereby in his majesty's name, offer and promise his most gracious pardon, to all persons who shall forthwith lay down their arms, and return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN... "
Theatrum Majorum: The Cambridge of 1776: Where-in is Set Forth an Account of ... - Page 23
edited by - 1875 - 123 pages
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The History of the Discovery and Settlement: To the Present Time, of North ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1804 - 432 pages
...only from the benefit of that pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. In June the Americans attempted to fortify Bunkeris Hill, which is only about a mile and a half from...
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Universal History, Ancient and Modern: From the Earliest Records of Time, to ...

William Fordyce Mavor - 1805 - 410 pages
...only from the benefit of that pardon Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. In June the Americans attempted to fortify Bunker's Hill, Which is only about a mile and a half from...
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Washington, Or, Liberty Restored: A Poem, in Ten Books

Thomas Northmore - 1809 - 274 pages
...and John Hancock were alone excepted from the benefit of it; their offences being declared " to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. — No other notice was taken by the Congress of this proclamation, than to choose Mr. Hancock president...
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Washington, Or, Liberty Restored: A Poem, in Ten Books

Thomas Northmore - 1809 - 268 pages
...were alone exempted from the benefit oi it; their offences being declared " to be of too llagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. —No other notice was taken by the Congress of this proclamation, than to choose Mr. Hancock president...
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American Annals: Or, A Chronological History of America, from Its ..., Volume 2

Abiel Holmes - 1813 - 478 pages
...brigadier general Pigot, about noon, with ten companies of 1 " Wlioje offences," says the proclamation, " are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration, than that of condign jmni»fcroent." i .; grenadiers, grenadiers, and ten of light infantry, with a due proportion of field...
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The Analectic Magazine...: Comprising Original Reviews, Biography ..., Volume 3

1814 - 564 pages
...pardon to all the " rebels" excepting only Samuel Adams and John Hancock, whose offences, he declares, " are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than condign punishment." Being thus officially denounced, his reputation as a patriot was still more widely...
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History of the United States: From Their First Settlement as Colonies, to ...

William Grimshaw - 1821 - 298 pages
...this indulgence, however, were excepted, Samuel Adams and John Hancock. Their offences were said to be of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than the severest punishment. As martial law was at the same time proclaimed, it was sup. posed that those...
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Principles and Acts of the Revolution in America: Or, An Attempt to Collect ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1822 - 526 pages
...excepting only from the benefit of such pai- ;.-.., 8AMIÎEI, ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK, whose ofiercwi are of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment. And to the end that no person within the limits of this proffered mercy msy plead ignorance of the...
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A New American Biographical Dictionary; Or, Remembrancer of the Departed ...

Thomas Jones Rogers - 1823 - 382 pages
...return to the duties of peaceable subjects, excepting only from the benefit of such pardon, Samuel Mams, and John Hancock, whose offences are of too flagitious...consideration than that of condign punishment." This \vas a diploma, conferring greater honours on the individuals, than any other ,which was within the...
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Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events ...

Jedidiah Morse - 1824 - 524 pages
...from the benefit of that pardon " SAMUEL ADAMS and JOHN HANCOCK," whose offences were said to be " of too flagitious a nature to admit of any other consideration than that of condign punishment." He also proclaimed, that not only the persons above named and excepted, but also all their adherents,...
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