Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Τόμοι 3-15The Society, 1912 |
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Bulletin of the Newport Historical Society, Τεύχη 2-16 Newport Historical Society Πλήρης προβολή - 1912 |
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ALFRED TUCKERMAN American annual meeting Aquidneck Assembly Boston British Brown building BULLETIN C. L. F. ROBINSON called Charles Charles Warren Lippitt Charter Church Colonel Committee Court Daniel Directors EDITH MAY TILLEY Edward EDWIN elected England English Frank Franklin FRENCH VANDERBILT GEORGE H Governor Coddington Hamilton HAROLD BROWN Henry Hill Indians interest issue James January John Clarke JONAS BERGNER King land LAWRENCE L LAWTON Liberty librarian Massachusetts Miantonomi Miss Elizabeth Miss Mary Museum Narragansett Bay Newport Historical Society Nicholas Easton Oliver Hazard Perry paper Parade Peckham Perry Plymouth portrait Portsmouth present President printed Providence Quaker RECORDING SECRETARY Redwood Library relics Rhode Island RICHARDSON Robert RODERICK TERRY Roger Williams Sachems sailed Samuel Sanborn Sherman ship Stevens Street STURGIS Thomas tion TOMPKINS town TREASURER Vernon VICE-PRESIDENT Vinland voted William Coddington York
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Σελίδα 17 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Σελίδα 22 - I do declare and promise that I will be true and faithful to the Commonwealth of England as it is now established, without a King or House of Lords.
Σελίδα 12 - The President, or, in his absence, one of the Vice Presidents, or, in their absence, a Chairman pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and shall have a casting vote.
Σελίδα 9 - Society shall be elected at the annual 10 meeting (or at an adjournment thereof), and shall hold their respective offices for one year, or until their successors are...
Σελίδα 10 - An unfortunate storm, and some measures taken in consequence of it by the French admiral, blasted in one moment the fairest hopes that ever were conceived ; and, from a moral certainty of success, rendered it a matter of rejoicing to get our own troops safe off the island. If the garrison of that place, consisting of nearly six thousand men, had been captured, as there was, in appearance at least, a hundred to one in favor of it, it would have given the finishing blow to British pretensions of sovereignty...
Σελίδα 10 - Society, and shall have a casting vote. He shall preserve order, and shall decide all questions of order, subject to an appeal to the Society.
Σελίδα 3 - Leif put to sea when his ship was ready for the voyage. For a long time he was tossed about upon the ocean, and came upon lands of which he had previously had no knowledge. There were self-sown wheatfields and vines growing there. There were also those trees there which are called ' mausur,' and of all these they took specimens.
Σελίδα 13 - Society of Colonial Wars," and such funds shall be drawn thence on a check of the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society only. Out of these funds he shall pay such sums only as may be ordered by the Society or the Council, or his office may require.
Σελίδα 5 - He forfeits a Finger, a Foot, or a Hand. But when the Spring opens, we then take the Hoe, And make the Ground ready to plant and to sow; Our Corn being planted and Seed being sown, The Worms destroy much before it is grown...
Σελίδα 5 - There large flat stones [hellur], and many of these were twelve ells wide; there were many Arctic foxes there. They gave a name to the country and called it Helluland [the land of flat stones]. Then they sailed with northerly winds two "doegr...