The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Bände 17-18

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South Carolina Historical Society., 1916
 

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Seite 57 - Republic eulogized, and hear much of the great advantages which will obtain to us by the purchase of a trackless world — A country which when worth the holding will I have no doubt rival and oppose the atlantic states. I do not mean New Orleans which was absolutely necessary for us to get, and which in substance is all we have got for our fifteen millions. This seems to me a miserably calamitous business — indeed I think it must result in the disunion of these States.
Seite 34 - Mr Smith took a very pronounced position in the American Revolution in favour of the Province and against British control. He held the position of Chaplain General to the Southern Department of the Continental Army and during the siege of Charlestown he "shouldered his musket and "amidst scenes of the greatest danger both by precept and ex...
Seite 181 - Lo! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps: A Heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful Virtues lov'd to dwell. Affection warm, and Faith sincere, And soft Humanity were there. In agony, in death resign'd, She felt the Wound she left behind. Her infant Image here below Sits smiling on a Father's woe : Whom what awaits, while yet he strays Along the lonely vale of days? A Pang, to secret sorrow...
Seite 131 - Resolved, unanimously, That the said report is insidious and utterly void of foundation. That this Confederacy is most sacredly pledged to support the liberty and independence of every one of its members...
Seite 174 - Col°. Kolb's Detachment to be annexed to Col°. Simon's Brigade & to furnish 35 Men properly officered for the fatigue at the above mentioned Hour. The Detail for the two other Brigades the same yeaterday. The Main Guard will receive any Prisoners sent by the Governor. The Commissary of Issues & the Cloathier General's Stores are not to be shut between the Hours of Six in the Morning and nine at Night on any Accot. whatever. The Quar. Mar. Gen1. will send Boats to Cochran's sufficient to transport...
Seite 182 - Lo ! where this silent marble weeps, A Friend, a Wife, a Mother sleeps ; A heart, within whose sacred cell The peaceful virtues loved to dwell. Affection warm, and faith sincere, And soft humanity were there. In agony, in death, resigned, She felt the wound she left behind, Her infant image here below Sits smiling on a father's woe ; Whom what awaits, while yet he strays Along the lonely vale of days ? A pang, to secret sorrow dear, A sigh, an unavailing tear ; Till time shall every grief remove,...
Seite 105 - Petit petitioned his Majesty Charles II that four score Protestant families skilled in the manufacture of silks, oils, wines, &c. be transported to Carolina in two of his Majesty's small ships and £2000 be advanced for this purpose to be reimbursed from the receipts from the customs on the commodities of that plantation. In March 1679 an additional petition was presented from R6n6 Petit and Jacob Guerard setting out further reasons and praying despatch. Gen1. M"Crady gives this last name as "Grinard"...
Seite 167 - The following are the Uniforms that have been determined for the troops of these States respectively as soon as the state of the public supplies will permit their being furnished accordingly, and in the meantime it is recommended to the Officers to endeavor to accommodate their Uniforms to this Standard, that when the men come to be supplied there may be a proper uniformity.
Seite 157 - Who, when the American Colonies revolted | Against Great Britain, | Steadily maintained his Loyalty to his Prince | And his Attachment to the British Government: | For which causes alone | He was | Compelled to abandon | His tender and affectionate Family, | His native Country, and | His affluent Fortune. | Having embarked for England, by Way of Amsterdam, he was | Unfortunately shipwrecked, and drowned on the Coast of | Holland, | The Second Day of September, 1777.
Seite 5 - An act for the sale of the main line of the public works,' approved the 16th day of May, 1857. "(2) That the line of the New Portage Railroad passes through the borough of Lilly, in Cambria county. "(3) That the poles in controversy, and which form the subject of contention in this proceeding, were being erected...

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