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Albany appears arms army arrived Articles of War artillery attack batteaus battery Bayard boats brigade cannon Capt Captain Castle-Town charge Chief Justice Church Citty Citty Hall Clair's question Coll Colonel command Congress Council Court Martial Defaulters deroga duty Earl of Bellamont enemy enemy's England Ensigne evacuation fatigue party Fermoy fire flour Fort George French garrison Governor guns Hubbarton informed John Judge July Lake Lake George land last night letter Lieut Lieutenant Lord Cornbury Lordship Major General St Marshall ment Merritt militia morning Mount Independence Nicholas Bayard o'clock officer Order'd orders person Peyster Point Levy posts prisoners Province provision publick quantity Quebec rear guard reason rebels recollect regiments retreat sent Shillings shot side Skeensborough snow Soldiers sworn taken thing Three Mile Point Ticon Ticonderoga and Mount tion to-day town troops Tryal Wind S. W. York
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Page 330 - There the wicked cease from troubling; And there the weary are at rest.
Page 352 - Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him: where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian, bond nor free: but Christ is all, and in all.
Page 338 - Christ our Lord ; to whom, with the Father and the Holy Ghost, three Persons and one God, be all honour and glory, world without end.
Page 332 - For the Lord God is a sun and a shield: the Lord will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
Page 7 - Congress appointed to examine the evidence collected, and to state charges against the General Officers who were in the Northern Department when Ticonderoga and Mount Independence were evacuated, are exhibited against him.
Page 380 - ... devilish men, who serve nobody but the devil, that is, the spirit, which in their language they call Menetto ; under which title they comprehend everything that is subtle and crafty, and beyond human skill and power. They have so much witchcraft, divination, sorcery, and wicked tricks, that they cannot be held in by any bonds or locks.
Page 377 - We have had at the first administration of the Lord's Supper full fifty communicants — not without great joy and comfort for so many — Walloons and Dutch; of whom, a portion made their first confession of the faith before us, and others exhibited their church certificates.
Page 241 - Justice of New York . . . with a true account of the government and people of that province, particularly of Bayard's faction, and the treason for which he and Hutchins stand attainted, but reprieved before the Lord Cornbury* s arrival.
Page 96 - ... and one pound of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork...
Page 376 - I should also be willing, knowing that all things must work together for good to those who love God. I hope therefore to bear my cross patiently, and by the grace and help of the Lord, • not to let the courage fail me which I stand in need of in my particular duties.