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... Possessions and Important Offices - Willocks's Ferries to Perth Amboy - Saint Peter's Church at Amboy and Its Benefactors - Thomas Gordon Settles near Plainfield - The Proprietors Convey to George Willocks and John Johnstone the Peapack ...
... Possessions and Important Offices - Willocks's Ferries to Perth Amboy - Saint Peter's Church at Amboy and Its Benefactors - Thomas Gordon Settles near Plainfield - The Proprietors Convey to George Willocks and John Johnstone the Peapack ...
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... Possession of the Heights in the Rear of Bound Brook - Camp Middle- brook Established - Cider Vinegar as a Remedy for Fever - The Campaign Sud- denly Opens - Howe Advances in Force from New Brunswick - His Endeavor to Entice Washington ...
... Possession of the Heights in the Rear of Bound Brook - Camp Middle- brook Established - Cider Vinegar as a Remedy for Fever - The Campaign Sud- denly Opens - Howe Advances in Force from New Brunswick - His Endeavor to Entice Washington ...
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... possessions . The most . active people among the Germans being taken up , they were roughly treated and punished with the utmost vigor of the law . This , however , so far exasperated the rest that the greater part of them left their ...
... possessions . The most . active people among the Germans being taken up , they were roughly treated and punished with the utmost vigor of the law . This , however , so far exasperated the rest that the greater part of them left their ...
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... possession of the open space . For a long time after this , it was the practice of bands of red - men to occasionally make excursions to the city for the purpose of purchase and barter . Generally they would remain for a week or more ...
... possession of the open space . For a long time after this , it was the practice of bands of red - men to occasionally make excursions to the city for the purpose of purchase and barter . Generally they would remain for a week or more ...
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... possession of this mansion , owing to the distaste of his wife for colonial life , and owing to the fact that his ... possessions . In 1704 Samuel Carpenter sold this house to William Trent for eight hundred and fifty pounds . This was ...
... possession of this mansion , owing to the distaste of his wife for colonial life , and owing to the fact that his ... possessions . In 1704 Samuel Carpenter sold this house to William Trent for eight hundred and fifty pounds . This was ...
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Page 623 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies; They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay; So flourish these, when those are pass'd away.
Page 344 - I desire most earnestly that I may not be buried in any church or churchyard, or within a mile of any Presbyterian or Anabaptist meeting-house; for, since I have resided in this country, I have kept so much bad company while living that I do not choose to continue it when dead.
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Page 47 - America, not to go to New York, where the government had shown itself so unequitable. This advice had such influence that the Germans, who afterwards went in great numbers to North America, constantly avoided New York, and always went to Pennsylvania. It sometimes happened that they were forced to go on board such ships as were bound for New York, but they were scarce got on shore when they hastened to Pennsylvania, in sight of all the inhabitants of New York.
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