Pennsylvania ArchivesSamuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban 1875 A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania. |
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ABRAHAM ADAM ALEXANDER Allegiance ANDREW appointed April Army Assembly beg leave BENJAMIN Britain Cape Francois Capt CHARLES City of Philadelphia colonies Commissioners committee Congress County Court Cumberland County DANIEL DAVID ditto duty Esq'r Excellency FRANCIS FREDERICK Gen'l Gentlemen GEORGE H'ble HENRY HENRY WYNKOOP Hon'ble Honorable HUBLEY Inhabitants ISAAC JACOB JAMES Jan'y JOHN JOHN HUBLEY JOHN LACEY JOSEPH REED July June June 11 Justices Kingdom of Ireland Lancaster Letter liberty Lieut M'ch March March 12 March 21 Mariner MATLACK memorialist Merchant MICHAEL Militia NICHOLAS oath aforesaid Officers parliament Pennsylvania persons PETER Petition Petitioners PHILAD'A PHILIP pray PRESIDENT REED province publick Reg't Resolved respect RICHARD ROBERT SAMUEL SAMUEL MILES Sept Serv't Sheweth SMITH subscribed the oath Supreme Executive Council THOMAS TIMOTHY MATLACK tion took and subscribed Town Troops Waggons WHARTON wife WILLIAM York County
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Sayfa 636 - That it be recommended to the respective Assemblies and Conventions of the United Colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Sayfa 640 - I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his Eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore ; and do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Sayfa 50 - I, , do swear (or affirm) that I renounce and refuse all allegiance to George the Third, King of Great Britain, his heirs and successors, and that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to the commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a free and independent state...
Sayfa 98 - Every man of the full age of twenty-one years, having resided in this State for the space of one whole year...
Sayfa 592 - ... to impose what tax they thought convenient upon the subject, by writs of ship-money never before known ; and a supposed necessity now, and a bare averment of that necessity, is as confidently, and more fatally, concluded a good ground to exclude the crown from the use of any power, by an ordinance never before heard of ; and the same maxim of salus populi suprema lex, which had been used to the infringing the liberties of the one, made use of for the destroying the rights of the other...
Sayfa 636 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed, and all the powers of government exerted, under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Sayfa 565 - Of great importance to the public is the preservation of this personal liberty: for if once it were left in the power of any, the highest, magistrate to imprison arbitrarily whomever he or his officers thought proper, (as in France it is daily practiced by the crown) there would soon be an end of all other rights and immunities.
Sayfa 662 - You are about to contend for permanent freedom, to be supported by a government which will be derived from yourselves and which will have for its object, not the emolument of one man or class of men only, but the safety, liberty and happiness of every individual in the community.
Sayfa 50 - Pennsylvania as a free and independent state, and that I will not at any time do or cause to be done any matter or thing that will be prejudicial or injurious to the freedom and independence thereof, as declared by Congress; and also that I will discover and make known to some one justice of the peace of the said state all treasons or traitorous conspiracies which I now know or hereafter shall know to be formed against this or any of the United States of America.
Sayfa 662 - But there are other motives before you — your houses, your fields, the legacies of your ancestors or the dear-bought fruits of your own industry and your liberty — now urge you to the field. These cannot plead with you in vain, or, we might point out to you further, your wives, your children, your aged fathers and mothers, who now look up to you for aid and hope for salvation in this day of calamity only from the instrumentality of your swords.