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Abraham Bockee Abraham Paine afterwards Amenia Union Barnabas Paine Belden Benjamin Benton Brinton Paine built Capt Captain Chamberlain church citizens of Amenia Cline congregation Conn Daniel daughter David Doty David Rundall Delamater died Doty Dutchess county early east Ebenezer Edmund Perlee Elijah Elijah Wood Elisha Barlow England Ephraim Paine Evartson farm father Gillett Henry Herrick Hollister Hudson Ichabod Indians Isaac Jacob Bockee James Reed Joel John John Barnet Jonathan Jonathan Reynolds Joseph Joseph Chamberlain Judah Judge Paine Kinney Knibloe land large number Leedsville Lieut lived Michael Hopkins mill Moses Barlow Moses Harris Nicholas Row Nine Partners Northeast Oblong Lot patriotic Pennoyer Poughkeepsie Precinct purchased Red Meeting House regiment resident of Amenia Reuben Allerton Reynolds Robert Willson Roswell Hopkins Sackett settled settlers Sharon Silas Simeon Smith sons South Amenia Stephen Hopkins Swift Thomas Town Meeting Wassaic Wheeler wife William Winegar York
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Page 52 - Convention, appointed for preserving our constitution and opposing the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts of the British Parliament, until a reconciliation between Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles, which we most ardently desire, can be obtained; and that we will in all things follow the advice of our General Committee, appointed respecting the purposes aforesaid, — the preservation of peace and good order, and the safety of individuals and private property.
Page 52 - We the freemen, freeholders and inhabitants of the county of * * being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay— do, in the most solemn...
Page 26 - God did ordeyne as a fitt government eyther for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
Page 51 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend the dissolution of the powers of Government...
Page 51 - ... we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the city and county of New York, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in America...
Page 89 - When the war broke out he was one of the first to shoulder a musket, enlisting in the Richmond Grays and afterwards in the Richmond Howitzers.
Page 46 - Vermont, Green Mountain, and the town of Amenia, in Dutchess county, Pleasant, if you please, owe their names to the fancy of Young, the poet, I mean the American, not the English Young; he had a peculiar facility in making English words from Latin ones. In his Poem, the Conquest of Quebec, in describing the portents which he feigned to have preceded the battle of the Plains of Abraham, and which, according to his fiction, appalled the stout heart of Wolfe not a little, the first line of one of the...
Page 53 - America, both civil and sacred, and to follow the advice of our reverend Congress, so far as they do the "Word of God and the example of Jesus Christ, and I hope, in the grace of God, no more will be required.
Page 53 - This may certify to all people whom it may concern, that I the subscriber, am willing to do what is just and right to secure the privileges of America both civil and sacred and to follow the advise of our reverred Congress so far as the word of God and the example of Jesus Christ and I hope in the grace of God no more will be required. As witness my hand.
Page 63 - Some of these papers appear in the Calendar of historical manuscripts relating to the war of the Revolution.