Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789, Band 14U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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¹ This report accounts Adjourned aforesaid appointed Armstrong army Atlee ay ay ay ay Burke ay div ay Henry ay Lovell ay Muhlenberg ay New Jersey ay North ay Pennsylvania ay Sharpe ay South Carolina ay Virginia ayay bills Board of Treasury Board of War Brigadier Captain Carmichael Collins Colonel commissary commissioners Congress proceeded Connecticut Continental Congress dated Delaware delegates deputy Dickinson Drayton Elbridge Ellery expences favour folio Gerry Gouverneur Hampshire Hampshire Grants Holten hundred Huntington John July June Laurens letter M'Kean M'Lene Marchant Marine Committee Maryland Massachusetts Bay members chosen memorial Meriwether Minister Plenipotentiary Morris motion nays being required oClock to Morrow Paca Papers pay master Peabody Penn petition Plater quarter master question to agree referred regiment resolution Resolved respective Rhode Island Scudder Sherman Shippen Silas Deane Smith Spencer thereof Thomas thousand dollars treaty United warrant issue Whereupon Whipple William Wynkoop yeas and nays
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Seite 964 - The two parties guarantee mutually from the present time and forever against all other powers, to wit: The United States to His Most Christian Majesty, the present possessions of the Crown of France in America, as well as those which it may acquire by the future treaty of peace: And His Most Christian Majesty guarantees on his part to the United States their liberty, sovereignty, and independence, absolute and unlimited...
Seite 921 - Lawrence; comprehending all islands within twenty leagues of any part of the shores of the United States, and lying between lines to be drawn due east from the points where the aforesaid boundaries between Nova Scotia on the one part, and East Florida on the other, shall respectively touch the bay of Fundy and the Atlantic ocean...
Seite 958 - Mississippi; thence by a line to be drawn along the middle of the said River Mississippi until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude.
Seite 565 - ... forever against all other powers, to wit: The United States to his most Christian Majesty, the present possessions of the crown of France in America, as well as those which it may acquire by the future treaty of peace : and his most Christian Majesty guarantees on his part to the United States, their liberty, sovereignty and independence, absolute and unlimited...
Seite 921 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic Majesty, and those of his most Christian Majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
Seite 564 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Seite 564 - And further, the committee beg leave to report it as their opinion, that these United States cannot, with propriety, hold any conference or treaty with any commissioners on the part of Great Britain, unless they shall, as a preliminary thereto, either withdraw their fleets and armies, or else, in positive and express terms, acknowledge the independence of the said states.
Seite 564 - DO, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare, that these united colonies, are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connexion between them and the state of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved...
Seite 958 - Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut River...
Seite 958 - Mississippi, until it shall intersect the northernmost part of the thirty-first degree of north latitude; south, by a line to be drawn due east from the determination of...