Pennsylvania Archives, Tom 8Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, George Edward Reed, William Henry Egle, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban 1853 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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Strona 403 - That the people have a right to hold themselves, their houses, papers, and possessions free from search or seizure, and therefore warrants without oaths or affirmations first made, affording a sufficient foundation for them, and whereby any officer or messenger may be commanded or required to search suspected places, or to seize any person or persons, his or their property, not particularly described, are contrary to that right, and ought not to be granted.
Strona 570 - To extend Mason and Dixon's line due west five degrees of longitude, to be computed from the river Delaware, for the southern boundary of Pennsylvania, and that a meridian, drawn from the western extremity thereof, to the northern limit of said State, be the western boundary of said State forever.
Strona 570 - ... within whose boundary their lands shall be included, the same purchase or consideration money, which would have been due from them to the state, under which they claimed the right ; and where any such purchase or consideration money hath, since the declaration of American independence, been received by either state for lands, which, according to the before recited agreement shall fall within the territory of the other, the same shall be reciprocally refunded and repaid...
Strona 313 - The militia of this State have run to arms, and behaved with an ardor and spirit of which there are few examples. But perseverance in enduring the rigors of military service is not to be expected from those who are not by profession obliged to it. The reverse of this opinion has been a great misfortune in our affairs, and it is high time we should recover from an error of so pernicious a nature. We must absolutely have a force of a different composition, or we must relinquish the contest.
Strona 521 - ... currency, contracted for, when reduced to specie value as aforesaid, shall exceed the fixed prices aforesaid, the creditor shall be entitled to receive the amount of the supplies furnished or services done, at the said fixed or proportionate prices, in the new bills aforesaid, or the nominal sum contracted for in continental bills of credit, and no more, at his election : That the accounts being duly examined and adjusted by the rule aforesaid, by commissioners that may be appointed agreeably...
Strona 48 - Morristown. on half-allowance, and we have not more than three days' bread at a third allowance, on hand, nor any where within reach. When this is exhausted, we must depend on the precarious gleanings of the neighbouring country. Our magazines are absolutely empty every where, and our commissaries entirely destitute of money or credit to replenish them. We have never experienced a like extremity at any period of the war. We have often felt temporary want from accidental delays in forwarding supplies,...
Strona 312 - June llth, 1780. Gentlemen, It appears to me to be a very eligible step at the present juncture, to reiterate our instances with the several states, to engage them to press the measures recommended in your former letter. Not only the time is sliding away very fast, every moment of which ought to be improved for the intended cooperation but the movements of the enemy demand every exertion in our power for the purposes of defence. There can now remain no doubt that Charlestown and its garrison have...
Strona 48 - Unless some extraordinary and immediate exertions be made by the states from which we draw our supplies, there is every appearance that the army will infallibly disband in a fortnight. I think it my duty to lay this candid view of our situation before your excellency, and to...
Strona 377 - If we do not avail ourselves of their succour by the most decisive and energetic steps on our part, the aid they so generously bring may prove our ruin, and at best it will be in such case among the most unfortunate events next to that of absolute ruin, that could have befallen us.
Strona 267 - The view they have given of our situation is just, full, and explicit; the measures they have recommended are well adapted to the emergency and of indispensable necessity. I very freely give it as my opinion, that, unless they are carried into execution in the fullest extent and with the greatest decision and rapidity, it will be impossible for us to undertake the intended cooperation with any reasonable prospect of success.