Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin...T. S. Manning., 1809 - 519 pages |
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... vessels here laden with military stores for America , just ready to sail ; on the whole there is the greatest prospect that we shall be well provided for another campaign , and much stronger than we 2 Oct. SECRET CORRESPONDENCE.
... vessels here laden with military stores for America , just ready to sail ; on the whole there is the greatest prospect that we shall be well provided for another campaign , and much stronger than we 2 Oct. SECRET CORRESPONDENCE.
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... sail it is said about the first of June . The marquis de la Fayette was , with some land troops , to have gone with ... sailing to America ; and Mr. Adams , who was desirous of returning soon might be accommodated with a passage in a ...
... sail it is said about the first of June . The marquis de la Fayette was , with some land troops , to have gone with ... sailing to America ; and Mr. Adams , who was desirous of returning soon might be accommodated with a passage in a ...
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... sail of their vessels within these three months . The own ers are about to give her a consort , called the Black Princess , for whom they ask a commission . The prisoners brought in , serve to exchange our countrymen , which makes me ...
... sail of their vessels within these three months . The own ers are about to give her a consort , called the Black Princess , for whom they ask a commission . The prisoners brought in , serve to exchange our countrymen , which makes me ...
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... sail im- mediately . But the men refusing to go till paid their shares of prize money , and sundry difficulties arising with regard to the sale and division , she has been detained thus long to my great mortification ; and I am yet ...
... sail im- mediately . But the men refusing to go till paid their shares of prize money , and sundry difficulties arising with regard to the sale and division , she has been detained thus long to my great mortification ; and I am yet ...
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... sail , refused to weigh anchor ' till paid wages , & c . she may fall in the way of the English fleet now out , or that her crew who have ever been infected with dis- order and mutiny , may carry her into England . She had on her first ...
... sail , refused to weigh anchor ' till paid wages , & c . she may fall in the way of the English fleet now out , or that her crew who have ever been infected with dis- order and mutiny , may carry her into England . She had on her first ...
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