A Colonial Officer and His Times. 1754-1773: A Biographical Sketch of Gen. Hugh Waddell, of North CarolinaEdwards & Brougton, 1885 - 242 pages |
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Page 17 - It is therefore ordered, That every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 176 - Geo. 4, c. 30, s. 8, enacts, that if any persons riotously and tumultuously assembled together, to the disturbance of the public peace, shall unlawfully and with force demolish, or pull down, or destroy, or begin to demolish, pull down, or destroy, any church or chapel, or any...
Page 175 - One thousand seven hundred and fifteen, and being required or commanded by any one or more Justice or Justices of the Peace, or by the Sheriff of the County, or his...
Page 78 - engrosses the conversation of the speculative part of the colonists, who look upon this unconstitutional method of taxation as a direful attack upon their liberties, and loudly exclaim against the violation. What may be the result of this and of some other (I think I may add illjudged) measures, I will not undertake to determine; but this I may venture to affirm, that the advantage accruing to the mother country will fall greatly short of the...
Page 60 - I hope, without vanity, I may be allowed to say, that from long intimacy with these woods, and frequent scouting in them, my men are at least as well acquainted with all the passes and difficulties as any troops that will be employed.
Page 175 - And every such Justice and Justices of the peace Sheriff under Sheriff Mayor Bailiff and other Head Officer aforesaid within the Limits of their respective Jurisdictions are hereby authorized impowered and required on notice or knowledge of any such unlawful riotous and Tumultuous assembly to resort to the place where such unlawful riotous and Tumultuous assembly shall be of persons to the Number of Twelve or more and there to make or Cause to be made proclamation in manner aforesaid.
Page 169 - June, you were busy in securing the allegiance of rioters, and levying contributions of beef and flour. You occasionally amused yourself with burning a few houses, treading down corn, insulting the suspected, and holding courts-martial. These courts took cognizance of civil, as well as military offences, and even extended their jurisdiction to ill-breeding and want of good manners. One Johnston, who was a reputed Regulator, but whose greatest crime...
Page 122 - I have the honor to be with the greatest Respect, Sir — Your Excellency's Most obedient and most humble servant James Grant His Excellency the Honble General Gage (WL Clements Library) (Haldimand to Qagc, Transl.
Page 164 - ... which they were surrounded and disturbed. How fully has your conduct, on a like occasion since, testified that you acted in this instance from passion, and not from principle! In September, 1770, the Regulators forcibly obstructed the proceedings of Hillsborough Superior Court, obliged the officers to leave it, and blotted out the records. A little before the next term, when their contempt of courts was sufficiently proved, you wrote an insolent letter to the judges and attorney general, commanding...
Page 176 - ... continuing together after proclamation made, as aforesaid, and forthwith to carry the persons so apprehended before one or more of his Majesty's justices of the peace of the county...