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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 35: (search)
ters, and bring them all the way to Halifax. Memorandum preceding Grays Letter. Raising a clamor against the odiousness of rebellion, Fanning himself, as military Commander in Orange, called out seven companies of militia; Col. Fanning to Col. Gray, 13 April, 1768. but not above one hundred and twenty men appeared with arms, and of these, all but a few stood neutral or declared in favor of the Regulators. F. Nash and T. Hart to Col. Fanning, 17 April, 1763. In Anson County Col. Spencer to Gov. Tryon, 28 April, 1768. on the twenty-first of April, a mob interrupted the inferior court; and, moreover, Address from the Inhabitants of Anson County to Tryon. bound themselves by oath The Oath, in Rules and Resolves of the Anson Mob. to pay no taxes, and to protect each other against warrants of distress or imprisonment. In Orange County the discontented did not harbor a thought of violence, Compare the Letter of the Regulators to Tryon, 30 May, 1768. and were only p
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 48: (search)
Colonies to prepare for war, they implored the Ruler above the skies, that he would make bare his arm in defence of his church and people, and let Israel go. As we are in a remote wilderness corner of the earth, we know but little, said the farmers of Lenox; but they were certain that neither nature nor the God of nature required them to crouch Issachar-like, between the two burdens of poverty and slavery. We prize our liberties so highly, thus the men of Leicester with the districts of Spencer and Paxton spoke modestly and sincerely, that we think it our duty to risk our lives and fortunes in defence thereof. For that spirit of virtue which induced your town, at so critical a day to take the lead in so good a cause, wrote the Town of Petersham, our admiration is heightened, when we consider your being exposed to the first efforts of power. The time may come, when you may be driven from your goodly heritage; if that should be the case, we invite you to share with us in our smal
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 49: (search)
ommissioners, the Governor laid before it his instructions to arrest offenders and send them for trial to England. The order excited general horror and indignation. The Chief Justice asked directions how he should act. The Assembly referred him to his discretion. Then, said Hopkins in the presence of both Houses, for the purpose of transportation for trial, I will neither apprehend any person by my own order, nor suffer any executive officers in the Colony to do it. Ezra Stiles to Rev Wm. Spencer, Newport, 16 Feb. 1773. A very long and carefully prepared letter.—The people would not have borne an actual seizure of persons; which nothing but an armed force could have effected. The attempt would have produced a crisis. Sessions, Hopkins, Cole and Brown, to S. Adams, Providence, 15 Feb. 1773. The Commissioners elicited nothing and adjourned with bitterness in their hearts. Smyth, the Chief Feb. Justice of New Jersey, who had just been put on the civil list, threw all bla