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... Yadkin . Crosses Yadkin and passes slowly on to Sugar Creek . Sets off for South Carolina . Lodges out for the first time . Des- titution in the upper part of South Carolina . Retraces his steps to the Yadkin , and then turns down the ...
... Yadkin . Crosses Yadkin and passes slowly on to Sugar Creek . Sets off for South Carolina . Lodges out for the first time . Des- titution in the upper part of South Carolina . Retraces his steps to the Yadkin , and then turns down the ...
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... Yadkin and Catawba rivers , far above tide - water , some two hundred miles from the ocean , and in advance of the mountains that run almost parallel to the Atlantic coast , on the route of that emigration which , before the Revolution ...
... Yadkin and Catawba rivers , far above tide - water , some two hundred miles from the ocean , and in advance of the mountains that run almost parallel to the Atlantic coast , on the route of that emigration which , before the Revolution ...
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... Yadkin to South Carolina ; -discontents , and complaints , and outbreakings , that eventuated in the first blood shed in Carolina , in the contest of freedom of opinion and property with the tyranny and misrule of the British government ...
... Yadkin to South Carolina ; -discontents , and complaints , and outbreakings , that eventuated in the first blood shed in Carolina , in the contest of freedom of opinion and property with the tyranny and misrule of the British government ...
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... Yadkin , Waddel found a large company of Regulators assembled to prevent his advance ; his own men were many of them averse to violence , and others strongly in favor of the insurgents , and were falling away from his ranks . Upon ...
... Yadkin , Waddel found a large company of Regulators assembled to prevent his advance ; his own men were many of them averse to violence , and others strongly in favor of the insurgents , and were falling away from his ranks . Upon ...
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... Yadkin , and having issued a proclamation , that all those who had been engaged in these disturbances , excepting the prisoners in camp , the company called the Black Boys , and sixteen others , that should come into camp , lay down ...
... Yadkin , and having issued a proclamation , that all those who had been engaged in these disturbances , excepting the prisoners in camp , the company called the Black Boys , and sixteen others , that should come into camp , lay down ...
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Page 83 - Thou hast caused men to ride over our heads ; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Page 334 - Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.
Page 83 - I will go into Thy house with burnt offerings : I will pay Thee my vows, Which my lips have uttered, And my mouth hath spoken, when I was in trouble.
Page 83 - O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard: 9 Which holdeth our soul in life, and sufFereth not our feet to be moved.
Page 38 - ... 4. Resolved, that as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life all, each and every of our former laws — wherein nevertheless the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or authority therein.
Page 38 - That we do hereby declare ourselves a free and independent people ; are, and of right ought to be, a sovereign and self-governing association, under the control of no power, other than that of our God, and the General Government of the Congress : — to the maintenance of which independence, we solemnly pledge to each other, our mutual co-operation, our lives, our fortunes, and our most sacred honor.
Page 70 - States, the great republic of the world, should recognize that Cuba is and of right ought to be a free and independent State.
Page 223 - For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.
Page 39 - That whatever person shall hereafter receive a commission from the Crown, or attempt to exercise any such commission heretofore received, shall be deemed an enemy to his country...
Page 260 - That, as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this County, We do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life, all, each and every of our former laws, — wherein, nevertheless, the Crown of Great-Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities or authority therein.