Correspondence Between William Penn and James Logan, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvanis, and Others, 1700-1750: From the Original Letters in Possession of the Logan Family, Volumes 1-2Historical society of Pennsylvania, 1872 - Pennsylvania |
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acres answer appear arrival Assembly assured Barbadoes believe bills Castle Castle County charge Colonel Quarry complain concerned copy Council David Lloyd dear desire EDITOR Edward Shippen endeavour enemies England ernour expected fear fleet Friends George Whitehead give thee Government granted hand honest HONOURED GOVERNOUR hope House ISAAC NORRIS Jamaica JAMES LOGAN John JONATHAN DICKINSON land late letter Lieutenant-Governour LOGAN TO WILLIAM Lord Lord Cornbury Lords of Trade Lower Counties matter mentioned never obliged occasion opinion opportunity pacquet PHILADA Philadelphia Philip Ford Pray present Proprietor Province Queen quit-rents reason received Remonstrance Richard Hill Samuel Carpenter scarce sent settled shew sterling thine things Thomas thou canst thou hast thou wilt thought thy affairs thy interest thyself tion told trade vessels whole wife WILLIAM PENN write wrote
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Page 388 - And the House of Representatives, by protestation, saving to themselves the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further articles or other accusation...
Page 385 - ... by and with the advice, assent, and approbation of the freemen of the said country, or the greater part of them, or of their delegates or deputies...
Page 14 - My son has lost his election, as also the lord-keeper's son-in-law ; but both hope to recover it by proving bribery upon the two that have it, Lord Windsor and Squire Arjfell. I wish it might turn his face to privacy and good husbandry, if not nearer to us.
Page 12 - Parliament, through so many checks and tests upon his morals as well as education ; with the load of debt, hardly to be answered from the difficulty of getting in what I have a right to, of ' twice their value, which is starving in the midst of bread, my head and heart are filled sufficiently with trouble ; yet the Lord holds up my head, and Job's over-righteous and mistaken friends have not sunk my soul from its confidence in God.
Page 68 - I too mournfully remember how noble a law I had of exports and imports, when I was first in America, that had been worth by this time some thousands a year; which I suspended receiving for a year or two, and that not without a consideration engaged by several merchants. But Thomas Lloyd, very unhappily for me, my family, and himself, complimented some...
Page 412 - At the Assembly held at Philadelphia, the 25th Day of November, 1709. THE House of Representatives did, Yesterday, adjudge James Logan for his Offence in reflecting upon sundry Members of this House in particular, and the whole House in general, charging the Proceedings of this Assembly with Unfairness and Injustice...
Page 405 - ... province to enjoy the privileges derived from thy own grants and concessions, besides the rights and freedoms of England ; but how they were disappointed in several respects, appears, in part, by the said representation, to which we refer, and become supplicants for relief, not only in matters there complained of, which are not yet redressed, but also in things then omitted, as well as what have been lately transacted, to the grievous oppression of the Queen's subjects, and public scandal of...
Page 259 - The Lord Chancellor . . . declared positively that the equity of redemption still remained in William Penn and his heirs . . . told the Fords they were too early to ask such a thing of the Queen, if it would ever be proper; and as to taking the Government, that could not be, for it would not be decent— to use his own words— to make Government ambulatory...
Page 64 - I lament the loss of honest Richard Hough. Such men must needs be wanted where selfishness and forgetfulness of God's mercies so much abound.
Page 69 - James' time, and the war in Ireland that followed, has been the true cause of all my straits I have since laboured under, and no supply coming from Pennsylvania between my first and second voyage (being 15 years) to alleviate my burdens and answer my necessities, to say nothing of what my...