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Rambles about Portsmouth: First Series : Sketches of Persons, Localities ... - Page 365
by Charles Warren Brewster - 1878 - 401 pages
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Lives of Eminent Individuals: Celebrated in American History, Volume 1

Jared Sparks - 1839 - 394 pages
...Langdon, a merchant of Portsmouth, and Speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed its members: " I have three thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate...more; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we succeed in defending...
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Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 1

Commerce - 1839 - 566 pages
...and addressed the nouse to the following effect : " My friends and fellow-citizens — I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. 'If we succeed in...
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Family Magazine: Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge, Volume 7

1840 - 494 pages
...received, and addressed the house to the following effect: "My friends and fellowcitizens — I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending...
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The Library of American Biography, Volume 1

Jared Sparks - United States - 1834 - 388 pages
...a merchant of Portsmouth, and speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed its members ; " I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more ; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending...
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Lives of American Merchants: Eminent for Integrity, Enterprise and Public Spirit

John Frost - Diligence - 1844 - 282 pages
...received, and addressed the house to the following effect : " Friends and fellow citizens — I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending...
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The Book of Good Examples Drawn from Authentic History and Biography ...

John Frost - Conduct of life - 1846 - 332 pages
...a merchant of Portsmouth, and Speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed its members : " I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more ; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall' be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in...
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Lives of Eminent Individuals Celebrated in American History: In Three ...

United States - 1847 - 394 pages
...Langdon, a merchant ol Portsmouth, and Speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed its members: " I have three thousand dollars in hard money; I will pledge my plate...more; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the State. If we succeed in defending...
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The Military Heroes of the Revolution with a Narrative of the War of ...

Charles Jacobs Peterson - Military biography - 1848 - 586 pages
...perceptible means of relieving it, he addressed the house in these memorable words : " I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my plate for three thousand more ; I have several hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. They are at the service...
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The Pictorial History of the United States of America: From the ..., Volumes 1-4

John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...merchant of Portsmouth, and speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed its members : " ' I have three thousand dollars in hard money ; I will pledge my...more ; I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending...
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The Pictorial Field-book of the Revolution: Or, Illustrations, by ..., Volume 1

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1851 - 606 pages
...until the patriotic John Langdon,1 then Speaker of the Assembly, thus addressed them : " I have three thousand dollars in hard money. I will pledge my plate...more. I have seventy hogsheads of Tobago rum, which shall be sold for the most it will bring. These are at the service of the state. If we succeed in defending...
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