William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Том 26The College, 1918 |
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Aaron Higginbotham Adam Amherst County Barbara Benjamin Blankenbaker born Apr born Dec born Jan born June born Mch born Nov born Oct born Sept Broil Broyles Capt Carpenter Catherine Charles Chesterfield County Christopher Church colony conveying Court Creek Crigler Culpeper County Daniel dated daughter of John Deed Book died Dinwiddie County Edward Branch Elizabeth England executors father Fleshman Francis Garr Gen George Utz Goodwyn Gwatkin Henrico Henry Hite Holt Jacob James John Branch John Carpenter John Clore John Fox John Tyler John Zimmerman Jones Joseph June 24 Kabler Lewis Lunenburg County Margaret Maria married Martha Mary College Matthew Branch Michael Clore Michael Cook negroes Nicholas Yager Parish patented Peter Peter Bland planter probated records Richard Richeson Richmond Robert Samuel Henley Sarah Smith South Susanna Thomas Branch Thomas Dance Throckmorton tract Tyler Virginia Wayland Wilhoit William and Mary Williamsburg Zimmerman ΙΟ
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Сторінка 65 - I, AB, do swear. That I do from my heart abhor, detest, and abjure as impious and heretical that damnable doctrine and position, that princes excommunicated or deprived by the Pope, or any authority of the See of Rome, may be deposed or murdered by their subjects, or any other whatsoever.
Сторінка 76 - And whereas the ministers of the Gospel are, by their profession, dedicated to the service of God and the care .of souls, and ought not to be diverted from the great duties of their functions...
Сторінка 76 - ... no minister of the gospel, or priest of any denomination whatsoever, shall, at any time hereafter, under any pretence or description whatever, be eligible to, or capable of holding, any civil or military office or place within this State.
Сторінка 16 - What good would a proclamation of emancipation from me do, especially as we are now situated? I do not want to issue a document that the whole world will see must necessarily be inoperative, like the Pope's bull against the comet! Would my word free the slaves, when I cannot even enforce the Constitution in the rebel States?
Сторінка 66 - And shall subscribe a profession of their Christian belief in these words : "I, AB, profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his eternal Son, the true God, and in the Holy Spirit, one God, blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration.
Сторінка 152 - Virginia certainly owed two millions sterling to Great Britain at the conclusion of the war. Some have conjectured the debt as high as three millions. I think that state owed near as much as all the rest put together.
Сторінка 152 - A powerful engine for this purpose, was the giving good prices and credit to the planter, till they got him more immersed in debt than he could pay, without selling his lands or slaves. They then reduced the prices given for his tobacco, so that let his shipments be ever so great, and his demand of necessaries ever so economical, they never permitted him to clear off his debt. These debts had become hereditary from father to son, for many generations, so that the planters were a species of property,...
Сторінка 29 - December in the ffowerteenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the second by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland king Defender of the faith etc.
Сторінка 17 - ... Now, then, tell me, if you please, what possible result of good would follow the issuing of such a proclamation as you desire ? Understand, I raise no objections against it on legal or constitutional grounds ; for, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, in time of war I suppose I have a right to take any measure which may best subdue the enemy ; nor do I urge objections of a moral nature, in view of possible consequences of insurrection and massacre at the South. I view this matter as a...
Сторінка 14 - Our own methods during the final stages of the conflict were sufficiently described by General Sheridan, when, during the Franco-Prussian War, as the guest of Bismarck, he declared against humanity in warfare, contending that the correct policy was to treat a hostile population with the utmost rigor, leaving them, as he expressed it, " nothing but their eyes to weep with over the war.