The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 33

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New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1902 - New York (State)
 

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Page 132 - President of the United States of America, "To ALL WHO SHALL SEE THESE PRESENTS, Greeting: "Know Ye; That reposing special trust and confidence in the...
Page 132 - States, and do authorize and empower him to execute and fulfil the Duties of that Office according to Law; and to have and to hold the said Office, with all the Powers, Privileges, and Emoluments to the same of Right appertaining, during the Pleasure of the President of the United States for the Time being.
Page 132 - In testimony, whereof I, Rutherford B. Hayes, President of the United States of America, have caused these Letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Page 67 - Be ye therefore followers of God, as dear children; and walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.
Page 10 - Asa cried unto the LORD his God, and said, ' LORD, it is nothing with Thee to help, whether with many, or with them that have no power : help us, O Lord our God ; for we rest on Thee, and in Thy name we go against this multitude. O LORD, Thou art our God; let not man prevail against Thee.
Page 203 - ... have paid very little attention. My time has been so much occupied in the busy and active scenes of life from an early period of it, that but a small portion could have been devoted to researches of this nature, even if my inclination or particular circumstances should have prompted to the inquiry. I am therefore apprehensive, that it will not be in my power, circumstanced as I am at present, to furnish you with materials to fill up the sketch which you have sent me, in so accurate a manner as...
Page 132 - STATES OF AMERICA. To all who shall see these Presents, Greeting : KNOW YE, That reposing special Trust and confidence in the Wisdom, Uprightness and Learning of Ephraim Kirby, of . Connecticut, and in pursuance of an Act of the Congress of the United States, passed on the twenty-seventh day of March, 1804, entitled "An Act for the appointment of an additional Judge for the Mississippi Territory, and for other purposes," I do appoint him the additional Judge for the said Territory to reside at or...
Page 207 - Thornton, Colonel John Thornton, and Reuben Thornton, all of Spotsylvania County. She had for her second husband Colonel Henry Willis, and, by him, the present Colonel Lewis Willis of Fredericksburg. " The above is the best account the subscriber is able at present to give, absent as he is, and at so great a distance, from Virginia, and under circumstances too, which allow no time for inquiry of the family of Washington, from which he is lineally descended. " The descendants of the first named Lawrence,...
Page 132 - ... governor and secretary of the Mississippi territory: Provided, that the appointment of said governor, and secretary, shall be submitted to the Senate, for their advice and consent, at the next session of Congress. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed an additional judge for the Mississippi territory, who shall reside in the eastern part thereof, and receive the same compensation as the other judges; and that the judge appointed by virtue of an act, passed the twenty-seventh...

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