This Libel is bottomed on the Act of the 7. & 8. Will. 3 Cap. 22. Those parts therefore of the Act, which relates to the present case must be thoroughly considered. The facts either proved, or granted, by the Advocates on both sides are, that said sloop was built at Marshfield in this province by inhabitants of the same, and by them owned. In the Year 1759 was duly registered, afterwards by...
In your Speech at the Opening of the present Session, your Excellency express’d your Displeasure at some late Proceedings of the Town of Boston , and other principal Towns in the Province. And in another Speech to both Houses we have your repeated Ex ceptions at the same Proceedings as being “unwarrantable,” and of a dangerous Nature and Tendency; “against which you thought yourself bound to...
3[Diary entry: 2 March 1773] (Washington Papers)
2. Set of for Williamsburg abt. 8 Oclock. Dined at Portobacco & Lodged at Laidlers. Governor Dunmore had summoned the General Assembly to meet in Williamsburg beginning 4 Mar. to deal with problems resulting from a flood of bogus money that had been loosed on the colony by a counterfeiting ring in Pittsylvania County ( JHB H. R. McIlwaine and John Pendleton Kennedy, eds. Journals of the House...
4[Diary entry: 2 March 1773] (Washington Papers)
2. Ground a little froze. Day clear & pleasant with but little Wind & that Southerly.