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Excerpt from The History of University Education in Maryland The State Of Maryland has been almost extravagantly liberal in bestowing charters on colleges and professional schools. Over forty such charters have been given by the legislature and, in many cases, the result has proved that the gift of a charter was not warranted by the stability Of the institution, to which was thus granted the power of conferring degrees. In many other cases, h...

Excerpt from Early Maryland Poetry Twenty-two years later, in 1730, William Parks, at Annapolis, printed for the author, E. C. Gent, a poem of twenty-eight pages. The poem was entitled sot-weed Redivivus, and the name Of the poem, as well as the initials of the author, would make clear to us, what is made clearer by the poem, that it is either the work of our Ebenezer Cook, or Of a clever imitator. Prof. Tyler considers that this poem lacks t...

Excerpt from A History of the Plantation of Menunkatuck and of the Original Town of Guilford, Connecticut: Comprising the Present Towns of Guilford and Madison, Written Largely From the Manuscripts of the Hon. Ralph Dunning Smyth Among my grandfather's papers were considerable collections of materials he had intended to use for a history of the town of Guilford. Among these was a fragment of a complete history of the town, written by Mr. Smyt...

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Excerpt from Archives of Maryland: Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly of Maryland, 1733-1736Our purpose in preparing this volume has been that described by Wordsworth, when writing to Scott (lockhart's Life of Scott, II 218) A correct text is the first object of an editor, then such notes as explain difficult or Obscure passages, and, lastly, which is much less important, notes pointing out authors to whom the writer has been indebte...

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Excerpt from The Restoration of the Proprietary of Maryland and the Legislation Against the Roman Catholics During the Governorship of Capt. John Hart (1714-1720)The Crown of England had governed the province of Mary land for over twenty years when Benedict Leonard Calvert, eldest son and heir of Charles, the third Lord Baltimore, publicly renounced the Romish errors. Seizing upon the fact of a Protestant revolution in Maryland, which followed...

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Excerpt from Archives of Maryland, Vol. 41: Proceedings of the Provincial Court of Maryland, 1658-1662The second editor of the Archives, Clayton C. Hall, Esq, gave a Similar judgment in his Lords Baltimore, at p. 61, thus Throughout, Cecilius seems never to have lost courage and, under all circumstances, he bore himself With wisdom, patience, forbearance, and tact and, by these qualities, he tri umphed in the end. His own interests and his own...

Excerpt from Archives of Maryland, Vol. 43: Journal and Correspondence of the State Council of Maryland, 1779-1780 The Journal and Letter Book of the Council are among the manuscript volumes of Archives deposited by the State with the Society. The letters to the Council are to be found in two collections, both deposited with the Society. The more important of these letters were secured from Annapolis by Col. Brantz Mayer very early in the Soc...

Excerpt from History of Slavery in ConnecticutFew questions have been more interesting to the American people than slavery, and the number of works which have appeared upon the subject has been proportional to the interest aroused. The slavery of negroes has been discussed from almost every point of View, and yet the in¿uence of slavery upon individual States of the Union and its different history and characteristics in the several States have...

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Excerpt from The Life and Correspondence of James McHenry: Secretary of War Under Washington and AdamsMong the Scotch Irish Presbyterian settlers who came to America in the eighteenth century were a father and two sons from Ballymena, near Belfast, county Antrim.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical ...