Memoirs of Andrew Sherburne: A Pensioner of the Navy of the RevolutionH.H. Brown, 1831 - 312 pages |
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... kind , and wish that he with myself may keep the providence of GoD in view . The cele- brated Stamp Act passed the British Parliament in 1765 , the year of my birth . That act excited a general alarm among the American Colonists ...
... kind , and wish that he with myself may keep the providence of GoD in view . The cele- brated Stamp Act passed the British Parliament in 1765 , the year of my birth . That act excited a general alarm among the American Colonists ...
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... kind and faithful friend . He was indeed a father to me . I was now a poor orphan , not yet fifteen years old , without relatives or acquaintance in Boston , sick and without money . But the Lord has al- ways been very gracious in ...
... kind and faithful friend . He was indeed a father to me . I was now a poor orphan , not yet fifteen years old , without relatives or acquaintance in Boston , sick and without money . But the Lord has al- ways been very gracious in ...
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... kind . Having failed in our enterprise respecting the said brig , the Captain took two of the best shallops he could find , which belonged to merchants in England , and loaded them with oil and dry fish , which was the property of said ...
... kind . Having failed in our enterprise respecting the said brig , the Captain took two of the best shallops he could find , which belonged to merchants in England , and loaded them with oil and dry fish , which was the property of said ...
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... kind providence of God , we were delivered from a most perilous condition . I can hardly say how my mind was occupied about a future state ; 1 L under such circumstances sailors generally exert every power to 46 MEMOIRS OF.
... kind providence of God , we were delivered from a most perilous condition . I can hardly say how my mind was occupied about a future state ; 1 L under such circumstances sailors generally exert every power to 46 MEMOIRS OF.
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... kind and merci- ful interposition of a gracious God . It is utterly impos- sible , however , for me to describe in full , the alternate hopes and fears which pervaded my mind during that dangerous scene . It was now more than twenty ...
... kind and merci- ful interposition of a gracious God . It is utterly impos- sible , however , for me to describe in full , the alternate hopes and fears which pervaded my mind during that dangerous scene . It was now more than twenty ...
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