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It is not to be disguised that, with full confidence, often expressed, in the desire of the British Government to terminate it, we are apparently as far from its adjustment as we were at the time of signing the treaty of peace in 1783.
He took his first circuit in February, 1783, and near this time he married Sarah, eldest daughter of General Allen Jones, of Northampton county, and located himself at Halifax Courthouse, where he soon rose to the highest eminence in his profession. Colonel Davie was a member of the Convention which met at Philadelphia, in May, 1787, to form the Federal Constitution.
The Day Item is the day of the month. The final result gives the day of the week, "0" meaning Sunday, "1" Monday, and so on. 1783, September 18. 17 divided by 4 leaves "1" over; 1 from 3 gives "2;" twice 2 is "4." 83 is 6 dozen and 11, giving 17; plus 2 gives 19, i.e. Total 9, i.e., "2." The item for August is "8 from 10," i.e., "2;" so, for September, it is "2 plus 3," i.e., "5."
He discovered the King's Quhair of James I., and pub. in 1783 The Poetical Remains of James I., King of Scotland, with a Life. Dramatist and scholar, b. in Hampshire, and ed. at Oxf. In 1534 he became headmaster of Eton, from which he was dismissed for misconduct, 1541. In 1537 he became Vicar of Braintree, in 1551 of Calborne, Isle of Wight, and in 1554 headmaster of Westminster School.
Before the arrival of the date, mentioned in the notice, 6,000 names were entered at the Adjutant-General's Office for passages, and the evacuation proceeded as fast as the number of transports would admit. Four weeks later another and more emphatic notice was issued. "City Hall, New York, September 12, 1783.
In 1783 his hatred of the English was ended by his sudden death. But he bequeathed it as a rich legacy to his son Tippu, a man as daring and as ambitious as his sire. Hastings won away by concessions the Mahrattas and the Nizam from the cause of Tippu.
But here, too, the fates are against him: a kind captain to whom he makes application suspects him for a runaway, and advises him to find his way home. He returns once more to the plough; "but," he says, "I was now spoiled for a farmer." "It was on the 6th of May, 1783, that I, like Don Quixote, sallied forth to seek adventures.
In the execution of the treaties of peace of November, 1782 and September, 1783, between the United States and Great Britain, and which terminated the war of our independence, a line of boundary was drawn as the demarcation of territory between the two countries, extending over nearly 20 degrees of latitude, and ranging over seas, lakes, and mountains, then very imperfectly explored and scarcely opened to the geographical knowledge of the age.
Second came the 'honourable sea-Captain Hiort, born in 1746, married in 1771 to the virtuous lady Catherine Schive, and died in 1783, leaving two good-natured daughters, which his soul is in the hands of God. The third was Mr. John Tittle, who departed life in 1776; and the last was Captain Josiah Dory, a 'man of upright character, who migrated to the many in 1765.
Look over our history from that Treaty of Paris in 1783, down through the Louisiana Purchase, the Monroe Doctrine, and Manila Bay; look at the facts. You will see that no matter how acrimoniously England has quarreled with us, these were always family scraps, in which she held out for her own interests just as we did for ours.
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