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... knowledge , has done in va rious ways , great and important services to his country , whose interests I wish may always , by every one in the em ploy , be as much and as effectually promoted . With my dutiful respects to the congress ...
... knowledge , has done in va rious ways , great and important services to his country , whose interests I wish may always , by every one in the em ploy , be as much and as effectually promoted . With my dutiful respects to the congress ...
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... knowledge , and of others occasioned by their orders and drafts ; and the cargoes sent to the com- missioners by the committees have some of them been trea- cherously run away with by the seamen , or taken by the enemy , or , when ...
... knowledge , and of others occasioned by their orders and drafts ; and the cargoes sent to the com- missioners by the committees have some of them been trea- cherously run away with by the seamen , or taken by the enemy , or , when ...
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... knowledge of that country , its peo- ple , circumstances , & c . which , added to your experience in business , may be useful to both sides in facilitating and ex- pediting the negociations , I cannot but hope that it is still intended ...
... knowledge of that country , its peo- ple , circumstances , & c . which , added to your experience in business , may be useful to both sides in facilitating and ex- pediting the negociations , I cannot but hope that it is still intended ...
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... knowledge of it will rather do us benefit that an injury . The seasonable execution of major Andre ( the seducer ) adjutant - general of the British army , on the 2d instant , will probably deter such adventurers for the future ...
... knowledge of it will rather do us benefit that an injury . The seasonable execution of major Andre ( the seducer ) adjutant - general of the British army , on the 2d instant , will probably deter such adventurers for the future ...
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