 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 482 pages
...December a letter arrived from the lords Carmarthen and Halifax, directed " To Francis Nicholson, Esquire, or in his absence, to such as, for the time being,...preserving the peace and administering the laws, in their majesties province of New York, in America." This letter bore date the 29th of July. It was accompanied... | |
 | Benjamin Trumbull - 1810 - 456 pages
...December a letter arrived from the lords Carmarthen and Halifax, directed " To Francis Nicholson, Esquire, or in his absence, to such as, for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administring the laws, in their majesties province of New York, in America." This letter bore date... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1816 - 458 pages
...This model continued, till a packet arrived, with a letter from the Lords Carmarthen, Halifax, and others, directed " to Francis Nicholson, Esq. or,...preserving the peace, and administering the laws, in their majesties' province of New York, in America." This letter was accompanied with another from Lord Nottingham,... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1821 - 288 pages
...Leisler. A letter arriving from England, directed to '« Francis " Nicholson, Esq. or, in his absence,to such as for the time. " being, take care for preserving the peace and administer. " ing the laws ;" Nicholson having absconded, Leisler considered the letter directed to... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1823 - 428 pages
...authority of the other. In this state of things, a letter from the lords Carmathen and Halifax arrived, directed " To Francis Nicholson, Esq. or in his absence,...preserving the peace and administering the laws," &c. Accompanying this letter, was another of a subsequent date, vesting Nicholson with the chief command.... | |
 | Charles Prentiss, William Sullivan - 1823 - 288 pages
...Leisler. A letter arriving from England, directed to " Francis Nicholson, Esq. or, in his ahsence, to such as for the time being, take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws ;" Nicholson having absconded, Leisler considered the letter directed to himself, and assumed the title... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1825 - 450 pages
...letter from the lords Carmathen and Halifax, arrived, directed, -'' To Francis Nicholson, Esq. or in hif absence, to such as, for the time being, take care...preserving the peace and administering the laws," &c. Accompanying tnis letter, was another of a subsequent date, vesting Nicholson with the chief command.... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - 1827 - 328 pages
...authority of the other. In this state of things, a letter from the Lords Cannathen and Halifax, arrived, directed " To Francis Nicholson, Esq. or in his absence,...preserving the peace and administering the laws," &c. Accompanying this letter, was another of a subsequent date, vesting Nicholson with the chief command.... | |
 | Silas Wood - 1828 - 194 pages
...the ensuing fall. In December, letters were received from England, directed to " Francis Nicholson, or in his absence to such as for the time being take...administering the laws in their majesty's province of New-York in America"; and authorizing Nicholson " to take upon him the chief command, and to appoint... | |
 | Francis Smith Eastman - 1828 - 320 pages
...unable to make any effectual resistance in New York, retired to Albany. A letter arrived from England, directed to " Francis Nicholson, Esq., or in his absence,...preserving the peace and administering the laws." Nicholson having absconded, Leisler considered the letter directed to himself, and assumed the title... | |
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Esq., or, in his absence, to such as for the time being take care for preserving the peace and administering the laws in their Majesties' province of New York, in America. 
