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• The case, Trevett against Weeden : on information and complaint, for refusing paper bills in payment for butcher's meat, in market, at par with specie. Tried before the Honourable Superior Court, in the county of Newport, September term, 1786. Also, the case of the judges of said court, before the Honourable General Assembly, at Providence, October session, 1786, on citation, for dismissing said complaint. Wherein the rights of the people to trial by jury, &c. are stated and maintained, and the legislative, judiciary and executive powers of government examined and defined. By James M. Varnum, Esq; major-general of the state of Rhode-Island, &c. counsellor at law, and member of Congress for said state
  by: Varnum, James M.
  Published: (1787)
• Sinners directed to hear & fear, and do no more so wickedly : Being an impartial account of the inhumane and barbarbous murder, committed by Jeremiah Meacham, on his wife and her sister, at Newport on Rhode-Island, March 22d. 1715. With some account of his life, tryal, carriage before and after condemnation; his confession, prayers, and last dying words at the place of execution, which was April the 12th. 1715. Also a sermon preached in his hearing: on Psalm LI. 17. By Mr. Nathaniel Clap, Minister of the Gospel in Newport, Rhode-Island
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• Useful remarks : An essay upon remarkables in the way of wicked men. A sermon on the tragical end, unto which the way of twenty-six pirates brought them; at New Port on Rhode-Island, July 19, 1723. With an account of their speeches, letters, & actions, before their execution. [Two lines from Deuteronomy]
  by: Mather, Cotton
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• The Lord's voice, crying to his people : in some extraordinary dispensations considered in a sermon, upon Micah VI. 9. Preached 27 d. 1 m. 1715. Occasioned by the terrible tragedies of a man barbarbously murdering his wife and her sister, and then burning his house, March 22, 1715. Together with some account about the poor man written for the benefit of the living. By Nathaniel Clap, M.A. Preacher of the Gospel at N. Port, R. Island
  by: Clap, Nathaniel
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• City documents : ordinances passed during the municipal year, 1893 ; executive communications ; reports of the several officers and departments of the government of the city of Newport, Rhode Island, for the municipal year, commencing January 2, 1893, and ending January 1, 1894 ; inaugural address of Hon. Daniel B. Fearing, Mayor ; list of city officers and committees for 1894 ; tax list for 1894
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