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From February 9th, 1775 to December 4th, 1783, Major-General William Heath, a native of Roxbury, Massachusetts recorded the events of his command as well as the reports sent to him regarding the battles of the American War of Independence. His Memoirs is one of the most important first-hand accounts of the war, its battles, and the men who fought them. First published in 1798, this is the edition of Rufus Rockwell Wilson, Heath's Memoirs of the American War. (New York, 1904).
" Nature seems to be decreed, that not only the minor branches of families when they arrived at a proper age of maturity, shall separate from their parents, and become distinct families; but that colonies, when they arrive at a certain degree of population and affluence, shall separate from the mother state, and become independent and sovereign."
" Nature seems to be decreed, that not only the minor branches of families when they arrived at a proper age of maturity, shall separate from their parents, and become distinct families; but that colonies, when they arrive at a certain degree of population and affluence, shall separate from the mother state, and become independent and sovereign."