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" ... on the death of any relation or friend, none of us, or any of our families will go into any further mourning-dress, than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for gentlemen, and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies, and we will discontinue... "
The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 210
1778
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from ...

David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - History - 1998 - 607 pages
...and all kinds of gaming, cock-fighting, exhibitions of shows, plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments. And on the death of any relation...of our families will go into any further mourning of dress, than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat for Gentlemen, and a black ribbon and necklace...
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Religion and the Continental Congress, 1774-1789: Contributions to Original ...

Derek H. Davis - Religion - 2000 - 328 pages
...and all kinds of gaming, cockfighting, exhibitions of shews, plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments; and on the death of any relation...us, or any of our families, will go into any further mourning-dress than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for gentlemen, and a black ribbon and...
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Purchasing Identity in the Atlantic World: Massachusetts Merchants, 1670-1780

Phyllis Whitman Hunter - Business & Economics - 2001 - 252 pages
...that "on the death of any relative or friend, none of us... will go into any further mourningdress than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for...gentlemen and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies." Signers throughout the colonies also vowed to "discontinue the giving of gloves and scarves at funerals."...
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The Revolution of the People: Thoughts and Documents on the Revolutionary ...

Hermann Wellenreuther - National characteristics, American - 2006 - 21 pages
...and all kinds of gaming, Cock-Fighting, exhibitions of Shew, Plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments; and on the death of any relation or friend, none of us, or our families, will go into any further mourning dress than a Black Crape or Ribbon on the arm or hat,...
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Representations of Death in Nineteenth-century US Writing and Culture

Lucy Elizabeth Frank - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 258 pages
...that 'on the death of any relative or friend, none of us [...] will go into any further mourning-dress than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for...gentlemen and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies' (Hunter 160). Signers throughout the colonies also vowed to 'discontinue the giving of gloves and scarves...
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Annual Register, Volume 17

Edmund Burke - History - 1778 - 578 pages
...and all kinds of gaming, cockfighting, exhibitions of fhews, plays, and other expenfive diversions and entertainments. And on the death of any relation...black ribbon and necklace for ladies, and we will difcontinue the giving of gloves and fcarfs at funerals. Ninth. That fuch as are venders of goods or...
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Documentary Source Book of American History, 1606-1913

William MacDonald - Charters - 1916 - 684 pages
...and all kinds of gaming, cock fighting, exhibitions of shews, plays, and other expensive diversions and entertainments; and on the death of any relation...us, or any of our families will go into any further mourning-dress, than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for gentlemen, and a black ribbon and...
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NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER.

H. NILES - 1820 - 484 pages
...any relation or friend, none of us, or any of our families, will go into any further mourning dress, than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat, for...black ribbon and necklace for ladies; and we will discontinue the giving of gloves and scarves at funerala. Ninth, Such as are venders of goods and merchandise,...
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Traditions and Reminiscences, Chiefly of the American Revolution in the ...

Joseph Johnson - History - 1851 - 624 pages
...FIRST FUNERALS WITHOUT MOURNING. The 8th resolution of that Congressional measure, requires — " That on the death of any relation or friend, none of us,...of our families, will go into any further mourning dress, than a black crape or ribbon on the arm or hat for gentlemen, and a black ribbon or necklace...
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Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 18

United States - 1820 - 484 pages
...other expensive diversions and entertainments — and on the death of any relation or friend, non« of us, or any of our families, will go into any further mourning dress, than a black crape or ribbon, on the arm or hat, for gentlemen, and a black ribben and necklace...
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