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First-term burgesses Hank Kuczenski and Mike Ciacciarella, Democrats who campaigned on promises to revamp Union City, will serve on the committee with veteran Republican Burgess Robert Neth, who lives in the area.

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First-term burgesses Hank Kuczenski and Mike Ciacciarella, Democrats who campaigned on promises to revamp Union City, will serve on the committee with veteran Republican Burgess Robert Neth, who lives in the area.

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Their rights were shown by the gallows erected at the gates of the town and by the belfry, whose bell called the burgesses to arms when the city was threatened by the enemy.

Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

These meetings of the burgesses were the great social as well as political event of the Old Dominion, and gave a gathering signal to the Virginian gentry scattered far and wide on their lonely plantations.

Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

The policists, that is, the burgesses inclined to peace, repaired on their side to the provost of tradesmen to ask for his authority to assemble at the Palace or the Hotel de Ville, and to provide for security in case of any public calamity.

A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5 1830

This act declared that those elected should be called burgesses, and should supply the place of the freemen who chose them, as do the representatives in the

The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 (of 5) Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States John Marshall 1795

In 1619 the Virginians set up an elected legislative assembly, the house of burgesses, which is now the state legislature.

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It consisted of the governor, council, and deputies, or "burgesses," as they were called, chosen from the various plantations, or

A Brief History of the United States

Curiously enough, so confident was the belief of the settlers that they were founding towns, that they called their representatives "burgesses," and down to 1776 the assembly continued to be known as the House of "Burgesses," although towns refused to grow in Virginia, and soon after counties were organized in 1634 the burgesses sat for counties.

Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins John Fiske 1871

"The earl, on hearing the news, called the burgesses, who were still with him, and sent them back to Ghent with a message to the town that they should have neither peace nor treaty until he had struck off the heads of all those whom he chose.

A March on London 1867