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  • Authorities found Carey Monday afternoon laying near his van in the woods off Mud Little Road in Margaretta, which is about five miles west of Glen St. Mary.

    Firstcoastnews.com Local News 2009

  • This son of an Irish immigrant with his four brothers and a few other townsmen went out in O'Brien's lumber schooner "The Liberty", and against great odds attacked and captured the British armed schooner, "Margaretta", the captain of which had previously ordered the pine tree set up in the town as a liberty pole to be taken down.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The "Margaretta," manned by a sleepy crew, and deserted by her officers, lay within easy distance of the shore.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • This craft was the "Margaretta," an armed schooner acting as convoy to two sloops that were then loading with ship-timber to be used in the service of the king.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • The "Margaretta" had then been in port for more than a week, and her officers had no reason to doubt the loyalty and friendship of the inhabitants: no whisper of the occurrences in

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • The sloop returned the fire with her one piece of ordnance, which was so well aimed as to kill the man at the helm of the "Margaretta," and clear her quarter-deck.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • The fall of their captain disheartened the British; and the Americans quickly swarmed over the sides of the "Margaretta," and drove her crew below.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • "Margaretta" was vastly the superior, both in metal and in the strength of her crew.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Then, after firing a few solid shot over the town, merely as an admonition of what might be expected if the hot-headed young men persisted in their violent outbreaks, the "Margaretta" dropped down the bay to a more secluded anchorage.

    The Naval History of the United States Volume 1 (of 2) Willis J. Abbot 1898

  • Margaretta Mitchell John Adams Historians have often paired this architect of sonic cathedrals with his contemporary and aesthetic opposite, Johannes Brahms 1833-1897—Bruckner in the role of Wagnerite symphonic prophet and Brahms as Romantic Classicist.

    Bruckner in a New Light Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

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