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In this Meeting my Mind was humbly contrite: In the Afternoon the Meeting of Business opened; which, by Adjournments, held near a Week.

From John Woolman's Journal by Woolman, John

Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays excepted, until sentence is passed.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Held by Adjournments in the city of Philadelphia, in 1833.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Held by Adjournments in the Asbury Church, New York, from the 2nd to the 12th of June, 1834.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Held by Adjournments in the City of Philadelphia, in 1833.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin