Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, Volumes 1-6The Society, 1894 - Ipswich (Mass.) |
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... Boston Harbor , warrants went forth from the Council chamber of the already detested governor , levying upon the towns of Massachusetts Bay a tax , not in itself excessive , and commanding them to appoint each a commissioner who , with ...
... Boston Harbor , warrants went forth from the Council chamber of the already detested governor , levying upon the towns of Massachusetts Bay a tax , not in itself excessive , and commanding them to appoint each a commissioner who , with ...
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... Boston , dared to assert the great prin- ciple of English liberty and of the American Revolution . And shall it be the leaders alone of that deed of patriotism , who are remembered to - day ? Or the rank and file of Ipswich's brave ...
... Boston , dared to assert the great prin- ciple of English liberty and of the American Revolution . And shall it be the leaders alone of that deed of patriotism , who are remembered to - day ? Or the rank and file of Ipswich's brave ...
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... Boston as one of the Ipswich members of the convention to reestablish the old government , with Andros deposed and transported to the land whence he had come . But while we , the children of that generation , with those honored names ...
... Boston as one of the Ipswich members of the convention to reestablish the old government , with Andros deposed and transported to the land whence he had come . But while we , the children of that generation , with those honored names ...
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... Boston alone , of all the towns which three score years of inflowing life had planted , from the Penobscot to the Hudson , Ipswich , the town which in this year of 1687 , had twenty - four graduates of Harvard College , which in 1673 ...
... Boston alone , of all the towns which three score years of inflowing life had planted , from the Penobscot to the Hudson , Ipswich , the town which in this year of 1687 , had twenty - four graduates of Harvard College , which in 1673 ...
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... Boston , a daughter of Mr. Simm Lynde , of Boston , and Lynde had bought it of Margaret , the widow of Thomas Bishop and her son Samuel . Samuel was college bred but ill - tempered and never well - bred . He persisted in setting his ...
... Boston , a daughter of Mr. Simm Lynde , of Boston , and Lynde had bought it of Margaret , the widow of Thomas Bishop and her son Samuel . Samuel was college bred but ill - tempered and never well - bred . He persisted in setting his ...
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acres of land Andros annual meeting barn Boston bought brass building built Caldwell Capt century chairs Chebacco Chebacco Parish chest chimney Choate church cloth Cogswell Colony corner Court Crocker Daniel daughter deed Denison dwelling house Edward England Essex father feet Frank Waters George Goodhue Governor half heirs highway Hodgkins homestead honor Indian interest inventory Ipswich Historical Society iron James John Appleton John Crocker John Fawne John Heard John Whipple John Winthrop John Wise Jonathan Lord Joseph Kinsman kitchen live loan Lord Meeting House memory mill Nathaniel Nathaniel Rogers Nathaniel Ward Norton occupied old house old Ipswich pair parlor Perkins pewter pounds present President Probate purchased Puritan Rantoul record river Robert Robert Holmes rods Rogers Russell Salem Saltonstall Samuel Appleton Sayward sold South spot street Thomas Thomas Norton town Treadwell Wade Whipple's widow wife William Winthrop
Popular passages
Page 16 - I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cipher, the epitome of nothing...
Page 9 - Mortality of My body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all...
Page 9 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 9 - You may let the chimnyes be all the breadth of the howse, if you thinke good ; the 2 lower dores to be in the middle of the howse, one opposite to the other. Be sure that all the dorewaies in every place be soe high that any man may goe vpright vnder. The staiers I thinke had best be placed close by the dore.
Page 17 - To speak moderately, I truly confesse, it is beyond the ken of my understanding to conceive, how those women should have any true grace, or valuable...
Page 16 - Forasmuch as the wearing of long hair, after the manner of ruffians and barbarous Indians, has begun to invade New England, contrary to the rule of God's word, which says it is a shame for a man to wear long hair...
Page 96 - ... and have complied with the provisions of the statutes of this Commonwealth in such case made and provided, as appears from the certificate of the President, Treasurer...
Page 66 - His writing of the History of Indian Warrs shews him to be a person of good parts and understanding. He is a sober, grave and well accomplished man — a good preacher (as all the town affirm, for I didn't hear him) and one that lives according to his preaching.