Publications of the Ipswich Historical Society, Volumes 1-6The Society, 1894 - Ipswich (Mass.) |
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... remains , and so famous in the early annals of the Com- monwealth should have a local Histori- accurate antiquarian studies and pro- mote a popular acquaintance with its brilliant history . The time seemed to them ripe for its ...
... remains , and so famous in the early annals of the Com- monwealth should have a local Histori- accurate antiquarian studies and pro- mote a popular acquaintance with its brilliant history . The time seemed to them ripe for its ...
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... remains , and so famous in the early annals of the Com- monwealth should have a local Histori- accurate antiquarian studies and pro- mote a popular acquaintance with its brilliant history . The time seemed to them ripe for its ...
... remains , and so famous in the early annals of the Com- monwealth should have a local Histori- accurate antiquarian studies and pro- mote a popular acquaintance with its brilliant history . The time seemed to them ripe for its ...
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... remains , colonial heirlooms , bare slope of Hog Island , part and par- relicts of the Civil War , ancient docu- cel of the ancient Ipswich , the brilliant ments , portraits , pictures and aught Rufus Choate won his way to national else ...
... remains , colonial heirlooms , bare slope of Hog Island , part and par- relicts of the Civil War , ancient docu- cel of the ancient Ipswich , the brilliant ments , portraits , pictures and aught Rufus Choate won his way to national else ...
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... remains for our society , or some generous and patriotic friend of the society to make a move toward erect- ing on this historic spot a fitting memorial . The year 1897 is the 210th The one event of the year , which has given our ...
... remains for our society , or some generous and patriotic friend of the society to make a move toward erect- ing on this historic spot a fitting memorial . The year 1897 is the 210th The one event of the year , which has given our ...
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... remains of a rug for the baby's cradle . In John Jackson's house , close by the present Metho- dist meeting - house , was " a half - headed bedstead , " that rejoiced in " an old dornix coverlet , ” and it had " a side bed for a child ...
... remains of a rug for the baby's cradle . In John Jackson's house , close by the present Metho- dist meeting - house , was " a half - headed bedstead , " that rejoiced in " an old dornix coverlet , ” and it had " a side bed for a child ...
Common terms and phrases
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.