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Page 41
... colonel's bearing , or by a six- mile march , they released him upon his signing a paper dictated to him , of which the following is a copy , printed at the time in the Boston Gazette : : - pride of birthright , but nearly all the ...
... colonel's bearing , or by a six- mile march , they released him upon his signing a paper dictated to him , of which the following is a copy , printed at the time in the Boston Gazette : : - pride of birthright , but nearly all the ...
Page 42
... Colonel Willard knew whereof he testi- fied , for the two colonels had earned their commissions together in the expe- ditions against Canada . An officer of so well - known skill and experience as Abijah Willard was deemed a valuable ...
... Colonel Willard knew whereof he testi- fied , for the two colonels had earned their commissions together in the expe- ditions against Canada . An officer of so well - known skill and experience as Abijah Willard was deemed a valuable ...
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... colonel , and judge of the court of common pleas of Worcester County , as his father had been before him , - was prominent among the signers of the address to General Gage . He apologized for this indiscretion , and seems to have ...
... colonel , and judge of the court of common pleas of Worcester County , as his father had been before him , - was prominent among the signers of the address to General Gage . He apologized for this indiscretion , and seems to have ...
Page 45
... Colonel Asa Whitcomb was chosen to collect evidence against suspected loyalists , and Moses Gerrish , Daniel Allen , Ezra Houghton , Joseph Moor , and Solomon Houghton , were voted " as Dangerous Persons and In- ternal Enemies to this ...
... Colonel Asa Whitcomb was chosen to collect evidence against suspected loyalists , and Moses Gerrish , Daniel Allen , Ezra Houghton , Joseph Moor , and Solomon Houghton , were voted " as Dangerous Persons and In- ternal Enemies to this ...
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... colonel of artillery and inspector - general of the foundries , and engaged in casting cannon in Massa- chusetts . Colonel Ansart understood the art to great perfection ; and it is said that some of his cannon and mor- tars are still ...
... colonel of artillery and inspector - general of the foundries , and engaged in casting cannon in Massa- chusetts . Colonel Ansart understood the art to great perfection ; and it is said that some of his cannon and mor- tars are still ...
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Page 137 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth.
Page 278 - THAT, AND A' THAT. Is there, for honest Poverty, That hangs his head, and a' that ; The coward slave — we pass him by ! We dare be poor for a
Page 20 - The Young Men's Christian Associations seek to unite those young men who, regarding Jesus Christ as their God and Saviour, according to the Holy Scriptures, desire to be his disciples in their doctrine and in their life, and to associate their efforts for the extension of his kingdom among young men.
Page 257 - We have lived long, but this is the noblest work of our whole lives. The treaty which we have just signed has not been obtained by art or dictated by force; equally advantageous to the two contracting parties, it will change vast solitudes into flourishing districts.
Page 175 - THERE is a tear for all that die, A mourner o'er the humblest grave ; But nations swell the funeral cry, And Triumph weeps above the brave. For them is Sorrow's purest sigh O'er Ocean's heaving bosom sent : In vain their bones unburied lie, All earth becomes their monument ! A tomb is theirs on every page, An epitaph on every tongue : The present hours, the future age, For them bewail, to them belong. For...
Page 65 - Captain General and Governor in Chief in and over His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England...
Page 226 - That the said Barnet shall erect a House on the Land where Mr. Ezekiel Cheever Lately dwelt, of forty foot Long Twenty foot wide and Twenty foot stud with four foot Rise in the Roof, to make a cellar floor under one half of Sd house and to build a Kitchen of Sixteen foot in Length and twelve foot in breadth with a Chamber therein, and to Lay the floors flush through out the maine house and to make three paire of Stayers in y...
Page 20 - That as these organizations bear the name of Christian and profess to be engaged directly in the Saviour's service, so it is clearly their duty to maintain the control and management of all their affairs in the hands of those who profess to love and publicly avow their faith in Jesus, the Redeemer, as divine, and who testify their faith by becoming and remaining members of churches held to be evangelical, and that such persons and none others should be allowed to vote or hold office.
Page 257 - Missouri will see them succeed one another and multiply, truly worthy of the regard and care of Providence, in the bosom of equality, under just laws, freed from the errors of superstition and bad government.
Page 196 - Groton stores for some years before and after myself, no one else, to my knowledge, escaped the bog or slough ; and my escape I trace to the simple fact of my having put a restraint upon my appetite. We five boys were in the habit, every forenoon, of making a drink compounded of rum, raisins, sugar, nutmeg, &c., with biscuit, — all palatable to eat and drink.