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... Thomas W. Bichnell , LL . D. , 135 AN INCIDENT OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY - SIX - Hon . Mellen Chamberlin , 139 THE BOUNDARY LINES OF OLD GROTON - Hon . Samuel Abbott Green , WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN AND PRINCETON - Alberton P. Mason ...
... Thomas W. Bichnell , LL . D. , 135 AN INCIDENT OF SIXTEEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY - SIX - Hon . Mellen Chamberlin , 139 THE BOUNDARY LINES OF OLD GROTON - Hon . Samuel Abbott Green , WACHUSETT MOUNTAIN AND PRINCETON - Alberton P. Mason ...
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... Thomas Burns , the son of John Burns , married Elizabeth Hartness , of Lunenburg , Mass . , and settled in Milford , where he died at the age of eighty . Samuel Burns , son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Hartness ) Burns , and grand- father ...
... Thomas Burns , the son of John Burns , married Elizabeth Hartness , of Lunenburg , Mass . , and settled in Milford , where he died at the age of eighty . Samuel Burns , son of Thomas and Elizabeth ( Hartness ) Burns , and grand- father ...
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... Thomas Dickson , president of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company , writes : " This company takes an active interest in the prosperity of the associa- tion , and will cheerfully co - operate in all proper methods for the extension of ...
... Thomas Dickson , president of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company , writes : " This company takes an active interest in the prosperity of the associa- tion , and will cheerfully co - operate in all proper methods for the extension of ...
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... Thomas Grant , James Carter , and the Reverend Timothy Harrington , " Stand on the Thomas Grant was an old soldier , having served in the French and Indian War , and , if a loyalist , probably con- doned the offence by enlisting in the ...
... Thomas Grant , James Carter , and the Reverend Timothy Harrington , " Stand on the Thomas Grant was an old soldier , having served in the French and Indian War , and , if a loyalist , probably con- doned the offence by enlisting in the ...
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... Thomas Ross , of Lancaster . They failed in obtaining the requisite number of set- tlers , but continued to reside upon the island , and there Moses Gerrish died at an advanced age . Solomon Houghton , a Lancaster farmer in comfortable ...
... Thomas Ross , of Lancaster . They failed in obtaining the requisite number of set- tlers , but continued to reside upon the island , and there Moses Gerrish died at an advanced age . Solomon Houghton , a Lancaster farmer in comfortable ...
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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.