History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 ... Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury, Volume 1 |
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Allen ancient appointed April army Assembly Bellamy Benjamin Benjamin Hinman Bethlem born bury called Capt church Clergyman colony commenced committee Conn Connecticut continental army Court Curtiss Daniel David death died Doct Ebenezer elected Ethan Allen father graduated at Yale Graham granted half-way covenant Hartford Haven Henry Hicock Hinman Hurd Hurlbut Indians inhabitants Jeremiah Day John Minor Joseph Judea Judge Judson June labors land Lawyer Litchfield county lived March Meeting House meeting-house miles Milford minister ministry Nathan Nathaniel native Noah North October ordained parish pastor persons petition Physician Pootatuck preached present Preston profession Purchase records removed resided Roxbury sachem Samuel Samuel Orton Sept session Seth Warner settled settlement settlers Shepaug River Sherman society soldiers South Southbury Stoddard Stratford Thomas tion town of Woodbury vote Walker Warner William worship Yale College York
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Page 321 - British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking...
Page 310 - But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak ; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Page 178 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the...
Page 170 - Go forth, then, language of Milton and Hampden, language of my country ; take possession of the North American Continent ! Gladden the waste places with every tone that has been rightly struck on the English lyre, with every English word that has been spoken well for liberty and...
Page 176 - Britain and elsewhere, affected with the deepest anxiety, and most alarming apprehensions, at those grievances and distresses, with which his majesty's American subjects are oppressed ; and having taken under our most serious deliberation, the state of the whole continent, find, that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of colony administration, adopted by the British ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these colonies, and with...
Page 457 - Boston, and then was elected Senator of the United States for six years, from the 4th of March, 1804.
Page 176 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.
Page 176 - As a non-consumption agreement, strictly adhered to, will be an effectual security for the observation of the non-importation, we, as above, solemnly agree and associate, that from this day, we will not purchase or use any tea, imported on account of the...
Page 203 - To a man, they wore small-clothes, coming down and fastening just below the knee, and long stockings with cowhide shoes ornamented by large buckles, while not a pair of boots graced the company. The coats and waistcoats were loose and of huge dimensions, with colors as various as the barks of oak...
Page 170 - ... man! Give an echo to the now silent and solitary mountains; gush out with the fountains, that as yet sing their anthems all day long without response ; fill the valleys with the voices of love in its purity, the pledges of friendship in its faithfulness; and as the morning sun drinks the dewdrops from the flowers all the way from the dreary Atlantic to the Peaceful Ocean, meet him with the joyous hum of the early industry of freemen! Utter boldly and spread widely through the world the thoughts...