The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record, Volume 49

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Richard Henry Greene, Henry Reed Stiles, Melatiah Everett Dwight, George Austin Morrison, Hopper Striker Mott, John Reynolds Totten, Harold Minot Pitman, Charles Andrew Ditmas, Louis Effingham De Forest, Conklin Mann, Arthur S. Maynard
New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1918 - New York (State)
 

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Page 320 - Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Page 320 - We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most — feels the noblest — acts the best.
Page 385 - She According to the Custom of Marriage Assuming the Name of her Husband, as a further Confirmation thereof: Did then and there to these Presents Set their Hands...
Page 4 - One army of the living God, To his command we bow ; Part of the host have crossed the flood, And part are crossing now.
Page 352 - After supper, we went to sleep in the barn, upon some straw spread with sheep-skins, in the midst of the continual grunting of hogs, squealing of pigs, bleating and coughing of sheep, barking of dogs, crowing of cocks, cackling of hens, and, especially, a goodly quantity of fleas and vermin...
Page 369 - Whiche boke ye shall every Sonday take furthe and in the presence of the said wardens or one of them write and recorde in the same all the weddinges christenynges and buryenges made the hole weke before. And that done to lay upp the boke in the said coffer as afore. And for every tyme that the same shalbe omytted the partie that shalbe in the faulte thereof shall forfeit to the saide churche Ills Hid to be emploied on the reparation of the same churche. . . . "THOMAS CRUMWELL.
Page 352 - Sluyter, those eccentric religious enthusiasts, say of him "he had studied philosophy in his youth, and spoke Latin and good French. He was a mathematician and sworn land surveyor. He had also formerly learned several sciences, and had some knowledge of medicine. The worst of it was he was a good Cartesian and not a good Christian, regulating himself and all externals by reason and justice only.
Page 370 - Cork, Kinsale ; or colour, as white, black, brown ; or art or science, as smith or carpenter ; or office, as cook, butler ; and he and his issue shall use this name...
Page 320 - ... for the Deaf he returned to Talladega in 1888 to take charge of the School for the Blind. In 1892 he was appointed Resident Principal of the School for the deaf, and on his father's death in 1892 he succeeded him as Principal of the three State Schools, an office which he held until his death. He was at the time of his death a member of the Executive Committee...

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