 | New Hampshire - 1846 - 650 pages
...and added, " If the cause shall prevail it will be a great blessing to the country, but if it should fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button" for a halter." Mr. Stearns was tall in person, and interesting in his pulpit performances. He held the untiring attention... | |
 | New England - 1847 - 498 pages
...and added, " If the cause shall prevail it will be a great blessing to the country, but if it should fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." Mr. Steams was tall in person, and interesting in his pulpit performances. He held the untiring attention... | |
 | Robert Fowler Lawrence - 1856 - 644 pages
...tyranny, and added, "If the cause prevail, it will be a great blessing to the country, but if it should fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." 347 persons were added to the church during his ministry, and 1060 were baptized. Some of his sermons... | |
 | Robert F. Lawrence - Congregationalism - 1856 - 644 pages
...tyranny, and added, "If the cause prevail, it will be a great blessing to the country, but if it should fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." 347 persons were added to the church during his ministry, and 1060 were baptized. Some of his sermons... | |
 | George Burley Spalding - New Hampshire - 1881 - 154 pages
...which he regarded himself as fully committed, to the risk of his personal safety. Returning therefrom he called his children around him, told them of the...your poor old father's head will soon be a button to a halter.' Some of his sons were in the field during a great part of the Revolutionary contest.... | |
 | Henry Allen Hazen - Billerica (Mass.) - 1883 - 646 pages
...member of the State Convent on at Exeter, and on returning told his children '• If the спич- prevail it will be a great benefit to the country...shall fail, your poor, old father's head will soon be я button for a halter." He m. 1755, Dec. 4, Sarah Abbot, dau. of Uriah, of Bedford (and their first... | |
 | Henry Franklin Andrews - Digital images - 1890 - 248 pages
...Militia devolved upon him. He had ten children and many descendants. 58. REVEREND JOSIAH STEARNS,' [35] born January 20, 1731-2; graduated from Harvard...Ruggles, of Billerica. He had six sons and six daughters. 53. TIMOTHY STEARNS," [37] born August 15, 1737. He belonged to Captain Thomas Flint's Company, at... | |
 | 1891 - 372 pages
...tyranny, and added : " If the cause prevail it will be a great blessing to the ci-untry ; but if it should fail your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." — Ne.w Hampshire Churches. A memorial of John Stearns, the son, to the general assembly, shows that... | |
 | Avis Stearns Van Wagenen - 1901 - 964 pages
...even to the risk of his personal safety. On returning from it, he said to his children: "If the cause prevail, it will be a great benefit to the country; but, if it fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." Rev. Mr. Stearns was tall in... | |
 | William Richard Cutter - Boston (Mass.) - 1908 - 774 pages
...and committed himself fully to the rebellion, saying, when he returned to his children: "If the cause prevail, it will be a great benefit to the country, but if it fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button for a halter." Rev. Mr. Stearns was tall and... | |
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Returning from the convention he called his children around him, told them of the stand he had taken, and added: "If the cause shall prevail, it will be a great benefit to the country; but if it shall fail, your poor old father's head will soon be a button... 