Certain Comeoverers, Volume 2Certain Comeoverers by Henry Crapo Howland, first published in 1912, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it. |
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Aaron Davis Abner Toppan Abraham Toppan acres Almy ancestor Anne Hutchinson born Dartmouth born New Bedford born Newburyport Boston Bradbury brother bury Charlestown church Court daughter death descendants died Dorchester County doubtless Dummer Edmund Greenleaf Elizabeth Stanford Emma Morley England father ferry George Carr George Tappan Gloucester Governor Winthrop grandfather grandmother granted Hannah Henry Sewall Indian Ipswich Issue Jacob Davis Jacob Toppan James Carr James Ordway Morse Jane John Bailey John Emery John Perkins Judge Sewall Judith Morse July June Knapp land living married Mary mother Nathaniel Eaton Nathaniel Smith Newbury Newburyport Noyes Parish Phebe Howland Portsmouth records Richard Stanford River Salem Salisbury Samuel Sarah Bailey SARAH DAVIS TAPPAN Sarah Morse Smith Sept SERENA DAVIS settlement Slocum Thomas Newman town Tristram Coffin WALLACE CRAPO 1895 widow wife Wigglesworth William Hutchinson William Phillips WILLIAM WALLACE CRAPO
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Page 693 - He gain'd from heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope...
Page 671 - I conceived there was no need of it ; yet, forasmuch as the scholars did otherways apprehend, I desire to see the evil that was in the carriage of that as well as in the other, and to take shame to myself for it. And that they sent down for more, when they had not enough, and the maid should answer, if they had not, they should not, I must confess, that I have denied them cheese, when they have sent for it, and it have been in the house ; for which I shall humbly beg pardon of them, and own the shame,...
Page 671 - For their breakfast, that it was not so well ordered, the flower not so fine as it might, nor so well boiled or stirred, at all times that it was so, it was my sin of neglect, and want of that care that ought to have been in one that the Lord had intrusted with such a work.
Page 541 - I am wholly innocent of any such wickedness, through the goodness of God that hath kept me hitherto. I am the servant of Jesus Christ, and have given myself up to him as my only Lord and Saviour, and to the diligent attendance upon him in all...
Page 566 - Lord Jesus Christ and in the name of the Church I do not only pronounce you worthy to be cast out, but I do cast you out and in the name of Christ I do deliver you up to Satan, that you may learn no more to blaspheme, to seduce and to lie, and I do account you from this time forth to be a Heathen and a Publican and so to be held of all the...
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Page 663 - While these things were a doing, a society of scholars, to lodge in the new nests, were forming under the conduct of one Mr. Nathaniel Eaton, [or, if thou wilt, reader, Orbilius Eaton] a blade who marvellously deceived the expectations of good men concerning him...
Page 541 - Devil and all his works, as horrid and detestable, and, accordingly, have endeavored to frame my life and conversation according to the rules of his holy word ; and, in that faith and practice, resolve, by the help and assistance of God, to continue to my life's end. " For the truth of what I say...
Page 669 - ... and so kept him under blows (with some two or three short intermissions) about the space of two hours, about which time Mr. Shepherd and some others of the town came in at the outcry, and so he gave over. In this distress Briscoe gate out his knife, and struck at the man that held him, but hurt him not. He also fell to prayer, (supposing he should have been murdered,) and then Mr. Eaton beat him for taking the name of God in vain.