Historic Homes and Places and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Volume 3

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William Richard Cutter
Lewis historical publishing Company, 1908 - Middlesex County (Mass.)
 

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Page 1288 - In politics he is a Republican. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church, in which he is a licensed exhorter, and also a member of the board of trustees.
Page 1070 - God by prayer, who soon gave up the ghost. At his return to prison his poor children, being many, repaired to the bishop at Lambeth, and made known unto him their miserable condition, by reason of their good father's being continued in close durance, who commiserated their condition so far as to grant him liberty who soon after came over into New England.
Page 1194 - Mr. George Morton was a pious, gracious servant of God, and very faithful in whatsoever public employment he was betrusted withal, and an unfeigned well-wilier, and according to his sphere and condition a suitable promoter of the common good and growth of the plantation of New Plymouth...
Page 834 - In the absence of such descendants, other persons are eligible to the scholarships. The will requires that this announcement shall be made...
Page 952 - Scriptures with them, he came to great knowledge in the gospel of God, insomuch that he cast off the heavy yoke of popery, perceiving it to be impure and filthy idolatry, and joined himself with them two, in that most painful and...
Page 1326 - All I have to say is what the girl said when she put her foot into the stocking, it strikes me there's something in it.
Page 1360 - who are beyond the sea, ten pounds apiece of lawful English money," to be paid to them if they be in want and come over to demand the same.
Page 1070 - During the time of his imprisonment, his wife fell sick, of which sickness she died. He procured liberty of the bishop to visit his wife before her death, and commended her to God by prayer, who soon after gave up the ghost.
Page 850 - Amongst others that arrived at Salem, at their own cost, were Ralph Sprague with his brethren Richard and William, who, with three or four more, by joint consent and approbation of Mr. John Endicott, Governor...
Page 1326 - take the little thing home and worship it, as it would not be idolatry, because it was in the image of nothing in the heaven above, or on the earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth.

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