Old Times: A Magazine Devoted to the Preservation and Publication of Documents Relating to the Early History of North Yarmouth, Maine, Volumes 5-6Augustus W. Corliss, 1881 - Cumberland Center (Me.) |
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Page 864 - MIND THE MORTALITY OF MY BODY AND KNOWING THAT IT IS APPOINTED FOR ALL MEN ONCE TO DIE, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT, THAT IS TO SAY, PRINCIPALLY, AND FIRST OF ALL I GIVE AND RECOMMEND MY SOUL INTO THE HANDS OF...
Page 864 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me...
Page 864 - God therefore calling to mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die Do make and ordain this my Last Will and Testament...
Page 877 - And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you | though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Page 868 - Soule to shrink from responsibility and observation. He did not like to come in conflict with others. He seldom cared to measure his strength by that of opponents. His capability went far beyond his consciousness of it. He had not the toughness of nerve to encounter opposition. He retired before a foe. If what we call brass had equaled in his composition the brain-power, he would have stood with the first.
Page 639 - Fleet. 1776. 8vo, pp. 34. 8469 BROWN (F.) Sermon delivered July 23, 1812, on the State Fast appointed in Consequence of the Declaration of War against Great Britain. By Francis Brown, DD Portland. 1812.
Page 780 - Merchants, all of Boston, in the County of Suffolk, in the Province of the Massachusetts- Bay in...
Page 679 - Portland, ii. 27, 299, states, that Benjamin Larrabee, the companion of Major Moody, and the second in command at the fort at Casco, was born in 1666, and died in 1733, aged 67. "His father" (whom Savage calls Isaac) "was one of the early settlers of North Yarmouth, who, with others of the name, having been driven by the war of 1688 from that place, removed to Lynn. Some of the family returned and occupied their former possessions, where their posterity still remain.
Page 645 - Tvrkie as liue vndar such a goverment, and tould them that there were 19 wittnesses sworne against Mr. Cane, that he, being a membar, caried the mattar against the poore woman, and other words to this efecte ; and this is in the mouthes of all our malignants ; it being reported, say they, by thouse that liue amongst them, and therefore is vndoupttedlie trew.
Page 645 - Nash is in ther dept ; but confessed verbalie to vs, as they had formarlie tould Mr. Holland of Dorchestar, that Nash said that the Court had doon great wrong to a pore woman about a sowe, and that none could haue justice from you, but such as were members of the Church...