Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 1William Richard Cutter, William Frederick Adams Lewis historical Publishing Company, 1910 - Genealogy |
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Abigail aged April 19 April 27 August 15 baptized Benjamin born April born August born December born February born January born July born June born March born November born October born September Boston Braintree Captain Charles Charlestown Chil Children church chusetts Colonel Connecticut Daniel Deacon December 14 December 25 died April died August died December died February died January died July died June died March died November died October died September died young dren Ebenezer Edward Elizabeth England farm father February 14 George Hampshire Hannah Henry James January 17 January 29 Jonathan Joseph land lived Lydia March 15 March 22 married Mary married second Martha Massachu Massachusetts mentioned Nathaniel November 28 October 15 October 20 Rebecca regiment resided Richard ried Salem Samuel Sarah September 14 September 23 settled Springfield Thomas tion town Weymouth Whitney widow William Woburn
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Page 378 - We have but faith: we cannot know, For knowledge is of things we see; And yet we trust it comes from thee, A beam in darkness: let it grow.
Page xxvi - I doubt whether one single law of any lawgiver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787.
Page 435 - Fuller was incomparably the most sensible, the least prejudiced, great man of an age that boasted a galaxy of great men.
Page xxvi - It fixed forever the character of the population in the vast regions northwest of the Ohio, by excluding from them involuntary servitude. It impressed on the soil itself, while it was yet a wilderness, an incapacity to sustain any other than freemen. It laid the interdict against personal servitude, in original compact, not only deeper than all local law, but deeper, also, than all local constitutions.
Page 322 - God to call me hence, do therefore, make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following, that is to say: First and principally I...
Page xliii - Here stood that trunk, and there that chest, There lay that store I counted best.
Page 339 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state; it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this Commonwealth.
Page 85 - 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.