Memorial of the Morses: Containing the History of Seven Persons of the Name, who Settled in America in the Seventeenth Century. With a Catalogue of Ten Thousand of Their Descendants ...

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W. Veazie, 1850 - 225 pages
 

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Page 37 - Statutes in that case made and provided, and against the peace of our Sovereign Lord the King, his crown, and dignity.
Page 6 - that many suffered, and saw no hope in an Eye of Reason " to be supplyed, only by Clams, & Muscles, and Fish ; " and Bread was so very Scarce, that sometimes...
Page 6 - It was not accounted a strange thing in those days to drink water, and to eat samp or hominy without butter or milk. Indeed, it would have been a strange thing to see a piece of roast beef, mutton, or veal ; though it was not long before there was roast goat.
Page 37 - Elizabeth Morse, you are to goe from hence to the place from whence you came and thence to the place of execution and there to be hanged by the neck, till you be dead, and the Lord have mercy on your soul.
Page 33 - A mate of A ship Coming often to me and said he much grefed for me and said the boye was the case of all my truble and my wife was much Ronged, and was no wich, and if I would let him have the boye but one day he would warrant me no more truble. I being persuaded to it ne Com the nex day at the brek of day, and the boy was with him untel night and I had not any truble since.
Page 35 - Morse his house, affirm that the earth in the chimney-corner moved, and scattered on them ; that Tho. Rogers was hit with somewhat, Hardy with an iron ladle as is supposed. Somewhat hit William Morse a great blow, but it was so swift that they could not certainly tell what it was ; but, looking down after they heard the noise, they saw a shoe.
Page 2 - ... such orders and constitutions, as shall be necessarily had or made, now or at any time hereafter from this day forward, as well for loving and comfortable society in our said town, as also for the prosperous and thriving condition of our said fellowship, especially respecting the fear of God, in which we desire to begin and continue, whatsoever we shall by his loving favor take in hand.
Page 23 - With great humility he expressed his conviction that he had fallen far short of his duty. I observed to him that our justification was only by faith in the merits of Jesus Christ, as a " full, perfect and sufficient oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world.

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