History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 ... Including the Present Towns of Washington, Southbury, Bethlem, Roxbury, and a Part of Oxford and Middlebury, Bind 1Bronson Brothers, 1854 |
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... lived far away to the south - west , in whose blest do- minions he hoped , at death , to find his happy hunting - grounds . Everything now is changed . The desert waste that met the first gaze of our pioneer forefathers , has been made ...
... lived far away to the south - west , in whose blest do- minions he hoped , at death , to find his happy hunting - grounds . Everything now is changed . The desert waste that met the first gaze of our pioneer forefathers , has been made ...
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... lived with Mr. Stone for some time after , and acted as interpreter for him when he preached to the Indians . three years . 1 Trumbull's Col. Rec . , 265 . 2 Rec . U. Colonies . But he did not follow out the plan of his patrons HISTORY ...
... lived with Mr. Stone for some time after , and acted as interpreter for him when he preached to the Indians . three years . 1 Trumbull's Col. Rec . , 265 . 2 Rec . U. Colonies . But he did not follow out the plan of his patrons HISTORY ...
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... lived here till the close of his life , as a part of his land was after- ward sold to pay a ministerial rate . His son John , another “ original signer , " was a prominent individual in the town and Colony . He died 12th Jan. , 1709-10 ...
... lived here till the close of his life , as a part of his land was after- ward sold to pay a ministerial rate . His son John , another “ original signer , " was a prominent individual in the town and Colony . He died 12th Jan. , 1709-10 ...
Side 62
... lived to a good old age , and retained all his physical powers to such an extent , that on his hundredth birthday he rode a horse through the streets of Woodbury . The fame of the feat is , however , marred by the fact that he did not ...
... lived to a good old age , and retained all his physical powers to such an extent , that on his hundredth birthday he rode a horse through the streets of Woodbury . The fame of the feat is , however , marred by the fact that he did not ...
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... lived where Hon . Nathaniel B. Smith now resides . His name was John Hurd . After him Doct . Joseph Perry lived in the * same place . Rev. Zechariah Walker's house stood where Levi S. Douglass , Esq . , now lives , and covered a part of ...
... lived where Hon . Nathaniel B. Smith now resides . His name was John Hurd . After him Doct . Joseph Perry lived in the * same place . Rev. Zechariah Walker's house stood where Levi S. Douglass , Esq . , now lives , and covered a part of ...
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Side 133 - And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to speak unto the people concerning John . What went ye out into the wilderness for to see? A reed shaken with the wind? 25 But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? Behold, they which are gorgeously apparelled, and live delicately, are in kings
Side 325 - British subjects alone that, under the pretext of searching for these, thousands of American citizens, under the safeguard of public law and of their national flag, have been torn from their country and from everything dear to them; have been dragged on board ships of war of a foreign nation and exposed, under the severities of their discipline, to be exiled to the most distant and deadly climes, to risk their lives in the battles of their oppressors, and to be the melancholy instruments of taking...
Side 314 - But as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak ; not as pleasing men, but God, which trieth our hearts.
Side 180 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the...
Side 172 - Go forth, then, language of Milton and Hampden, language of my country ; take possession of the North American Continent ! Gladden the waste places with every tone that has been rightly struck on the English lyre, with every English word that has been spoken well for liberty and...
Side 178 - Britain and elsewhere, affected with the deepest anxiety, and most alarming apprehensions, at those grievances and distresses, with which his majesty's American subjects are oppressed ; and having taken under our most serious deliberation, the state of the whole continent, find, that the present unhappy situation of our affairs is occasioned by a ruinous system of colony administration, adopted by the British ministry about the year 1763, evidently calculated for enslaving these colonies, and with...
Side 165 - Majesty's orders and instructions, namely, that your lands and tenements, cattle of all kinds and live stock of all sorts, are forfeited to the Crown ; with all other your effects, saving your money and household goods, and you yourselves to be removed from this his Province.
Side 179 - Such as are merchants, and use the British and Irish trade, will give orders, as soon as possible, to their factors, agents, and correspondents in...
Side 178 - As a non-consumption agreement, strictly adhered to, will be an effectual security for the observation of the non-importation, we, as above, solemnly agree and associate, that from this day, we will not purchase or use any tea, imported on account of the...
Side 178 - That we will neither import, nor purchase any slave imported after the first day of December next; after which time we will wholly discontinue the slave trade, and will neither be concerned in it ourselves nor will we hire our vessels, nor sell our commodities or manufactures to those who are concerned in it.