The History of Rowley: Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, from the Year 1639 to the Present Time |
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... Thurston and Samuel Johnson , collectors . October 25. The parish gave Mr. Daniel Rogers a call to settle in the ... Richard Boynton , William Fisk , William Searle , Samuel Harriman , William Adams , John Adams , Thomas Plumer , Thomas ...
... Thurston and Samuel Johnson , collectors . October 25. The parish gave Mr. Daniel Rogers a call to settle in the ... Richard Boynton , William Fisk , William Searle , Samuel Harriman , William Adams , John Adams , Thomas Plumer , Thomas ...
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... Richard Thurston , Daniel Woodberry , Jeremiah Chaplin , Jonathan Boynton , Jonathan Thurston , Job Pingree , John Brocklebank , David Pearson , Ebenezer Burpee . The Rev. Mr. Hale , of Byfield , and the Rev. Mr. Balch , of Bradford ...
... Richard Thurston , Daniel Woodberry , Jeremiah Chaplin , Jonathan Boynton , Jonathan Thurston , Job Pingree , John Brocklebank , David Pearson , Ebenezer Burpee . The Rev. Mr. Hale , of Byfield , and the Rev. Mr. Balch , of Bradford ...
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... Richard Thurston , 66 July 12 , 1782 , " 72 . 66 Abner Spofford , 66 1781 { " Daniel Spofford , Jeremiah Searle , 66 66 Thomas Merrill , 66 Sept. 12 , 1777 , April 26 , 1803 , 66 82 . 66 76 . " Oct. 29 , 1799 , " Dec. 26 , 1820 , " 81 ...
... Richard Thurston , 66 July 12 , 1782 , " 72 . 66 Abner Spofford , 66 1781 { " Daniel Spofford , Jeremiah Searle , 66 66 Thomas Merrill , 66 Sept. 12 , 1777 , April 26 , 1803 , 66 82 . 66 76 . " Oct. 29 , 1799 , " Dec. 26 , 1820 , " 81 ...
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... Richard Syle , John Symonds , Joseph Thurston , John Todd , Nicholas Wallingford , John Watson , Silvanus Wentworth , 1661 • 1698 1665 • 1696 • 1649 1663 1668 1689 Twoford West , David Wheeler , 1667 1669 Jethro Wheeler , John Wheeler ...
... Richard Syle , John Symonds , Joseph Thurston , John Todd , Nicholas Wallingford , John Watson , Silvanus Wentworth , 1661 • 1698 1665 • 1696 • 1649 1663 1668 1689 Twoford West , David Wheeler , 1667 1669 Jethro Wheeler , John Wheeler ...
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... Richard Thurston's Train Band , ( Second Foot Company . ) Captain Richard Thurston , Drummer John Smith , Lieutenant John Plumer , Ensign Daniel Spofford , Sergeant Stephen Pingree , 66 Privates . Abraham Adams , William Brown ...
... Richard Thurston's Train Band , ( Second Foot Company . ) Captain Richard Thurston , Drummer John Smith , Lieutenant John Plumer , Ensign Daniel Spofford , Sergeant Stephen Pingree , 66 Privates . Abraham Adams , William Brown ...
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Page 46 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 437 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, 185 So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 249 - Their force would be most disproportionately exerted against a brave, generous, and united people, with arms in their hands, and courage in their hearts : three millions of people, the genuine descendants of a valiant and pious ancestry, driven to those deserts by the narrow maxims of a superstitious tyranny.
Page 156 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 437 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page xvii - Man through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Page 237 - ... to state the rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects ; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof that have been, or from time to time may be, made...
Page 154 - Moreover, I do solemnly bind myself, in the sight of God, that, when I shall be called to give my voice touching any such matter of this state wherein freemen are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of persons or favor of any man. So help me God, in the Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 154 - I (AB), being by God's providence an Inhabitant and Freeman within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth; do freely acknowledge myself to be subject to the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same...
Page 26 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?