The History of Rowley: Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, from the Year 1639 to the Present Time |
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... families were engaged in erecting log - houses for their shelter from the storm , in the midst of the then dense forest which covered the ground , where the pleasant village of Rowley now stands . Before we proceed to the work , it is ...
... families were engaged in erecting log - houses for their shelter from the storm , in the midst of the then dense forest which covered the ground , where the pleasant village of Rowley now stands . Before we proceed to the work , it is ...
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... families , confined in common prisons , and subjected to privations and penalties which reduced them to poverty . Under King James the First , who came to the British throne in 1603 , and who was educated in the Reformed Church of ...
... families , confined in common prisons , and subjected to privations and penalties which reduced them to poverty . Under King James the First , who came to the British throne in 1603 , and who was educated in the Reformed Church of ...
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... families of his Yorkshire friends , " godly men , " as the historian says , " and most of them of good estate , " in the autumn of 1638. He commenced the settlement of this place , in April , 1639 , with sixty families , who labored in ...
... families of his Yorkshire friends , " godly men , " as the historian says , " and most of them of good estate , " in the autumn of 1638. He commenced the settlement of this place , in April , 1639 , with sixty families , who labored in ...
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... families , and kindred ? Can you name a price ? And is any thing too much to do , that you may have them continued unimpaired ? And will they not be as valuable to your posterity , as they are to yourselves ? Then , as your an- cestors ...
... families , and kindred ? Can you name a price ? And is any thing too much to do , that you may have them continued unimpaired ? And will they not be as valuable to your posterity , as they are to yourselves ? Then , as your an- cestors ...
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... evident , they and their families were amply provided for . But many ministers , of a later day , have left , at their death , not as many pence as they did pounds . Look - abroad , and you will find in almost , 50 ADDRESS .
... evident , they and their families were amply provided for . But many ministers , of a later day , have left , at their death , not as many pence as they did pounds . Look - abroad , and you will find in almost , 50 ADDRESS .
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Page 44 - 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 154 - 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 235 - ... 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 152 - 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 24 - 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?
Page 194 - This indented bill of ten shillings, due from the Massachusetts Colony to the Possessor, shall be in value equal to money, and shall be accordingly accepted by the Treasurer, and Receivers subordinate to him in all publick payments, and for any stock at any time in the Treasury. Boston in New England December the loth, 1690. By order of the General Court.
Page 419 - The darkness of the following evening was probably as gross as has ever been observed since the Almighty first gave birth to light. I could not help conceiving at the time, that if every luminous body in the universe had been shrouded in impenetrable darkness, or struck out of existence, the darkness could not have been more complete.
Page 115 - About the year 1627, some friends, being together in Lincolnshire, fell into discourse about New England and the planting of the gospel there...
Page 215 - ... hat and buckles, omitting not to take from me what money I had in my pocket. As" this was transacted close by the passage that led from the lines on to the plain, near which a French...
Page 146 - Our supplies from England failing much, men began to look about them, and fell to a manufacture of cotton, whereof we had store from Barbados, and of hemp and flax, wherein Rowley, to their great commendation, exceeded all other towns.