The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries, Volume 24John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Henry Phelps Johnston, Martha Joanna Lamb, Nathan Gillett Pond A.S. Barnes, 1890 - United States |
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... passing back and forth to their pastures they avoided eminences and other obstructions like sensible cows , by going round them . The earliest road that was projected in that direction followed the cow - path . The street is only that ...
... passing back and forth to their pastures they avoided eminences and other obstructions like sensible cows , by going round them . The earliest road that was projected in that direction followed the cow - path . The street is only that ...
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... passed in Dock street , is made the first vice - president of the chamber . Elias Desbrosses is chosen treasurer ; he is a very rich man of fifty , a vestryman of Trinity church , exceedingly religious , and a donor to every beneficent ...
... passed in Dock street , is made the first vice - president of the chamber . Elias Desbrosses is chosen treasurer ; he is a very rich man of fifty , a vestryman of Trinity church , exceedingly religious , and a donor to every beneficent ...
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... passing the Brick church , and the first object of special notice is a great smooth , sparkling lake of fresh water , covering an area of more than two blocks of space and said to be sixty feet deep ! The land about it on every side ex ...
... passing the Brick church , and the first object of special notice is a great smooth , sparkling lake of fresh water , covering an area of more than two blocks of space and said to be sixty feet deep ! The land about it on every side ex ...
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... passed ) , that any such liberty is granted . " Yet we now desire Mr. Winslow to inquire the mind of the corpora- tion therein , ourselves conceiving that the advancement of learning here may also advance the work of Christ amongst the ...
... passed ) , that any such liberty is granted . " Yet we now desire Mr. Winslow to inquire the mind of the corpora- tion therein , ourselves conceiving that the advancement of learning here may also advance the work of Christ amongst the ...
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... passed under the name of the Indian college . Its cost he estimated at between three hundred and four hundred pounds . It was large enough for twenty scholars , and was fitted with convenient lodgings and studies . He says it was strong ...
... passed under the name of the Indian college . Its cost he estimated at between three hundred and four hundred pounds . It was large enough for twenty scholars , and was fitted with convenient lodgings and studies . He says it was strong ...
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