Official Report of the Reunion of the Descendants of Governor Thomas Dudley: Containing an Account of the Preliminary Arrangements, Business Meeting, Organization, Reception and Dinner, of the Governor Thomas Dudley Family AssociationSalem Observer Book and Job Print, 1893 |
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Address ALBION ancestor Anne Bradstreet Anne Dudley annual meeting Augustine Jones Board of Directors Boston called Cambridge Chairman character CHARLES charter Child church colony Committee Conn Cotton Mather court daughter Dean Dudley Dear descendants of Governor died Dorchester Dudley Castle Dudley Family Association DUDLEY FREEMAN Dudley's duty early EDWIN DUDLEY Elizabeth England Exeter father Governor Dudley Governor Thomas Dudley hand Harvard College held HENRY WIGGIN Historian honor HORNBROOKE Increase Mather interest JAMES HENRY WIGGIN John Winthrop Joseph Dudley justice KOUES Lady land letter lived LOUISE WINTHROP married MARY Mass Massachusetts memory MISS Paul Dudley pounds present President Puritan rec'd record reunion Roxbury S. H. DUDLEY Salem Samuel Dudley SANFORD H says Secretary Simon Bradstreet THOMAS DUDLEY FAMILY tion tomb Treasurer unto vote wife William Woodbridge York
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Page 29 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden -flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 48 - To the end the body of the commons may be preserved of honest and good men, it was ordered and agreed, that, for the time to come, no man shall be admitted to the freedom of this body politic, but such as are members of some of the churches within the limits of the same.
Page 32 - I had eight birds hatched in one nest; Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up with pain and care, Nor cost nor labor did I spare, Till at the last they felt their wing, Mounted the trees, and learned to sing.
Page 51 - Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee. For whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God. Where thou diest, I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me.
Page 35 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 53 - Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings lean'd to virtue's side...
Page 25 - After a short time I changed my condition and was married, and came into this Country, where I found a new world and new manners, at which my heart rose. But after I was convinced it was the way of God, I submitted to it and joined to the church at Boston.
Page 33 - Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick, as heretofore : let them go and gather straw for themselves.
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Page 53 - Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you: but whosoever will be great among you, let him be your minister; and whosoever will be chief among you, let him be your servant...