A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the Present Period; with Some Account of the EnvironsA. Bowen, 1828 - 427 páginas |
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... Capt . John Smith , sailed from England with two ships under his command . He explored the coast from Manhegan , an island near Penobscot river , to Cape Cod . This trip he made in a boat with eight men , for the purpose of bartering ...
... Capt . John Smith , sailed from England with two ships under his command . He explored the coast from Manhegan , an island near Penobscot river , to Cape Cod . This trip he made in a boat with eight men , for the purpose of bartering ...
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... Capt . Squibb , who , like a merciless man , put them and their goods ashore on Nantasket point , notwith- standing his engagement was to bring them up Charles river . They succeeded , however , in obtaining a boat from some of the old ...
... Capt . Squibb , who , like a merciless man , put them and their goods ashore on Nantasket point , notwith- standing his engagement was to bring them up Charles river . They succeeded , however , in obtaining a boat from some of the old ...
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... Capt . Peter Milbourne , manned with fifty - two seamen , and carrying twenty - eight guns . The Ambrose , Jewel , and Talbot were riding by their side . On that day it was agreed , that , foras- much as it was uncertain when the rest ...
... Capt . Peter Milbourne , manned with fifty - two seamen , and carrying twenty - eight guns . The Ambrose , Jewel , and Talbot were riding by their side . On that day it was agreed , that , foras- much as it was uncertain when the rest ...
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... Capt . [ John ] Underhill Thomas Oliver Thomas Leverett Giles Firmin [ sen . ] John Coggeshall William Pierce Robert Harding William Brenton . It was customary for the inhabitants to meet to transact business relative to the police of ...
... Capt . [ John ] Underhill Thomas Oliver Thomas Leverett Giles Firmin [ sen . ] John Coggeshall William Pierce Robert Harding William Brenton . It was customary for the inhabitants to meet to transact business relative to the police of ...
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... Capt . Camock and Mr. Vesy , a merchant from Pisca- taqua , bring sixteen hogsheads of corn to the windmill at Boston . 1638. March 4. Roxbury , Watertown , and Newtown are assessed six pounds , and Boston only five pounds , of a tax of ...
... Capt . Camock and Mr. Vesy , a merchant from Pisca- taqua , bring sixteen hogsheads of corn to the windmill at Boston . 1638. March 4. Roxbury , Watertown , and Newtown are assessed six pounds , and Boston only five pounds , of a tax of ...
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Página 355 - And all the rule, one empire : only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
Página 16 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Página 158 - Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; *bewray not him that wandereth. f 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 305 - ... sacred, the governor ordered the arms deposited as aforesaid, that they might be preserved for their owners, to be seized by a body of soldiers; detained the greatest part of the inhabitants in the town, and compelled the few who were permitted to retire, to leave their most valuable effects behind.
Página 250 - Every man of an immense, crowded audience appeared to me to go away as I did, ready to take up arms against writs of assistance. Then and there was the first scene of the first act of opposition to the arbitrary claims of Great Britain. Then and there the child INDEPENDENCE was born. In fifteen years, ie in 1776, he grew up to manhood, and declared himself free.
Página 159 - On the South there is a small, but pleasant Common where the Gallants a little before Sun-set walk with their Marmalet-Madams, as we do in Morefields, &c. till the nine a clock Bell rings them home to their respective habitations, when presently the Constables walk their rounds to see good orders kept, and to take up loose people.
Página 69 - One Mrs. Hutchinson, a member of the church of Boston, a woman of a ready wit and bold spirit, brought over with her two dangerous errors : 1 . That the person of the Holy Ghost dwells in a justified person. 2. That no sanctification can help to evidence to us our justification.
Página 16 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Página 348 - It was then generally agreed upon, that our brother Philemon Purmont shall be instructed to become schoolmaster for the teaching and nurturing of children with us.
Página 16 - King, defender of the faith, &c., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...