Colonial Families of America, Volume 1

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F. Allaben genealogical Company, 1909 - United States - 358 pages
 

Contents

I
15
II
25
III
33
IV
39
V
51
VI
59
VII
65
VIII
73
XXI
183
XXII
191
XXIII
197
XXIV
205
XXV
213
XXVI
221
XXVII
231
XXVIII
237

IX
83
X
91
XI
99
XII
107
XIII
113
XIV
121
XV
131
XVI
143
XVII
151
XVIII
159
XIX
167
XX
175
XXIX
247
XXX
253
XXXI
261
XXXII
271
XXXIII
279
XXXIV
287
XXXV
301
XXXVI
309
XXXVII
315
XXXVIII
323
XXXIX
333
XL
341

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Page 35 - Sherman was a member of the convention which formed the constitution of the United States ; and he was chosen a representative from this State to the first Congress under this constitution.
Page 186 - Stately honor and reverend awe; Sign of a nation, great and strong To ward her people from foreign wrong: Pride and glory and honor, — all Live in the colors to stand or fall. Hats off! Along the street there comes A blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums; And loyal hearts are beating high : Hats off! The flag is passing by ! HENRY HOLCOMB BENNETT.
Page 83 - Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere; In action faithful, and in honor clear; Who broke no promise, served no private end; Who gained no title, and who lost no friend.
Page 251 - And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the wind? But what went ye out for to see? A man clothed in soft raiment? behold, they that wear soft clothing are in kings
Page 119 - Fieldland is opposed to woodland, and means land where the trees have been felled.
Page 44 - Arms: Argent, a lion passant, sable; on a chief of the second, three mullets of the first. Crest: Out of the clouds proper, a demi-lion, rampant, sable, powdered with estoiles, argent, holding a globe, or.
Page 59 - French tongue he could also manage; the Latin and the Greek he had mastered; but the Hebrew he most of all studied, because, he said, he would see with his own eyes the ancient oracles of God in their native beauty.
Page 122 - Field, has tendered his love to me. The question he has indeed proposed as concerning marriage, the which, as yet, I have not at present rejected, nor given much way to, nor do I intend to proceed, nor let out my affections too much towards him, till I have well considered the thing aud have yours and my friends advice and consent concerning it.
Page 196 - Gules, a cross flory between four trefoils slipped or CREST: An eagle's head, sable between two ostrich feathers, argent, all issuing out of a ducal coronet, or Burke's General Armoury also confirms the trefoils, but Hasted, in his History of Kent, says cinquefoils.
Page 234 - He helped to frame the Constitution of the United States, and was a member of the Cabinet.

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