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... voted , was not fit for building a house upon . The Mansion House corner was the twentieth choice . The corner now owned by Mr. Oliver Goodwin , was the twenty - fifth choice . The County House corner was the thirty - third choice . Ten ...
... voted , was not fit for building a house upon . The Mansion House corner was the twentieth choice . The corner now owned by Mr. Oliver Goodwin , was the twenty - fifth choice . The County House corner was the thirty - third choice . Ten ...
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... voted the following salary , viz : £ 57 per annum for the first four years , for the fifth £ 60 , the sixth £ 70 , the seventh £ 80 , and to continue at £ 80 a year so long as he continued in the work of the ministry here . The Town ...
... voted the following salary , viz : £ 57 per annum for the first four years , for the fifth £ 60 , the sixth £ 70 , the seventh £ 80 , and to continue at £ 80 a year so long as he continued in the work of the ministry here . The Town ...
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... voted , " That the School Right in Litchfield , shall be leased out for the maintainance of a School in said Litchfield , for 999 years ensuing . " And also voted , " That the inhabitants of said Litchfield do oblige them- selves and ...
... voted , " That the School Right in Litchfield , shall be leased out for the maintainance of a School in said Litchfield , for 999 years ensuing . " And also voted , " That the inhabitants of said Litchfield do oblige them- selves and ...
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... voted to build their first Church ; and the house was finished within three years . It was built in a plain manner and without a steeple . Its dimensions were 45 feet in length and 35 in breadth . " " At the raising of this building all ...
... voted to build their first Church ; and the house was finished within three years . It was built in a plain manner and without a steeple . Its dimensions were 45 feet in length and 35 in breadth . " " At the raising of this building all ...
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... voted that the Commite of hartford and Windsor Chouce Inhabitance . In Cace any new are Brought into town , and the town Judg them not holsome , then to be Judged by Indifrant men , and by them Judged Good inhabitance , the cost to be ...
... voted that the Commite of hartford and Windsor Chouce Inhabitance . In Cace any new are Brought into town , and the town Judg them not holsome , then to be Judged by Indifrant men , and by them Judged Good inhabitance , the cost to be ...
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Aaron Smith Accessus aforesaid Assembly Bantam Bezaleel Beebe Buel Capt cartridges Catlin Church Colony committee Connecticut County Daniel Griswold David deed died Jan Ebenezer Marsh Elisha Ephraim Kirby erected Exitus Farmington forever George Gibbs Governor and Company granted Gun carried Hartford and Windsor haue heirs and assigns hereby home lot Indians inhabitants Isaac Baldwin Jedediah Strong jn ye John Bird John Buell John Marsh John Stanly John Welch Joseph Bird Judge Kilborn lease Lebanon Litchfield Lynde Lord mark Marsh and John Morris Woodruff Moses Seymour murder name of Litchfield Nathaniel October Oliver Wolcott person Pethuzso Phineas Miner Prisoners rods wide School settlement settlers Shepaug River Society South Farms Statistical Account Stoddard theyer Thomas Timothy TOWN OF LITCHFIELD Towns of Hartford Township Toxcronuck tract of land United States Representative unto Uriah Tracy Uriel Holmes Waterbury Waterbury bounds William Lewis Woodbury ye rest ye sd York
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Page 44 - Broadway last night were actuated by zeal in the public cause, yet it has so much the appearance of a riot and want of order in the army, that he disapproves the manner, and directs that in future these things shall be avoided by the soldiery, and left to be executed by the proper authority.
Page 44 - THE BATTLE OF BROOKLYN. A Farce in Two Acts, as it was performed on Long Island on Tuesday, the 27th day of August, 1776, by the Representatives of the Tyrants of America assembled at Philadelphia.
Page 51 - Whereupon we do hereby associate, and mutually agree, that hereafter we will carry on our business without the use of distilled spirits, as an article of refreshment...
Page 44 - A gentleman who was present at this ominous fall of leaden majesty, looking back to the original's hopeful beginning, pertinently exclaimed, in the language of the Angel to Lucifer, "If thou be'st he! But ah, how fallen! how changed!
Page 47 - Frederic," and who was a boy at the time, informed me a few years ago that he well remembered the circumstance of the statue being sent there, and that a shed was erected for the occasion in an apple orchard adjoining the house, where his father chopped it up with the wood axe, and the " girls " had a frolic in running the bullets and making them up into cartridges.
Page 46 - Mrs. Marvin, 3456 cartridges. " " on former account, 2602 6058 Ruth Marvin on former account, 6204 Not sent to court house, 449 packs, 5388 11,592 Laura, on former account, 4250 Not sent to court house, 344 packs, 4128 8378 Mary Ann, on former account, 5762 Not sent to the court house 119 packs, out of which I let Colonel...
Page 31 - Feb. 3d, 1780, was fixed on to execute the horrid purpose. With a heart hard as adamant, he lighted a candle, went into the lodging room of his benefactors, and beat them to death with a club. A little...
Page 46 - STATUE. 267 possess, for those who know the characteristics of the families represented in it, the lively features of a picture. It illustrates what has been said in the first volume of this work, that our Wolcotts, both male and female, were always ready to labor with their hands...