The History of Rowley: Anciently Including Bradford, Boxford, and Georgetown, from the Year 1639 to the Present Time |
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acres aforesaid aged Amos Andover April Bailey Benjamin born Boston bounded Boxford Boynton Bradford Bradstreet Brocklebank Byfield called Captain Chaplin church Colonel committee Continental army County Court Daniel daugh David Deacon died Dresser Ebenezer Edward Elizabeth England Essex Ezekiel four daughters Four sons Gage Georgetown Governor grant Heseltine hire Hobson house lott hundred Indians inhabitants Ipswich James Jeremiah John Pearson John Pickard John Trumble Jonathan Joseph Jewett Joshua Joshua Jewett June Lambert land Lieutenant lott containinge lyinge March Mary Massachusetts meadow meeting meeting-house Merrimack minister ministry months Moses Nathaniel Nelson Newbury Northend Payson Perley persons Philip Nelson Phillips Platts Plumer Richard Richard Thurston river Rowley River Salem Samuel Samuel Platts Sarah Scott Searle selectmen south side Spofford Stephen Stickney streete Tenney Thomas Gage Thomas Merrill Thomas Mighill Three sons Todd Topsfield town of Rowley town voted village Wicom William William Hobson
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Page 46 - There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth ; There was manhood's brow, serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. What sought they thus afar ? Bright jewels of the mine ? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war ? They sought a faith's pure shrine ! Ay, call it holy ground, The soil where first they trod ; They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God.
Page 437 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground : Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise ; So generations in their course decay, 185 So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 249 - Their force would be most disproportionately exerted against a brave, generous, and united people, with arms in their hands, and courage in their hearts : three millions of people, the genuine descendants of a valiant and pious ancestry, driven to those deserts by the narrow maxims of a superstitious tyranny.
Page 156 - Rules to know when the Moveable Feasts and Holy-days begin. EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the first Sunday after the full moon which happens upon or next after the twenty-first day of March, and if the full moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after.
Page 437 - The world can never give The bliss for which we sigh ; 'Tis not the whole of life to live, Nor all of death to die.
Page xvii - Man through all ages of revolving time, Unchanging man, in every varying clime, Deems his own land of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside; His home the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
Page 237 - ... to state the rights of the colonists, and of this province in particular, as men, as Christians, and as subjects ; to communicate and publish the same to the several towns in this province and to the world, as the sense of this town, with the infringements and violations thereof that have been, or from time to time may be, made...
Page 154 - Moreover, I do solemnly bind myself, in the sight of God, that, when I shall be called to give my voice touching any such matter of this state wherein freemen are to deal, I will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduce and tend to the public weal of the body, without respect of persons or favor of any man. So help me God, in the Lord Jesus Christ...
Page 154 - I (AB), being by God's providence an Inhabitant and Freeman within the Jurisdiction of this Commonwealth; do freely acknowledge myself to be subject to the Government thereof: And therefore do here swear by the great and dreadful Name of the Ever-living God, that I will be true and faithful to the same...
Page 26 - Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean. 29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying, as soon as I was sent for: I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me?