History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully Prepared Histories of Every City and Town in the County, Հատոր 1Estes and Lauriat, 1879 |
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... meeting must have been given up to the sick and helpless , and , remembering that " The groves were God's first temples , " they worshipped abroad , under the spreading branches of a tree , where , says Roger Clap , " I have heard Mr ...
... meeting must have been given up to the sick and helpless , and , remembering that " The groves were God's first temples , " they worshipped abroad , under the spreading branches of a tree , where , says Roger Clap , " I have heard Mr ...
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... meeting a re- pulse in attacking a garrison in Sherburne , resumed his march southward , leaving his Nipmuck allies to continue the war in this quarter , while he should strike the English of the Old Colony , and thus divide the forces ...
... meeting a re- pulse in attacking a garrison in Sherburne , resumed his march southward , leaving his Nipmuck allies to continue the war in this quarter , while he should strike the English of the Old Colony , and thus divide the forces ...
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... meeting - house and six dwellings were fired , and destroyed , after which the enemy retreated . Sev- eral of the inhabitants of the frontier towns of Middlesex were killed during this incursion . The year 1705 has fewer occurrences to ...
... meeting - house and six dwellings were fired , and destroyed , after which the enemy retreated . Sev- eral of the inhabitants of the frontier towns of Middlesex were killed during this incursion . The year 1705 has fewer occurrences to ...
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... meeting such an emergency as the creation of gress first assembled in the court - house , but that the Committee of Safety contemplated , ordered the building being too small for its accommodation , the field officers of regiments to ...
... meeting such an emergency as the creation of gress first assembled in the court - house , but that the Committee of Safety contemplated , ordered the building being too small for its accommodation , the field officers of regiments to ...
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... meeting- house bell strikes heavily in as the horsemen ride away out of town . When Revere , Dawes , and Prescott are near the Brooks Tavern , half - way to Concord , they ride plump into the picket of officers . Revere tries to Revere ...
... meeting- house bell strikes heavily in as the horsemen ride away out of town . When Revere , Dawes , and Prescott are near the Brooks Tavern , half - way to Concord , they ride plump into the picket of officers . Revere tries to Revere ...
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History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: Containing Carefully ..., Հատոր 1 Samuel Adams Drake Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1879 |
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Էջ 176 - We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce in all minds a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object...
Էջ 176 - We come, as Americans, to mark a spot, which must forever be dear to us and our posterity. We wish that whosoever, in all coming time, shall turn his eye hither, may behold that the place is not undistinguished, where the first great battle of the revolution was fought. We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event, to every class and every age.
Էջ 176 - ... maternal lips and that weary and withered age may behold it and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here and be proud in the midst of its toil. We wish that in those days of disaster which, as they come...
Էջ 280 - For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it ? Lest haply after he hath laid the foundation, and is not able to finish...
Էջ 37 - Massachusetts; and desirous to unite ourselves into one Congregation or Church, under the Lord Jesus Christ, our head, in such sort as becometh all those whom he hath redeemed and sanctified...
Էջ 107 - The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Massachusetts Bay in New England (Boston, MDCCXLII).
Էջ 322 - And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.
Էջ 36 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our company, as those who esteem it our honor to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother ; and cannot part from our native country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes, ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation...
Էջ 176 - We wish that this structure may proclaim the magnitude and importance of that event to every class and every age. We wish that infancy may learn the purpose of its erection from maternal lips, and that weary and withered age may behold it, and be solaced by the recollections which it suggests. We wish that labor may look up here and be proud, in the midst, of its toil.
Էջ 346 - It is surprising how much work has been done. The lines are extended almost from Cambridge to Mystic River, so that very soon it will be morally impossible for the enemy to get between the works, except in one place, which is supposed to be left purposely unfortified, to entice the enemy out of their fortresses.