A History of Boston: The Metropolis of Massachusetts, from Its Origin to the Present Period; with Some Account of the EnvironsA. Bowen, 1828 - 427 pages |
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... April , about six in the morning , the wind being E. and by N. and fair weather , we weighed anchor and set sail . By daylight on the 9th we were come to Portland , but the other ships not being able to hold up with us , we were forced ...
... April , about six in the morning , the wind being E. and by N. and fair weather , we weighed anchor and set sail . By daylight on the 9th we were come to Portland , but the other ships not being able to hold up with us , we were forced ...
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... April , and the Boston church was thus left destitute of a preacher , until the arrival of Mr. John Eliot in the November following . CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS . With a view to exhibit some traces of the early progress in trade , and of the ...
... April , and the Boston church was thus left destitute of a preacher , until the arrival of Mr. John Eliot in the November following . CHRONOLOGICAL ITEMS . With a view to exhibit some traces of the early progress in trade , and of the ...
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... April 1634 , when it was determined that the freemen of each plantation should choose two or three before every general court , and that mich persons so deputed should have full power to deal in all the affairs of the commonwealth ...
... April 1634 , when it was determined that the freemen of each plantation should choose two or three before every general court , and that mich persons so deputed should have full power to deal in all the affairs of the commonwealth ...
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... April sixteen hundred and thirty - two . In the same year , that part of Chel- sea between Powder - horn hill and Pull - in point was assigned to Boston forever , and not a long time after , the whole of Win- nesimet was annexed ...
... April sixteen hundred and thirty - two . In the same year , that part of Chel- sea between Powder - horn hill and Pull - in point was assigned to Boston forever , and not a long time after , the whole of Win- nesimet was annexed ...
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... April 1633 , the court ordered fifty acres of ground to be set out for him , near to his house in Boston , to belong to him forever . This quantity amounted to at least a fourteenth part of the whole place , which shows that his rights ...
... April 1633 , the court ordered fifty acres of ground to be set out for him , near to his house in Boston , to belong to him forever . This quantity amounted to at least a fourteenth part of the whole place , which shows that his rights ...
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Page 247 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.
Page 331 - 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.
Page 135 - 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.
Page 134 - 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.
Page 331 - ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.
Page 228 - 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.
Page 118 - I can make my self sick at any time, with comparing the dazzling splender wherewith our Gentlewomen were embellished in some former habits, with the gut-foundred goosdome, wherewith they are now surcingled and debauched. We have about five or six of them in our Colony: if I see any of them accidentally, I cannot cleanse my phansie of them for a month after.
Page 164 - Council for the Safety of the People, and Conservation of the Peace.