The History and Antiquities of the Name and Family of Kilbourn (in Its Varied Orthography)

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Durrie & Peck, 1856 - 484 pages
 

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Page 53 - God to call me hence, do therefore make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following that is to say. First and principally I commit my soul into the hands of Almighty God, and my body to the earth to be decently buried at the discretion of my Executors...
Page 120 - We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies.
Page 78 - That a committee be chosen in every county, city, and town, by those who are qualified to vote for Representatives in the Legislature, whose business it shall be attentively to observe the conduct of all persons touching this association; and when it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of a majority of any such committee, that any person within the limits of their appointment has violated this association, that such majority do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published in the...
Page 64 - Kilborn, their heirs and assignes, all the remaining part of my estate, both real and personal, to be equally divided between them...
Page 36 - But in the midst of these things he still utter'd an hard Suspicion that the ill Woman who had threatened him, had made Impressions with Inehantments upon him.
Page 85 - As they had no ammunition to spare, each one took special aim, to have every bullet tell. The women assisted in loading the guns. When the stock of lead grew scanty, they had also the presence of mind to suspend blankets horizontally near the roof of the house, inside, to catch the enemy's balls. These they immediately run into new bullets, if necessary, which the men took upon themselves to have returned to the savages with interest.
Page 34 - Rev. Joseph Hunter, one of the Record Commissioners, presides, in Rolls Court, Westminster Hall. It contains the names of persons, permitted to embark, at the port of London, after Christmas 1634, to the same period in the following year, kept generally in regular succession.
Page 55 - In testimony that this is my last Will and Testament, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this...
Page 34 - Theis parties hereafter expressed are to be transported to New England, embarqued in the Increase, Robert Lea, master, having taken the oath of allegiance and supremacy, as also being conformable to the orders and discipline of the church, whereof they brought testimony per certificates from the Justices and Ministers where their abodes have lately been.
Page 78 - Gazette ; to the end, that all such foes to the rights of British America may be publicly known, and universally contemned as the enemies of American liberty ; and thenceforth we respectively will break off all dealings with him or her.

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