History of Kennebunk from Its Earliest Settlement to 1890: Including Biographical Sketches |
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HIST OF KENNEBUNK FROM ITS EAR Daniel 1809-1892 Remich,Carrie E. 1864 Remich No preview available - 2016 |
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Page 471 - ... that learning may not be buried in the grave of our fathers in the church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors, — "It is therefore ordered [by the General Court] that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to the number of fifty householders, shall then forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read...
Page 471 - It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures, as in former times, keeping them in an unknown tongue, so in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues...
Page 471 - And it is further ordered, that when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school, the master thereof being able to instruct youth so far as they may be fitted for the university...
Page 184 - Columbia, laborer, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the devil...
Page 16 - The report he brought of ||shining|| stones &c. caused divers others to travel thither, but they found nothing worth their pains.
Page 150 - Act of Congress entitled an Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War...
Page 471 - ... all such children as shall resort to him to write and read, whose wages shall be paid either by the parents or masters of such children, or by the inhabitants in general, by way of supply, as the major part of those that order the prudentials of the town shall appoint : Provided, Those that send their children be not oppressed by paying much more than they can have them taught for in other towns ; and
Page 205 - Miscellaneous poems, with several specimens from the author's manuscript version of the poems of Ossian. By JM Sewall, Esq.
Page 143 - But the sufferings of the poor soldiers can scarcely be described, while on duty they are unavoidably exposed to all the inclemency of storms and severe cold ; at night they now have a bed of straw on the ground, and a single blanket to each man ; they are badly clad, and some are destitute of shoes.
Page 42 - Fort-Charles at Pemaquid, the Tenth Day of January, in the Fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord JAMES the Second, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland KING, Defender of the Faith, &*c. Annoq: DOMINI 1688. »E. ANDROS. " By His EXCELLENCY'S Command, " JOHN WEST. D' Seer. " GOD SA VE THE KING. " Printed at Boßon in New-England by RP...