New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 16New England Historic-Genealogical Society, 1906 - Genealogy |
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Page 199 - I do give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my Estate real and Personal after the Payment of my Debts and the legacies aforesaid to the said Benjamin Walker and William North, to hold to them their Heirs, Executors and Administrators share and share alike...
Page 120 - Twas Christmas told the merriest tale ; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Page 280 - Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.
Page 326 - Hundred and with interest at six per cent, per annum; both principal and interest to be paid in the then current money of said State in a greater or less sum, according as five bushels of Corn, sixty-eight pounds and four-seventh...
Page 277 - But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit, even so it is now.
Page 3 - Not to covet nor desire other men's goods ; but to learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
Page 118 - Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust ! ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES.
Page 143 - ... escaped through a hideous Wilderness famously known throughout New England to this day by the Name of the hungry March ; and if we further Consider that until this brave though small army thus played the Man, the whole Country was filled with Distress & fear, & We trembled in this Capital Boston itself & that to the Goodness of God to this army We owe our Fathers...
Page 254 - CT'JJESE are to signify to all Persons that travel the great -*- Post-Road South- West from Boston, That I keep a House of Publick Entertainment Eleven Miles from Boston, at the Sign of the SUN. If they want Refreshment, and see Cause to be my Guests, they shall be well entertained at a reasonable Rate, N. Ames.
Page 233 - 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. This was found only a few months since, and may not have been seen by more than two or three persons for two hundred years.