| Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1833 - 776 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering... | |
| Maine Historical Society - Maine - 1856 - 446 pages
...bark laden with the legitimate blood of the rich grape, which they bring from Phial, Madeira and the Canaries; and after they get a taster or two, they will not go to sea again till they get wearied with drinking." The human nature of that day, 200 years ago, was very like that... | |
| Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1865 - 582 pages
...plantation was pursued with great activity until the death of Trelawny, which took place in 1644.* They employed the ship Agnes, the bark Richmond, the...merchant 1 York Court Records. 2 Winthrop, vol. ip 157. 3 Jordan's Claim, York Records, is gone." " They often," he adds, " have to run in debt for their... | |
| Maine Historical Society - Local history - 1865 - 584 pages
...the bark Richmond, the ships Hercules and Margery, and one other, whose name is not mentioned. Ill 1638, Mr. Trelawny sent a ship of three hundred tons...hogsheads of wine and rum, to drink when the merchant l York Court Records. 2 Winthrop, vol. ip 157. 3 Jordan's Claim, York Records. *[Robert Trelawny was... | |
| john sribner jenness - 1873 - 194 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay, sometimes a whole week, till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum, to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come, where they are roystering... | |
| John Scribner Jenness - Isles of Shoals (Me. and N.H.) - 1875 - 252 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three clays, nay, sometimes a whole week, till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum, to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come, where they are roystering... | |
| Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days — nay, sometimes a whole week — till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three hogsheads of wine and rum to drink off when the merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roistering and gulling... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1910 - 636 pages
...although fair and seasonable weather, for two or three days, nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering... | |
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