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What people are saying - Write a reviewUser Review - Flag as inappropriate The information for the John Brewer Family has been very helpful to me. This book also contains information for another ancestor, Edmund Rice. Ethel Stanton......Many thanks to Google Books for bringing this book to the internet. User Review - Flag as inappropriate This book is a genealogical treasure! My grandmother left to me family information that she had handwritten and I was amazed to find so much of it in print. There are also many other family lines included in this amazing work. I've searched for years for much of the information included in this book. I am so glad that it was finally digitalized. Thank you Google and thank you Harvard! Related booksOther editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesAbigail aged April 19 April 28 August 28 baptized Benjamin born April born August born December born February born January born July born June born March born November born October born September Boston brother Cambridge Captain Charles Charlestown Chil child Children church chusetts Colonel Concord Daniel daughter December 16 December 25 died April died August died December died February died January died July died June died March died November died October died September died young dren Ebenezer Elizabeth farm father February 14 Frost George Hampshire Hannah Henry high school Ipswich Isaac James January 12 January 20 John Jonathan Joseph land lived Lowell Lydia Maine March 16 March 20 married Mary married second Martha Massa Massachu Massachusetts mentioned Nathaniel November 14 November 22 October 16 Rebecca regiment Republican resided ried Samuel Sarah September 29 settled setts Somerville street Thomas tion wife William Woburn Popular passagesPage 849 - March ye 13th, lit 5, by the hands of cruel ministerial tools of Georg ye 3d, in the corthouse, at a 11 a clock at night, in the 22d year of his age. Here William French his body lies. For murder his blood for vengeance cries. King Georg the third, his Tory crew, Tha with a bawl his head shot threw. For Liberty and his country's Good He lost his Life, his Dearest blood. Page 493 - God, and as touching such worldly estate as it has pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give, devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form. Page 477 - He was educated in the public and high schools of his native city, and in New York University, but left college before graduation to engage in civil engineering. Page 512 - He was appointed a member of the American committee for the revision of the New Testament. He was one of the... Page 613 - Bradbury, she hath lived according to the rules of the gospel amongst us ; was a constant atteuder upon the ministry of the word, and all the ordinances of the gospel ; full of works of charity and mercy to the sick and poor : neither have I seen or heard any thing of her unbecoming the profession of the gospel. Page 689 - ... anecdotes. What is more striking, we find that when one James Brown, of Swanzey, brought him a letter from Plymouth, just before hostilities commenced, and the young warriors were upon the point of killing him, Philip interfered and prevented it, saying, that "his father had charged him to show kindness to Mr. Brown." Accordingly, it is recorded in Hubbard, that a little before his death, the old sachem had visited Mr. Brown, who lived not far from Montaup, and earnestly desired that the love... Page 613 - She hath been wonderful laborious, diligent and industrious in her place and employment about the bringing up of our family which have been eleven children of our own and four grandchildren. She was both prudent and provident, of a cheerful spirit, liberal and charitable. She being now very aged and weak, and grieved under... Page 481 - 23 d. 6 m. — In ye evening wee vissited Elder Frost, who rec'd us with great kindness and love, esteeming it a favour yt we would come into yr mean habitation ; assured us of his fervent prayers to ye Lord for us ; — A glorious saint makes a mean cottage a stately palace ; were I to make my choyce, I would rather abide with ys saint in his poor cottage, than with any one of ye princes I know of at ys day in ye world. Page 478 - May next at nine o'Clock in the forenoon, then and there to Elect and Depute One or more Persons (being Freeholders and resident in the Town) according to the Number Set and limited by an Act of the General Assembly, to Serve for and Represent them in a Great and General Court or Assembly, appointed to be Convened held and kept for His... Page 848 - Evidence of his activity in the cause of Indian instruction is found in a letter written by him to "a godly friend in England," published in London in the famous tract, "Strength Out of Weakness," and afterwards republished in the Mass. References from web pagesWoburnites - The Family Of Johnson Bibliographic information
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