An Historic Record and Pictorial Description of the Town of Meriden, Connecticut and Men who Have Made it |
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1st Conn 8th Conn acres aged Amos Andrews April Artillery Baldwin Belcher Benjamin bought building built Butler Capt Captain Charles Cheshire child church Clark club Collins Colony street committee Connecticut Cowles Curtis Curtiss Daniel Daniel Baldwin Daniel Hall Daugh Daughter death east Ebenezer Elisha erected Foster George Hall Hannah Hartford Haven Haven county hill Hough Hubbard Infant Infantry Isaac Isaac Rice Ives James Janry John John Hough John Merriam John Yale Jonathan Joseph July June Junr land Levi Lewis Lieutenant located March Mary meeting house Memory Meriden Meriden Farm Merriam Merriman Middletown miles mill Moses Nathaniel negro parish Parker Phinehas Private records regiment Rice road Royce Samuel Sarah selectmen Sept Theophilus Thomas Thomas Yale town meeting Town of Meriden voted Wallingford Walter Hubbard West Main street wife Wilcox William Yale
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Page 176 - Behold and see, as you pass by, As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 281 - I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies. Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
Page 281 - Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Page 191 - They set as sets the morning star, which goes • Not down behind the darkened west, nor hides Obscured among the tempests of the sky, But melts away into the light of heaven.
Page 185 - I HEARD a voice from heaven, saying unto me, Write ; From henceforth blessed 'are the dead which die in the Lord : even so saith the Spirit ; for they rest from their labours.
Page 161 - Nor pain, nor grief, nor anxious fear Invade thy bounds. No mortal woes Can reach the peaceful sleeper here, While angels watch the soft repose.
Page 334 - Every inhabited part of the United States is visited by these men. I have seen them on the peninsula of Cape Cod and in the neighborhood of Lake Erie, distant from each other more than six hundred miles. They make their way to Detroit, four hundred miles farther, to Canada, to Kentucky, and, if I mistake not, to New Orleans and St. Louis.
Page 156 - ... the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit to God who gave it.
Page 151 - God my Redeemer lives, And often from the skies Looks down and watches all my dust, Till he shall bid it rise. 4 Array'd in glorious grace Shall these vile bodies shine, And every shape and every face Look heavenly and divine. 5 These lively hopes we owe To Jesus' dying love ; We would adore his grace below, And sing his power above.
Page 174 - Hope looks beyond the bounds of time, When what we now deplore, Shall rise in full immortal prime, And bloom to fade no more.