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Great genealogical presentation of my Great Grandfather, John Conway, Millville, Mass. Very helpful getting characters and dates in a straight line. Mary Carroll
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Page 249 - to live at Providence, Mr. Williams, was taken (or rather emboldened) by her to make open profession thereof and accordingly was re-baptised by one Holyman, a poor man late of Salem. Then Mr. Williams re-baptized him and some ten more. They also denied the baptism of infants and
Page 285 - Boston, where land was allotted him November 30, 1635. He was admitted a freeman of the Massachusetts Bay colony May 25, 1636. He was a leather dresser or glover by trade. He became a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in
Page 218 - and are now in possession of Daniel W. Low, of Essex, Massachusetts, a descendant. The Bible was "Imprinted at London by Christopher Barker, Printer to the Queenes most excellent
Page 87 - In the same year he was admitted to the bar and began the practice of law in
Page 249 - us if we come not, and I question not but he whom we love will make us not to count our lives dear unto ourselves for the sake of his name.
Page 140 - the public schools of New York and entered the College of the City of New York, from which he was graduated in
Page 156 - the public schools of his native town, graduating from the high school as valedictorian of his class in 1880. In 1884, after four years of study in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, he
Page 294 - It would seem from family records and tradition- that I am paternally descended from a French Huguenot family which, driven from France by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, settled in one of the border counties
Page 144 - him. If the case was likely to prove fatal, he wrote the sick man's will, watched •with him the last night of his life, comforted the mourners, made the post-mortem examination, officiated at the funeral, then presented the will for probate, gave bonds as executor and was appointed guardian of the children.
Page 144 - parish and the town. He was skilled in all the arts that contribute to the comfort and refinement of home life, and by his example, influence and generous aid he exerted a constantly elevating and refining agency for the less cultivated portion of the community around him. He was active and
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| Title | Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Volume 4 Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts: With a History of Worcester Society of Antiquity, Ellery Bicknell Crane |
| Author | Ellery Bicknell Crane |
| Editor | Ellery Bicknell Crane |
| Contributor | Worcester Historical Museum |
| Publisher | Lewis Publishing Company, 1907 |
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