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acres afterwards Amos Hill attended Barnstead boots and shoes Boston bought brother Bryant building built Capt Captain Charles Charlestown charter member Church citizens Columbian Encampment Columbian Lodge committee Cowdrey Daniel Gould Daniel Green daughter David Geary Deacon Daniel died Dike Ebenezer Edward Bucknam elected employed factory father Fells Station Ferren firm Franklin Street Hall Holden Hugh de Payens inhabitants Ira Gerry James John Bucknam John Geary John Gould John H John Hill Jonathan Green Joseph King Cyrus Lodge land Lieut lived Lyman Dike Lynde Main Street Malden March married Mass meeting meeting-house Melrose member of Columbian Miss Montvale occupied Odd Fellows Peter Hay present public schools Regiment remained residence Richardson road Samuel Sprague Sanborn Selectmen Spot Pond Stevens Stoneham Independent Sweetser Thomas Thomas Cutler Tidd Timothy Wright Trustees Vinton voted Whitcher Whittier William Woburn
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Page 63 - Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the Lord, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord against the mighty.
Page 120 - Statesman, yet friend to truth, of soul sincere ; In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, served no private end, Who gained no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approved, And praised, unenvied, by the Muse he loved.
Page 39 - Town- meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach, they teach men how to use and how to enjoy it. A nation may establish a system of free government, but without the spirit of municipal institutions it cannot have the spirit of liberty.
Page 51 - THE natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
Page 238 - His early education was obtained in the public schools of his native city, supplemented by a college education at the old Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio.
Page 51 - It is utterly irreconcilable to these principles and to many other fundamental maxims of the common law, common sense, and reason, that a British House of Commons should have a right at pleasure to give and grant the property of the Colonists. (That...
Page 51 - ... end of society would absolutely vacate such renunciation. The right to freedom being the gift of God Almighty, it is not in the power of man to alienate this gift and voluntarily become a slave.
Page 10 - Medford, and going N. and by E. among the rocks about two or three miles, they came to a very great pond, having in the midst an island of about one acre, and very thick with trees of pine and beech ; and the pond had divers small rocks, standing up here and there in it, which they therefore called Spot Pond.