Bi-centennial Celebration of the Town of Stow, Mass., May 16, 1883 |
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26th Regt 39th Regt 53d Regt A. G. R. Hale A. J. Smith Acton B. W. Gleason Band BENJAMIN GATES Bi-Centennial blessings born Boston Boxborough Brown Capt centennial centuries Charlestown Chas church Citizens of Stow Colonial committee Conant of Stow Concord Daniel deeds of yore died England Ephraim Gates Eveleth fathers feet flag Francis Gardner Geers Goding Harvard Harvard College Hayward hearts hill honor Hosmer hundred Indian Isaac Davis Post John Gardner John Kettell John Stow Joseph Joshua Brown's King Philip's War Lancaster land Leominster liberty lived March Marlboro Massachusetts Matthew Boon Maynard memory ment minister name of Stow neighbor Newell patriotic peace Peter Fletcher PRATT BROTHERS Puritans Rockbottom Rowlandson Saulsbury Prison savage Selectmen sent settlers in Stow slain sons STEPHEN HALE Stow Sentinel Stow soldiers Sudbury tablets Timothy Biglow's Regt tion to-day town of Stow voted Warren Wetherbee Whitcomb Whitney worship wounded
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