Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, Volume 3The Society, 1906 - Genealogy |
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Page 265 - Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions: So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my life. I loathe it; I would not live always: let me alone: for my days are vanity.
Page 92 - Book of Common Prayer and his licence in one hand and his bride in the other, and coming to Mr. John Briggs, our minister and preacher, and made the best signs he could, to show that he was willing to be married, which was then performed accordinglie. And also the said Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench, as Mr. Briggs was informed, was made acquainted with the said marriage before it was solemnised, and allowed to be lawful. This marriage is set down at large because we never had the like before.
Page 77 - A List of the Records of the Meetings Constituting the Yearly Meeting of the Society of Friends,
Page 86 - The Teutonic Name-System applied to the Family Names of France, England, and Germany. By ROBERT FERGUSON, Author of " The River Names of Europe," " Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains,
Page 281 - The report is now in the hands of the printer and will be ready for distribution about September 15.
Page 85 - Genealogy/' says Sir Egerton Brydges, " is of little value, unless it discloses matter which teaches the causes of the decay or prosperity of families, and furnishes a lesson of moral wisdom for the direction of those who succeed. When we reflect how soon the fortunes of a house are ruined, not only by vice or folly, but by the least deficience in that cold prudence with which highly endowed minds are so seldom gifted, the long continuance of any race of nobility or gentry seems to take place almost...
Page 39 - Stuarts well that it killd him & three of his Sons one of them Going Down to Doo Something in the well fell down Dead as they sopose and the rest Going Down one by one Expecting to help them that were Down but fell Down Dead as fast as they came to the bottom, another man named Snotgrass was let Down and Drawed up again as Quick as posable but was so far Gon that he Did not Come too for an hour or there abouts 8-26 In the afternoon they were buried in one grave...
Page 92 - Thomas Speller, a dumb person, by trade a smith, of Hatfield Broadoake, in the county of Essex, and Sarah Earle, daughter to one John Earle, of Great Paringdon in the same county, yeoman, were married by licence, granted by Dr.
Page 279 - Brief sketch of the life of George W. Martin, secretary of the Kansas State Historical society.
Page 97 - ... the Revs. Steiner and Winkhaus, and Drs. Weyberg and Hendel, the aged. Directly north of this spot, about midway between it and Vine Street, lies Rev. Michael Schlatter; and around these leaders of the Lord's Host far and near — a silent congregation sleep now ! — sleep thousands of those to whom they once ministered the holy ordinances of the church, and the precious instructions and consolations of the Gospel.