The Genealogical History of the McGaffey Family: Including Also the Fellows, Ethridge and Sherman FamiliesOpinion Press, 1904 - 145 pages |
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Andrew McGaffey April 12 Betsey born Apr born April born Aug born Dec born Feb born in Edinburg born in Lyndon born in Sandwich born in Scot born in Scotland born Jan born July born June born Mar born March born Nov born Oct born Scotland born Sept Charles Chas chil child church daugh daughter David death died Aug died Feb died in infancy died Jan died July died June dren Edinburg eminent English Ethridge farm father Felch Fellows married Gaffey George Hannah Henry Iowa James James Sherman James VI John McGaffey Johnsbury July 13 July 27 June 14 June 30 June 9 land lives Louisa Margaret Mass McClary McCrillis McGaffey died McGaffey married McGuffie Neal McGaffey Pinney reside ried Robert Sabine Pass Samuel McGaffey Sarah Scotch Scottish Sherman Simon Fellows Stanstead Stephen Stephen Fellows Wallace wife died William
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Page 21 - II. That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of popery, prelacy (that is, Church government by archbishops, bishops, their chancellors and commissaries, deans, deans and chapters, archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy...
Page 20 - VI. in his youth, and again recognised in 1590 and 1596 ; and was binding on all who signed it to spare nothing which might save their religion. The proximate cause of this extraordinary manifestation of feeling was the attempt of Charles I. to enforce Episcopacy and the use of the Service-book in Scotland. The subscribing of the National Covenant began on the 28th of February 1638, in the Greyfriars' church and churchyard, at Edinburgh.
Page 14 - Jacobin," as they stigmatized him. Imbittered by what he felt to be injustice, he recklessly allowed those habits of dissipation to grow upon him which made the more respectable of all classes look coldly on him; and the remorse thus occasioned in his calmer moments aggravated that tendency to melancholy which the gloom and toil of his early years had probably implanted in his constitution. Broken in health, he died 21st July, 1796.
Page 21 - That we shall in like manner, without respect of persons, endeavour the extirpation of Popery, Prelacy, (that is, Church Government by Archbishops, Bishops, their Chancellours and Commissaries, Deans, Deans and Chapters, Archdeacons, and all other Ecclesiastical Officers depending on that Hierarchy...
Page 20 - They also give assent to various acts of parliament in the reign of James VI., which besides repudiating the jurisdiction of the pope, and all the ceremonial observances and errors of the Romish church, ordain "all sayers, wilful hearers, and concealers of the mass, the maintainers and resellers of the priests, Jesuits, trafficking Papists, to be punished without any exception or restriction.
Page 21 - Church government by archbishops, bishops, their chancellors and commissaries, deans, deans and chapters, archdeacons, and all other ecclesiastical officers depending on that hierarchy), superstition, heresy, schism, profaneness, and whatsoever shall be found to be contrary to sound doctrine and the power of godliness, lest we partake in other men's sins, and thereby be in danger to receive of their plagues; and that the Lord may be one and his name one in the three kingdoms.
Page 11 - The Black Dwarf,' 'Old Mortality,' •Rob Roy,' and 'The Heart of Mid Lothian,' all bearing the indisputable impress of the same parent mind. The circumstance of Scott's having published a poem in the...
Page 11 - On the whole, for his special purposes, his education was perhaps as available as if he had been the pride of all his preceptors. In 1786 he was articled apprentice to his father, in whose office he worked as a clerk till 1792, in which year he was called to the bar. In his profession he had fair success, and in 1797 he was married to Charlotte Margaret Carpenter, a lady of French birth and parentage. Toward the end of 1799, through the interest of his friends lord Melville and the duke of Buccleuch,...
Page 17 - The courage and ability shown by almost all the Stewart princes were insufficient to repair the mischiefs done by others in the beginning of their reigns, and to abate the great curse of the country — the unlimited power and constant feuds of...
Page 21 - Nottingham (Aug., 1642), and from his various successes, it was thought he might finally be able to reinstate Episcopacy in Scotland. With some alarm on this ground, the Scotch willingly received overtures from commissioners deputed from the English parliament. Hopes were held out to the Scottish...