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1st mar 2d mar Abigail ANDREW Anna April 15 April 22 bapt Barkhamsted BENJAMIN Bloomfield Brattleboro Bristol Buffalo Canandaigua Caroline Catharine Charles Chil Children Church Coll Conn Dibol dren DUDLEY Edward eldest Eliza Elizabeth Ellen Emily Emma EZEKIEL farmer father Fowler George Hayes Granby Granville Hadley Hannah Harriet Hartford Hartland Haven Hays Helen Henry Hillyer Holcombe Iowa James Jane Joanna JOEL John Joseph Julia July July 19 July 22 June 13 June 28 Laura LOUISA LUCRETIA Lucy March 19 March 20 Maria Martha Mary Mass merchant Nancy Nashville Nassau Paul Tompkins PLINY Pratts Prattsburgh prob Rebecca record Robert Rutherford Salmon Brook SAMUEL II.3 Sarah Sept SILAS Sims Simsbury Sophia Stephentown Tenn Thomas Trowbridge U. S. Service VIII Washington wife William Windsor York youngest
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Page 11 - Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and testament that is to Say Principally and first of all I give and recommend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the discretion of my executors Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God...
Page 12 - Executors by me in any ways before named willed & bequeathed ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last will & testament In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal the day & year above written...
Page xix - We do not know them in the fountain, but in the stream; not in the root, but in the stem; for we know not which is the mean man that did rise above the vulgar.
Page xxviii - Anselm from Lombardy to Bee, and from Bee to Canterbury, Art, under his auspices, produced alike the stern grandeur of Caen and Ely and the brilliant gorgeousness of Palermo and Monreale. In a word, the indomitable vigour of the Scandinavian, joined to the buoyant vivacity of the Gaul, produced the conquering and ruling race of Europe.
Page xxviii - He remains in his lineage and in his works, but he is Norman no longer. He has settled in every corner of the British islands; into every corner of those islands he has carried with him the inborn qualities of his own race, but in every corner of those islands he has assumed the outward characteristics of the races among which he settled. The Scottish Bruce or the Irish Geraldine passed from Scandinavia to Gaul, from Gaul to England, from England to his own portion of our islands ; but at each migration...
Page 4 - God, calling to mind the mortality of my body and knowing it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally...
Page xxi - Scotish nobilitie, the which fighting in the middle ward, bare still the brunt of the battell, continuing manfullie therein euen to the end. But Haie, who in such wise (as is before mentioned) staied them that fled, causing them to returne againe to the field, deserued immortall fame and commendation : for by his meanes chieflie was the victorie atchiued.
Page xxi - ... personages cried vnto their fellowes to returne backe vnto the battell, for there was a new power of Scotishmen come to their succours, by whose aid the victorie might be easilie obteined of their most cruell aduersaries the Danes: therefore might they choose whether they would be slaine of their owne fellowes comming to their aid, or to returne againe to fight with the enimies.
Page xxviii - England he gave a line of tyrants ; to enslaved Sicily he gave a line of beneficent rulers. But to England he gave also a conquering nobility, which in a few generations became as truly English in England as it had become French in Normandy. If he overthrew our Harolds and our Waltheofs, he gave us a Fitzwalter and a Bigod to win back the rights for which Harold and Waltheof had fallen.
Page xxix - ... islands he has carried with him the inborn qualities of his own race, but in every corner of those islands he has assumed the outward characteristics of the races among which he settled. The Scottish Bruce or the Irish Geraldine passed from Scandinavia to Gaul, from Gaul to England, from England to his own portion of our islands ; but at each migration he ceased to be Scandinavian, French, or English ; his patriotism was in each case transferred to his new country, and his historic being belongs...