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Common terms and phrases
aged Amherst Andrew Bradford April August Augustus Blanchard Averill Bainbridge Wadleigh Baptist Bartlett Benjamin born in Milford Boston Bradford Burnham called Capt Captain Charles Chase citizens committee Congregational church Daniel daughter David died Duncklee Dunstable Ebenezer enlisted father Foster French George George W Gutterson Hampshire Henry Hillsborough Hillsborough county Hollis Humphrey Moore hundred Isaac Jacob James John Burns John McLane Jonathan Joseph Joshua Josiah Crosby July June Kaley land Livermore Lovejoy Lyndeborough March married Mary Mass meeting meeting-house Merrimack Mile Slip mill Monson Mont Vernon Nashua Nathan Hutchinson Osgood parish pastor Putnam Ramsdell regiment residence river Robert Fuller Samuel Sarah Sept settler society soldiers Souhegan Souhegan river Stephen Stephen Blanchard Thomas town of Milford voted wife William Crosby William Peabody William Ramsdell Wilton Wilton railroad
Popular passages
Page 55 - We, the subscribers, do hereby solemnly engage and promise that we will, to the utmost of our power, at the risque of our lives and fortunes, with arms oppose the hostile proceedings of the British fleets and armies against the United American Colonies.
Page 521 - I am in earnest. I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch. AND I WILL BE HEARD.
Page 87 - Now I beseech you, brethren-, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.
Page 494 - One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.
Page 17 - The Petition of us, the subscribers, inhabitants of the new plantation called Souhegan-West, humbly sheweth : " That there is settled and now remains in this plantation, thirtyfive families, in which is about fifty-eight men upwards of sixteen years old : " That when we began our settlement, we apprehended no danger of our ever being a frontier, there being at that time so many above us begun and obligated to...
Page 55 - In consequence of the above Resolution of the Hon. Continental Congress, and to show our Determination in joining our American Brethren in defending the Lives, Liberties and Properties of the inhabitants of the United Colonies...
Page 21 - ... any town or towns have the number of one hundred families or householders, there shall also be a grammar school set up in every such town, and some discreet person of good conversation, well instructed in the tongues, procured to keep such school, every such schoolmaster to be suitably encouraged and paid by the inhabitants.
Page 518 - Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; keep her, for she is thy life.
Page 378 - Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength : let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.