Towns of New England and Old England, Ireland and Scotland ... Connecting Links Between Cities and Towns of New England and Those of the Same Name in England, Ireland and Scotland: Containing Narratives, Descriptions, and Many Views, Some Done from Old Prints; Also Much Matter Pertaining to the Founders and Settlers of New England and to Their Memorials on Both Sides of the Atlantic, Part 1

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Page 74 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 29 - Go, stand on the hill where they lie. The earliest ray of the golden day On that hallowed spot is cast; And the evening sun, as he leaves the world, Looks kindly on that spot last.
Page 17 - I hear the tread of pioneers Of nations yet to be ; The first low wash of waves, where soon Shall roll a human sea.
Page 81 - Know old Cambridge? Hope you do.— Born there? Don't say so ! I was, too. (Born in a house with a gambrel-roof, — Standing still, if you must have proof.
Page 87 - ... wind shrinking upon them withall, they resolved to bear up againe for the Cape, and thought them selves hapy to gett out of those dangers before night overtooke them, as by Gods providence they did. And the next day they gott into the Cape-harbor wher they ridd in saftie.
Page 91 - ABOUT the 15th of August, Captain Mosely with sixty Men, met with a company, judged about three hundred Indians, in a plain place where few Trees were, and on both sides preparations were making for a Battle; all being ready on both sides to fight...
Page 204 - NewRoxbury the name of Woodstock, because of its nearness to Oxford, for the sake of Queen Elizabeth, and the notable meetings that have been held at the place bearing that name in England; some of which Dr.
Page 35 - Each bears th' artill'ry of her charms, Like training bands at viewing arms. * Young people of different sexes used then to sit in the opposite galleries. So once, in fear of Indian beating, Our grandsires bore their guns to meeting, Each man equipped on Sunday morn, With psalm-book, shot, and powder-horn ; And looked in form, as all must grant, Like th' ancient, true church militant ; Or fierce, like modern deep divines, Who fight with quills, like porcupines.
Page 129 - The perpetual stir and bustle in this inn is as surprising as it is wearisome. Doors opening and shutting, bells ringing, voices calling to the waiter from every quarter, while he cries " coming" to one room, and hurries away to another.
Page 67 - The humble petition of Roger Conant, of Bass river alias Beverly, who hath bin a planter in New England fortie ycers and upwards, being one of the first, if not the very first, that resolved and made good my settlement...

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