Pictures of the Olden Time: As Shown in the Fortunes of a Family of the PilgrimsJohn Sayer of Colchester, England died in 1509. His son, Richard, was born in Colchester in 1508 and married Anne Bourchier. He later settled in Amsterdam in 1537 where he died in 1540. Some descendants used the surname "Sears". Also includes a descendant, Richard Sayer, son of John Bourchier Sayer and Marie L. Egmond, who married Dorothy Thacher at Plymouth in 1632. He died in Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1676. |
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... seemed to me the most unedifying of all performances . The question soon occurred , Why not put flesh upon these bones ? Why not make these skeletons live ? These names , in a genealogical table , would stand for nobody ; State ...
... seemed to me the most unedifying of all performances . The question soon occurred , Why not put flesh upon these bones ? Why not make these skeletons live ? These names , in a genealogical table , would stand for nobody ; State ...
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... seemed hard to Kingston to wake him from such peaceful sleep , but he stepped in and touched him , and brought him to a consciousness of the waiting scene . He arose and dressed himself for the last time . a belief in those days , that ...
... seemed hard to Kingston to wake him from such peaceful sleep , but he stepped in and touched him , and brought him to a consciousness of the waiting scene . He arose and dressed himself for the last time . a belief in those days , that ...
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... seemed to have new strength , as he looked nearer into the face of death ; for he now stood erect , refused the aid of the constables , and walked with a firm step up the stairs . Just at that moment the sun broke from the clouds in ...
... seemed to have new strength , as he looked nearer into the face of death ; for he now stood erect , refused the aid of the constables , and walked with a firm step up the stairs . Just at that moment the sun broke from the clouds in ...
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... seemed to have slept all night upon their summits , and were just beginning to dress themselves in purple and soar away , — no bad image to represent the souls that rise out of earth's dark night into the pure heavens above . Close by ...
... seemed to have slept all night upon their summits , and were just beginning to dress themselves in purple and soar away , — no bad image to represent the souls that rise out of earth's dark night into the pure heavens above . Close by ...
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... seemed for a moment to hang breathless had been lying fourteen months in the Tower . He had held the highest judicial office in the realm , but he saw that Henry meant to use him and his office to pander to his lusts ; he would not be ...
... seemed for a moment to hang breathless had been lying fourteen months in the Tower . He had held the highest judicial office in the realm , but he saw that Henry meant to use him and his office to pander to his lusts ; he would not be ...
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Page 298 - This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
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Page 314 - And thus was this poor church left, like an ancient mother grown old and forsaken of her children (though not in their affections), yet in regard of their bodily presence and personal helpfulness. Her ancient members being most of them worn away by death; and these of later time being like children translated into other families, and she like a widow left only to trust in God. Thus she that had made many rich became herself poor.
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Page 252 - Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: His chosen captains also are drowned in the Red Sea.
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