The Coffin Family: The Life of Tristram Coffyn, of Nantucket, Mass., Founder of the Family Line in America; Together with Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Some of His Numerous Descendants, and Some Historical Information Concerning the Ancient Families Named CoffynHussey & Robinson, 1881 - 64 pages |
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Page 14 - All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and manyarched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, towards the pleasant upland on the west.
Page 14 - ALL who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge where salmon wait for autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Above the town the hills close in, cushioned with deep oak woods, through which juts here and there a crag of fern-fringed slate ; below they lower, and open more and more in softlyrounded knolls, and fertile...
Page 11 - At length he broke silence, and declared for a free Parliament. As soon as his declaration was known, the whole nation was wild with delight. Wherever he appeared, thousands thronged round him, shouting and blessing his name. The bells of all England rang joyously; the gutters ran with ale ; and, night after night, the sky five miles round London was reddened by innumerable bonfires.
Page 20 - who is to be' provided for according to his degree and calling ; " and that his son John is to have certain property when he shall be twenty years of age.
Page 14 - ... Pleasantly the old town stands there, beneath its soft Italian sky, fanned day and night by the fresh ocean breeze, which forbids alike the keen winter frosts, and the fierce thunder heats of the midland; and pleasantly it has stood there for now, perhaps, eight hundred years , since the first...
Page 25 - Hew with the consent of Passaconnaway have sold unto the said inhabitants all the right that wee or any of us have in the said ground and Ileand, and Rivver. And wee warrant it, against all or any other Indeans whatsoever, unto the said Inhabitants of Pentuckett, and to their heirs and assignes forever Dated the fifteenth day of november Ann Dom 1642.
Page 17 - ... goods of ^40 or above to any sum whatsoever it be clearly above his debts paid, there shall be no more taken paid or demanded for a mortuary than lo.s.
Page 29 - temper and disposition of the Indians and the capabilities of the island, that he might report to the citizens of Salisbury what inducements were offered for emigration.
Page 16 - VIII., 1529 : In his way to which, there happened a remarkable Accident, not unworthy the relating, especially for the good Law it occasioned : Passing by a Church-yard, he saw a multitude of People standing Idle ; he enquired into the Cause thereof : Who reply'd, They had brought a Corse thither to be buried ; but the Priest refused to do his Office unless they first delivered him the Poor Man's Cow, the only Quick goods he left, for a Mortuary. Sir William sent for the Priest, and required him...
Page 55 - Not long after, Green repented, and made his acknowledgment to the pastor, who frankly forgave him. Roby was excommunicated out of Hampton church for a common drunkard, and died excommunicate, and was by his friends thrown into a hole near his house, for fear of an arrest of his carcass. Barefoot fell into a languishing distemper, whereof he died. Coffin was taken by the Indians, at Cochecho, 1689, — his house and mill burnt, himself not being slain but dismissed. The Lord give him repentance,...