History of the Town of Plymouth, from Its First Settlement in 1620, to the Present Time: With a Concise History of the Aborigines of New England, and Their Wars with the English, &c |
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... four sailors explored the land contiguous to the harbor , but could discover neither houses nor inhabitants . On the morning of the 20th , after imploring heaven for guidance , a considerable number landed with the view of selecting a ...
... four sailors explored the land contiguous to the harbor , but could discover neither houses nor inhabitants . On the morning of the 20th , after imploring heaven for guidance , a considerable number landed with the view of selecting a ...
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... four years ago all the natives died of an extraordinary plague ; that there was neither man , woman , nor child remaining in the territory , of which the English had now possessed themselves . He was a tall , erect man , and had a bow ...
... four years ago all the natives died of an extraordinary plague ; that there was neither man , woman , nor child remaining in the territory , of which the English had now possessed themselves . He was a tall , erect man , and had a bow ...
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... four cushions . Governor Carver now appeared with a drum and trumpet , and a few musketeers . After salutations , the governor kissed the king's hand , who , in return , kissed him , and they seated themselves ; but the king all the ...
... four cushions . Governor Carver now appeared with a drum and trumpet , and a few musketeers . After salutations , the governor kissed the king's hand , who , in return , kissed him , and they seated themselves ; but the king all the ...
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... four ground - nuts and some tobacco . Massasoit , being at war with a potent adversary , the Narra gansets , manifested every disposition to be at peace and friend- * The New Plymouth associates , by the favor of the Almighty , began ...
... four ground - nuts and some tobacco . Massasoit , being at war with a potent adversary , the Narra gansets , manifested every disposition to be at peace and friend- * The New Plymouth associates , by the favor of the Almighty , began ...
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... four months and twenty - four days only . His pos- terity have been very numerous . ' One of his grandsons lived to the age of one hundred and two years , and about the middle of the last century , ( 1775 ) that descendant , with his ...
... four months and twenty - four days only . His pos- terity have been very numerous . ' One of his grandsons lived to the age of one hundred and two years , and about the middle of the last century , ( 1775 ) that descendant , with his ...
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Alden ancestors anniversary appointed born Boston called Cape Cod Capt Captain Carver celebrated chosen church Clark Clark's Island club command committee corn Cotton court Cushman daughter Davis Deacon death December descendants died Duxbury Edward Winslow Eel river elder England English Ephraim Morton erected fathers Faunce feet friends gentlemen governor Bradford harbor hill honor Indians inhabitants Isaac James John Howland John Winslow Joseph Josiah King land laws Leyden liberty lived Lothrop married Marshfield Mary Howland Massachusetts Massasoit Mayflower meeting Memorial ment minister Nathaniel native occasion Old Colony ordered parish pastor persons Pilgrim Society Plymouth colony pounds preached present Prince puritan received religious resided respect sachem Samuel Samuel Fuller selectmen shallop shillings ship shore sons Squanto Thomas Thomas Hinckley tion town of Plymouth town-meeting venerable vessels voted Warren Watson wife William Bradford
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Page 191 - For He •established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which He commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children : that the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born ; who should arise and declare them to their children : that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of •God, but keep His commandments...
Page 23 - Ireland, king, defender of the faith, &c. having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 23 - Virginia, do, by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God, and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation, and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due...
Page 128 - The Book of the General Laws Of the Inhabitants of the Jurisdiction of New-Plimouth...
Page 23 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 343 - The pilgrim exile — sainted name ! The hill whose icy brow Rejoiced, when he came, in the morning's flame, In the morning's flame burns now. And the moon's cold light, as it lay that night, On the hillside and the sea, Still lies where he laid his houseless head ; But the pilgrim where is he ? The Pilgrim Fathers are at rest.
Page 23 - King, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God, and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid...
Page 223 - In the event of such peace, or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of such change in their measures affecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the United States sufficiently safe, in the judgment of the President," he is authorized to suspend the embargo.
Page 138 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Page 229 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.