Chronicles of the First Planters of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, 1623-1636, Volume 41; Volume 49

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C. C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 - Massachusetts - 571 pages

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Contents

I
3
II
19
III
39
IV
131
V
141
VI
172
VII
192
IX
197
XIV
271
XV
281
XVI
287
XVII
295
XIX
303
XX
345
XXI
371
XXII
391

X
201
XI
207
XII
215
XIII
242
XXIII
419
XXIV
447
XXV
485
XXVI
499

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Page 551 - 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 296 - ... where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart, and many tears in our eyes; ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation, we have. received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts; we leave it not, therefore, as loathing that milk wherewith we were nourished there, but, blessing God for the parentage and education, as members of the same body, shall always rejoice in her good...
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Page 34 - Baptist, his harbinger; or, if he was ever there, had forgot his first lessons, to offer violence to no man, and to part with the cloak rather than needlessly contend for the coat, though taken away without order. A little chimney is soon fired; so was the Plymouth captain, a man of very little stature [ie short], yet of a very hot and angry temper.
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