A Brief History of Winthrop: From 1764 to October 1855 |
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... procure the grinding of all their meal . Nor had they any other way of conveying it except upon their shoulders , for there was not a horse in the town , and there being no roads , they could not avail themselves of the labors of their ...
... procure the grinding of all their meal . Nor had they any other way of conveying it except upon their shoulders , for there was not a horse in the town , and there being no roads , they could not avail themselves of the labors of their ...
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... procure a fish way through Mr. Gardiner's mill dam if possible . April , 1789 , Benjamin Monk , Squier Bishop and David Foster , were a fish committee . March 1 , 1790 , Samuel Wood , Joseph Metcalf and Capt . Nathaniel Fairbanks , were ...
... procure a fish way through Mr. Gardiner's mill dam if possible . April , 1789 , Benjamin Monk , Squier Bishop and David Foster , were a fish committee . March 1 , 1790 , Samuel Wood , Joseph Metcalf and Capt . Nathaniel Fairbanks , were ...
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... procure clothing for the army . ' They also voted " to give six dollars a pair for shoes , five dollars a pair for shirts , and four dollars a pair for stockings . " They also " voted to raise 260 dollars , to be assessed and collected ...
... procure clothing for the army . ' They also voted " to give six dollars a pair for shoes , five dollars a pair for shirts , and four dollars a pair for stockings . " They also " voted to raise 260 dollars , to be assessed and collected ...
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... procure a town stock of powder and fire - arms . 1780 and 1781 , ( Record illegible from bad ink . ) . 1782 and 1783 , Jonathan Whiting . 1784 and 1785 , Robert Page . 1786 , Jonathan Whiting . 1787 , Joshua Bean . 1788 and 1789 , Capt ...
... procure a town stock of powder and fire - arms . 1780 and 1781 , ( Record illegible from bad ink . ) . 1782 and 1783 , Jonathan Whiting . 1784 and 1785 , Robert Page . 1786 , Jonathan Whiting . 1787 , Joshua Bean . 1788 and 1789 , Capt ...
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... procure clothing for the army ; and to call in all the powder delivered out of the town stock , and authorized Mr. John Chandler , Town Treasurer , to demand and receive it . They manifested their patriotism by exempt- ing those who ...
... procure clothing for the army ; and to call in all the powder delivered out of the town stock , and authorized Mr. John Chandler , Town Treasurer , to demand and receive it . They manifested their patriotism by exempt- ing those who ...
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Abigail Albion K Amos Stevens Andrew Wood appointed April August Benjamin Fairbanks Benson Bowdoin College bushel Capt chosen Cobbossee committee Court David Eastman David Foster DAVID THURSTON degree of M. D. dollars Ebenezer Elijah Wood Fillebrown Francis Fuller Gideon Lambert graduated at Bowdoin Hallowell Hannah Howard hundred Ichabod incorporated inhabitants James Bowdoin James Craig January Jedediah Prescot John Blunt John Chandler John Hubbard John Morrill Jonathan Whiting Joseph Metcalf Joshua Bean Josiah Hall July June Kennebec March Mary Massachusetts meeting house minister moral Moses Gill Nathan Nathaniel Fairbanks November October pastor Polly Pond Town pounds procure Readfield Robbins Robert Page Samuel Wood Sarah Selectmen Sept September Snell Society Solomon Stanley Squier Bishop Stephen Pullen Susanna Timothy Foster town meeting town of Winthrop town voted voted to raise votes for Governor votes for Lieut Wadsworth Winthrop worship
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Page 110 - 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 208 - America, and to their successors and assigns for ever, all that part of America, lying and being in breadth, from forty degrees of northerly latitude from the equinoctial line, to forty-eight degrees of the said northerly latitude inclusively, and in length, of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the main lands from sea to sea...
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Page 167 - Christianity teacheth people to beat their swords into plough-shares, and their spears into pruning hooks, and to learn war no more ; that so the wolf may lie down with the lamb, and the lion with the calf, and nothing that destroys be entertained in the hearts of people...
Page 84 - Care, (if such they have) within fifteen Days. And of this Precept with your doings thereon you are to make return into the office of the Clerk of the Town, within Twenty Days next coming, that such further proceedings may be had in the premises as the Law directs Given under our hands & seals at Gorham aforesaid this Thirteenth Day of May, AD 1791.
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Page 212 - Wesserunskick aforesaid. KNOW YE, THAT WE, the Heirs and Assigns of the said Antipas Boyes, Edward Tyng, Thomas Brattle and John Winslow, of and in all said Lands on Kennebeck River aforesaid, and legal Proprietors thereof, at our Meeting held at Boston, this Twelfth Day of...