The American Historical Record, Volume 1Benson John Lossing Chase & Town, 1872 - United States |
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... England in the year 1066 , and the manor of Alwington , in the county of Devonshire , was assigned to him . The authorities respecting the County of Devon- shire make honorable mention of Sir Elias Coffin , Knight , of Clist and Ingarby ...
... England in the year 1066 , and the manor of Alwington , in the county of Devonshire , was assigned to him . The authorities respecting the County of Devon- shire make honorable mention of Sir Elias Coffin , Knight , of Clist and Ingarby ...
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... England , bringing with him his wife , mother , two sisters and five children . The names of these children were Peter , Tristram , Elizabeth , James and John . He first settled at Salisbury , Mass .; thence moved the same year to ...
... England , bringing with him his wife , mother , two sisters and five children . The names of these children were Peter , Tristram , Elizabeth , James and John . He first settled at Salisbury , Mass .; thence moved the same year to ...
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... England in early life and became a Baronet , and Nantucket , and founded the an Admiral in the British Navy , visited " Coffin School , " ( the original fund being 2,500 pounds sterling , ) which is still flourishing . The Act of ...
... England in early life and became a Baronet , and Nantucket , and founded the an Admiral in the British Navy , visited " Coffin School , " ( the original fund being 2,500 pounds sterling , ) which is still flourishing . The Act of ...
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... England . The slipper in course must have come in the May - flower . It is my earnest wish that a relick so ancient - so precious in the arch- ives of New England and so well authen- ticated may be carefully transmitted to posterity ...
... England . The slipper in course must have come in the May - flower . It is my earnest wish that a relick so ancient - so precious in the arch- ives of New England and so well authen- ticated may be carefully transmitted to posterity ...
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... England . His wife died in March follow- ing , and so did their little son Edward at about the same time . In May following he married Susannah White . It was the first marriage solemnized in the Colony . William Bradford , who had ...
... England . His wife died in March follow- ing , and so did their little son Edward at about the same time . In May following he married Susannah White . It was the first marriage solemnized in the Colony . William Bradford , who had ...
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Page 171 - Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering; Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Page 154 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three states shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Page 154 - ... a direct line drawn from the Wabash and Post Vincents due north to the territorial line between the United States and Canada; and by the said territorial line to the Lake of the Woods and Mississippi.
Page 389 - There was an old woman who lived In a shoe, She had so many children, she didn't know what to do.
Page 157 - Miami river of the lake, then and in that case, with the assent of the Congress of the United States, the northern boundary of this State shall be established by, and extend to, a direct line running from the southern extremity of Lake Michigan to the most northerly cape of the Miami bay...
Page 154 - The middle state shall be bounded by the said direct line, the Wabash from post Vincents to the Ohio ; by the Ohio, by a direct line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami to the said territorial line, and by the said territorial line.
Page 427 - Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.
Page 323 - THESE are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
Page 550 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Chr — 's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.
Page 65 - In place of that noble love of liberty and republican government which carried us triumphantly through the war, an Anglican monarchical aristocratical party has sprung up, whose avowed object is to draw over us the substance,, as they have already done the forms, of the British government.