A Brief History of Winthrop: From 1764 to October 1855 |
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... No. 247 , according to John Jones ' survey , was granted to the minister , who should be first settled in Winthrop . The conditions were , " that he should continue to preach the gospel in said town for HISTORY OF WINTHROP . 17.
... No. 247 , according to John Jones ' survey , was granted to the minister , who should be first settled in Winthrop . The conditions were , " that he should continue to preach the gospel in said town for HISTORY OF WINTHROP . 17.
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... minister shall not be settled in said Town on or before the year 1780 ; then this grant is to be void and to revert ... ministry in said Town forever . " ( See Vol . 5 , Plymouth Colony's Re- cords . ) The township was surveyed by ...
... minister shall not be settled in said Town on or before the year 1780 ; then this grant is to be void and to revert ... ministry in said Town forever . " ( See Vol . 5 , Plymouth Colony's Re- cords . ) The township was surveyed by ...
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... ministers of each parish of every denomination , " who were severally required to read the same to their respective congregations , as soon as divine service was ended in the afternoon , on the first Lord's day after they shall have ...
... ministers of each parish of every denomination , " who were severally required to read the same to their respective congregations , as soon as divine service was ended in the afternoon , on the first Lord's day after they shall have ...
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... ministers , he some times preached to the destitute . Dr. Peleg Benson was born in Middleborough , Mass . , December 14 , 1766. He came to Winthrop in 1792 . On his way , he taught a school in New Gloucester , and practiced the healing ...
... ministers , he some times preached to the destitute . Dr. Peleg Benson was born in Middleborough , Mass . , December 14 , 1766. He came to Winthrop in 1792 . On his way , he taught a school in New Gloucester , and practiced the healing ...
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... ministry , but has not been ordained . Luther Sampson Gibson , son of Rev. Zechariah and Mrs. Theodate Gibson , graduated at Nassan Hall College , Princeton , N. J. , was Licensed by Presbytery . He was an Agent of the American Sunday ...
... ministry , but has not been ordained . Luther Sampson Gibson , son of Rev. Zechariah and Mrs. Theodate Gibson , graduated at Nassan Hall College , Princeton , N. J. , was Licensed by Presbytery . He was an Agent of the American Sunday ...
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Page 110 - That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, but keep his commandments...
Page 208 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
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...
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...
Page 208 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Page 110 - And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
Page 208 - November, in the eighteenth year of his reign, hath given and granted unto the Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering, and governing of New England in 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,...
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.
Page 211 - Behoof of the said WILLIAM BRADFORD, his Heirs, Associates and Assigns forever, yielding and paying unto our said Sovereign Lord, the King, his Heirs and Successors forever, one fifth Part of the Ore of the Mines of Gold and Silver, and one other fifth Part thereof to the President and Council which shall be had, possessed and obtained within the Precincts aforesaid, for all Services whatsoever, as in said Charter may more fully appear.