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Page 184
... father built a house and as- sumed duties as a planter , pasturing his animals in the common meadow and cultivating the twenty - two acres allotted him . Yet Michael Wigglesworth's father was no rude farmer , content to see his son grow ...
... father built a house and as- sumed duties as a planter , pasturing his animals in the common meadow and cultivating the twenty - two acres allotted him . Yet Michael Wigglesworth's father was no rude farmer , content to see his son grow ...
Page 350
... Father's Business for two Years , that is till I was 12 Years old ; and my Brother John , who , was bred to that Business having left my Father , married and set up for himself at Rhodeisland , there was all Appearance that I was destin ...
... Father's Business for two Years , that is till I was 12 Years old ; and my Brother John , who , was bred to that Business having left my Father , married and set up for himself at Rhodeisland , there was all Appearance that I was destin ...
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... father's cattle . And every time they shoot it off , It takes a horn of powder , And makes a noise like father's gun , Only a nation louder . I went as nigh to one myself As Siah's underpinning ; And father went as nigh again , I ...
... father's cattle . And every time they shoot it off , It takes a horn of powder , And makes a noise like father's gun , Only a nation louder . I went as nigh to one myself As Siah's underpinning ; And father went as nigh again , I ...
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Four Early Travelers and Observers | 1 |
George Alsop 1638post 1666 | 27 |
Of the Situation and Plenty | 34 |
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