History of the Town of Marlborough, Ulster County, New York: From Its Earliest Discovery

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J.B. Lyon Company, printers, 1908 - Marborough (N.Y.) - 471 pages

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Page 377 - Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig-tree, and find none...
Page 56 - They waste us — ay — like' April snow In the warm noon, we shrink away ; And fast they follow, as we go Towards the setting day, — Till they shall fill the land, and we Are driven into the western sea.
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Page 95 - ... we, the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the city and county of New York, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design of the ministry to raise a revenue in America...
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