The New England Historical and Genealogical Register,: Volume 39 1885 |
Contents
| iv | |
Andover England note | 83 |
Balch John query 80 | 132 |
Barnard genealogical gleanings 73 | 168 |
Batt Family genealogical gleanings 164 | 288 |
Bifield Richard genealogical gleanings 173 | 297 |
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Popular passages
Page 97 - ALL are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time ; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. Nothing useless is, or low ; Each thing in its place is best ; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest...
Page 132 - And so beside the Silent Sea I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 25 - Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast : for it is the number of a man ; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.
Page 42 - I will not plot or practice any evill against it, or consent to any that shall so do ; but will timely discover and reveal the same to lawfull Authority now here established, for the speedy preventing thereof. Moreover...
Page 53 - ... prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares, and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness...
Page 162 - Thus eminently fitted for the service and Ornament of his country, he was made receiver general of his majesty's revenues here ; was thrice appointed public agent to the court and ministry of England and being thirty-seven years a member, at last became president of the council of this colony.
Page 100 - I3th day of July, 1787, for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the River Ohio ; which declares it as one of the "articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said Territory...
Page 36 - Patent about ye yeare 1620 or 1621, to Mr David Thompson, who with the assistance of Mr Nicholas Sherwill, Mr Leonard Pomery and Mr Abraham Colmer of Plymouth Merchants, went ower with a Considerable Company of Servants and built a Strong and Large House, enclosed it with a large and high Falizado and mounted Gunns.
Page 55 - Rawson. — The Rawson Family. Memoir of Edward Rawson, Secretary of the Colony of Massachusetts Bay. from 1651 to 1686 ; with Genealogical Notices of his Descendants, by Sullivan S.