History of the Town of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, 1645-1895 |
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A. E. Low Aaron Bennett Aaron Lee Benjamin Kimball Benjamin Leach Benjamin Tappan Boston building built Cape Ann Capt Captain century Charles church Colonial Committee Cove D. F. Lamson D. L. Bingham Daniel David Delucena died early Ebenezer Tappan Edward Eleazer Crafts England Essex County fathers fire fishing George George F Gloucester Hassam Henry Hooper hundred Indian inhabitants Isaac Israel F Israel Foster Jacob James John Allen John Cheever John Driver John Foster John Lee John Sibley John Tewksbury John Tuck Jonathan Herrick Joseph Kitfield Knight Knowlton land living Manchester March Massachusetts master meeting-house Memorial Morgan pastor persons present Puritan R. H. Dana Reg't Mass Robert Herrick Robert Leach sail Salem Samuel Lee Selectmen Sept ship shore Stone Story street summer tion town meeting Town Records vessels Voted voyage William Tuck
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Page 242 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year...
Page 16 - 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 40 - New occasions teach new duties : Time makes ancient good uncouth ; They must upward still, and onward, who would keep abreast of Truth ; Lo, before us gleam her camp-fires ! we ourselves must Pilgrims be, Launch our Mayflower, and steer boldly through the desperate winter sea. Nor attempt the Future's portal with the Past's blood-rusted key.
Page 102 - Of all the American plantations, his Majesty has none so apt for the building of shipping as New England ; nor none comparably so qualified for the breeding of seamen, not only by reason of the natural industry of that people, but, principally, by reason of their Cod and Mackerel fisheries ; and, in my poor opinion, there is nothing more prejudicial, and, in prospect, more dangerous to any mother Kingdom, than the increase of shipping in her Colonies, Plantations, or Provinces.
Page 176 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Page 384 - Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us.
Page 419 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal gar213 land is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 81 - The colonies raised, paid, and clothed near twenty-five thousand men during the last war; a number equal to those sent from Britain, and far beyond their proportion ; they went deeply into debt in doing this, and all their taxes and estates are mortgaged for many years to come, for discharging that debt.
Page 127 - To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled.
Page 106 - The fishing-smacks of Marblehead, the sea-boats of Cape Ann. The cold north light and wintry sun glare on their icy forms, Bent grimly o'er their straining lines or wrestling with the storms...