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acres agreed allowed Annals of Salem annually appointed Arch attend Boston bounds called Cambridge Town Records cattle charge Charles River Charlestown chester chosen church colony commissioners of small committee common fields common land constables country rate deacons decided deputies divided Dorchester Town Records duties early elders elected England town fence freemen gathered given granted highway home lots hundred Ibid Indian inhabitants levied magistrates Mass Massachusetts meadow meeting house meeting-house mentioned minister ministry month paid pasture pence persons plantation proprietors punish received rent Roxbury Town Records salary Salem Town Records school house selectmen of Dorchester sent settled settlement settlers seven Shawshine shire town small causes teacher tion tithingmen town meeting town ordered town rate townsmen treasurer twelve twenty pounds unto usually voted wardens warrant Watertown Town Records Winthrop wood Young's Chronicles
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Page 155 - After God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared convenient places for God's worship, and settled the civil government, one of the next things we longed for and looked after was to advance learning and perpetuate it to posterity; dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to the churches, when our present ministers shall lie in the dust.
Page 135 - ... it is therefore ordered that all persons are to take notice that this Court doth not, nor will hereafter, approve of any such companies of men as shall...
Page 102 - The first legal enactment concerning this system provided that, whereas, " particular towns have many things which concern only themselves, and the ordering of their own affairs, and disposing of business in their own town," therefore, " the freemen of every town, or the major part of them, shall only have power to dispose of their own lands and woods, with all the...
Page 171 - ... from the first day of November to the first day of March in each year, except on a contract for the delivery of cattle, or on a legal demand from the Sheriff or constable of his county, having an execution against the owner, and demanding a rodeo for the levy or delivery of cattle.
Page 12 - But, there receiving advertisements (by some of the late arrived ships) from London and Amsterdam of some French preparations against us (many of our people brought with us being sick of fevers and the scurvy, and we thereby unable to carry up our ordnance and baggage so far), we were forced to change counsel, and for our present shelter to plant dispersedly...
Page 28 - Stone's house; and that congregation being upon their removal to Hartford at Connecticut, myself and those that came with me found many houses empty and many persons willing to sell...
Page 134 - Christ maketh free ; all filial confidence, love, and devotion ; all holy strength and courage to serve God without fear, in holiness and righteousness, all the days of our lives ; all that is sweet, genial, and buoyant, in our spiritual state, depend upon it.
Page 52 - Towne charge : also we do give them power to charge the Town with such sum or sums of money from time to time as they shall have need of for the prudent and orderly managing of such things as fall out in their times provided that one Rate be not above 20...
Page 101 - Agreed that every person under subscribed shall meet every second Monday in every month within the meeting-house in the afternoon within half an hour after the ringing of the bell...
Page 135 - A fast at Newtown, where Mr. Hooker was chosen pastor, and Mr. Stone teacher, in such a manner as before at Boston.