The Register of the Lynn Historical Society, Volumes 16-18The Society, 1913 - Local history |
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Alice Anna April 27 Baltimore St became bell Benjamin BENJAMIN N born in Lynn Boston Brown Bubier Burrill Captain Chairman Charles Church Colony Committee Company Council Court daughter December died EARLE Edward elected Elizabeth England Essex Essex County father Frances GENEALOGY George Goodell Green St Hannah Harriet Harvard Hawkes Henry Henry Newhall Hill Honorable Indians Ingalls James January JOHN ALBREE John Fuller John Ingalls Johnson Joseph July 26 June June 20 King Philip's War land Lewis Lynn Historical Society Lynnfield Malden March March 17 Maria married Mary Mass Massachusetts meeting Miss Mower Mudge Nahant St Nathan Nathaniel Newburyport Turnpike Newhall November Ocean St October parish Parker Pevear Pond Portrait President records Richard road Salem Samuel Sarah Saugus River Secretary Sept shoe Sprague street Swampscott Tapley Thomas town Treasurer wife William Woodbury
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Page 74 - 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 87 - Statesman, yet friend to truth ; of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honour clear ; Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end, Who ga'in'd no title, and who lost no friend ; Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd, And prais'd, unenvied, by the Muse he lov'd.
Page 69 - It has a preamble, and that preamble expressly recites, that the duties which it imposes are laid " for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures.
Page 148 - No, Sir ; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
Page 10 - All meetings and sessions of the Council shall be in public. A majority of the Aldermen shall make a quorum for the transaction of business; a less number may adjourn from time to time, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner as shall be prescribed by ordinance.
Page 118 - They were sold into slavery, West Indian slavery ! an Indian princess and her child sold from the cool breezes of Mount Hope, from the wild freedom of a New England forest, to gasp under the lash beneath the blazing sun of the tropics .' * " Bitter as death ; " ay, bitter as hell ! Is there any thing, — I do not say in the range of humanity, — is there any thing animated that would not struggle against this?
Page 150 - GLORY be to God on high, and in earth peace, good will towards men. We praise thee, we bless thee, we worship thee, we glorify thee, we give thanks to thee, for thy great glory, O Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty.