The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827Dutton and Wentworth, 1827 - 146 páginas |
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... purpose of making a settlement . A grant was made agreeable to this petition . The land included in the last grant , constitutes the fol- lowing towns at the present time . Dedham , which now contains three territorial parishes , and ...
... purpose of making a settlement . A grant was made agreeable to this petition . The land included in the last grant , constitutes the fol- lowing towns at the present time . Dedham , which now contains three territorial parishes , and ...
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... purpose . " The water mill was soon after built , as we shall see hereafter . The source of East Brook was more than one hundred rods east of the Nor- folk and Bristol turnpike where it crosses this stream . At this point a curious ...
... purpose . " The water mill was soon after built , as we shall see hereafter . The source of East Brook was more than one hundred rods east of the Nor- folk and Bristol turnpike where it crosses this stream . At this point a curious ...
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... purpose of building a new one thereon , so appropriately applied to it the text of his discourse , " Our Fathers worshipped on this Mountain . " A tract of the best land in town is situated on the hills north of this meeting house . The ...
... purpose of building a new one thereon , so appropriately applied to it the text of his discourse , " Our Fathers worshipped on this Mountain . " A tract of the best land in town is situated on the hills north of this meeting house . The ...
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... purpose . The execution of this design shows the excellent spirit of the inhabitants , and the great influence of their princi- pal men . The seven committee men decided that the quantity of land to be assigned to each person ought not ...
... purpose . The execution of this design shows the excellent spirit of the inhabitants , and the great influence of their princi- pal men . The seven committee men decided that the quantity of land to be assigned to each person ought not ...
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... purpose of assessing the rates . They then found that the number of acres in the herd walks , or cow commons , was 532 acres , and the number of cattle fed thereon somewhat less . They further found that by allowing one cow com- mon for ...
... purpose of assessing the rates . They then found that the number of acres in the herd walks , or cow commons , was 532 acres , and the number of cattle fed thereon somewhat less . They further found that by allowing one cow com- mon for ...
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admitted afterwards annually Anthony Fisher appointed Boston captain cause character Charles river chosen christian colony committee common rights constitution cotton Cotton Mather council court house cow common cultivation Daniel Fisher deacon Dedham church doctrines duty Edward Allyne eight elder employed employment England establish factories fifty Fisher Ames five funds grant herd walks Hinsdale HISTORY OF DEDHAM Indian inhabitants John Allin land major Lusher meadows Medfield meeting house ment miles square mill minister ministry Mother Brook Natick neighbouring Neponset river opinion ordained party pastor peat persons Petumtuck Philip plantation political pounds preached present principal procure profession proprietors public worship purchase purpose records religious reverend Roxbury sachem Samuel Dexter selectmen sermon settlement settlers shillings society soon spirit sufficient taxes things third parish Timothy Dwight tion town meeting town voted trees tub wheel village Wheelock Wollomonopoag wood Wrentham
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Página 89 - Have you not love enough to bear with me, When that rash humour which my mother gave me Makes me forgetful ? Bru. Yes, Cassius ; and, from henceforth, When you are over-earnest with your Brutus, He'll think your mother chides, and leave you so.
Página 103 - ... in which, with a courage deserving of unstinted praise, he dealt with " the growing sin " publicly from his pulpit, attributing " the frequent recurrence of the fault to the custom then prevalent of females admitting young men to their beds who sought their company with intentions of marriage.
Página 19 - Canaanites and Amalekites dwell in that valley,' and if they have any attachment to any spot on earth, must delight to live there. But that land must be ours. Our people have resolute and pious hearts and strong hands to overcome all difficulties. Let us go and possess the land...
Página 19 - Jt is the best land that we have seen in this colony ; we dug holes in the meadow, with the intent to find the depth of the soil, but could not find the bottom. At the foot of the little hill we stood on, is a plat of ground sufficiently large to build a village upon, and sufficiently high to be out of the reach of the spring floods.
Página 110 - Homoousion is rejected, and received, and explained away by successive synods. The partial or total resemblance of the Father and of the Son is a subject of dispute for these unhappy times. Every year, nay, every moon, we make new creeds to describe invisible mysteries. We repent of what we have done, we defend those who repent, we anathematize those whom we defended. We condemn either the doctrine of others in ourselves, or our own in that of others; and reciprocally tearing one another to pieces,...
Página 46 - Usher, back to Fort Hill. History has informed us of this incident in that revolution, but it has never informed us who took the lead of the country people, and who had the honor of leading the proud representative of a Stuart Prince, the oppressor of the colony, through the assembled crowd, and placing him in safe custody at the fort.
Página 109 - Hilarius, p. 211. in lib. ad Constantium Augustum. Basil. 1550. fol. " It is a thing equally deplorable and dan15. gerous, that there are at present as many creeds as there are opinions among men, as many doctrines as inclinations; and as many sources of blasphemy, as there are faults among us; because we make creeds arbitrarily, and explain them as arbitrarily. And as there is but one faith; so there is but one only God, one Lord, and one baptism.
Página 71 - Fisher Ames, the idol of respectability, who cheered on his party to vituperate his political opponents. He saw no harm in showing 'the knaves,' Jefferson and Gallatin, 'the cold-thinking villains who lead, "whose black blood runs temperately bad,'" the motives of 'their own base hearts. . . . The vain, the timid, and trimming must be made by examples to see that scorn smites and blasts and withers like lightning the knaves that mislead them.