Sprague's Journal of Maine History, 6–9. köideJohn Francis Sprague, 1918 |
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Page 179 - ... five years, one for four years, one for three years, one for two years, and one for one year, and thereafter as the terms of office expire in each year one member for a term of five years.
Page 204 - Executor nothing Doubting but at the general Resurection I shall Receive the Same Again By the mighty Power of God and as Touching Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this life. I Give, Devise and Dispose of the same in the following manner and Form...
Page 71 - they took Louisburg from the French single-handed, without any European assistance ; as mettled an enterprise as any in our history ; an everlasting memorial of the zeal, courage and perseverance of the troops of New England.
Page 202 - God therefore calling to mind the mortality of my Body and Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is to say Principally and first of all...
Page 18 - tis time for us to view a little more to the life, the picture of the person, the actions of whose life we have hitherto been looking upon. Know then, that for his exterior, he was one tall, beyond the common set of men, and thick as well as tall, and strong as well as thick...
Page 202 - Therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all Men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament...
Page 93 - VOYAGE INTO NEW ENGLAND, BEGUN IN 1623, AND ENDED IN 1624. PERFORMED BY CHRISTOPHER LEVETT, HIS MAJESTY'S WOODWARD OF SOMERSETSHIRE, AND ONE OF THE COUNCIL OF NEW ENGLAND.
Page 29 - I should with great alacrity teach them all to fly. But what would be the security of the good if the bad could at pleasure invade them from the sky? Against an army sailing through the clouds, neither walls nor mountains nor seas could afford any security. A flight of northern savages might hover in the wind and light at once with irresistible violence upon the capital of a fruitful region that was rolling under them.
Page 189 - Ordeyne that the Territories and Collonyes comonly called or known by the Names of the Collony of the Massachusetts Bay and Collony of New Plymouth the Province of Main the Territorie called Accadia or Nova Scotia and all that Tract of Land lying betweene the said Terri tori/ones of Nova Scotia and the said Province of Main...