Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parson Morton, Vice-president of the United States (1889-1893).Printed at the Riverside Press, 1894 - 191 стор. |
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MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE ANCE Josiah Granville 1842-1922 Leach Попередній перегляд недоступний - 2016 |
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Abigail American April August born 15 born 29 born at Northampton born at Plymouth born in England Boston Bradford Captain Ebenezer Children church Clapp Colonel Colony Connecticut Court Daniel Oliver Morton daughter deacon death December Dedham Deerfield descendants Dickinson died young Dorchester Ebenezer Morton Ebenezer Strong Edward Electa Frary Electa Morton Faunce February Foster founders France Frary French Governor graduated at Harvard Hadley Hartford Hartpence Hinsdale Honorable Hopkins Indians James January John Morton July June Justin Parsons King Philip's War land Levi Parsons Morton Livingston Lucretia Morton Lucretia Parsons March married 22 Marshfield Martha Morton Mary Morton Mary Strong Massachusetts Medfield Mehitable Mercy Middleboro minister MORTON ³ Nathaniel Northampton November October pastor Pilgrim Plymouth Colony President Pynchon REYNER Robert Roxbury Sarah second wife selectman September silver Springfield Stebbins Stephen Hopkins STETSON Thomas Thomas Morton tion town United Vermont Wethersfield widow Windsor York
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Сторінка 173 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Сторінка 69 - ... we were shrewdly puzzled, and lost our way. As we wandered, we came to a tree, where a young sprit was bowed down over a bow, and some acorns strewed underneath. Stephen Hopkins said, it had been to catch some deer. So, as we were looking at it, William Bradford being in the rear, when he came looking...
Сторінка 72 - He laid us on the bed with himself and his wife, they at the one end and we at the other, it being only planks laid a foot from the ground, and a thin mat upon them. Two more of his chief men, for want of room, pressed by and upon us ; so that wc were worse weary of our lodging than of our journey.
Сторінка 3 - And when I had more seriously considered of the bewty of the place, with all her faire indowments, I did not thinke that in all the knowne world it could be paralel'd. For so many goodly groues of trees ; dainty fine round rising hillucks : delicate faire large plaines, sweete cristall fountaines, and cleare running streames, that twine in fine meanders through the meads...
Сторінка 4 - ... worth in a morning. They also set up a maypole, drinking and dancing about it many days together, inviting the Indian women for their consorts, dancing and frisking together like so many fairies, or furies, rather; and worse practices. As if they had anew revived and celebrated the feasts of the Roman goddess Flora, or the beastly practices of the mad Bacchanalians.
Сторінка 19 - New England's Memorial ; or, A brief relation of the most memorable and remarkable passages of the providence of God, manifested to the planters of New- England in America ; with special reference to the first colony thereof, called NewPlimouth.
Сторінка 17 - Plymouth ; laboring to still the discontents that sometimes would arise amongst some spirits, by occasion of the difficulties of these new beginnings ; but it pleased God to put a period to his days soon after his arrival in New England, not surviving a full year after his coming ashore.
Сторінка 3 - Country: The more I looked, the more I liked it. And when I had more seriously considered of the beauty of the place, with all her fair endowments, I did not think that in all the known world it could be paralleled...
Сторінка 16 - Lord will, the putting to of my shoulder in this hopeful business, and in the meantime, these relations coming to my hand from my both known and faithful friends, on whose writings I do much rely, I thought it not amiss to make them more general...
Сторінка 16 - Relation," may justly be termed the first history of New England, and is composed of letters and journals from the chief colonists at Plymouth, either addressed or intrusted to George Morton, whose authorship in the work is possibly limited to the preface. The "Relation" itself is full of valuable information and still continues an authority. Shortly after it was placed before the public, George Morton prepared to emigrate to America, and sailed with his wife and five children in the Ann, the third...