History of the Town of Gloucester, Cape Ann: Including the Town of Rockport

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Procter Brothers, 1860 - 610 стор.
 

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Сторінка 28 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Сторінка 31 - PLANTER'S (the) plea : or the grounds of plantations examined, and usual objections answered, together with a manifestation of the causes moving such as have lately undertaken a plantation in New England, for the satisfaction of those that question the lawfulnesse of that action. [By John COTTON, BD, of Boston, New England ?] London, 1630.
Сторінка 210 - They that go down to the sea in ships, and do business in great waters, These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Сторінка 34 - Cape Anne there is a plantation a beginning by the Dorchester men, which they hold of those of New Plimoth, who also by them have set up a fishing worke."8 A quarrel soon broke out between the two parties.
Сторінка 521 - There are perhaps no worse prejudices, in common life, than those which breed cruelty. In the Voyages (p. 23), our author makes mention "of a sea-serpent, or snake, that lay quoiled up like a cable upon a rock at Cape Ann. A boat passing by with English aboard, and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent : but the Indians disswaded them ; saying, that, if he were not kill'd outright, they would be all in danger of their lives.
Сторінка 21 - /2 of northerly latitude: our plot was there to take whales and make trials of a mine of gold and copper. If those failed, fish and furs was then our refuge to make ourselves savers howsoever.
Сторінка 225 - We do also give ourselves one unto another in the Lord, covenanting to walk together as a church of Christ in all the ways of his worship, according to the...
Сторінка 345 - I know not if the annals of the human race keep the record of sorrows so wantonly inflicted, so bitter and so perennial, as fell upon the French inhabitants of Acadia. 'We have been true...
Сторінка 44 - This harbor twenty ships may easily ride therein, where there was an island whither four of our men with a boat went and brought back again ripe strawberries and gooseberries and sweet single roses. Thus God was merciful to us in giving us a taste and smell of the sweet fruit as an earnest of his bountiful goodness to welcome us at our first arrival.
Сторінка 41 - Anne; secretly conceiving in his mind, that in following times, (as since is fallen out) it might prove a receptacle for such as upon the account of religion would be willing to begin a foreign plantation in this part of the world, of which he gave some intimation to his friends in England.

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