Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Volume 20The Society, 1920 - Massachusetts Primarily consists of: Transactions, v. 1, 3, 5-8, 10-14, 17-21, 24-28, 32, 34-35, 38, 42-43; and: Collections, v. 2, 4, 9, 15-16, 22-23, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-41; also includes lists of members. |
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... sent , as we learn from a letter he wrote from the Hague on June 30th to Franklin and now among the Franklin papers in the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia , three copies of his new edition of the treatise of the Swiss ...
... sent , as we learn from a letter he wrote from the Hague on June 30th to Franklin and now among the Franklin papers in the American Philosophical Society at Philadelphia , three copies of his new edition of the treatise of the Swiss ...
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... sent on in the summer of 1776 to James Bowdoin , afterwards governor of Massa- chusetts and a member of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 , for presentation to the library of Harvard College . Bowdoin gave it to the College Library ...
... sent on in the summer of 1776 to James Bowdoin , afterwards governor of Massa- chusetts and a member of the Massachusetts Convention of 1788 , for presentation to the library of Harvard College . Bowdoin gave it to the College Library ...
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... sent a general visitation of Children by coughs & colds , of wch my 3 children Sarah , Mary & Elisabeth Danforth died , all of ym within ye space of a fort- night . " Many years later Cotton Mather wrote : 1 In December 1659. the ...
... sent a general visitation of Children by coughs & colds , of wch my 3 children Sarah , Mary & Elisabeth Danforth died , all of ym within ye space of a fort- night . " Many years later Cotton Mather wrote : 1 In December 1659. the ...
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... sent the relative amount of interest and information which the seventeenth century Londoners had concerning their fellow - countrymen across the ocean . The exhaustive care with which the descendants of the colonists have in- terpreted ...
... sent the relative amount of interest and information which the seventeenth century Londoners had concerning their fellow - countrymen across the ocean . The exhaustive care with which the descendants of the colonists have in- terpreted ...
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... sent to the Governor and Council , and a vessel manned by the Salem and Marblehead 2 militia went ' out after them , but with no success . The ketch and her company then proceeded to Casco Bay , where on the 14th they were joined by ...
... sent to the Governor and Council , and a vessel manned by the Salem and Marblehead 2 militia went ' out after them , but with no success . The ketch and her company then proceeded to Casco Bay , where on the 14th they were joined by ...
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Page 366 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 122 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Page 122 - Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
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Page 76 - ... against the peace of our sovereign Lord and Lady the King and Queen, and against the form of the statute in that case made and provided.
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Page 103 - As the fire began in the middle or second story, the records, books, papers, furniture, pictures of the kings and queens, &c., which were in the Council Chamber, the Chamber of the House of Representatives, and the apartments thereof in that story, were consumed, as were also the books and papers in the offices of the upper story.