Dedham Historical Register, Volume 7Dedham Historical Society, 1896 |
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18th Reg't Mass 1st Reg't 2d Reg't 2dly 43d Reg't Mass 4th Reg't 9 mos Aaron Lewis Aaron Smith aforesaid aged April April 16 April 24 Bird and Anna born in Dedham Boston brother BURDAKIN Canton Capt Church Clark Daniel daughter Dedham Historical disability discharged East Street Ebenezer Edward Eleazer Elijah Elizabeth Ellis England farm father Fisher GEORGE give & bequeath Guild Hannah Adams Henry Hewins Item I Give James Jeremiah John Huntting Joseph July 29 July 30 June 17 June 9 land Lyndeboro Mann March March 18 marriage married Mary Draper Meadow Medfield Medway mustered out July mustered out Sept Nathaniel Partridge Pitt pounds Probate record resided Richards Roxbury Ruth Samuel Sarah selectman Sergeant South Dedham Susanna taught Theodore Thomas town U. S. Navy Walpole West Dedham wife William Woburn Worthington wounds Wrentham
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Page 133 - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never...
Page 134 - Scottish inroads, and the Norman conquest, that has stood the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada, now fall prostrate before the House of Bourbon? Surely, my Lords, this nation is no longer what it was! Shall a people that seventeen years ago was the terror of the world, now stoop so low as to tell its ancient inveterate enemy, Take all we have only give us peace?
Page 98 - Teach me to feel another's woe, To hide the fault I see ; That mercy I to others show, That mercy show to me.
Page 133 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts; they must be repealed — you will repeal them; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally, repealed.
Page 130 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Page 127 - Pitt was then one of the poor; and to him Heaven directed a portion of the wealth of the haughty Dowager. She left him a legacy of ten thousand pounds, in consideration of "the noble defence he had made for the support of the laws of England and to prevent the ruin of his country.
Page 41 - The said Inhabitants, taking into Consideration the great necesitie of providing some means for the Education of the youth in or s'd Towne, did with an unanimous consent declare by voate their willingness to promote that worke, promising to put too their hands, to provide maintenance for a Free Schoole in our said Towne.
Page 135 - Pitt be interred at the public charge, and that a monument be erected in the Collegiate Church of St. Peter, Westminster, to the memory of that...
Page 145 - United States to get President & Vice President it is confidently affirmed that Adams an aristocratic Lawyer in favor of British Dignities manners & Government will be President — And Jefferson late Gov. of Virginia a firm supporter of the Rights of Man & admirer of the French Revolution will be Vice President, which I hope will introduce him to be finally President & prevent a threatened War with France that gave no power to choose President & form of Governt !!!... [March] 28 [1798] An infamous...
Page 131 - The Americans have not acted in all things with prudence and temper. The Americans have been wronged. They have been driven to madness by injustice. Will you punish them for the madness you have occasioned ? Rather let prudence and temper come first from this side.