A History of the Early Settlement of Newton, County of Middlesex, Massachusetts, from 1639 to 1800: With a Genealogical Register of Its Inhabitants, Prior to 1800Heritage Books, 1854 - 555 pages About 2/3rds genealogical register of residents prior to 1800. J0041HB - $44.00 |
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Page 89 - There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage, or captivitie amongst us, unles it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us.
Page 252 - God, do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following. That is to say First and Principally I commend my soul into the hands of Almighty God...
Page 7 - This is one of the neatest and best compacted towns in New England, having many fair structures, with many handsome contrived streets. The inhabitants, most of them, are very rich...
Page 409 - Mr. SHERMAN was for leaving the clause as it stands. He disapproved of the slave trade ; yet, as the states were now possessed of the right to import slaves, as the public good did not require it to be taken from them, and as it was expedient to have as few objections as possible to the proposed scheme of government, he thought it best to leave the matter as we find it.
Page 453 - All the frame of Heaven moves upon one axis, and the whole of New England's interest seems designed to be loaden on one bottom, and her particular motion to be concentric to the Massachusetts tropic. You know who are wont to trot after the bay horse.
Page 91 - There hath been no company of blacks or slaves brought into the country since the beginning of this plantation, for the space of fifty years, only one small vessel about two years since, after twenty months...
Page 185 - Court, whether that, if the honorable Congress should, for the safety of the said Colonies, declare them independent of the Kingdom of Great Britain, they the said inhabitants will solemnly engage with their lives and fortunes to support them in the measure...
Page 88 - Authoritie assembled in some Court or two Assistants. 87. If any man smite out the eye or tooth of his manservant, or...
Page 91 - Barbados and other of his majesties plantations, and sold here for about twenty pounds apiece ; so that there may be within our government about one hundred, or one hundred and twenty ; and it may be as many Scots, brought hither and sold for servants in the time of the warr with Scotland...
Page 64 - In answer to the petition of the inhabitants of Cambridge Village, lying on the south side of Charles River, sometimes called New Cambridge, being granted to be a township, praying that a name may be given lo said town, it is ordered that it be henceforth called New Town...