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 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.
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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...
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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...