The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 3New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1849 Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters. |
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... August into a Bay or Streight under the Latitude of 63 Degrees , where he found men with black Hair , broad Faces , flat Noses , swarthy - coloured , apparelled in Sea - calves Skins ; the Women painted about the Eyes and Balls of the ...
... August into a Bay or Streight under the Latitude of 63 Degrees , where he found men with black Hair , broad Faces , flat Noses , swarthy - coloured , apparelled in Sea - calves Skins ; the Women painted about the Eyes and Balls of the ...
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... August , in latitude 63 deg . 8 min . , he discovered and entered the straights which ever since have borne his name . On the 14th of the same month he " ranne into another sownde , where we ankered in 8. fathome water , and there ...
... August , in latitude 63 deg . 8 min . , he discovered and entered the straights which ever since have borne his name . On the 14th of the same month he " ranne into another sownde , where we ankered in 8. fathome water , and there ...
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... August , 1577. " Having dispatched this Frobisher waited therea- bouts for a return of his messengers till the 22d . None came , and as the season was getting late , and as his commission was for procuring gold ore rather than the ...
... August , 1577. " Having dispatched this Frobisher waited therea- bouts for a return of his messengers till the 22d . None came , and as the season was getting late , and as his commission was for procuring gold ore rather than the ...
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... August . The discomfiture of the Spaniards was most complete . Out of one hundred and thirty - four sail ( ninety - one of which were immense ships , then called " galleons " ) only thirty - three ever returned to Spain . In men their ...
... August . The discomfiture of the Spaniards was most complete . Out of one hundred and thirty - four sail ( ninety - one of which were immense ships , then called " galleons " ) only thirty - three ever returned to Spain . In men their ...
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... [ August , 1689 , ] 3 leagues from Half Way Rock . They captured the brig Merrimack of Newburyport , Capt . John Kent , on the 22d , in Martin Vineyard Sound . " [ Then as above in the text . ] They killed him , and wounded some of his ...
... [ August , 1689 , ] 3 leagues from Half Way Rock . They captured the brig Merrimack of Newburyport , Capt . John Kent , on the 22d , in Martin Vineyard Sound . " [ Then as above in the text . ] They killed him , and wounded some of his ...
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