The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 3

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New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1849
Vols. 37-52 (1883-98) include section: Genealogical gleanings in England, by H. F. Waters.

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Page 249 - He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes, He kissed their drooping leaves ; It was for the Lord of Paradise He bound them in his sheaves. ' My Lord has need of these flowerets gay, Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Page 41 - be called to give my voyce touching any such matter of this State, in which Freemen are to deal, / will give my vote and suffrage as I shall judge in mine own conscience may best conduce and tend to the publike weal of the body. So help me God in the Lord Jesus Christ.
Page 192 - Justified, and tlie People there Vindicated from the Aspersions cast upon them by Mr. John Palmer, in his Pretended Answer to the Declaration published by the Inhabitants of Boston, and the Country adjacent, on the Day when they secured their late Oppressors, who acted by an Illegal and Arbitrary Commission from the late King James,
Page 200 - of the Reverend Author whom we answer, and his Friends, that we could not obtain of the Printer there to Print the following Sheets, which is the only true Reason why we have sent the Copy so far for its Impression, and where it is Printed with some Difficulty.
Page 93 - give a very perfect idea of his personal appearance and peculiar habits.* •• He was of a middle .stature, more corpulent through his clothes than in his body, yet fat enough, his clothes ever being made large and easy; the doublets quilted for stiletto proof; his breeches in great plaits and full
Page 70 - was first a papist, then a protestant ; then a papist, then a protestant again. This Vicar being taxed by one for being a turn-coat, Not so, (said he,) for I always kept my principle; which is this, to live and die Vicar of Bray. To this Fuller adds, 'such
Page 249 - They shall all bloom in fields of light, Transplanted by my care, And Saints upon their garments white These sacred blossoms wear.
Page 123 - men on the earth ? Behold, Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee ; how much less this house which I have built!
Page 58 - 22. 1811." GOD Wills us free ; MAN Wills us slaves ; I will, as God wills ; God's will be done. Here lies the body of JOHN JACK, a Native of Africa, who died March 1773, Aged about sixty years. Tho born in
Page 41 - thereof, submitting my self to the wholesome Lawes & Orders made and established by the same. And further, that / will not plot or practice any evill against it, or consent to any that shall so do ; but will timely discover and reveal the same to lawfull Authority now here established, for the

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