Concord in the Colonial Period: Being a History of the Town of Concord, Massachusetts, from the Earliest Settlement to the Overthrow of the Andros Government, 1635-1689Estes and Lauriat, 1884 - 172 頁 |
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Archives Billerica Blood's Farms Boston bridges Bulkeley's Captain Wheeler Chelmsford church colonial Concord River County Court Records East Quarter EBENEZER PROUT Edward Wright England English GEORGE WHEELER Henry Woodis James highway hill History house-lot hundred acres Hutchinson Indians inhabitants of Concord John Flint John Heywood John Smedly Jones Joseph Joseph Wheeler laid lived Major Willard mark Mass meadow meeting-house Middlesex Deeds miles Mill Brook ministers Nashoba North River old bounds original grant parcel persons Peter Bulkeley petition plantation Pond pounds Proprietors Richard Rice Rivre road Robert Meriam Rods Samuel Sarah sayd selectmen Shattuck Shepard Simon Davis Simon Willard South Quarter Speen Sudbury Thomas Brooke Thomas Wheeler thousand acres Timothy Wheeler Henry Town of Concord town records Tract of land unto voted Watertown Wheeler Henry Woodis wife William Buss Winthrop wood Woodis James Blood
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第 29 頁 - How beautiful to see Once more a shepherd of mankind indeed, Who loved his charge, but never loved to lead ; One whose meek flock the people joyed to be, Not lured by any cheat of birth, But by his clear-grained human worth, And brave old wisdom of sincerity!
第 xxi 頁 - Beneath low hills, in the broad interval Through which at will our Indian rivulet Winds mindful still of sannup and of squaw, Whose pipe and arrow oft the plough unburies, Here in pine houses built of new-fallen trees, Supplanters of the tribe, the farmers dwell.
第 14 頁 - ... they burrow themselves in the Earth for their first shelter under some Hill-side, casting the Earth aloft upon Timber; they make a smoaky fire against the Earth at the highest side...
第 14 頁 - God, till they can provide them houses, which ordinarily was not wont to be with many till the earth, by the Lord's blessing, brought forth bread to feed them...
第 96 頁 - Alas ! for them — their day is o'er. Their fires are out from hill and shore; No more for them the wild deer bounds, The plough is on their hunting grounds; The pale man's axe rings through their woods, The pale man's sail skims o'er their floods, Their pleasant springs are dry ; Their children — look, by power oppressed, Beyond the mountains of the west, Their children go -— to die.
第 34 頁 - Whereas your humble petitioners came into this country about four years agoe, and have since then lived at Concord, where we were forced to buy what now we have, or the most of it, the convenience of the town being before given out : your petitioners having been brought up in husbandry, of children, finding the lands about the town very barren, and the meadows very wet and unuseful, especially those we now have interest in ; and knowing it is your desire the lands might be subdued, have taken pains...
第 54 頁 - Right & full power to grant bargain & sell the above granted & bargained premises unto the said Timothy Wheeler Henry Woodis James Blood and John Flint and the Rest of the Proprietors of the said Town of Concord to them their heirs successors and assigns forever and that the said Timothy Wheeler Henry Woodis James Blood John Flint and the Rest of the Proprietors of the said Town of Concord them their heirs assigns and successors forever shall and may at all Times and from time to time forever hereafter...
第 31 頁 - ... put back, still, by NW winds, she bare up, and went for England, and arriving at Southampton, the parliament made use of the treasure. God would not suffer her to come to us, lest our hearts should have §been taken with her wealth, and so have!§ caused the Spaniard to have an evil eye upon us. Some of the elders went to Concord, being sent for by the church there, to advise with them about the maintenance of their elders, etc. They found them wavering about removal, not finding their plantation...
第 23 頁 - ... Much," the title Mr. meant a great deal more than it does today. At that time there were many grades of society and the title Mr. was applied to only a few persons of unquestionable eminence. All ministers and their wives took the title and the higher magistrates but it was not given to deputies in the general court as such. The great body of respectable citizens were dubbed Goodman and Good wife. Below the grade of Goodman were still the servants who had no prefix to their names. Samuel's marriage...
第 56 頁 - ... thereof. In acknowledgement of this our act and deed, we have hereto put our hands and seals this fifth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred eighty and four.