The History of Boxford, Essex County, Massachusetts: From the Earliest Settlement Known to the Present Time: a Period of about Two Hundred and Thirty YearsThe author, 1880 - 410页 |
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acres Amos Andover Andrews April battle Benjamin Born in Boxford Boston Bradford Capt Chadwick chosen committee Court Curtis Cushing Daniel Wood David David Kimball Deacon died East Elizabeth Elizur Holyoke ENLISTED Ephraim Ephraim Foster erected farm George Pearl Gould Hannah Haverhill Hazen Herrick Holyoke hundred Indians inhabitants Ipswich Ipswich River Isaac Isaac Adams Isaac Hale Jacob John Chadwick John Peabody John Pickard John Tyler Joseph Bixby Joseph Hale Joseph Peabody July June Killam Kimball land lived in Boxford March married Mary meeting-house minister ministry Moses Dorman Moses Kimball Nathan Nathaniel pastor Pond Porter pounds preached present Redington regiment Rowley Village Salem Samuel Symonds Sarah selectmen Sept settled Spofford Stephen Stiles Symmes Thomas Perley Thomas Redington Topsfield town of Boxford Tyler West Parish widow wife William
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第215页 - It was two by the village clock, When he came to the bridge in Concord town. He heard the bleating of the flock, And the twitter of birds among the trees, And felt the breath of the morning breeze Blowing over the meadows brown.
第89页 - OUR vales are sweet with fern and rose, Our hills are maple-crowned ; But not from them our fathers chose The village burying-ground. The dreariest spot in all the land To Death they set apart ; With scanty grace from Nature's hand, And none from that of Art.
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第68页 - ... to meeting on Sunday, in files on horseback, the farmer holding the bridle in one hand, and a child in the other, his wife seated on a pillion behind him, it may be with a child in her lap, as was the fashion in those days, could not proceed safely ; but, at the moment when least expected, bullets would come whizzing by them, discharged with fatal aim from an ambuscade by the way-side.
第215页 - You know the rest. In the books you have read, How the British regulars fired and fled, How the farmers gave them ball for ball, From behind each fence and farm-yard wall, Chasing the red-coats down the lane, Then crossing the fields to emerge again Under the trees at the turn of the road, And only pausing to fire and load.
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