Diary of the Rev. Samuel Checkley, 1735

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J. Wilson and son, 1909 - 36 páginas
 

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Página 293 - Nae cotillion brent new frae France, But hornpipes, jigs, strathspeys and reels, Put life and mettle in their heels. A winnock-bunker in the east, There sat auld Nick, in shape o...
Página 254 - ... Harvard College Library From the Library of ERNEST LEWIS GAY Class of 1897 Given by his Nephew GEORGE HENRY GAY June 15, 1927 . .{ . > .1 I * I J.
Página 274 - Gallop, Widow, aged 37 Years." 1 The words in the text are those of the half-title, missing in some copies. There were three sermons, each separately paged, but with a continuous register. The titles are as follows : Murder a great and crying Sin. A Sermon Preach'd on the Lord's-Day March 4th. 1732-3. To a poor Prisoner Under Sentence of Death for that Crime. Mercy with God for the chief of Sinners. A Sermon Preach'd on the Lord's Day March 4th To a Prisoner Under Sentence of Death for Murder. Sinners...
Página 290 - Governments are determined not to make use of it 2 Died Mr. Ephraim Copeland, Taylor. 5 A Union established between the South and North-End Popes, Capt. Mclntosh on the Part of the South, and Capt. Swift on the Part of the North. It has heretofore been the Practice on the Eveng of the 5th. of November for the two Popes to engage, by which means many Persons have been greatly maimed. This Union, and one other more extensive, may be looked upon as the only happy Effects arising from the Stamp-Act....
Página 280 - McEenzie's account, it must be confessed, is somewhat confusing. He says: The new life began to appear in 1734, under the powerful preaching of Jonathan Edwards, at Northampton. It spread to the surrounding towns. It aroused the interest of the Boston churches. Dr. Colman wrote to Dr. Edwards for an .'it-count of the work, which was given in a letter long afterward published in London.
Página 274 - Preach'd before His Excellency William Shirley, Esq; The Honourable His Majesty's Council, and House of Representatives, Of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, in New England : May 28th- 1755.
Página 293 - This year (1774) the celebration went off with a great flourish. In the daytime companies of little boys might be seen in various parts of the town, with their little popes dressed up in the most grotesque and fantastic manner, which they carried about, some on boards and some on little carriages, for their own and others
Página 278 - Mr Willord (of Biddiford)." This was the Rev. Samuel Willard of the Harvard Class of 1723, long settled at Biddeford. He was the father of Joseph Willard, the President of Harvard College. 1 New England Historical and Genealogical Register, ix. 340, 341. 1 See p. 214, above.
Página 305 - See pp. 284, 287, above. NOVEMBER 1 fair very cold 2 E. prd all day fair very cold. 5 fair pleasant.1 This Day (being Gun powder treason)2 a Great number of people went over to Dorchester neck where at night they made a Great Bonfire and plaid off many fireworks, afterwards 4 young men coming home in a Canoe were all Drownd. They were not heard of til 17 & or 18 Day & then two of them were taken up dead on...
Página 294 - The fifth of November, As you well remember, Was gunpowder treason and plot; I know of no reason Why the gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot.

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