History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764-1905, Volumen 1The author, 1906 |
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Acts and Resolves appointed April August Bartlet Benjamin Boston Brig building buryport Caleb Cushing Capt Captain church city of Newburyport Coffin command committee congress Country Gazette Court Daniel December Eben F Ebenezer Edward Enoch erected Essex Deeds Essex Journal February George Hampshire Packet held Herald and Country High street History of Newbury hundred inhabitants of Newburyport James January John Lowell Jonathan Greenleaf Jonathan Jackson Joseph July June land leaf Letter of marque Lunt March March 12 Market square Massachusetts Archives meeting house Merrimack river Merrimack street Mycall Newbury Currier Newburyport Herald Newburyport Town Records November o'clock October officers Ould Newbury pastor persons petition Plum island port proprietors published purchased Ralph Cross sailed Salem Salisbury Samuel selectmen September ship society sold Stephen Hooper Theophilus Parsons Thomas Titcomb town of Newbury town of Newburyport Tristram Dalton vessels voted Washington William
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Página 457 - With salt-spray caught below, — That ship must heed her master's beck, Her helm obey his hand, And seamen tread her reeling deck As if they trod the land. Her oaken ribs the vulture-beak Of Northern ice may peel ; The sunken rock and coral peak May grate along her keel ; And know we well the painted shell We give to wind and wave, Must float, the sailor's citadel, Or sink, the sailor's grave ! Ho ! — strike away the bars and blocks, And set the good ship free ! Why lingers on these dusty rocks...
Página 558 - An Accurate and Interesting Account of the Hardships and Sufferings of that Band of Heroes who traversed the Wilderness in the Campaign against Quebec in 1775.
Página 60 - All men are born free and equal, and have certain natural, essential, and unalienable rights; among which may be reckoned the right of enjoying and defending their lives and liberties; that of acquiring, possessing, and protecting property; in fine, that of seeking and obtaining their safety and happiness.
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Página 395 - he has left riding the single horse post between Boston and Portsmouth and now drives the post stage lately improved by John Noble. He sets out from Boston every Friday morning and from Portsmouth on Tuesday morning following.
Página 77 - ... to cultivate every art and science which may tend to advance the interest, honor, dignity and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.30 29 John Adams, Works (CF Adams, edit., Boston, 1851-1856), IV, 302, in footnote; 80 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Memoirs, as, XI (1888) , 78.
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Página 612 - Resolved, That the thanks of this Congress be, and they are hereby given to Capt. Jeremiah Obrian, and Capt. Benjamin Foster, and the other brave men under their command, for their courage and good conduct in taking one of the tenders belonging to our enemies, and two sloops belonging to Ichabod Jones, and for preventing the ministerial troops being supplied with lumber ; and that the said tender, sloops, their...
Página 412 - I am persuaded you will permit me to observe that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. To this consideration we ought to ascribe the absence of any regulation respecting religion from the Magna Charta of our country. To the guidance of the ministers of the gospel this important object is perhaps, more properly committed. It will be your care to instruct the ignorant and to reclaim the devious and in the progress of morality and science, to which our government...