Geneologies

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Houghton Mifflin, 1913

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Seite 508 - Parker was often heard to say, that be the consequences what they might, and let others do what they pleased, he would never run from the enemy. He was as good as his word, — better. Having loaded his musket, he placed his hat, containing his ammunition, on the ground between his feet, in readiness for. a second charge. At the second fire he was wounded, and sunk upon his knees ; and in this condition discharged his gun.
Seite 509 - ... he would never run from the enemy. He was as good as his word, — better. Having loaded his musket, he placed his hat, containing his ammunition, on the ground between his feet, in readiness for. a second charge. At the second fire he was wounded, and sunk upon his knees ; and in this condition discharged his gun. While loading it again, upon his knees, and striving in the agonies of death to redeem his pledge, he was transfixed by a bayonet ; and thus died on the spot where he first stood and...
Seite 568 - He was a member of the first board of trustees of the Wilkes-Barre academy, which was incorporated March 19, 1807, and filled that position until his death in 1832.
Seite 196 - He hastened to his country's service on the eventful morning of the 19th of April, 1775, and here, within the precincts, hallowed by the blood which was shed that day, after an honorable and useful life, he rests in peace and hope, conformably to his last wish, by his mother's side.
Seite 454 - Blodgett's company, which marched to the relief of Fort William Henry in 1757, and was a corporal in the French War in 1760.
Seite 421 - I give & bequeath to Sarah my wife all my whole estate towards and for the bringing up of all my children ; & I do give to the said Sarah my wife power and authority to sell my house that I now dwell in if God shall offer such an opportunity it being larger and bigger than she shall stand in need of : and that the overplus of providing a lesse house...
Seite 508 - Clark, and had evidently imbibed a double portion of his lofty spirit. Parker was often heard to say, that be the consequences what they might, and let others do what they pleased, he would never run from the enemy.
Seite 750 - ... traced excepting by knowledge of extraneous facts. It recites that for more than twenty years the farmers, "dwelling on a certain tract of out-lands, . . . obtained leave from the General Court, with approbation of the town, to be a hamlet or separate precinct, and were set off by a line, to wit : — beginning at the first run of water or swampy place, over which is a kind of bridge in the way or road on the southerly side of Francis Whitmore's house, towards the town of Cambridge aforesaid.
Seite 142 - He was an assessor in 1694, a selectman in 1718, and was appointed a tythingman at the first town meeting after the town was incorporated. He was honored in the public records with the title of lieutenant. He married ABIGAIL ( ) , who died 19 Feb.
Seite 460 - He was an original member of the Society of the Cincinnati and second president of the Rhode Island society of that order.

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