Centennial History of the Town of Sumner, Me: 1798-1898C. E. Handy, jr., 1899 - 202 páginas |
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... Court for a grant of land , specifying the location . After the public survey the grant was usually made with certain restrictions . The Commonwealth pre- scribed that certain lots should be reserved for the first settled minister ...
... Court for a grant of land , specifying the location . After the public survey the grant was usually made with certain restrictions . The Commonwealth pre- scribed that certain lots should be reserved for the first settled minister ...
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... Court , and were there killed ; probably ' . through the influence of the majority of the Proprie- tors , who naturally opposed the incorporation as in- creasing their taxes . In December 1793 , the West plantation chose a committee ...
... Court , and were there killed ; probably ' . through the influence of the majority of the Proprie- tors , who naturally opposed the incorporation as in- creasing their taxes . In December 1793 , the West plantation chose a committee ...
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... Court was once more postponed . Then a petition from the voters of both plantations was drawn up in December 1797 , and this is the first petition which asks for incorporation with east branch of the twenty - mile river as the division ...
... Court was once more postponed . Then a petition from the voters of both plantations was drawn up in December 1797 , and this is the first petition which asks for incorporation with east branch of the twenty - mile river as the division ...
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... Court in Boston , that they concluded to send an agent with this one to smooth the way for its acceptance , and the ' grant- * See Appendix , I. † Appendix , K. ‡ Appendix , L. ing of their wishes in the matter . They chose SUMNER ...
... Court in Boston , that they concluded to send an agent with this one to smooth the way for its acceptance , and the ' grant- * See Appendix , I. † Appendix , K. ‡ Appendix , L. ing of their wishes in the matter . They chose SUMNER ...
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... Court at their June session 1798 , and this day completes the full hundred years since that act went into effect and a new town was added to the great Commonwealth . " A hundred years have passed away Since first the forests ' solitude ...
... Court at their June session 1798 , and this day completes the full hundred years since that act went into effect and a new town was added to the great Commonwealth . " A hundred years have passed away Since first the forests ' solitude ...
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Centennial History of the Town of Sumner, Me. 1798-1898 Sumner (Me.) Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
Centennial History of the Town of Sumner, Me;, 1798-1898 (Classic Reprint) Sumner Me Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
Abbott Abel Benjamin Heald Benjamin W born Aug born Dec born Feb born Jan born July born June born Mar born Nov born Oct born Sept Boston Buck Buckfield Calvin Bisbee Capt Chandler Charles child church Coburn Crocket daughter died division line Dunstable East Butterfield Eliphalet Morrill Elisha Bisbee enlisted farm George George W Harriet Hartford Hayford Hebron Academy Hezekiah Stetson Hiram honor hundred incorporation Increase Robinson inhabitants Isaac Bonney Isaac Sturtevant James Hersey John Briggs John Keen Joseph Robinson July 11 June 12 June 21 land Lewis Bisbee lived Maine Infantry married Mary Mass Massachusetts McAlister Noah Bozworth Paris Parlin petition petitioners plantation Proprietors Pulsifer resides S. F. Stetson Samuel Sarah second wife Seth Sturtevant settlers SHARON ROBINSON Simeon Barrett South Paris Stephen Ellis Stetson three children Timothy Cobb town of Sumner Tuell Turner West Sumner Whitney Cummings William
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Página 44 - Beneath whose awful hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine — Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget! The tumult and the shouting dies; The captains and the kings depart: Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heart. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget — lest we forget!
Página 8 - BACKWARD, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again, just for to-night! Mother, come back from the echoless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore; Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care, Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair; Over my slumbers your loving watch keep;— Rock me to sleep, mother, — rock me to sleep!
Página 148 - Tuesday the tenth day of December next, at ten of the clock in the forenoon, then and there to be...
Página iii - To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
Página xv - Bounds, with the Inhabitants thereon be and they hereby are incorporated into a Town by the Name of Otisfield.
Página xv - Be it matted by the Senate and Houfe of Reprefentatives, in General Court affembled, and by the authority of the fame, as follows : SECTION i.
Página 16 - ... booming cannon and the clashing arms. But most of all, among the innumerable multitudes who peopled the past, we seek our own ancestors, drawn towards them by an irresistible sympathy. Indeed, they were our other selves. With reverent solicitude we examine into their character and actions, and as we find them worthy or unworthy, our hearts swell with pride, or our cheeks glow with shame.
Página 32 - What's talk to them whose faith and truth On War's red touchstone rang true metal, Who ventured life and love and youth For the great prize of death in battle ? To him who, deadly hurt, again Flashed on before the charge's thunder.
Página 130 - He was a lawyer of note, a legislator, judge, and a governor of Delaware. He was also a member of the convention which framed the Constitution of the United States...