Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Incorporation of Conway, Massachusetts: At Conway, June 19th, 1867 : Including a Historical Address by Rev. Charles B. Rice ... Poem by Harvey Rice ... Oration by William Howland ... and the Other Exercises of the OccasionBridgman & Childs, 1867 - 136 страница |
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Allis Amsden Ashfield attended Avery Baptist Boston Broomshire Caleb called Capt celebration centennial century Charles Charles Parsons Childs church Clark Clary Committee Congregational Consider Arms county road Crittenden Cyrus Rice David Childs Deerfield Deerfield river Dickinson died E. D. Hamilton early Elijah Elisha England fathers Field's Hill hill honor Horace Jenkins human equality idea Israel Rice James John Arms John Clary John Emerson Jonas Rice Jonathan Joseph Josiah Josiah Goddard labor land living Malachi Maynard meeting house memory mile mill minister Nathaniel Field native of Conway Newhall occasion occupied pastor persons political preaching present principles Pumpkin Hollow Republican Responded Rice hill Sabbath Samuel Samuel Ware sentiment settlement Shelburne Shelburne Falls sons South River spot stand Stearns Thomas French Thwing tion to-day town meeting tree Voted Ware West Whitney Widow William Yankee
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Страница 94 - On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Страница 132 - The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone. Henceforward, listen as we will, The voices of that hearth are still; Look where we may, the wide earth o'er, Those lighted faces smile no more.
Страница 132 - Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play! Who hath not learned in hours of faith, The truth to flesh and sense unknown, That Life is ever Lord of Death...
Страница 108 - It is notorious that the great mass of criminals is made up of the poor, the ill-taught, the ill-conditioned, and, in a double sense, the unfortunate" " The proportion in the Commonwealth of those who cannot read and write, among persons capable of crime, is between six and seven per cent., while the proportion of criminals who cannot read and • write, for the last ten years, has been between thirty and forty per cent, or more than five times as great...
Страница 16 - Conway was a brave soldier, and a well meaning, though not an able statesman. The General Court had authorized Elijah "Williams, " One of His Majesties' justices of the peace for the County of Hampshire...
Страница 50 - Persons that Stand on the Side of the Contanant Take up arms and go on hand and hand with us in Carrying on the war against our Unnatural Enemies, Such we Receive as Friends and all others treat as Enemies. Voted that the Broad alley be a line, and the South end of the meeting hous be the Continant Side, and the North End the British Side then moved for Trial and found 6 persons to stand on the British Side (viz.) Elijah Billings, Jonathan Oakes, Wm.
Страница 33 - ... Here a huge fire was built on Sundays, which was resorted to at morning and noon. Here we may suppose our fathers and mothers had their Sunday noon conversations, always on befitting topics. This house was built as early, at the latest, as 1769. How long it stood I have no means of knowing. SCHOOLS. The first action of the town with respect to schools appears in the record of a meeting held in September, 1767, at which it was voted "yt they will hire a Dame to keep school 5 months, and yt Messrs....
Страница 53 - It was printed first in the house now occupied by Osee Adams, (then standing a little south-east of where the Baptist meeting house now is, and afterwards used as a tinshop,) and later " a few rods north of the meeting house " in Pumpkin Hollow, in the building recently occupied by Lucy Severance.
Страница 48 - ... Gates, Josiah Boyden, Elisha Clark, and Alexander Oliver. In July, 1775, the old committee was dismissed, Captain Arms and some others beginning to hold back from extreme measures, and Samuel Crittenden, Jonathan Whitney, Malachi Maynard, James Gilmore, John Thwing, Jonas Rice, Isaac Amsden, Captain Clark, and Israel Rice were put in their stead. On the 24th of May, 1776, being assembled at the meeting house, and having appointed a committee to frame the vote, they proceeded to declare that "If...
Страница 108 - Out of 11,260 prisoners, only 429, or less than one in twenty-five, are reported as ever having owned the value of $1,000." The Secretary mentions that 7,343, or about twothirds of this number, are set down as intemperate, which he deems too low an estimate. Those figures show that the social law I have so often affirmed, holds good in Massachusetts, and up to the present tune. It is from