History of the Town of Holland, MassachusettsTuttle Company, 1915 - 749 pages |
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History of the Town of Holland: Massachusetts (Classic Reprint) Martin Lovering No preview available - 2015 |
History of the Town of Holland, Massachusetts Martin Lovering,Ursula N. MacFarland Chase No preview available - 2015 |
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Abel Allen Adolphus Webber Alfred Lyon Alvin Goodell Anderson Asa Dana Ballard Barn Belknap Benjamin Church born Bounded north building Burt Butterworth C. B. Drake Capt child Children committee Conn Daniel Daniel Burnett David Wallis died E. G. Fuller east east parish Ebenezer Edward Webber Elbridge G Ezra Allen F. B. Blodgett F. E. Kinney Freeland Wallis Frizell Glazier Hannah Henry Horace Wallis Howlett Ichabod Goodell Isaac Partridge Jacob Thompson James John Polley John Wallis John Weaver Jonas Blodgett Jonathan Joseph Blodgett Joseph Bruce July June June 26 land Leonard lived Lynn Marcy married Mary Mass meeting house mill Mirick Monson Moulton Munger Needham Nehemiah parish pastor Perrin Quinnebaug records Reuben Rosebrooks Samuel Webber Sarah selectmen Sept Sherebiah South Brimfield Sturbridge thence Thomas Wallis town meeting vote Wales wife Wight Willard Weld William William Belknap
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Page 137 - Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way "With blossomed furze unprofitably gay, There in his noisy mansion, skilled to rule, The village master taught his little school.
Page 137 - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.
Page 307 - Fear ye foes who kill for hire? Will ye to your homes retire? Look behind you ! — they're afire ! And, before you see Who have done it! From the vale On they come! — and will ye quail? Leaden rain and iron hail Let their welcome be!
Page 215 - Much impressed Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too. Affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.
Page 207 - THE CURFEW tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The plowman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Page 325 - Is true Freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And, with leathern hearts, forget That we owe mankind a debt? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And, with heart and hand, to be Earnest to make others free!
Page 324 - He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, neath the allbeholding sun, That wrong is also done to us ; and they are slaves most base, Whose love of right is for themselves, and not for all their race.
Page 387 - God: therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament...
Page 239 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true, For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance And the good that I can do.
Page 395 - Correction'], there to imprison him [and keep him to hard labour] for the space of , and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.