The Story of My Ancestors in AmericaD. Oliphant, printer, 1895 - 72 pages |
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acres America ancestors ancient army August block-house born in Haverhill Boston Burgoyne buried Canada Chester church Clarendon colony Committee of Correspondence daughter death deed descendants died early settlers EDWIN SAWYER WALKER ELIZABETH GILKEY enemy England erected Fairfax farm father February fifty Flamstead friends frontier GIDEON WALKER served GILE FAMILY GILE WALKER GILKEY FAMILY Green Lake Green Lake County Green Mountains Hampshire Grants Haverhill held heroic honor Indian JAMES GILE Jesse Walker JOSEPH GILE July June King Philip King Philip's war Lake Champlain land Leicester MALINDA GILE March married Massachusetts Massasoit Militia MOSES GILE Nashaways October old homestead Pay Roll Philip Walker Pittsford Prudence Sawyer purchased Rachel Walker record Rehoboth removed residence Revolutionary Roll of Capt Rutland SAMUEL GILE savage Seekonk September settlement Shelburn soldiers Thomas Chandler THOMAS CHITTENDEN THOMAS SAWYER Ticonderoga town meeting Vermont Wampanoags Whiting Widow Walker WILLIAM GILKEY York
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Page 19 - Animated by these considerations — at the head of troops in the full powers of health, discipline and valor — determined to strike where necessary, and anxious to spare where possible — I, by these presents, invite and exhort all persons, in all places where the progress of this army may point — and by the blessing of God I will extend it far — to maintain such a conduct as may justify me in protecting their lands, habitations and families.
Page 19 - The Forces entrusted to my command are designed to act in concert, and upon a common principle, with the numerous Armies and Fleets which already display in every quarter of America, the power, the justice, and when properly sought the mercy of the King.
Page 2 - I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life lies behind us as the quarry from whence we get tiles and copestones for the masonry of to-day.
Page 20 - In consciousness of Christianity, my royal master's clemency, and the honor of soldiership, I have dwelt upon this invitation, and wished for more persuasive terms to give it impression. And let not people be led to disregard it, by considering their distance from the immediate situation of my camp. I have but to give stretch to the Indian forces under my direction — and they amount to thousands — to overtake the hardened enemies of Great Britain and America. I consider them the same, wherever...
Page 19 - ... whether the present unnatural rebellion has not been made a foundation for the completes! system of tyranny that ever God, in his displeasure, suffered for a time to be exercised over a froward and stubborn generation. * Arbitrary Imprisonment, confiscation of property, persecution and torture, unprecedented in the inquisitions of the Romish Church, are among the palpable enormities that verify the affirmative.
Page 2 - He is the world's eye. He is the world's heart. He is to resist the vulgar prosperity that retrogrades ever to barbarism, by preserving and communicating heroic sentiments, noble biographies, melodious verse, and the conclusions of history. Whatsoever oracles the human heart in all emergencies, in all solemn hours has uttered as its commentary on the world of actions, — these he shall receive and impart. And whatsoever new verdict Reason from her inviolable seat pronounces on the passing men and...
Page 20 - ... and by the blessing of God., I .will extend it far, to maintain such a conduct as may justify me in protecting their lands, habitations and families. The intention of this address is to hold forth security, not depredation to the country. To those whom spirit and principle may induce to partake of .the glorious task of redeeming their countrymen from dungeons, and re-establishing the blessings of legal government...
Page 19 - Arbitrary imprisonment, confiscation of property, persecution and torture, unprecedented in the inquisitions of the Romish church, are among the palpable enormities that verify the affirmative. These are inflicted by assemblies and committees, who dare to profess themselves friends to liberty, upon the most quiet subjects, without distinction of age or sex, for the sole crime, often for the sole suspicion, of having adhered in principle to the government under which they were born, and to which,...
Page 19 - ... for the sole purpose of restoring the rights of the constitution, now combine with love of their country, and duty to their sovereign, the other extensive incitements which spring from a due sense of the general privileges of mankind. To the eyes and ears of the temperate part of the public, and to the breasts of suffering thousands in the provinces, be the melancholy appeal, whether the present unnatural rebellion has not been made a foundation for the completest system of tyranny that ever...
Page 20 - If, notwithstanding these endeavors and sincere inclinations to effect them, the phrenzy of hostility should remain, I trust I shall stand acquitted in the eyes of God and men, in denouncing and executing the vengeance of the state against the wilful outcasts. The messengers of justice and of wrath await them in the field; and devastation, famine and every concomitant horror that a reluctant but indispensible prosecution of military duty must occasion, will bar the way to their return.