Bi-centennial Celebration at Sudbury, Mass., April 18, 1876: Full Report of Exercises, Including the Oration by Prof. Edward J. YoungTrustees of the Goodnow Library, 1876 - 44 Seiten |
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APRIL 18 battle BI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION born Boston Boutwell boxes Brocklebank Cambridge Captain Samuel Wadsworth Captain Wadsworth Cato Centennial children of Israel Christian Church citizen of Sudbury citizen of Wayland civil colony committee corn daughters Deacon Benjamin Deacon John deed defence descendants died Dorchester Duxbury enemy England erected forest garrison house Goodnow Governor graduated at Harvard grandson of Captain Green Hill Harvard College Haynes Garrison honor hundred years ago Hunt Indians inhabitants J. P. Fairbank killed King Philip's King Philip's war land large number living LYETH March Marlborough Massachusetts Medfield meeting memory ment NAME OF WADSWORTH Norcross old homestead ORATION pastor pitch pine Plymouth Plymouth Colony President Wadsworth race river Rowlandson savages says Selectmen side slain soldiers Spirit standing stone sufferings swine T. P. Hurlbut tion to-day tomahawk town of Sudbury town records WADSWORTH MONUMENT Wadsworth of Milton Watertown wife yoke
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Seite 22 - Indian fire away, and he did so to the purpose ; sent one musket bullet through his heart, and another not above two inches from it He fell upon his face in the mud and water, with his gun under him.
Seite 35 - twas they won it, sword in hand, Making the nettle danger soft for us as silk. We welcome back our bravest and our best; — Ah me ! not all ! some come not with the rest, Who went forth brave and bright as any here ! I strive to mix some gladness with my strain, But the sad strings complain...
Seite 29 - I think I can clearly say that before these present troubles broke out, the English did not possess one foot of land in this colony but what was fairly obtained by honest purchase of the Indian proprietors.
Seite 37 - For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up from before us, until we were...
Seite 12 - Built in the old Colonial day, When men lived in a grander way, With ampler hospitality; A kind of old Hobgoblin Hall, Now somewhat fallen to decay, With weather-stains upon the wall, And stairways worn, and crazy doors, And creaking and uneven floors, And chimneys huge, and tiled and talL A region of repose it seems, A place of slumber and of dreams, Remote among the wooded hills!
Seite 37 - And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones ? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Seite 6 - And thou thy selfe amongst his worthyes warring, Hold up thy hands, the battel's now increasing, Christ's Kingdom's ay, it's past all mortall's marring. This Towne is very well watered, and hath store of plowland, but by reason of the oaken roots, they have little broke up, considering the many Acres the place affords; but this kinde of land requires great strength to break up, yet brings very good crops, and lasts long without mending. The people are industrious, and have encreased in their estates,...
Seite 29 - ... Austin's, and I am charitably disposed to hope it flows from a like spirit of penitence.' In the public reading of his confession, the flowing of his passions was extraordinarily timed, and his expressions accented, and most peculiarly and emphatically those of the grace of God to him ; which indeed did give a peculiar grace to the performance itself, and raised, I believe, a charity in some that had very little I am sure, and ratified wonderfully that which I had conceived of him. Having made...
Seite 32 - ... to them ; the atonement was not made for them; nor the bible given to them ; and therefore the Christian religion was not meant for them. If the Great Spirit had intended that the Indians should be Christians, he would have made his revelation to them as well as to the white men. Not having done so, it was clearly his will that they should continue in the faith of their fathers. He said...
Seite 18 - And that the reader may understand," says Cotton Mather, " what it is to be taken by such devils incarnate, I shall here inform him. They stripped these unhappy prisoners, and caused them to run the gauntlet, and whipped them after a cruel and bloody manner. They then threw hot ashes upon them, and, cutting off collops of their flesh, they put fire into their wounds, and so, with exquisite, leisurely, horrible torments, roasted them out of the world.