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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing)	12	0	Browse	Search
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays	6	0	Browse	Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 1, Colonial and Revolutionary Literature: Early National Literature: Part I (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.)	4	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition.	4	0	Browse	Search
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition.	4	0	Browse	Search
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman)	2	0	Browse	Search
Edward H. Savage, author of Police Recollections; Or Boston by Daylight and Gas-Light ., Boston events: a brief mention and the date of more than 5,000 events that transpired in Boston from 1630 to 1880, covering a period of 250 years, together with other occurrences of interest, arranged in alphabetical order	2	0	Browse	Search
Lydia Maria Child, Isaac T. Hopper: a true life	2	0	Browse	Search
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier)	2	0	Browse	Search
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soned the missionaries, though the Sultan (lid not. But meanwhile the Quaker women in New England might be walking to execution with their male companions — like Mary Dyer in Boston — under an armed guard of two hundred, led on by a minister seventy years old, and the fiercer for every year. When they asked Mary Dyer, Are you not Mary Dyer, Are you not ashamed to walk thus hand in hand between two young men? she answered, No, this is to me an hour of the greatest joy I could enjoy in this world. No tongue could utter and no heart understand the sweet influence of the Spirit which now I feel. Then they placed her on the scaffold, and covered her face with a handkerchief which in Greek characters in their old almanacs quaint little English verses on the death of some beloved child. That identical Priest Wilson, who made the ballad at Mary Dyer's execution, attended a military muster one day. Sir, said some one, I'll tell you a great thing: here's a mighty body of people, and there's not seven of them a

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