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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register 4 0 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians 1 1 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), T. (search)
rawing-stowce or windlass. Turn-wrest plow. （Husbandry.) a. An English plow of large size, and without a mold-board, adapted to be drawn by four horses and as many more as the farmer can spare. It burrows in the soil of the county (Kent), where it still maintains its hold upon the affections of the people, and is apparently prized on account of its lifting and tearing action in a soil which would be too much compacted by the pressure of a sole, landside, and mold-board. Improved Kentish turn-wrest plow. We should esteem it a regular horse-killer, and could use it nowhere but in grubbing, and then it should be drawn by three or four yokes of oxen. The name turn-wrest has clung to it for two and a half centuries, through all the scoffing and affected admiration it has excited, and means that the wrest or direction in which the soil is wrenched or pushed can be turned or changed. This is accomplished by shifting the colter to one side or the other, so as to divide th
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Genealogical Register (search)
. 48. Gen. Gookin, for about forty years, was one of the most active citizens of Camb. He was Licenser of the Printing-press, 1663; Selectman, from 1660 to 1672; Representative 1649, 1651, in which last year he was Speaker of the House; an Assistant from 1652 to 1686 excepting 1676, in which the prejudice against the Praying Indians, whom he befriended, prevented his election. He was elected Captain of the Cambridge band, or military company, before 1652, and was described by Johnson as a Kentish soldier, a very forward man to advance martial discipline, and. withal the truths of Christ. He became Major of the Middlesex Regiment in 1676, and was very active in raising and furnishing troops in Philip's War. In 1681 he was appointed Major-general of all the military force of the Colony, and was the last who held that office under the old charter. He was trusted by Oliver Cromwell as a confidential agent, and was selected by him to assist in executing his favorite project of transpla
Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, G. (search)
. 48. Gen. Gookin, for about forty years, was one of the most active citizens of Camb. He was Licenser of the Printing-press, 1663; Selectman, from 1660 to 1672; Representative 1649, 1651, in which last year he was Speaker of the House; an Assistant from 1652 to 1686 excepting 1676, in which the prejudice against the Praying Indians, whom he befriended, prevented his election. He was elected Captain of the Cambridge band, or military company, before 1652, and was described by Johnson as a Kentish soldier, a very forward man to advance martial discipline, and. withal the truths of Christ. He became Major of the Middlesex Regiment in 1676, and was very active in raising and furnishing troops in Philip's War. In 1681 he was appointed Major-general of all the military force of the Colony, and was the last who held that office under the old charter. He was trusted by Oliver Cromwell as a confidential agent, and was selected by him to assist in executing his favorite project of transpla
the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Caleb Rotheram, D. D. (search)
vour diligently to cultivate in his pupils, that they may not only be impressed with an eager and inquisitive curiosity, but be ready to receive and submit themselves to the truth, from whatever quarter and in whatever form it may present itself. Thus may the free discussion above described be effectually prevented from degenerating into that unsanctified speculation and debate, See R. Hall's Memoir of the Rev. T. N. Toller; also some spirited remarks on this passage, by Dr. Evans and Mr. Kentish, Mon. Rep. XIX. pp. 83, 229. which, according to some, must characterize all seminaries which are not tied down to the profession of a particular system or creed. In the year 1757 Mr. Clark quitted the academy on being invited to become one of the ministers of the congregation assembling in the Old Meeting-house at Birmingham, as joint-pastor with the Rev. W. Howell. A connexion at this time subsisted between this congregation and that at Oldbury, about five miles from Birmingham, t
The Daily Dispatch: February 16, 1865., [Electronic resource], Remarkable detection of a murderer — his likeness photographed from the dead Victim's eye. (search)
ations than for the wonderful fidelity with which his busts reproduce the features of his contemporaries; an English portrait painter, resident during the last twenty years at Florence, whose power of seizing and perpetuating the minutest shades of expression is not merely recognized by his own friends, but has often been made familiar to the English public by engravings of his likenesses of still living or lately deceased English worthies; a well-known London banker, and equally well-known Kentish squire, and a friend of the last. Of these six gentlemen the first five have addressed to me — with permission to give them full publicity — their separate narratives of what they were chiefly struck by in their examination of the enlarged photograph. My own impressions at this second visit remained, I confess, pretty much as I have already recorded them after the first inspection, and may be summed up in the two following propositions: 1. That the cloudy outline in question bear