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Lucius R. Paige, History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877, with a genealogical register, Chapter 15: ecclesiastical History. (search)
de of the cover of one volume is the following memorandum:— Goodman Hayes departinge this natural life 1639 hee disposed of his children as followeth commending them to the Lord and the care of these friends following: unto Mr. Goodyn of Harford his daughter Anna; unto Goodman Lewis his sonn Jeames; unto Goodman Taylcoat his daughter Elizabeth; unto Goodman Clark his daughter Sarah; his eldest son to Mr. Hookers and Mr. Goodyns dispose; and the youngest child he committed to the mother. The congregation of Harford did give toward satisfying of some here that he did owe money unto 25l. which hath been thus paid out to that end. l.s.d. Imprimis pd to Mr. Hill for Goodman Stanley 30s.1.10.0 Item alsoe pd to Mr. Cullott in full of his det 17l. I say per me John Cullock.17.00.0 Item alsoe pd Mr. Robert Payne of Ipswich for Goodman [ ]3.10.0 Item more a month's diet of the 4 children is owing me for On a fly-leaf of the same volume, we find the disposition of a benefac
Brig.-Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 2.1, Maryland (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 2: Maryland's First patriotic movement in 1861. (search)
of police and of the Maryland Guard, acting under the orders of Governor Hicks. The governor was in Baltimore during the attack on the troops and was carried off his feet and out of his head by the furor of the hour. He gave the order to burn the bridges. He afterward strenuously denied giving it, but he gave it. On Sunday morning, April 21st, the Howard County Dragoons, Capt. George R. Earltree, came in, and by the boat two companies from Easton, and news came that the companies from Harford, Cecil, Carroll and Prince George's were on the march. Three batteries of light artillery were out on the streets, and the city was braced up in tense excitement. Just after the people had gone to church on that day, about half-past 10, two men rode down Charles Street, in a sweeping gallop, from beyond the boundary to Lexington and down Lexington to the city hall. They shouted as they flashed by, The Yankees are coming, the Yankees are coming! Twenty-four hundred of Pennsylvania tro
ms, the son of Capt. Thomas Adams, the commander of the company. James Adams, a son of John Adams, in a letter dated at Harford, Pa, 27 Dec. 1848, and addressed to the late Dr. Benjamin Cutter, of Woburn, Mass, speaks of the occurrence thus: Dear Fetsey, 30 Oct. 1785; Polly, 25 Jan. 1789.] John the father lived the greater part of his life in Ashburnham, and d. at Harford, Pa., 26 Feb. 1849, a. 104 years, 1 mo. 4 days. Some letters written by him at the age of 102 were published. [The lastre described in two letters of his son, James Adams, to the late Dr. Benjamin Cutter, of Woburn, Mass. In one dated at Harford, Pa., 27 Dec. 1848, he says of his father at that date: The greatest trouble he has is in conversing with people, he is so e Mr. Hill before he goes to Washington, please to tell him that my father is now living. The second letter, dated at Harford, 21 Mar. 1849, contains the following: I received your letter of Feb. 15. The day that my father died, I got him up in