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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) | 5 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Fitzhugh Lee, General Lee | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Atlantic Essays | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct. | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Harvard Memorial Biographies | 1 | 1 | Browse | Search |
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Agreement of the people, (search)
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White, John 1575-1648
clergyman; born in Stanton, Oxfordshire, England, in 1575; educated at Oxford; was rector of Trinity Church, Dorchester, in 1606; and drew up the first charter of the Massachusetts colony.
He died in Dorchester, England, July 21, 1648.
Clergyman; born in Watertown, Mass., in 1677; graduated at Harvard in 1698; held a pastorate in Gloucester, Mass., in 1703-60.
He was the author of New England's lamentation for the decay of godliness, and a Funeral sermon on John wise.
He died in Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 17, 1760.
Jurist; born in Kentucky in 1805; received an academic education; admitted to the bar and began practice in Richmond, Ky.; member of Congress in 1835-45 and was speaker in 1841-43; and was appointed judge of the 19th District of Kentucky in March, 1845.
He died in Richmond, Ky., Sept. 22, 1845.
Military officer; born in England; was a surgeon in the British army; settled in Philadelphia, and after the outbreak of the Revolutiona
1853.
Wilder Dwight.
Major 2d Mass. Vols. (Infantry), May 24, 1861; Lieutenant-Colonel, June 13, 1862; died September 19, 1862, of wounds received at Antietam, September 17.
Wilder Dwight, second son of William and Elizabeth Amelia (White) Dwight, was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on the 23d of April, 1833.
His paternal ancestor was John Dwight of Oxfordshire, England, who settled in Dedham, Massachusetts, in 1636.
His mother was descended from William White of Norfolk County, England, who settled in Ipswich, Massachusetts, in 1635.
His family has belonged to New England for more than two centuries, and during that whole period has been identified with its history, its industry, its enterprises, and its institutions.
In childhood he gave promise of all that he afterwards became,—manly, courageous, self-possessed, acute, original, frank, affectionate, generous, reliable;—he was, in boyhood, not less than in manhood, one in whom to place an absolute trust.
Yet,
Historic leaves, volume 1, April, 1902 - January, 1903, The Stinted Common (search)
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 5. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Margaret Smith 's Journal (search)
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Old portraits and modern Sketches (search)
Benjamin Cutter, William R. Cutter, History of the town of Arlington, Massachusetts, ormerly the second precinct in Cambridge, or District of Menotomy, afterward the town of West Cambridge. 1635-1879 with a genealogical register of the inhabitants of the precinct., chapter 3 (search)