Family Record in Our Line of Descent from Major John Mason of Norwich, ConnecticutGrafton Press, 1909 - 67 páginas |
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22 Jany afterwards AMOS LAWRENCE Anne appointed army Bishop Blake Bois-le-Duc born Boston Brooklyn brother buried Cambridge Captain John Charles CHARLES JEREMIAH Colonel Colony commanded commission Conn Connecticut connection Court DANIEL MASON death degree of M.A. Denison descendant DeWitt early Ebenezer Francis Edward England English Esquire father Feby Francis Governor Greenwich Hartford Hingham Hobart Horace Gray Huntington influence influential interests ISSUE James Fitch JEREMIAH MASON John Hampden John Mason Joseph July June Lathrop Lawrence Lebanon Lewis London Long Island Lord Fairfax Lyman Major Mason married MARY ELIZABETH Mason Island Mass Massachusetts Netherlands Norfolkshire Norwich parish position profession prominent received the degree rector Reformed Church regiment resided Sarah Saybrook School Sept Sir Thomas Fairfax Steedman Stonington THEODORE Thorndike town Vere wealth West wife died William Winthrop Witt Yale College York City Yorkshire
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Página 39 - And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through. 40 Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Página 6 - ... we desire you would be pleased to take notice of the principals and body of our Company, as those who esteem it our honour to call the Church of England, from whence we rise, our dear mother; and cannot part from our native Country, where she specially resideth, without much sadness of heart and many tears in our eyes, ever acknowledging that such hope and part as we have obtained in the common salvation we have received in her bosom, and sucked it from her breasts.
Página 3 - There may be, and there often is, indeed, a regard for ancestry, which nourishes only a weak pride; as there is also a care for posterity, which only disguises an habitual avarice, or hides the workings of a low and groveling vanity. But there is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart.
Página 26 - I am bound to say, that of my own professional discipline and attainments, whatever they may be, I owe much to that close attention to the discharge of my duties which I was compelled to pay, for nine successive years, from day today, by Mr. Mason's efforts and arguments at the same bar.
Página 5 - The Puritanism of the first forty years of the seventeenth century was not tainted with degrading or ungraceful associations of any sort. The rank, the wealth, the chivalry, the genius, the learning, the accomplishments, the social refinements and elegance of the time, were largely represented in their ranks.
Página 12 - Erected AD 1889 By the State of Connecticut To commemorate the heroic achievement of MAJOR JOHN MASON and his comrades, who near this spot, in 1637, overthrew the Pequot Indians and preserved the settlements from destruction.
Página 27 - Marshall filled it ; of whom it may be said, that, without ever holding a judicial station, he was the author and finisher of the jurisprudence of a State ; one, whose intellect, wisdom, and uprightness, gave him a control over the opinions of all the circles in which he lived and acted, of which we shall scarcely see another example, and for which this generation and the country are the better to-day ; such seems to me to have been the man, who has just gone down to a timely grave. I rejoice to...
Página 7 - The founders of the commonwealths of which I write were Englishmen. Their emigration to New England began in 1620. It was inconsiderable till 1630. At the end of ten years more, it almost ceased. A people, consisting at that time of not many more than twenty thousand persons, thenceforward multiplied on its own soil, in remarkable seclusion from other communities, for nearly a century and a half.
Página 12 - ... the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Connecticut, in New England, in America; and that, by the same name, they and their successors should have perpetual succession.
Página 58 - Alliance of Reformed Churches throughout the World, holding the Presbyterian System, and has also approved the articles of agreement proposed with other Reformed and Presbyterian bodies in the United States.