Proceedings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society ...The Society., 1884 |
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ABNER Alden amount of Fund ANDREWS HILL Annual Meeting appointed April ARTHUR HILTON Auburndale BENJAMIN BARSTOW TORREY Bonds born in Boston Brookline By-Laws Cambridge cella Chairman Charles Charles H Clarke Committee Concord Conn corresponding member Corresponding Secretary Council died in Boston duties Edward ELISHA BENJAMIN ANDREWS Francis Fund January George George K gift GOODELL HAMILTON ANDREWS HILL HASKINS HASSAM Hazen Henry Henry H HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY Historical and Genealogical Historical Society Historiographer Hoyt Income interest James JOHN WARD DEAN John Wentworth JOSEPH WILLIAMSON Kidder large number Librarian Library LL.B LL.D Mass Massachusetts neous NEW-ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL Newton number of volumes Pamph paper Penn Philadelphia Present amount President printed Proceedings purchase received Recording Secretary resident member Russell Fund Salem Samuel shelves Slafter Society's House Tarbox Thomas tion Trask Treasurer vote Washington Whole number Wilder William WILLIAM CLAFLIN WILLIAM ENDICOTT William H Worcester York City
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Page 9 - Beyond this vale of tears There is a life above, Unmeasured by the flight of years; And all that life is love.
Page 19 - And so beside the Silent Sea, I wait the muffled oar; No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or on shore. I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Page 14 - Westward the course of empire takes its way ; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.
Page 6 - President, from time to time, to give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.
Page 48 - ... and liabilities, set forth in the forty-fourth chapter of the Revised Statutes.
Page 23 - February, transmit to the secretary of the Commonwealth, certified copies of the records of the births, marriages, and deaths, •which have occurred therein during, the year ending on the last day of the preceding December. SECTION 6. The record of the town clerk relative to any birth, marriage, or death, shall be prima facie evidence, in legal proceedings, of the facts recorded.
Page 24 - Stat. ch. 37, §§ 15 and 16, in such cases have not, it is to be feared, been strictly complied with. Then there are the inscriptions on the gravestones in ancient cemeteries. These stones are liable to be broken or to crumble away. They are seldom lasting and are not so durable as the printed page. The disappearance of old gravestones is within the experience of every one who has had much to do with them. These inscriptions should be copied and printed down to the same date, 1850. With the general...
Page 19 - DD Read before the Maine Historical Society, February 9, 1888. A DUE regard to the fitness of things requires us to put on record our sense of the loss we have sustained in the death of our late associate Mr. Robert Hallowell Gardiner. Mr. Gardiner was endowed with those personal qualities which inspire the affection of friends, and compel the respect of all, and . he belonged to a family long and closely connected with the interests and growth of this community. The family not only enjoy...
Page 9 - The board of aldermen of the city of Boston, acting as county commissioners for the county of Suffolk...
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