The Chandler Family: The Descendants of William and Annis Chandler who Settled in Roxbury, Mass., 1637

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Press of C. Hamilton, 1883 - 1315 pages
 

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Page 50 - Executors nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God and as touching such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give...
Page 74 - Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament; that is to Say, principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors, Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God.
Page 129 - Captain and you are also to observe and follow such Orders and Directions as you shall from time to time receive from...
Page 80 - Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
Page 129 - Greeting: We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct, do by these Presents Constitute and Appoint you to be an Officer in Our Land Forces from the twentieth day of February 1895.
Page 419 - As those we love decay, we die in part, String after string is sever'd from the heart ; Till loosen'd life at last — but breathing clay, Without one pang, is glad to fall away. Unhappy he who latest feels the blow, Whose eyes have wept o'er every friend laid low, Dragg'd lingering on from partial death to death, Till dying, all he can resign is breath.
Page 327 - Resolved, that it be recommended to the several assemblies, Conventions and Councils or Committees of Safety of the United Colonies, immediately to cause all persons to be disarmed, within their respective Colonies, who are notoriously disaffected to the cause of America, or who have not associated, and refuse to associate to defend by Arms the United Colonies against the Hostile attempts of the British Fleets and Armies.
Page 129 - By virtue of the Power and Authority, in and by His Majesty's Royal Commission to me granted to be Captain-General, &c., over this His Majesty's Province of the Massachusetts Bay, aforesaid, I do (by these Presents) reposing especial Trust and Confidence in Your Loyalty, Courage, and good Conduct, constitute and appoint You, the said...
Page 40 - Here are five persons who have lately confessed themselves to be witches, and do accuse some of us of being along with them at a sacrament, since we were committed into close prison, which we know to be lies.
Page 40 - Accordingly, within such a little time, one half of her right hand, became greatly swollen, and very painful; as also part of her face; whereof she can give no account how it came.

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