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aforesaid Amagansett Atlantic Bark beach boat bone bounds Brazil Bridgehampton Brig built Capt Captain Chas Church Colonial Cook Daniel David Dering Docts East End East Hampton Edward Howell England ffreeholders Fordham Gardiner Gelston Green Greenport Halsey hand Haven Hedges heires Henry Hildreth Hist Huntting Cooper Indian inhabitants Jagger James John John Budd Joseph July June land Long Island Mecox Mercator Cooper mill Montauk Mulford & Sleight N. W. Coast North persons Pond port printed by Alden Records Rogers Sachem Sag Harbor Sagaponack Sagg sailed Samuel Sandford Sayre Sent home Sept Shelter Island Shinnecock Ship shore sold South Southampton village Southold sperm Stephen Suffolk County T. R. Vol Thomas Thos tion Topping Towne of Southampton unto vessel village whale White William wood Wyandanch York
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Page 147 - God's grace bound for Genoa, to say Four Hampers being marked and numbered as in the margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned, at the aforesaid port of Genoa (the danger of the seas only excepted...
Page 311 - Massachusetts Bay, do, in the most solemn manner, resolve never to become slaves; and do associate under all the ties of religion, honor, and love to our country, to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution, whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress...
Page 50 - ... floor this cellar with plank, and wainscot it overhead for a ceiling, raise a roof of spars clear up, and cover the spars with bark or green sods, so that they can live dry and warm in these houses with their entire families for two, three, and four years, it being understood that partitions are run through those cellars which are adapted to the size of the family.
Page 223 - ... the bark of trees, which they veer out after him : then all their boats come about him, and as he riseth above water, with their arrows they shoot him to death...
Page 116 - From his feet to his head the farmer stood in vestment produced on his own farm. The leather of his shoes came from the hides of his own cattle. The linen and woolen that he wore were products that he raised. The farmer's wife or daughter braided and sewed the straw-hat on his head.
Page 223 - One especial thing is their manner of killing the whale, which they call powdawe ; and will describe his form ; how he bloweth up the water ; and that he is twelve fathoms long ; and that they go in company of their king with a multitude of their boats, and strike him with a bone made in fashion of a harping iron fastened to a rope, which they make great and strong of the bark of trees, which they veer out after him...
Page 36 - Every sachim taketh care for the widow and fatherless, also for such as are aged, and any way maimed, if their friends be dead or not able to provide for them.
Page 43 - The parliament of England setting upon a general reformation both of church and state, the Earl of Strafford being beheaded, and the archbishop (our great enemy) and many others of the great officers and judges, bishops and others, imprisoned and called to account, this caused all men to stay in England in expectation of a new world, so as few coming to us, all foreign commodities grew scarce, and our own of no price.
Page 50 - Dutch, in 1650, for the information of those who wished to take up land there, states more particularly that " those in New Netherland, and especially in New England, who have no means to build farmhouses at first according to their wishes, dig a square pit in the ground, cellar fashion, six or seven feet deep, as long and as broad as they think proper, case the earth inside with wood all round the wall, and line the wood with the bark of trees or something else to prevent the caving in of...
Page 311 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend the dissolution of the powers of Government...