Willard Memoir: Or, Life and Times of Major Simon Willard; with Notices of Three Generations of His Descendants, and Two Collateral Branches in the United States; Also, Some Account of the Name and Family in Europe from an Early Day

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Phillips, Sampson, 1858 - 470 pagina's
Simon Willard (1604-1676), the elder son of Richard Willard, was baptized April 1605 in Horsmonden, Kent County, England. Simon immigrated in 1634 from England to Cambridge, and in 1635 moved to Concord, Massachusetts. He married three times (once in England) and was father of nine sons. Descendants and related families lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, and elsewhere in the United States. Others moved to Quebec, Nova Scotia, and elsewhere in Canada.

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Pagina 141 - Thickets, where their hands are forced to make way for their bodies' passage, and their feete clambering over the crossed Trees, which when they missed they sunke into an uncertaine bottome in water, and wade up to the knees, tumbling sometimes higher and sometimes lower, wearied with this toile they at end of this, meete with a scorching plaine, yet not so plaine, but that the ragged Bushes scratch their legs fouly even to wearing their stockings to their bare skin in two or three...
Pagina 141 - This intricate worke no whit daunted these resolved servants of Christ to goe on with the worke in hand, but lying in the open aire, while the watery clouds poure down all the night season, and sometimes the driving Snow dissolving on their backs, they keep their wet cloathes warme with a continued fire, till the renewed morning give fresh opportunity of further travell; after they have thus found out a place of abode, they burrow themselves in the Earth for their first shelter...
Pagina 141 - Earth, standing stoutly to their labours, and teare up the Rootes and Bushes, which the first yeare beares them a very thin crop, till the soard of the Earth be rotten, and therefore they have been forced to cut their bread very thin for a long season. But the Lord is pleased to provide for them great store of Fish in the spring time, and especially Alewives about the bignesse of a Herring, many thousands of these, they used to put...
Pagina 142 - But the Lord is pleased to provide for them great store of fish in the spring time, and especially Alewives about the bignesse of a Herring. Many thousands of these they used to put under their Indian corne, which they plant in hills five...
Pagina 141 - Yet in these poor wigwams they sing psalmes, pray and praise their God, till they can provide them houses, which ordinarily was not wont to be with many till the earth, by the Lord's blessing, brought forth bread to feed them, their wives and little ones...
Pagina 151 - There shall never be any bond slaverie, villinage, or captivitie amongst us, unless it be lawfull captives taken in just warres, and such strangers as willingly selle themselves or are sold to us.
Pagina 141 - Wildemesse, after some dayes spent in search, toyling in the day time as formerly is said ; like true Jacobites, they rest them one the rocks where the night takes them, their short repast is some small pittance of Bread, if it hold out, but as for Drinke they have plenty, the Countrey being well watered in all places that yet are found out, their farther hardship is to travell sometimes they know not whether, bewildered indeed without sight of Sun, their compasse miscarrying in crowding through...
Pagina 313 - ... such persons as shall be hereafter so deputed by the freemen of the several plantations to deal in their behalf in the public affairs of the Commonwealth, shall have the full power and voices of all the said freemen, derived to them for the making and establishing of laws, granting of lands, &c., and to deal in all other affairs of the Commonwealth wherein the freemen have to do, the matter of election of magistrates and other officers only excepted, wherein every freeman is to give his own voice.
Pagina 119 - Manor of East Greenwich in the County of Kent in free and Common Soccage and not in Capite or by Knights Service.
Pagina 273 - Five dwelling-houses more there, leaving but six houses standing in the whole Town, which they likewise furiously attempted to set on fire ; But being fortified with Arms and Men as Garrisons, they with their shot, killed several of the enemy, and prevented so much of their designe ; Nor do we hear that any person on our side was here either slain or taken captive.

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