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the Rev. W. Turner , Jun. , MA., Lives of the eminent Unitarians, Micaiah Towgood. (search)
layed their influence in his active and conscientious discharge of the duties of the Christian ministry. The subject of this memoir was born at Axminster, in Devonshire, December 17, 1700. His grandfather, the Rev. Matthew Towgood, was one of the venerable two thousand who witnessed a good confession on St. Bartholomew's-day, indebted for many of their most eminent and distinguished ministers, he was invited, in 1722, to settle with a congregation at Moreton-Hampstead, in the county of Devon. In early life his habit appeared consumptive, and his friends anticipated that his mortal course would be but of short duration: but by a strict attention to dieastoral duties; his uniform and even course unmarked by any memorable event, except his marriage to the daughter of James Hawker, Esq., of Luppit, in the county of Devon. By this lady he had four children, one of whom only survived him. In 1737 he removed to Crediton, where he pursued the same useful plans for the improvement of
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Samuel Phipps (search)
peaker in the people's general court. The settlers were, up to this time, purely English; so much so that the isolated individual of other British races was dubbed the Scotchman, the Irishman, the Welshman. Because they were English, they succeeded. Our annual orators on Forefathers' Day tell us the colonists succeeded because they were Puritan. I crave permission to dissent. I tell you nay. It was the stubborn nerve and fibre of the Englishman from Wiltshire, from Staffordshire, from Devonshire, from Yorkshire, from Essex, and from Sussex, which earned subsistence out of the hard soil, which on the high sea gathered the abundant fish, and, on shore, won an equal distinction and profit in New England rum, ships' masts, and hoop poles. The result is the same in Canada and in New Zealand, in India and in Cape Colony. Mark the contrast with the establishment of the Latin race in the fertile and fruitful zones of the equator. To-day the descendants of the English are building the c
Historic leaves, volume 4, April, 1905 - January, 1906, Index (search)
itch. 16. Cutter, Miss Rebecca, 94. Cutter, Lieutenant, Samuel, 16, 19. Cutter, Sarah, 95. Daboll's Arithmetic, 101. Dahlgren Guns, 58. Danford, Esq., 83. Danforth, Samuel, 82. Danforth, Thomas, 78. Dartmouth College, 70. Davis, Jefferson, 62. Davis, Mary B., 10. Dean Academy, 2. Dedham, Mass., 80. Delta Chapter of Massachusetts, 2. Devens, David, 64, 95. Devens, Richard, 22, 39, 40, 42, 63, 65. Devens, Richard, Esq., 39, 40. Devens, Hon., Richard, 65, 66. Devonshire, Eng., 81. Dexter, Samuel, 22, 39, 40, Dexter, Samuel, Esq., 39. Dixon, Mr., 72. Doane Street, Boston, 86. Dodge, David, 68, 69, 70, 71. Dodge, Horace, 71. Dorchester, Mass., 89. Dow, Brigadier-General, Neal, 50. Dow, Colonel, 27, 50. Dudley, General, 53. East Boston, 84. East Somerville, 8. Edgerley, Edward Everett, 10. Edwards, Mary Lincoln, 1. Elliot, Charles D., 23. Elm Street, 7. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 11. Emerson, Rev., William, 6. Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 2.
Charles A. Nelson , A. M., Waltham, past, present and its industries, with an historical sketch of Watertown from its settlement in 1630 to the incorporation of Waltham, January 15, 1739., March 19, 1627-8. (search)
being safely come to their port. The Mary & John, of 400 tons, Capt. Squeb, master, sailed from Plymouth March 20, 1629-30, bearing the assistants Edward Rossiter and Roger Ludlow, and about 140 others, godly families and people from Devonshire, Dorsetshire, and Somersetshire, accompanied by two ministers, Revs. John Warham and John Maverick. On the 30th of May, when we came to Nantasket, Now Hull. says Capt. Roger Clap, A young man of twenty-one years, who came out of Plymouth, in Devon. one of her passengers, in his memoirs, Capt. Squeb would not bring us into Charles River, Wood's N. E. Prospect, 1634, gives Mishaum, Mishaumut—Charlestowne, and the names of Rivers of note in the following order: Saugus, Mistick, Mishaum, Naponset, & c. where the Mishaum is the only one corresponding in position to the Charles. Capt. John Smith, in his Description of New England, 1616, says he gave the name Massachusetts River to the stretch of water making up through the islands from t
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 3: (search)
tin's North Carolina, i. 9—12. I have followed exclusively the contemporaneous account, deriving, in the comparison of local duties, much benefit from a Ms. in my possession, by J. S. Jones, of Shocco, North Carolina. Elizabeth, as she heard their reports, esteemed her reign signalized by the discovery of the Chap. III.} 1584 enchanting regions, and, as a memorial of her state of life, named them Virginia. Nor was it long before Raleigh, elected to represent in parliament the county of Devon, obtained a bill Dec. 18. confirming his patent of discovery; D'Ewes's Journal, 339. 341. and while he received the honor of knighthood, as the reward of his valor, he also acquired a lucrative monopoly of wines, which enabled him to continue with vigor his schemes of colonization. Tytler, 54, 55. Oldys, 58, 59. The prospect of becoming the proprietary of a delightful territory, with a numerous tenantry, who should yield him not only a revenue, but allegiance, inflamed his ambition;
George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
rty of his subjects, some of them members of his household and his government, the most wealthy Chap. VIII.} 1620. and powerful of the English nobility, a patent, Trumbull's Connecticut, i. 546—567. Hazard, i. 103—118. Baylies, i. 160—185. Compare Hubbard, c. XXX.; Chalmers, 81—85. which 1620. in American annals, and even in the history of the world, has but one parallel. The adventurers and their successors were incorporated as The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. The territory conferred on the patentees in absolute property, with unlimited jurisdiction, the sole powers of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government, extended, in breadth, from the fortieth to the forty-eighth degree of north latitude, and, in length, from the Atlantic to the Pacific; that is to say, nearly all the inhabited British possessions to the north of the United States, al
The Daily Dispatch: January 24, 1861., [Electronic resource], An Unsentimental Physician. (search)
ts, who had more capital and as much sharpness as themselves, and till they obtained under sign and seal a charter, which in its magnificent endowments and grants rivalled the powers of Parliament and every court within the realm. The company in England with whom the Puritans had leagued themselves, under the shade of whose princely privileges they expected to grow from a mustard seed to "the greatest of trees," were incorporated as "The Council established at Plymouth, in the county of Devon, for the planting, ruling, ordering and governing New England, in America. " "The territory, conferred on the patentees in absolute property, with unlimited jurisdiction, the sole powers of legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of government," extended in breadth from the 40th to the 48th degree of north latitude, and in length from the Atlantic to the Pacific — that is to say, nearly all the inhabited British possessions in the north of the United States, all New Englan
The Daily Dispatch: September 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Viscount Monck, the New Governor-General of Canada. (search)
l, 1849. On the 22d of July, 1844, he was married to his cousin, Lady Elizabeth Louise Mary, the fourth daughter of the Earl of Rathdowne, who has borne him three children, named, respectively, Henry Power Charles Stanley, Frances Mary and Elizabeth Louise Mary Monck. Lord Monck is descended from a very ancient family, some of the members of which stand forth prominently in the history of England. The founder of the house was Wm. Le Moyne, who was Lord of the Manor of Petheridge, in Devon, England, in the year 1066, and from whom came, in the reign of Edward the Sixth, John Le Moyne, the ancestor of General George Monck--the restorer of the monarchy in England — who was created Duke of Albemarle by Charles the Second, and rewarded with large grants of land both in England and Ireland. The Monck family are related by marriage to the Earls of Rathdowne, Beauchamp, Clancarty, the Marquis of Waterford, and other peers of the United Kingdom. The family seat in Ireland is at Ch
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