Annual Meeting of the Livingston County Historical Society, Volumes 36-411913 - Livingston County (N.Y.) |
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... memory , had been actively identified with the agricultural interests of the Province and State of New York : this family originated in Scotland and the surname is derived from the barony of Livinsgtone in West Lothian which is said to ...
... memory , had been actively identified with the agricultural interests of the Province and State of New York : this family originated in Scotland and the surname is derived from the barony of Livinsgtone in West Lothian which is said to ...
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... memory of the localities whence they came , Avon , Caledonia and Lima : four were selected from personal or ... memory will not perish . If the deeds of my ancestors shall not live in story , their memories will remain in the names of ...
... memory of the localities whence they came , Avon , Caledonia and Lima : four were selected from personal or ... memory will not perish . If the deeds of my ancestors shall not live in story , their memories will remain in the names of ...
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... memory and from my Indian infor- mants the statements that follow . The name , Squawkie , is said to be derived from the tribal name Muskwaki , ( meaning Red Earth ) , whom we recognize as the Fox before their affiliation with the Sac ...
... memory and from my Indian infor- mants the statements that follow . The name , Squawkie , is said to be derived from the tribal name Muskwaki , ( meaning Red Earth ) , whom we recognize as the Fox before their affiliation with the Sac ...
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... memories break through his stoicism and move him to tears . Aye , I have seen the Indian weep when he thought of Squawkie Hill and of the Genesee country , once , but now no longer his . Few people in history ever loved their country ...
... memories break through his stoicism and move him to tears . Aye , I have seen the Indian weep when he thought of Squawkie Hill and of the Genesee country , once , but now no longer his . Few people in history ever loved their country ...
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... memory of the past is vivid , I am constrained to be- lieve that on an occasion such as this , even the Indian would say with the poet : " And our hearts forget their sorrows as we feast our eager eyes . Where below in all its beauty ...
... memory of the past is vivid , I am constrained to be- lieve that on an occasion such as this , even the Indian would say with the poet : " And our hearts forget their sorrows as we feast our eager eyes . Where below in all its beauty ...
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Page 9 - I shall be present or not, for to confess my weakness, Ned, my ambition is prevalent, so that I contemn the grovelling condition of a clerk, or the like, to which my fortune condemns me, and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station. I am confident, Ned, that my youth excludes me from any hope of immediate preferment, nor do I desire it ; but I mean to prepare the way for futurity.
Page 93 - STATE OF NEW YORK, County of New York, is: On this 2nd day of July, 1908, before me personally came Richard Stanley Ryan and Daniel Le Roy Dresser, to me known and known to me to be the persons described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and they severally duly acknowledged to me that they executed the same.
Page 95 - Association shall be a President, a Vice-President, a Secretary and a Treasurer, and the same person may occupy the offices of Secretary and Treasurer.
Page 60 - Its red and awful tide, Beheld the brave New England sword With slaughter deeply dyed. Their bones are on the Northern hill, And on the Southern plain, By brook and river, lake and rill, And by the roaring main. The land is holy where they fought, And holy where they fell ; For by their blood that land was bought, The land they loved so well.
Page 74 - The pains of death are past; Labor and sorrow cease ; And, life's long warfare closed at last, His soul is found in peace. Soldier of Christ, well done ! Praise be thy new employ ; And, while eternal ages run, Rest in thy Saviour's joy.
Page 74 - SERVANT of God, well done ! Rest from thy loved employ ; The battle fought, the victory won, Enter thy Master's joy. The voice at midnight came, He started up to hear ; A mortal arrow pierced his frame, He fell, — but felt no fear.
Page 74 - Society shall be, to discover, procure and preserve whatever may relate to the history of Western New York in general, and the City of Buffalo in particular...
Page 48 - ... man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Page 16 - Tis just what you are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And...
Page 69 - Chaucer, at Woodstock with the nightingales, At sixty wrote the Canterbury Tales; Goethe at Weimar, toiling to the last, Completed Faust when eighty years were pa'st. These are indeed exceptions; but they show How far the gulf.stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.