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... records , it appears that a peti- tion to the same effect came before that town again on the 14th of May , 1728 , which after two adjournments and as many long debates , was decided in the negative . Some con- cessions , however , were ...
... records , it appears that a peti- tion to the same effect came before that town again on the 14th of May , 1728 , which after two adjournments and as many long debates , was decided in the negative . Some con- cessions , however , were ...
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... record says , together with the circular of Billerica , and referred to a committee , previously appointed with reference to Billerica lands , with directions to go on the ground , carefully investigate the whole matter , " notifying ...
... record says , together with the circular of Billerica , and referred to a committee , previously appointed with reference to Billerica lands , with directions to go on the ground , carefully investigate the whole matter , " notifying ...
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... records as follows : AN ACT -- FOR ERECTING A NEW TOWN , WITHIN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX , BY THE NAME OF BEDFORD . Whereas , The inhabitants of the northeasterly part of Concord , and the southeasterly part of Billerica , labor under ...
... records as follows : AN ACT -- FOR ERECTING A NEW TOWN , WITHIN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX , BY THE NAME OF BEDFORD . Whereas , The inhabitants of the northeasterly part of Concord , and the southeasterly part of Billerica , labor under ...
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... record , " was allowed to fortify his own house , and have two soldiers , if the coun- try can spare them . " Those were rough and bloody times , any way . An ances- tor of mine , Captain John Stearns , tradition used to say , captured ...
... record , " was allowed to fortify his own house , and have two soldiers , if the coun- try can spare them . " Those were rough and bloody times , any way . An ances- tor of mine , Captain John Stearns , tradition used to say , captured ...
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... record that after the close of the war the town voted " to abate the whole of the rates " of a certain class of those who had served in it , " and all the others their highway rates . " And now the grand crisis in the country's history ...
... record that after the close of the war the town voted " to abate the whole of the rates " of a certain class of those who had served in it , " and all the others their highway rates . " And now the grand crisis in the country's history ...
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A. E. BROWN A. P. SAMPSON appointed assembled Bacon beautiful Bedford Town Billerica Boston boys British brother called Capt Chairman church citizens committee Committee of Correspondence Concord fight Concord River E. G. LOOMIS fathers governor Grindall Reynolds HENRY WOOD Hoar honor hundred inhabitants interest invited Jeremiah Fitch Job Lane John Reed John Winthrop JONATHAN F Jonathan Wilson JOSIAH ladies land laughter and applause Lexington LOVEJOY M. B. WEBBER marched Massachusetts Maxwell meeting-house memory Merriam's Corner Middlesex County minister ministry minute-men Miss morning neighboring o'clock occasion orator passed pastor Penniman petition petitioners prayer Prescott's President Ralph Waldo Emerson record responsibility RICE road Sabbath Samuel says school-house schools SESQUI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION soldiers Stearns tavern Thomas Dudley tion toast took town meeting town of Bedford town of Concord town voted township University of Nashville whole young
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