History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine |
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History of Jay: Franklin County, Maine (Classic Reprint) Benjamin F. Lawrence No preview available - 2018 |
History of Jay: Franklin County, Maine (Classic Reprint) Benjamin F. Lawrence No preview available - 2015 |
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afterwards aged Androscoggin River apples Baptist church Bean Boston Bowdoin College brothers building built Capt Chas Child Children Chisholm College Company Daniel Rowell Dixfield early settlers Ebenezer Kyes Edward Elisha Elizabeth Eustis farm farmer Francis Lawrence Franklin County Galen Thompson George Hallowell Hannah Henry Hyde James Starr Jay Bridge Jay Hill John Jonathan Jonathan Parker lived Livermore Falls Macomber Maine Maine Central Railroad Maine legislature married Anna Married Betsey Married Mary Mass Massachusetts meeting-house Methodist mill Moses Crafts Moses Stone Nathan Crafts Nathaniel Jackson Niles North Jay Oliver Fuller Oxford County PAINE pastor prominent proprietors pulp quarries at North represented the town Richardson Samuel Samuel W Sarah Scarborough Parker Seaborn Silas soldier Stillman Noyes Stone's Corner Thomas Thompson town clerk town meeting town of Canton town of Jay township village store William Goding William Livermore Winslow
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Page 34 - It made the food much sweeter to the taste. They never once complained, as some do now. Our Irish girl can't cook or milk the cow.
Page 3 - Province, and that the whole of each town be laid out into sixty-three equal shares, one share of which to be for the first settled minister — one for the use of the ministry, and one for...
Page 35 - In 1868, the degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by his Alma Mater. In 1882 received from the State University of Missouri the degree of LL.
Page 3 - Town, build a House for public Worship and settle a Learned Protestant Minister...
Page 34 - Thev never once complained, as some do now. Our Irish girl can't cook or milk the cow. Each mother taught her red-cheeked. buxom daughter To bake and milk and draw a pail of water. No damsel shunned the wash tub, broom or pail To keep unharmed a long grown finger nail; Thev sought no gaudy dress, no hooped-out form. But ate to live, and worked to keep them warm.
Page 39 - Regiment in the Civil War and was killed in the battle of the Wilderness.
Page 15 - ... the deeds of the soldier. It should be in the mind of each father and each mother to instill into the mind of the youth the significance of the inscriptions, 'Killed at Gettysburg,' 'Wounded at Vicksburg,
Page 34 - The other two, it is said, are to be seen in the chamber at the top of Bunker Hill Monument, suitably inscribed.
Page 14 - If one thing more than another is to be revered and commemorated, impressed upon the minds of the rising generation, that thing is the record of names and deeds of men who faced the dangers of the battle-field during this trying period.