Provincetown, Or, Odds and Ends from the Tip End: A Brief Historical Description of Provincetown, Past and Present ... |
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ashore Atkins barrels beach BETSEY JOHNSON Board of Selectmen boat born in Provincetown Boston brought building built called Cape Cod Capt Captain church citizen Colony Commercial St Company H Cook corner crew Deacon dealer Discharged dollars Dyer Engine enlisted as private entered the service expiration of service feet fire fish fleet Freeman gale George George W Gifford Grand Banks harbor Hill Hilliard hundred Infantry James January John John Rosenthal Johnson Joseph Joshua Knowles land Lauren Young lodge Long Point Masonic Block master Matheson Nickerson occupation Old Colony Railroad Peregrine White Pilgrim present private in Company Provincetown harbor Race Point Residence sailed Samuel Parker sand school-house schooner Selectmen service as private ship shore Smith sperm whale taken Thomas to-day took Town Clerk Town Hall town meeting Truro vessel Voted voyage Wellfleet West William wreck
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Page 16 - ... enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at...
Page 16 - Ireland king, defender of the faith, etc., having undertaken for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith, and honor of our king and country a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and of one another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic...
Page 28 - And at such meetings every male inhabitant of twenty-one years of age and upwards, having a freehold estate within the Commonwealth, of the annual income of three pounds, or any estate of the value of sixty pounds...
Page 16 - IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord King James, by the grace of God of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, king, defender of the faith, etc.
Page 10 - Feeling himself dying, he charged his comrades "to return home as quickly as possible; but me you shall carry to the promontory which seemed to me so pleasant a place to dwell in ; perhaps the words which fell from me shall prove true, and I shall indeed abide there for a season. There bury me, and place a cross at my head, and another at my feet, and call that place for evermore Kross-a-ness
Page 28 - Greeting: You are hereby required in the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, to notify...
Page 16 - ... to enacte, constitute, and frame such just and equall lawes, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the generall good of the Colonie, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.
Page 16 - God, and advancemente of the Christian faith and honor of our king and countrie, a voyage to plant the first colonie in the Northerne parts of Virginia, doe, by these presents, solemnly and...
Page 34 - They therefore pray that the Embargo in whole or in part may be suspended according to the powers vested in the President by the Congress of the United States, & if any doubt should exist of the competency of those powers they would humbly request that the Congress may be convened as early as possible, for the purpose of taking the subject into their consideration...
Page 84 - A valuable secretion is found in the sperm whale called ambergris. This is found in hard bunches in the whale's intestines ; it is of a dark chocolate color, and in most cases the specific gravity is greater than water though there are cases where it has been known to float. It is one of the best known articles as a base on which to fix perfumes, and is largely used in France for that purpose. A good article is wo'rth more than its weight in gold, or at present prices about three hundred dollars...