The Upton Memorial: A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of John Upton, of North Reading, Mass. ... Together with Short Genealogies of the Putnam, Stone and Bruce Families

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private use at the office of E. Upton & son, 1874 - 547 halaman
 

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Halaman 8 - God therefor, calling to mind the mortality of my body, and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die, do make and obtain this my last will and testament.
Halaman iii - There is also a moral and philosophical respect for our ancestors, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Next to the sense of religious duty and moral feeling, I hardly know what should bear with stronger obligation on a liberal and enlightened mind, than a consciousness of...
Halaman ii - It is a noble faculty of our nature which enables us to connect our thoughts our sympathies, and our happiness with what is distant in place or time; and looking before and after, to hold communion at once with our ancestors and our posterity.
Halaman 328 - She was not allowed regular entry until some consultation had taken place between the commissioners of the customs and the lords of council, on account of the many acts of parliament yet in force against the rebels in America. She is loaded...
Halaman 8 - Testament, that is to say, principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of God that gave it, and for my body I recommend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent manner, at the discretion of my Executors...
Halaman 305 - Ohio, where he remained until the breaking out of the War of the Rebellion, when he...
Halaman 331 - ... commissioners of customs and the Lords of the Council, on account of the many acts of Parliament yet in force against the rebels of America. She was loaded with 587 barrels of whale oil, and manned wholly with American seamen, and belonged to the island of Nantucket. The vessel lay at the Horsley-Downs, a little below the Tower, and was the first which displayed the thirteen stripes of America in any British port.
Halaman 506 - ... of the Hon. James Savage (Harvard Coll. 1803), by whom he had five sons and one daughter. Mrs. Bruce died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1854, at the age of 86. Mr. Bruce was a man of fine address, and most agreeable qualities. The Hon. William Willis (Harvard Coll. 1813) has written of him : — He was a good lawyer, and highly esteemed for his integrity, and his ability to investigate and analyze any subject to which he applied his powers ; but from excessive modesty and diffidence he never...
Halaman 12 - Executors by me in any way before named, Willed & bequeathed, Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will & Testament.
Halaman vii - They are numbered in order on the left hand of the page, before the name of each individual in the genealogical series.

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