A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Part 2Press of Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor, 1886 - 1393 pages |
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A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport ... Samuel Orcutt No preview available - 2017 |
A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut Samuel Orcutt No preview available - 2018 |
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Abel Abigail Abijah Abraham aged Agur Anna April 12 April 23 bapt Barnum Beach Beardsley Benjamin Betsey Birdsey Booth born Bridgeport Capt Catharine Charles Church Clark Company Conn Curtis Curtiss Daniel daughter David Deborah DeForest died April died Aug died Dec died Feb died Jan died July died June died Mar died March died Nov died Oct died Sept Ebenezer Edwards Elijah Elisha Elizabeth Elnathan Ephraim Esther Eunice Fairchild Fairfield George Hannah Haven Hawley Henry Hezekiah Hubbell Huldah Huntington Hurd Isaac James John Joseph Joseph Hawley Josiah Judson July 12 June 16 June 20 Lewis Mallett Martha Mary memory Middlebrook Milford Nathan Nathaniel North Stratford P. T. Barnum Peet Phebe Philo Polly Rebecca resided Ripton Robert Ruth Samuel Sarah Second Wife Sergt Shelton Sherman Sherwood Stephen Stiles Stratfield street Theophilus Nichols Thomas Thompson Tomlinson Trumbull Walker Wheeler widow Yale College Zechariah
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Page 995 - This is a true saying. If a man desire the office of a bishop, he desireth a good work. A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behaviour, given to hospitality, apt to teach...
Page 1009 - AFTER this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, "Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Page 998 - As you are now, so once was I. As I am now so you must be. Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 1035 - There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life elysian. Whose portal we call Death.
Page 1036 - The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself; * Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like the baseless fabric of a vision, Leave not a wreck behind.
Page 961 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Page 947 - THERE is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. 2 There everlasting spring abides, And never-withering flowers : Death, like a narrow sea, divides This heavenly land from ours.
Page 1033 - The soul, of origin divine, God's glorious image freed from clay, In heaven's eternal sphere shall shine A star of day ! The sun is but a spark of fire, A transient meteor in the sky ; The soul, immortal as its Sire, SHALL NEVER DIE!
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Page 972 - Yet again we hope to meet thee, When the day of life is fled ; Then in heaven with joy to greet thee, Where no farewell tear is shed ! 144.