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Page 89 - History of the Siege of Boston, and of the Battles of Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill ; also, an Account of the Bunker Hill Monument, with Illustrative Documents. By RICHARD FROTHINGHAM, JR., Author of a History of Charlestown.
Page 115 - Life and my Body to the dust to be decently interred at the Discretion of my...
Page 75 - Natick meeting-house once a month ; which lecture, many English, especially of Sherburne, do frequent. He first preacheth in English, to the English audience, and then the same matter is delivered to the Indians, by an interpreter, whom, with much pains, Mr. Gookin hath fore-prepared.
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