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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... the sprightliness of her youth & charmed with her domestic character. Richard, son of Gen. S. G. Derby, set. 23, lays dead. He was educated at Cambridge & has studied Physic. Every effort has been employed by sea & land to save him, but in vain. A general sentiment of esteem & a kind estimate of his hopes is made by all our citizens. 23. Sara Morse, set. 100 years & 3 months & who died lately at Salem, N. H., was buried at Newbury on 15 instant & was g. grandchild to Mary Brown, the first white child bom in Newbury. She lived a widow 66 years, had her faculties & could walk till death. 24. Sunday. Note. Wm. Bates & wife, d. of youngest child, pr. for a brother at Sea. The popular papers in Boston, tho they continued favourable to Calvinism, do not conceal their enmity to the spiritual tyranny of the sect & still continue their remarks upon Dr. Pearson's Sermon. This Dr. P. was the Preceptor of Phillips Academy at Andover. Then Prof, at Cambridge from which his disappointed ambition removed him. He then conspired against Cambridge in the Andover institute. Has not been perfectly pleased with his own plan, has been in and out of office & in & out of favour, but still will be busy. He is not very fond of giving his compositions to the world having been hypercritical & odious for his severity. 25. Several persons have been apprehended for the thefts at the late fire & the Goldsmith's Shop kept by Balch & Co. was opened by destroying the wood work by proper tools & robbed of property in watches & Jewelry of considerable amount. The theft is in the way of discovery. This was a deliberate & bold act as the watch house was at the other end of the Street. The retreat however lead to suspect some alarm. Very lately the Q. boasted that at the late quarter...

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