Historical Sketch of Copp's Hill Burying Ground: With Descriptions and Quaint Epitaphs1916 - 32 páginas |
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Ancient and Honorable arms Baker and Daniel Beacon Hill beneath bloom Boston brick British built BURYING GROUND called Capt carved Charlestown Charter street Christ Clark Copp's Hill corner Cotton Mather Daniel Turell DAVID COPP death died Dec died Feb died Jan died June died March died Nov died Oct died Sept Duft early days Edward Martyn Eliza erected Ferry following inscription friends fronting on Hull gasometer Grace Berry grave Hannah Heaven Honorable Artillery Company Hull street interment Jesus John Baker John Button land MALCOM March 9 Mary Mill Miss monument Mountfort North Battery North Burying-Ground North Cove North End northeast Prince street Quakers reft rife Samuel SAMUEL SHAW Saviour's Sewall purchase Ship side Sleep Snowhill street soul Suffolk Deeds summit tear Thacher thee Thomas Berry Thomas Hutchinson Thomas Lake tomb Town Cove wharf wife William Copp windmill yard
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Página 19 - In Memory of Mrs. HANNAH TAYLOR, wife of Mr. David Taylor, who died Oct. 3d, 1800, Aged 81 years. Behold and see, as you pass by, As you are now, so once was I ; As I am now, so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Página 16 - My name from the palms of His hands Eternity will not erase ; Impressed on His heart it remains In marks of indelible grace : Yes ! I to the end shall endure As sure as the earnest is given : More happy, but not more secure, The glorified spirits in heaven.
Página 29 - In 1775, before the Artillery Company suspended its meetings, the Common was occupied by the British army, and the Artillery Company were refused admittance. Capt. Bell, therefore, marched to Copp's Hill. Soon after the bridge over Charles River was built, there was a complaint against the street at the foot of this hill. It was supposed the proprietors of that part of the hill enclosed from Snowhill Street, ought to repair the wharf aud street at their own expense.
Página 20 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 4 - Eastward from the church, a gradual descent led to the north battery, which was considered the bottom of the hill. South-easterly the slope was still more gradual, and terminated at the foot of the...
Página 29 - September 18. [Being Tuesday] at midnight, the tide serving, we set sail. Next day get into the bottom of Massachusetts Bay, about twenty leagues north from Plymouth, and anchor.
Página 12 - 11 waste a ton of powder afore a ' rebel ' falls; You may bang the dirt and welcome, they're as safe as Dan'l Malcolm Ten foot beneath the gravestone that you've splintered with your balls!
Página 29 - British troops should have been in possession of it, and should have forbid you entrance, what would you have done? Answer: I would have charged bayonets, and forced my way as surely as I would force my way into my dwelling-house, if taken possession of by a gang of thieves.
Página 29 - Common ; conceiving this hill to be the property of the Company, I marched them there, as a place no one had a right to exclude them from.
Página 30 - Sea, the one well fortified on the superfices thereof, with store of great Artillery well mounted, the other hath a very strong battery built of whole Timber, and filled with Earth, at the descent of the Hill in the extreme poynt thereof...