Origins of Clements-Spalding and Allied Families of Maryland and Kentucky

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Standard Press, 1928 - 174 strani
 

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Stran 13 - Nor can we suppress our astonishment that a British Parliament should ever consent to establish in that country a religion that has deluged your island in blood, and dispersed impiety, bigotry, persecution, murder, and rebellion through every part of the world.
Stran 13 - That we think the legislature of Great Britain is not authorized by the constitution to establish a religion fraught with sanguinary and impious tenets ; or to erect an arbitrary form of government in any quarter of the globe.
Stran 6 - Any people, who are indifferent to the noble achievements of remote ancestors, are not likely to achieve anything "worthy to be remembered by their descendants...
Stran 13 - Oh ! the perfidious double-faced Congress ; let us bless and obey our benevolent Prince, whose Humanity is consistent, and extends to all Religions, let us abhor all who would seduce us from our Loyalty, by Acts that would dishonour a Jesuit, and whose Addresses like their Resolves, are destructive of their own Object.
Stran 10 - Calvin, who thereby gave another proof that " the blood of the martyr is the seed of the Church," for Geneva is now one of the strongholds of the Unitarian faith.
Stran 74 - As there is no sign of his coming into the Colony, he must have been born there, or brought in as a child, by his father, and I cannot escape the conclusion he was Captain Abell's son. He leaves to 'my son John my Lord's Manor and 120 acres all on other side of Napkin's Run ; to my son Samuel my dwelling plantation on this side of Napkin Run, and the remainder of my estate real and personal to my wife Ann, and appoint her my executrix'.
Stran 85 - ... recommended for magistrate in 1788 with Hannaniah Lincoln, gentleman, was elected several times to represent Nelson and then Washington County in the Legislature and as a member of the first Constitutional Convention. As a magistrate he presided in the first term of the Washington County Court held at Springfield in June 1792. He was a sort of country lawyer, wrote many wills, deeds and other instruments, but does not seem to have had the thrift usual in his family. His little fortune was soon...
Stran 20 - ... are to be found in almost every state in the Union, and in the Provinces of the Canadas.
Stran 79 - Samuel Abell styled youngest, the son, I believe, or grandson, of a supposititious Robert, brother of Samuel Abell III, with whom he was closely allied and as I further feel assured married Eleanor, the only one of his daughters that Samuel Abell III names in his will, his cousin, and they had Samuel born January 13, 1755, named for her father, Robert born the 8th of May, 1757, named for his, and Abner born July 29, 1759.
Stran 75 - Church show he was vestryman in 1723-42, whix his brother John was warden, and in 1749, a vestryman Samuel's protestantism does not seem to have been wholly convincing to his fellow parishioners, for we find that in 1737 he was required to and did, take the test oath. He died probably before 1755. There is no will, or other reference to his death.

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