Truth Stranger Than Fiction: Father Henson Story of His Own Life

Politics & Social Sciences

Henson, J.

Social Sciences

Corner House Pub

Documentary History Series, hardcover, 126 pp., no dustcover.

The Black Death and Peasants Revolt

COWIE, Leonard W.

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Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great Highway

History

Inman, Henry

Americas

The Prairie Traveler: a Hand-Book for Overland Expeditions

MARCY, RANDOLPH B.

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1922. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Woman's Life in Colonial Days CHAPTER I Colonial Woman And Religion /. The Spirit of Woman With what a valiant and unyielding spirit our forefathers met the unspeakable hardships of the first days of American colonization! We of these softer and more abundant times can never quite comprehend what distress, what positive suffering those bold souls of the seventeenth century endured to establish a new people among the nations of the world. The very voyage from England to America might have daunted the bravest of spirits. Note but this glimpse from an account by Colonel Norwood in his Voyage to Virginia: "Women and children made dismal cries and grievous complaints. The infinite number of rats that all the voyage had been our plague, we now were glad to make our prey to feed on; and as they were insnared and taken a well grown rat was sold for sixteen shillings as a market rate. Nay, before the voyage did end (as I was credibly informed) a woman great with child offered twenty shillings for a rat, which the proprietor refusing, the woman died." That was an era of restless, adventurous spirits--men and women filled with the rich and danger-loving blood of the Elizabethan day. We should recall that every colony of the original thirteen, except Georgia, was founded in the seventeenth century when the energy of that great and versatile period of the Virgin Queen had not yet dissipated itself. The spirit that moved Ben Jonson and Shakespeare to undertake the new and untried in literature was the same spirit that moved John Smith and his cavaliers to invade the Virginia wilderness, and the Pilgrim Fathers to found a commonwealth for freedom's sake on a stern and rock-bound coast. It was the day of Milton, Dryden, and Bunyan, the day of the Protectorate with its fanatical...

Woman's Life in Colonial Days

Holliday, Carl

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Boots and Saddles: Or Life in Dakota With General Custer

Biographies & Memoirs

Custer, Elizabeth B.

Memoirs

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Customs and Fashions in Old New England

Arts & Photography

Earle, Alice Morse

Fashion

American Slave Trade

Spears, John R.

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Hessians and the Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War

Reference

Lowell, Edward J.

Genealogy

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...o’clock to wish us a happy New-Year, each in turn, one after another. I went to see him after mass. Another time we must be beforehand with him. M. Gifiard also came to see us. The Hospital nuns sent us letters of compliment very early in the morning; and the Ursulines sent us some beautiful presents, with candles, rosaries, a crucifix, etc., and, at dinner-time, two excellent pies. I sent them two images, in enamel, of St. Ignatius and St. Francis Xavier. We gave to M. Gififard Father Bonnet’s book on the life of Our Lord; to M. des Chzitelets, a little volume on Eternity; to M. Bourdon, a telescope and compass; and to others, reliquaries, rosaries, medals, images, etc. I went to see M. Giffard, M. Couillard, and Mademoiselle de Repentigny. The Ursulines sent to beg that I would come and see them before the end of the day. I went, and paid my compliments also to Madame de la Peltrie, who’ sent us some presents. I was near leaving this out, which would have been a sad oversight. We gave a crucifix to the woman who washes the churchlinen, a bottle of eau-do-vie to Abraham, four handkerchiefs to his wife, some books of devotion to others, and two handkerchiefs to Robert Hache. He asked for two more, and we gave them to him.” 1 1 Journal des Supérieurs des Jésuites, MS. Only fragments ofthis curious record are extant. It was begun by Lalemant in 1645. For the privilege of having what remains of it copied, I am indebted to M. Jacques Viger. The entry translated above is of Jan. 1, 1646. Of the persons named in it, Gifiard was seigneur of Beauport, and a member of the Council; Des Chfltelets was one of the earliest settlers, and connected by marriage with Gifiard; Couillsrd was son-in-law of the first settler,...

Jesuits in North America

Parkman, Francis

Religion & Spirituality

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