<p>Originally published in 1910, Scotch Irish Pioneers offers a systematic treatment of the migration of the Scotch and English from the north of Ireland to the New World in the early 18th century. Bolton details the conditions in both Ireland and New England prior to the group emigrating; the main players and ships involved in the movement; and ultimately where in America the Scotch Irish settled after arriving. Appendixes include lists of ships from Ireland arriving in New England between 1714 and 1720; members of the Charitable Irish Society in Boston; existing vital records of towns in Ulster begun before 1755; home towns of Ulster families; and more. For people of Scotch Irish descent, this book provides insight into the historical context of their ancestors' early migration as well as resources to further their own genealogical research.</p>

Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America

History

Charles Knowles Bolton

Europe

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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. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... At thc next meeting, July Gth, Dr. Bigelow, in behalf of the Committee, exhibited a model, designed by him, and approved by the Committee; after duo examination of which, the Trustees, on motion of Mr. Crockett, voted "That the plan and model, now presented, be adopted by this Board." And, on motion of Mr. Read, it was also voted, "That Messrs. Bigclow, Little, and Tisdale, be a Committee, with full power, to go on and erect the tower now adopted, in granite." The Committee, nbovo named, contracted with Messrs. Whitehcr & Sheldon, of Quincy, to erect tho tower, in stone, for 818,500. But the subsequent addition of stone steps, on several sides, and a broad stone platform about the base, together with the grading of the hill, increased the expense to about 822,000. The tower is sixty-two feet in height above the summit of Mount Auburn. 1 It is built on the general plan of some of the round towers of the feudal ages, and contains a gallery, battlements, f Gothic windows, and a spiral stairease of stone. The stones are smooth hammered on both sides, so that each stone makes a part of both the inside and outside surface of the wall. The horizontal surfaces of all the stones being level and true, it is impossible that any structure, of the same materials, should be more substantial. The summit being above the tops of the highest trees, gives, from its platform, a panoramic view of the Cemetery and surrounding country. A landscape of cities and villages, interspersed with woods, cultivated fields, and large sheets of water, constitutes this view. Charles Iliver, with its various windings, is seen for seven or eight miles of its course, from Boston to Watcrtown, traversing the level marsh, which, in the distance, looks like a shaven lawn. In...

A History of the Cemetery of Mount Auburn

Bigelow, Jacob

Computers & Technology

A History of the People of Iowa

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. 1921 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER LXXXIII The Whirligig Op Politics With the death of the men who had created it. tike old-order was passing away. Bat what were called new iass were merely the old ones with a new shading in color. Tisare said to be only thirteen basic stories in the world, and tar all the tales that have been told and re-told are only variance of these primary ones. There are probably fewer kka* u* government and of possible social and industrial compaea Every possible form of government has been tried at i*tr once, or many times. Even the recall of judges and of judicjopinions which startled some Americans at that time, it wis found had been tried long before. It has been said that all tumoral government possible may be read out of the Ten Commandments of Moses, and all the social ameliorations possblr out of the Sermon on the Mount preached by Jesus Chrsr But as the twenty-odd letters of the alphabet may be arrang*^ to form the literature of a world, so concepts and compact* and ideas may be arranged and re-arranged without end Tj form new laws and new governments. The study of history ought to be the most profitable occupation of mankind, be: those who make the laws and who project them are not always students of history. In their equations human desires coon: for more than human experiences. The impossible is always appearing as the possible. But it may be that out of the attempt to reconcile them, human progress comes. In Iowa the older order was passing away. Colonel David B. Henderson, a valiant fighter but not a far-seeing man. gave up in despair, and Robert G. Cousins, one of the sanest thinkers among the great orators of the state and nation, went into retirement. Leslie M. Shaw, who had been governor and secretary of the...

Cole, Cyrenus

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. 1898 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. THE "PAROL EVIDENCE" RULE1 Few things are darker than this, or fuller of subtle difficulties. "The admissibility," says a well-known writer, "of extrinsic parol testimony to affect written instruments is, perhaps, the most difficult branch of the law of evidence."2 The chief reason is that most of the questions brought under this head are out of place; there is a grouping together of a mass of incongruous matter, and then it is looked at in a wrong focus. Because the rules intimated by this title deal with writings, i. e., with things which in their nature are evidence of what they record, it is assumed that they belong to the law of evidence. But in truth most of the matters with which they are concerned have no special place in the law of evidence; and the way out of these perplexities will be found in clearly recognizing what the law of evidence is, and in eliminating the various parts of the present title which do not belong under that head and allotting them to their proper place. I. It is necessary to keep in mind a few discriminations, some of which have been repeatedly emphasized already. Let us remind ourselves of them again. 1. Between rules of substantive law and rules of evidence. When the law requires a thing to be recorded, or in writing, or under seal, or attested, these, often, are not requirements of the law of evidence. They are 1 For common ways of stating what this phrase is thought to coyer, see infra, 396, 397.  S Taylor Ev. (9th ed.) s. 1128. matters of form, required, in some cases, as necessary to the constitution of a thing, as in the case of wills and deeds; in some, that the matter may be available as the ground of an action, as in the case of things included in ss. 4 and 17 of the Statute of...

A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at the Common Law

Thayer, James Bradley

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. 1830 edition. Excerpt: ... 85 . • It seems that the gentlemen in Canada, carry this indecent exposure of the person to an extent, which it would be mincing matters to call merely barefaced. We are indebted to Captain Hall for the following anecdote. (Vol. i. p. 246.) "At this critical stage of our progress, when, I suspect, we only wanted a' good excuse for turning back, but were deterred from saying soby the mere fact of its being hazardous to advance, we observed a portly-looking horseman approaching us from the marsh. In reply to our interrogatories, as to the stale of the roads further on, he shook his head, and assured us, they were much worse than any we had yet seen. 'The truth is,' added he, chuckling at his own prowess 'I had myself some considerable distance to ride, through a place where it was so deep that the water came far above my knees,' On hearing this assertion, our eyes naturally glanced, incredulously, to his nether garments, which were perfectly sleek, .clean, and dry. 'Oh!' cried he, guessing our thoughts, and smacking his thigh with his hand, ' I was obliged to take off these articles (naming them), and by hanging them over my shoulders I did very well, as you perceive." Captain Hall seems to have struck up an intimacy at once with this gentleman, whom he familiarly designates afterwards, (p. 247,) as "our fat friend," the well known phrase of Brummcl. A little further on (p. 265,) he is led into the remark, "In every part of Canada we found the inhabitants speaking English, and acting and looking like Englishmen, without any discernible difference.' At the other extremity of the continent he was equally taken with' the Creek Indians. He regrets (vol iii. p. 296) not having executed sketches of them with the Camera Lucida, " but until...

A Review of Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America; In the Years 1827 and 1828

Biddle, Richard

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. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...tanneries, mills, and any concerns in which an abundance of fine organic dust is inevitable. Further enumeration of sources of contamination is unnecessary. It will suffice to say that although scrupulous cleanliness and the avoidance of all unnecessary infection should be strenuously enforced in all parts of the brewery, it is particularly on the coolers and refrigerators that attention in this respect should be unceasing. Organisms infecting brewings in the early stages are at any rate killed during boiling, and their direct deteriorating influence thereby checked; infection after the wort is pitched is not so dangerous as during cooling, for organisms and wild yeasts are checked and crowded out by the actively developing pitching yeast. But during cooling and refrigeration, the wort is in its most critical condition, and as this infection is to some extent inevitable during that process, every means should be taken to reduce it to its very lowest amount. But however careful we may be, we cannot altogether avoid infection during cooling and refrigeration, and assuming that by every available means all evitable infection has been excluded, there will yet be many organisms to deal with; and whether this irreducible minimum of organisms is to be of harm or not will depend upon two factors, the composition of the wort, and the vigour of the subsequent fermentation. The conditions under which a vigorous fermentation, so far as the yeast is concerned, is attainable, will be considered subsequently. So far as the relation of fermentation to the proportions of the carbohydrates, minerals, and other constituents is concerned, this has already been touched upon in the chapter on mashing, and will be treated again under fermentation. We will...

A Text-Book of the Science of Brewing

Moritz, Edward Ralph

A Heathen Nation Evangelized. History of the Sandwich Islands Mission

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. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXVI. CHURCH AND HOUSE BUILDING. Church building, at native expense, made constant church progress on the Islands, though generally derdlfflcu"-1" under very great difficulties. At Kohala, ties on Hawaii, the people, in their effort to pro cure a new and more commodious house of worship, had to bring the timber six or eight miles from the mountains. The wood was hard and tough, axes were scarce, and there were few facilities for keeping them sharp. After the timber had been cut and hewn, from eighty to a hundred and fifty persons of both sexes laid hold of a long rope, made fast to one of the timbers, and a day was required to drag it up and down the precipitous ravines and through woods and brush, to the ground set apart for the building. Oxen could have done nothing were they obtainable, because of the ravines. The fondness of the people of Kohala for the orFondness for dinances of the sanctuary, was very strikworehip. ingly manifested. The district is subject at certain seasons to continued and violent winds and rains; and females, young and old, used frequently to come several miles in the rain, over precipices and ravines, to the place of worship, with a single scanty garment of brown cotton, and that garment, as well as their hair and entire persons, completely drenched. The author well reAT KEALAKEKUA AND KANEOHE. 221 members his surprise at finding this same church filled with people one Sabbath morning in 1863, notwithstanding a furious rain-storm, in which they had travelled with great discomfort from their homes. Had they had umbrellas, they could hardly have carried -them in so great a tempest. The laborious efforts of the native churches to procure convenient houses for worship, At Keala_ were further illustrated at...

Anderson, Rufus

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. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... transfer according to their occasions. The silver being assayed and weighed with scarcely any loss of time, the first mentioned cause of fluctuation in the relative value of the current medium compared with bullion is avoided. Certain masses of it being then certified (without any stamp being affixed on the metal) to be of a given quantity and fineness, the value is transferred from individual to individual by the medium merely of the bank books, and thus the wearing of the coin being prevented, one cause of depreciation is removed. A free right is also given to withdraw, melt, and export it; and thus the other and principal source of the occasional fall of the value of the current medium of payment, below that of the bullion which it is intended to represent, is also effectually precluded. In this manner at Hamburgh, silver is not only the measure of all exchangeable value, but it is rendered an invariable measure, except in so far as the relative value of silver itself varies with the varying supply of that precious metal from the mines. In the same manner the usage, and at last the law, which made gold coin the usual and at last the only legal tender in large payments here, rendered that metal our measure of value: and from the period of the reformation of the gold coin down to the suspension of the Bank payments in specie in 1797, gold coin was not a very variable measure of value; being subject only to that variation in the relative value of gold bullion which depends upon its supply from the mines, together with that limited variation, which, as above described, might take place between the market and the Mint price of gold coin. The highest amount of the depression of the coin which can take place when the Bank pays in gold, has...

A History of American Currency

Business & Money

SUMNER, WILLIAM GRAHAM

Economics

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. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ... the county's area of 568,960 acres, 101,603 acres were occupied as farms, with about twenty thousand acres classified as ' improved land.' The number of farms in 1910 was 891, while in 1900 there were 921 farms enumerated. Stock raising was considerably more important then field crops. The figures for 1909 were: Cattle, 14,695; horses and mules, about one thousand six hundred; swine, 32,844; sheep, 5,218; goats, 3,449; poultry, 28,683. The acreage of the chief crops was: Corn, 9,132; cotton, 1,533; peanuts, 977; sweet potatoes and yams, 717; besides a considerable acreage in sugar cane and oats. About 20,000 trees were in orchard fruits, and the growing of figs and pecans has received most attention in tropical fruits and nuts. Jasper County This is one of the original counties of the Texas republic. Its area was included in the De Zavala empresario grant of 1829, though settlement had begun previously. In the Texas Almanac for 1858, George W. Smyth, who had lived in that vicinity since 1830, said that when he came there was a settlement of about thirty families scattered from the Sabine to the Neches and known as "Bevil's settlement," from John Bevil, the original settler. A wilderness of forty miles separated that settlement from the "Ayish Bayou settlement" near San Augustine, while it was seventy miles to the "Cow Bayou settlement" on the south. In this account the first comers were named John Bevil, James Cheshire, Thomas Watts, John Watts, John Saul, Isaac Isaacs and Hardy Pace, who settled about 1828 or before. In 1830 this settlement was organized as a precinct of the municipality of Nacogdoches. The municipality of San Augustine was constituted in March, 1834, and the municipality of Bevil was probably created in the same year....

A History of Texas and Texans Volume 2

Johnson, Francis White

<p>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. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...being based on the ancient notion that supreme beauty could only be attained by combining the partial beauties of nature.2 He knows that "ideal" forms, i.e. forms modified by the observer's mental activity, need not be beautiful; and he thinks3 that Guido's "ideal" archangel, portrayed, according to the artist's account, after a mental image superior to experience, is much less beautiful than persons whom he has seen in reality, and betrays defective observation of nature. Thus the conception of ideal beauty does not to tend to narrow his doctrine, but to widen it. Now his primary tendency was no doubt to identify this mere beauty of shape, which implies repose simply because motion would involve change of outline, with the beauty or sublimity of the grand style, and we see him arguing with himself in the famous comparison with pure water whether 1 See p. 246 above. 2 iv. 2. 35. s lb. See p. 249 above. CO-ORDINATE TYPES OF BEAUTY. this can really be the case. But looking at the concrete, and arguing back from the phases of more pronounced expression, he sees that this is impossible, and that the grand style is expressive of one state of the soul, if the beautiful style is expressive of others. And indeed, if the grand style is cognate with formal beauty through its simplicity, the beautiful style is so no less through its variety and charm of curvature, so that we get the contradictory but intelligible result which has been mentioned, viz., that true beauty--the beauty of the grand style--falls outside the distinctively beautiful style, while the factor hostile to beauty reaches its maximum in the style of which beauty is the distinctive attribute. Thus he breaks away from the view which would have been the natural...</p>

A History of Aesthetic

Bosanquet, Bernard

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