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Title: Genealogy of the descendants of John White of Wenham and Lancaster, Massachusetts. : 1638-(1909) ...
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: White, Almira Larkin, b. 1839
Subjects: White family White, John, d. 1673?
Publisher: Haverhill, Mass. : Chase brothers, printers
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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l. Once and again you have heard, but hear youmay see that power belongeth unto God ; that our God is the God ofsalvation, and to him belong the issues from Death That our God isin Heaven, and doth whatever pleases him, Here you have SampsonRiddle examplified, and that great promis, Rom. 8. 28, verified, Outof the Eater comes forth meat, and sweetness out of the strong: Theworst of evils working together for the best good. How evident is itthat the Lord hath made this Gentlewoman a gainer by all this afflic-tion, that she can say, tis good for her yea better that she hath beenthen that she should not have been, thus afflicted Oh how doth Godshine forth in such things as these? Reader, if thou gettest no goodby such a Declaration as this, the fault must needs be thine own Readtherefore, Peruse, Ponder and from hence lay up something from theexperience of another against thine own turn comes, that so thou alsothrough patience and consolation of the Scripture may yet have hope TER AMICAM
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A Narrative Of The Captivity And Restauration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson. On the tenth of February, 1675, came the Indians with great num-bers upon Lancaster : their first coming was about sunrising; hearingthe noise of some guns, we looked out; several houses were burning,and the smoke ascending to heaven. There were five persons taken inone house, the father and mother, and a little child they knocked onthe head, the other two they took and carried away alive. There weretwo others, who being out of their garrison upon occasion, were setupon ; one was knocked on the head, the other escaped : Anotherthere was who running along was shot and wounded, and fell down ;he begged of them his life, promising them money (as they told me)but they would not hearken to him, but knocked him on the head,stripped him naked and split open his bowels. Another seeing manyof the Indians about his barn, venturd and went out, but was quicklyshot down. There were three others belonging to the same garrisonwho

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