Jacob Benson, Pioneer, and His Descendants: In the Towns of Dover and Amenia, Dutchess County, New York, and Elsewhere. Together with Some Information of the Early Members of the Benson Family in New England and New York State

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A. V. Haight Company, 1915 - 130 pages
 

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Page 118 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now so you must be, Prepare for death and follow me.
Page 16 - Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body. and knowing that it is Appointed for all men once to die. do make and ordain this my last will and Testament that Is to say principally and first of all.
Page 16 - God and calling unto mind the mortality of my body and •knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend my soul into the hands of Almighty God that gave it, and my body I recommend to the earth, to be buried In decent christian burial at the discretion of my executors. Nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty power of God.
Page 104 - Acts of the British Parliament until a Reconciliation between Great Britain and America on Constitutional Principles (which we most ardently desire) can be obtained : And that we will in all things follow the Advice of our General Committee respecting the purposes aforesaid, the preservation of Peace and good order and the safety of Individuals and Private Property,
Page 16 - Executor, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it has pleased God to bless me in this Life I give devise and dispose of the same in the following manner and form...
Page 104 - Albany being greatly alarmed at the avowed Design of the Ministry, to raise a revenue in America; and shocked by the bloody Scene now acting in the Massachusetts Bay Do in the most Solemn Manner resolve never to become Slaves ; and do associate under all the Ties of Religion, Honour, and Love to our Country, to adopt and endeavour to carry into Execution whatever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress...
Page 104 - Persuaded that the salvation of the rights and liberties of America, depends, under God, on the firm union of its inhabitants, in a vigorous prosecution of the measures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which attend a dissolution of the powers of government...
Page 104 - America, and shocked by the bloody scene now acting in Massachusetts Bay, do in the most solemn manner resolve never to become slaves, and do associate, under all the ties of religion, honor, and love to our country, to adopt and endeavor to carry into execution whatsoever measures may be recommended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by our Provincial Convention, for the purpose of preserving our constitution and of opposing the several arbitrary acts of the British Parliament...
Page 16 - God, calling to mind the mortality of the body and knowing that it is appointed unto all men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, That is to say principally and first of all I give and recommend...
Page 105 - Green Mountain, and the town of Amenia, in Dutchess county, Pleasant, if you please, owe their names to the fancy of Young, the poet, I mean the American, not the English Young; he had a peculiar facility in making English words from Latin ones.

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