Old Copp's Hill and Burial Ground: With Historical SketchesBenjamin Parks, 1882 - 47 páginas |
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20 feet Ancient and Honorable Battle of Bunker Bell BENJAMIN PARKS British troops built Bunker Hill called Capt Captain Carnes cemetery charge Charlestown Charter Street gate Christ Church Clark coat of arms Commercial Street Cotton Mather daughter death died Edward Martyn entrance erected feet wide following inscription formerly front Garden Court Governor grave-stone Hannah harbor Honorable Artillery Company Hudson's Point Hull Street interred Janitor John King's Chapel known land March Mary meeting-house memory monument Mountfort North Burying Ground North Church North End North Square north-west OLD COPP'S HILL oldest pastor Paul Revere present edifice Prince Street purchased Quaker remains Robert Newman rooms sacred Salem Street Samuel Samuel Sewall Sarah School Sewall sexton shillings side slab Snelling Snowhill Street sold south-east south-west steeple Suffolk Deeds summit Teachers Thomas Hutchinson Timothy Cutler tomb tombstone town vault wife William Clark William Copp
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Página 9 - If the British march By land or sea from the town tonight, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light,— One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Página 45 - As you are now so once was I; As I am now, so you must be Prepare for death and follow me.
Página 39 - My name from the palms of His hands Eternity will not erase ; Impressed on His heart it remains In marks of indelible grace : Yes ! I to the end shall endure As sure as the earnest is given : More happy, but not more secure, The glorified spirits in heaven.
Página 45 - And the green turf lie lightly on thy breast : There shall the morn her earliest tears bestow, There the first roses of the year shall blow; While angels with their silver wings o'ershade The ground, now sacred by thy reliques made.
Página 9 - By the trembling ladder, steep and tall, To the highest window in the wall, Where he paused to listen and look down A moment on the roofs of the town And the moonlight flowing over all.
Página 8 - This peal of eight bells is the gift of a number of generous persons, to Christ church, in Boston, New England, Anno 1744. AR 2d. This church was founded in the year 1723, Timothy Cutler, Doctor in Divinity, the first rector. AR 1744. . 3d. We are the first ring of bells cast for the British empire in North America. AR 1744.
Página 8 - Savage in 1730. The organ was made by Thomas Johnston in 1759. The interior was rebuilt by Mr. Goodrich about sixty years ago. The figures of the cherubim in front of the organ and the chandelier were taken from a French vessel, by the privateer " Oucen of Hungary," and presented to thechurchin 1746 by Captain Grushea.
Página 28 - Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit.
Página 29 - ... I was prohibited from entering the Common ; conceiving this hill to be the property of the Company, I marched them there as a place no one had a right to exclude them from.
Página 10 - The signal lanterns of Paul Revere displayed in the steeple of this church April 18, 1775, warned the country of the march of the British troops to Lexington and Concord.