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Identifier: journalofamerica00mill (find matches)
Title: The journal of American history
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Americana Antiques
Publisher: New Haven, Conn. : Associated Publishers of American Records
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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ev. Mr. Greene ofye village ye hand of fellowship, and Mr. Garnish of Wentham made ye concludingprayer. There was an immense concourse of people in ye house, so that every partof ye house was crowded and some were on ye beams over ye heads of ye congrega-tion. Ye Governor was in ye house and her Majestys Commissioner of ye Customs,and they sat together by ye pulpit stairs. Ye Governor appeared very devout andattentive, altho he favors Episcopacy and tolerates the Quakers and Baptists, buthe is a strong opposer of ye Baptists. He was dressed in a black velvet coat, borderedwith gold lace, and buff breeches with gold buckles at ye knees, and white stockings.There was a disturbance in ye galleries, where it was filled with negroes, mulattoesand Indians, and a negro, called Pomp Shorter, belonging to Mr. Gardner, wascalled forth and put in ye broad aisle, where he was reproved with great awfulnessand solemnity, he was then put in ye Deacons seat between two deacons in view of 49 m jb \? i
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fyA %?bmu flr^rotf Btyrmmt «£ \n nf mm ye whole congregation, but the Sexton was ordered by Mr. Prescott to take himout because of his levity and strange contortions of countenance, giving great scandalto ye grave deacons, and put him in the lobby under ye stairs. Some children anda mulatto woman were reprimanded for laughing at Pomp Shorter. When yeservices at ye house were ended, ye council and other dignitaries were entertainedat ye house of Mr. Epes on the hill near by, and we had a bountiful table with bearsmeat and venison, the last of which was from a fine buck, shot in the woods nearbyâye bear was killed in Lynn Woods near Reading. After ye blessing was cravedby Mr. Garnish of Wentham, word came that ye buck was shot on ye Lords dayby Pequot, an Indian who came to Mr. Epes with a lye in his mouth, like Annaniasof old, we thereupon refused to eat of ye venison, but it was afterwards agreed, thatPequot should receive 40 stripes save one for lying and profaning the Lords dayâ

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