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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 28. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.5 (search)
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 36. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.44 (search)
Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 7., Meeting-house brook and the second Meeting-house . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: November 3, 1860., [Electronic resource], English view of the late Royal visit. (search)
The Daily Dispatch: December 13, 1860., [Electronic resource], Secession movement at the South . (search)
Wills and will-making.
In the London Quarterly Review for October, we have a long article upon two publications which have lately been made in England, one of them a collection of Royal wills, by John Nichols, and the other a collection of ancient wills, by Sir Harris Nicholas. Both these authors are processed antiquarians, and these publications were made with the avowed object of assisting those genealogical researches which are so frequent in England, and are becoming every year more difficult to conduct with success, as we recede from the time in which the wills were made.
The first confines himself to wills made by the Kings, Princes, Queens, Princesses, and other sprigs of royalty, commencing with that of Alfred the Great, the oldest on record in England.
The other deals with wills generally.
The writer of the review under consideration says, that "for the performance of one of the great functions of history, the stripping off the mask, and discovering the real inte
The Daily Dispatch: November 27, 1861., [Electronic resource], Proceedings of the Methodist Annual Conference . (search)
Proceedings of the Methodist Annual Conference.
[Aeported for the Richmond Dispatch.] Norfolk, Nov. 25.
The Conference continued in secret session to-day, until about 12 o'clock, when the doors were opened to the crowds eagerly awaiting admission.
Immediately thereafter Rev. H. B. Cowles, chairman, submitted a report from the Committee on the General Publishing Interests of the Church, which elicited some debate from Messrs. Stanley, Head, Cowles, Edwards, Wills, and Smith.
There was really no difference of opinion between the speakers as to the real merits of the question involved, but only as to a matter of taste and verbal criticism.
The report as presented by the Committee was adopted.
During this period Rev. D. S. Doggett was in the Chair.
The Conference then adjourned after various notices had been given, among which was one from the Bishop, calling the Presiding Elders together to consider of the appointments.
The Anuiversary Meeting of the Mi
The Daily Dispatch: May 10, 1862., [Electronic resource], Destruction of cotton in the South . (search)