Letters from Timothy Pickering to his brother and father, 1797-1798

These two handwritten letters by Timothy Pickering were written on February 14, 1797 and June 14, 1798 to his brother John Pickering and his father Timothy Pickering, respectively. The letter to his brother, John, discusses mutual friends, classmate Thomas Lee, and John’s recent attendance at a sermon by Dr. Joseph Priestley. The letter from Timothy to his father includes a discussion of Timothy’s expenses and the amount of money needed to pay his debts, a request for new shoes for commencement, the news of Timothy’s invitation to join honor society Phi Beta Kappa, and a few comments on his forensics course at Harvard.

Notification from William Cutler to the selectmen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Dr. Philip Brukowitz and wife were inhabiting his father's house in Cambridge, 1758 April 25

Single page notification addressed to the selectmen of Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 25 April 1758, in which William Cutler writes that he took into his father’s Cambridge house as tenants Dr. George Philip Brukowitz and his wife, from Woburn, Massachusetts. After the Boston smallpox epidemic of 1721, the town of Cambridge enacted a requirement in 1723 that no resident would receive or admit any non-resident family into their homes for the space of a month without informing the town selectmen. The penalty for failing to do so was twenty shillings.

Part I. A closing roll from Holy and Eternal Wisdom, Mother Ann, Father William and Father James, to the children of Zion : Part II. A sacred covenant of our heavenly parents, sent forth upon earth to their children, at the close of their late manifestation, (on the holy mount of God,) for the purification of Zion and the inhabitants thereof /

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Historical sketch of the Flathead Indian nation from the year 1813 to 1890. Embracing the history of the establishment of St. Mary's Indian mission in the Bitter Root Valley, Mont. With sketches of the missionary life of Father Ravalli and other early missionaries, wars of the Blackfeet and Flatheads, and sketches of history, trapping and trading in the early days ...

Mode of access: Internet.

The father's story of Charley Ross, the kidnapped child : containing a full and complete account of the abduction of Charles Brewster Ross from the home of his parents in Germantown, with the pursuit of the abductors and their tragic death; the various incidents connected with the search for the lost boy; the discovery of other lost children [etc.] /

Mode of access: Internet.

The life of Admiral Lord Anson, the father of the British navy, 1697-1762,

"Works consulted": p. x.

Wine, women & waltz : a romantic biography of Johann Strauss, son and father /

Mode of access: Internet.

Domestic happiness : promoted in a series of discourses from a father to his daughter, on occasion of her going into service, calculated to render servants in general virtuous and happy: with various characters, anecdotes, fables, and reflections : being for the most part adapted also to the use of Sunday-schools, abridged from Virtue in humble life /

Mode of access: Internet.

The father and the Son : a doctrinal exposition /

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Proserpina. Studies of wayside flowers, while the air was yet pure among the Alps, and in the Scotland and England which my father knew.

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The mother and the father; dramatic passages,

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River legends; or, Father Thames and Father Rhine,

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The history of Scotland, related in familiar conversations, by a father to his children: interspersed with moral and instructive remarks, and observations on the most leading and interesting subjects. Designed for the perusal of youth.

Summers, Gothic Bib., p. 63.