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Going where?" "Going to Stoughton with papa." "But but Miss Guion " "I'm not going to be married," she continued, in the same even tone. "I thought perhaps Colonel Ashley might have told you. That's all over." "All over how?" "He's been so magnificent so wonderful. He stood by me during all my trouble, never letting me know that he'd changed in any way " "Oh, he's changed, has he?"
As all the official dignities of the Province were combined in Stoughton, he seems hardly to have known in what capacity he was acting, as different occasions arose. He signed the Death-warrant of Bridget Bishop, without giving himself any distinctive title, with his bare name and his private seal.
Council-men 1st Ward Jabez W. Fitch, George Whitelaw. 2d Ward Alexander McIntosh, Thomas C. Floyd. 3d Ward Stoughton Bliss, Miller M. Spangler. 4th Ward Marshall S. Castle, James B. Wilbur. Mayor Abner C. Brownell. President of the Council Leander M, Hubby. Aldermen John B. Wigman, Leander M. Hubby, Basil L. Spangler, Buckley Stedman.
Sir William Phips was appointed Governor, at his solicitation; and, in accordance with earnest recommendations, in a letter from Cotton Mather, William Stoughton was appointed Deputy-governor, thereby superceding Danforth, one of the ablest men in the Province. In fact, every member of the Council owed his seat to the Mathers, and, politically, was their creature.
But of this Superior Court Stoughton was appointed chief justice, and three of his four colleagues had sat with him in the special court. There is no evidence that these judges had undergone any change of opinion; but when the new court proceeded to hold a special term at Salem for the continuation of the witch trials a decided alteration in public feeling became apparent.
We shall not fail neither ourselves, nor each other. Our comradeship will endure. Hodder & Stoughton. There is a maxim particularly suitable to those who follow any art: "Don't talk about what you do!" And yet, once in a way, one must clear the mind and put into words what lies at the back of endeavour.
We propose to widen the canal at that point to one hundred feet at the bottom, and now " here he seized the unfortunate Stoughton and swung him so that he faced into the chilling blast "I want to point out the booming ground for logs." Stoughton muttered something that sounded like strong condemnation of all logs, but Clark did not seem to hear him.
Had any one at this time told Wimperley or Stoughton that for a pace or two they had merely fallen out of step in the march of progress, and that however depressing might be the present aspect of affairs it did not really affect the preordained outcome, they would have flouted the thought.
When full particulars of the Fairfax raid reached Washington, Wyndham vanished from the picture, being assigned to other duties where less depended upon him. There was a whole epidemic of courts-martial and inquiries, some of which were still smouldering when the war ended. And Stoughton, the principal victim, found scant sympathy.
After breakfast their conversation quite naturally took the form of a lovefeast, all being familiar with Methodist custom; when Dr. Allon, Dr. Raleigh, and Dr. Stoughton all said they were converted in Methodist chapels, and began Christian work as Methodists. Thomas Binney said that "the direct instrumentality in his conversion was Wesleyan," and Dr.
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