Some Account of the Bowdoin Family With a Notice of the Erving Family
The book Some Account of the Bowdoin Family With a Notice of the Erving Family was written by author Temple Prime Here you can read free online of Some Account of the Bowdoin Family With a Notice of the Erving Family book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Some Account of the Bowdoin Family With a Notice of the Erving Family a good or bad book?
What reading level is Some Account of the Bowdoin Family With a Notice of the Erving Family book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Born : Boston, September 22d 1752. Died: Nashaun Island, Buzzard's Bay, Mass. , October 11th 1811; buried in the Bowdoin vault in the Granary, Tremont Street, Boston. Will : 4 June 4th 1811 ; proved October 21st 1811. (Pro- bate Office, Suffolk Co. Mass. ) Married : May 18th 1781 Sarah, daughter of William Bowdoin; 5 i3orn October 17th 1761; her second husband was Gen. Henry Dearborn, Secretary of War under Jeffer- son, whom she married November 10th 1813 ; she died May 24th 1826; will, e July ...18th 1812. (Probate Office, Suffolk Co. Mass. ) 1 In 1774 he was vetoed by Governor Gage, by express order of the King. 2 Illness prevented him from accepting the position. 3 He left his library to this Society. * See second edition, page 21. 5 His uncle. * See page 8. 8 BOWDOIN FAMILY. Account of James III Bo-wdoin. Graduated at Harvard College before he was twenty; sailed for Europe and spent a year at Oxford ; then trav- elled, and was on the Continent, when he heard of the battle of Lexington; returned immediately to America; March 17th 177G was on the heights of Dorchester with "Washington and crossed over with him in the same boat, at the time of the evacuation of Boston ; his health gave out and he went to reside with his father and assisted him in his political labors.
User Reviews: