Wheat Genealogy; a History of the Wheat Family in America: With a Brief Account of the Name and Family in England and Normandy, Volum 1

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Silas Carmi Wheat
S.C. Wheat, 1903
 

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Pàgina 4 - For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing, anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind...
Pàgina 15 - That hangs his head, and a' that ? The coward-slave, we pass him by, We dare be poor for a' that ! For a' that, and a' that, Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea stamp ; The man's the gowd for a
Pàgina 12 - HE man who has not anything to boast of but his illustrious ancestors is like a potato — the only good belonging to him is underground.
Pàgina 42 - ... world's oldest city; but the excavations made not only prove that it rose upon the ruins of others, but affords some knowledge of a long line of kings who lived so long ago that their very names were forgotten before the flight of the Israelites from Egypt, or even the building of the Tower of Babel. "What is the story of this buried past? Were all its doors flung wide, For us to search its rooms? And we to see the race, from first to last, And how they lived and died.
Pàgina 86 - Iowa, where he practiced until his death. He was a member of the American Medical Association ; of the Iowa State Medical Society...
Pàgina 48 - Colony in new england being in a confident measure of memory & understanding: praised be God: doe make this my last Will & Testament in manner...
Pàgina 40 - Palfry) had not only wronged hir neighbors in killing their poultrie, but being convict for L,ying, L,oytering & running away fro hir master was whipped.
Pàgina 46 - Wheat continued to add to his holdings from time to time until he had 339 acres in twenty-three separate allotments.
Pàgina 40 - Corte having taken into it is hereby ordered that they shall have the one halfe of the customes of their wines abated them, viz., five shillings upon a butt. . . . 22th 3th mo 1646.

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