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  John Wise (clergyman) Summary
Wise was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in August 1652, the son of Joseph Wise, a former indentured servant.
John Wise (August 1652 — April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
Wise was born in Roxbury, the son of Joseph Wise.
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  John Wise (clergyman) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wise (August 1652 — April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
Wise was noted for his political activism, specifically his protests against British taxation, for which he was once jailed.
Wise was born in Roxbury, the son of Joseph Wise.
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Wise (clergyman)
John Wise (August 1652 — April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
John Wise Avenue, a section of Route 133, is named after him.
Wise was an enthusiastic believer that man in a state of nature was a "free-born subject under the crown of heaven and owing no homage to none but God himself." (Rossiter, 216).
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 Wise
Wise River The Wise River is a tributary of the Beaverhead County.
Wise Township, Michigan Wise Township is a township located in 2000 census, the township had a total population of 1,301...
Wise use The wise use movement is a loose affiliation of activists opposed to the Reno, Nevada that produced a 25-point...
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 John Wise - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Wise, John 1652-1725, American clergyman, exponent of the democratic principles of modern Congregationalism, b.
Wise after all: the "wise men" fell out of liberal favor a generation ago.
John Stanley, a onetime smuggler, counterfeiter, auto thief, and fugitive turned his life around.
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 John Wise   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
WISE, John, clergyman, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in August, 1652; died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, 8 April, 1725.
He was the son of Joseph Wise, who, in his younger days, had been a serving-man. John attended Roxbury free school, was graduated at Harvard in 1673, and, after studying theology, was ordained pastor of Chebacco, a new parish of Ipswich, on 12 August, 1683, where he remained till his death.
Wise amplified his views in his "Vindication of the Government of New England Churches," which was bound together with another edition of the former pamphlet (1717).
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 Travel Wise
Wise use contrasts with free-market environmentalism in that the latter is associated with libertarian political views and efforts to protect the environment through private initiatives such as land trusts; many libertarians would dispute any association of free-market environmentalism with the Wise Use movement and its goals.
Groups which the wise use movement would rather not be associated with, such as the John Birch Society, the Unification Church, and the Lyndon LaRouche organization, have sometimes attempted to hitch themselves to the wise use cause, and hold similar views on environmental issues to the wise users.
Wise is a past president of both the Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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 John Wise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Wise (1652-1725) - Massachusetts divine who protested taxation
John Sergeant Wise (1846-1913) U.S. Congressman from Virginia
John Wise (born 1935) former Canadian Minister of Agriculture
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 Crumrine - West Bethlehem Twp.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John and Henry Conkle came into this section as early as 1784, and both received Virginia certificates for large tracts of land, John taking thee hundred and eighty acres called "Solitude," and Henry three hundred and ninety-two acres named "German." The entire Conkle property is now owned by William Conkle.
John Sargeant settled at an early day upon a tract of land on Plum Run, south of Hillsborough, and the property is now owned and occupied by his grandson and namesake, John Sargeant.
John Conkle (presumably a brother of Henry) took up on Virginia certificate the tract of 380 acres, which was surveyed to him March 4, 1784; warranted to him by Pennsylvania, Feb. 11, 1788, and resurveyed June 13, 1788.
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 Crumrine - West Bethlehem Twp.
John and Henry Conkle came into this section as early as 1784, and both received Virginia certificates for large tracts of land, John taking thee hundred and eighty acres called "Solitude," and Henry three hundred and ninety-two acres named "German." The entire Conkle property is now owned by William Conkle.
John Sargeant settled at an early day upon a tract of land on Plum Run, south of Hillsborough, and the property is now owned and occupied by his grandson and namesake, John Sargeant.
John Conkle (presumably a brother of Henry) took up on Virginia certificate the tract of 380 acres, which was surveyed to him March 4, 1784; warranted to him by Pennsylvania, Feb. 11, 1788, and resurveyed June 13, 1788.
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 1721
Wise believed in the traditional rights and privileges of Americans and denied the right of the English to overturn the charter by which Massachusetts had been governed since 1629.
John Burrill, Councillor and former Speaker of the House, died of the smallpox at Lynn.
John White, clerk of the House, died of the smallpox by inoculation.
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 Benton Biographies
Ruth Ann is the wife of John J. WISE and Sophia is the wife of Joshua L. ANDREWS, a farmer in Milo.
John is married and resides in Chicago and George is married and resides in Buffalo.
John married Hannah, daughter of Randolph FOX, a wealthy farmer of Penn Flats.
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 History of Ipswich, Essex and Hamilton
John Walley, of Boston, and was born 1716.
Wise was of a majestic form, and of great muscular strength and activity.
John Wise, £60, two thirds of it in produce, and the rest in money, with the strangers' contributions, and 40 cords of wood, 8 loads of marsh hay, and ten acres of land.
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 John Wise (clergyman)
John Wise (August 1652 — April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the American colonial period.
Records how that he was baptized on August 15, 1652.
In 1688, Wise led Ipswich citizens in a protest aganist colonial taxation.
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 John Richbourg Sr & Mary Long
Therefore, it is factual and I tell it in the first person as JOHN did in 1832, in sworn statements in support of his application for a federal pension based on his military service.
JOHN's pension in the about of $216.88 per annum was finally approved in 1836, when he was 89 years old.
JOHN RICHBOURG, who was born August 23, 1717, and died November 29, 1838 (3) He served as a Captain in Colonel Sumter's Regiment, South Carolina, during the Revolution.
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 Chapter 4: Our Judaeo-Christian Heritage in Non-Episcopal
While John Winthrop (as well as an influential clergyman such as John Cotton) thought it appropriate for the Assistants to have such a veto, some more democratic agitators argued that it would be more appropriate for the General Court to vote as whole, with majority rule prevailing.
But renunciation of any higher church authority brought some risks: Their own clergyman, John Robinson, was too frail to join them from Europe, and they had a dismal experience with the clergy who eventually came over.
Or as John Cotton liked to put it, when two men are followed by a dog, one may not know which is the dog's master until the two part ways.
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But the beauty and dignity of the Christian character shine unmistakable in the life of the chaplain to the expedition, the Rev. Robert Hunt, and all the more radiantly for the dark and discouraging surroundings in which his ministry was to be exercised.
Those were the years of ignoble peace with which the reign of James began; and the glittering hopes of gold might well attract some of the brave men who had served by sea or land in the wars of Elizabeth.
John Rolfe was perplexed with questions of duty touching his love for Pocahontas, it was to the old soldier, Dale, that he brought his burden, seeking spiritual counsel.
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 John Wise (clergyman) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Wise was born in (Click link for more info and facts about Roxbury) Roxbury, the son of Joseph Wise.
After attending public schools near his home, he was admitted to (Click link for more info and facts about Harvard College) Harvard College (now Harvard University).
On August 12, 1683, Wise was ordained as the (Only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus) pastor of the newly organized Chebacco Parish, a new (A local church community) parish formed out of Ipswich.
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 Historical Society Whitley County Columbia City Indiana Genealogical Nellie Riley Raber Records Notebooks
John Eberhard (groom) and Elizabeth Dowel (bride) married August 16, 1868 by Z. Garrison, M.G. Katie Eberhard (bride) and Jeremiah Sterner (groom) married December 21, 1879 by Rev. J.
John P. Hively (groom) and Mary Matilda Strong (bride) married January 3, 1861 by William Roley, J.P. Jonathan Hively (groom) and Sarah Salts (bride) married July 7, 1861 by John Miller, E. Margaret Hively (bride) and Cornelius Lindley (groom) married September 30, 1873 by A. Miner.
John Randall (groom) and Emma Burkholder (bride) married November 5, 1871 by Casper W. Lamb, J.P. Caroline Rapp (bride) and Nathan Tyler (groom) married March 1, 1883 by J. Winans, Pastor.
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 Wise Quotes - Wise Quotations, Wise Sayings
The wise speak when they have something to say, the fools speak when they have to say something.
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
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 1900 Aug Oct   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
John Wadley as president of the Waycross Air Line Railroad.
He is a brother of John E. Wadley of Waycross.
John Hiller, in Ohio, Rev. Mooey is keeping bachelor quarters at their pleasant home south of the city.
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 John Locke
John Locke (1632-1704) was one of the greatest philosophers in Europe at the end of the seventeenth century.
This period ends with the Glorious Revolution of 1688 in which James II was driven from England and replaced by William of Orange and his wife Mary.
John Wilkins, Cromwell's brother in law, had become Warden of Wadham College.
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 John Hurt biography
His father was a Church of England clergyman, called upon to move from parish to parish, and Hurt lived until the age of 12 in the industrial countryside of the North, in a small village named Woodville surrounded by coal mines.
He was tremendous as the wise Max, slowly drained of life in Midnight Express, a performance for which he was Oscar-nominated (it also won him a Golden Globe).
And, of course, there was The Elephant Man. To play John Merrick in David Lynch's fl and white masterpiece, Hurt rose at 4am, spent seven hours having his make-up applied, filmed until 10pm (consuming raw eggs and orange juice through a straw), then spent a further two hours having his make-up removed.
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 A Preliminary Examination of the People of the Salem Witchcraze
He was popular in Ipswich where the minister, John Wise, and thirty-two other men signed a petition on his behalf when he was imprisioned for witchcraft.
John Proctor, while imprisoned, was an eye-witness to the torture of other prisoners, as well as the torture of his son, William.
John Indian (Parris' servant), Abigail Williams, and Mary Walcott supplied evidence that not only were Elizabeth Proctor and Sarah Cloyce guilty of afflicting them but that they were also guilty of recruiting more witches.
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 Study of the Wall Family of Virginia by Lou Poole
John Covington married Nancy Wall on 26 July 1770, and she bore him nine children over the next dozen or so years, probably indicating that she could have been born between about 1740 and 1750.
John Wall was noted present in the 14 September 1735 entry, the 11 October 1735 entry, and the 6 November 1735 entry.
John Wall’s involvement as Thomas Goodwyn’s administrator may indicate that John Wall was married to a daughter of Thomas Goodwyn, it may indicate some earlier realtionship by marriage, or as suggested above in a comment, Thomas Goodwyn may have been a close, and long-time, business partner of John Wall.
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 People Behind the Names W
JOHN WANAMAKER (1833-1922) Pioneer in the development of the modern department store.
Professor at Johns Hopkins 1883 and was the first Dean of the Medical school 1896.
JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS (1854-1932) Congressman from Mississippi 1892-1909.
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 Wise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Henry Wise Wood (president of the United Farmers of Alberta)
Isaac Mayer Wise (American Reform rabbi, editor, and author)
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
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 Dictionary of Meaning www.mauspfeil.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
'''John Wise''' (August 1652 — April 8, 1725) was a Congregationalism Congregationalist reverend and political leader in Massachusetts during the Colonial America American colonial period.
Wise was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts Roxbury, the son of Joseph Wise.
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