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Efforts to explain by assuming a second marriage of Carver or a first marriage of Howland fail to convince, for, surely, such relationships would have been mentioned by Bradford, Winslow, Morton or Prence.
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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Prence and Edward Winslow were settled on large farms in Duxbury and
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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-- 'Sure,' says I, 'I'm come on the best ov business, whin the Prence is afther sendin' his man to tell me to come on a visit. '
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 Various
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Standish, Prence, and Jonathan Brewster that they would "remove their families to live in the towne in the winter-time that they may the better repair to the service of God."
The Women Who Came in the Mayflower Annie Russell Marble
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-- 'Oh,' says he, 'my masther is the Prence Ragin.'
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829 Various
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Qui propria voglia, Son capo, son qui duce, son lor Prence.
Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910
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Sae the fower fut stane -- wa 'had to flee afore him, for a throu gang to the Prence o' the Pooer o 'the Air.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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Every now and then a Scotchman comes and pulls the Boy by the sleeve; "Prence, here is another mon taken!" then with all the dignity in the world, the Boy hopes nobody was killed in the action!
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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: Eccoti, o Prence [1: 36] 20 Duetto: Tutta contenta [4: 45] 21 Rec.
AvaxHome RSS: 2010
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Prence so much, and others whom it conce [~r] eth, that no neglecte or ill ma [= n] ers be imputed to me theraboute.
Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts William Bradford 1623
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