The American Catholic Historical Researches, Volumes 8-9

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Martin Ignatius Joseph Griffin, William Leo Joseph Griffin
Martin I.J. Griffin, 1891 - Catholics
 

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Page 55 - Indiana, do make and publish this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by me at any time heretofore made.
Page 55 - I direct that all my debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon after my decease as possible out of the first moneys that shall come into the hands of my executor, from any portion of my estate real or personal.
Page 121 - His Britannic majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholic religion to the inhabitants of Canada, he will, consequently, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion, according to the rites of the Romish Church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit.
Page 32 - He was seized, confined, and brought away among the rest of the people ; and his family, consisting of twenty children, and about one hundred and fifty grand-children, were scattered in different colonies, so that he was put on shore at New York, with only his wife and two youngest children, in an infirm state of health, from whence he joined three more of his children at Philadelphia; where he died without any more notice being taken of him than any of us, notwithstanding his many years' labour,...
Page 135 - He that hath the substance of this world, and shall see his brother in need, and shall shut up his bowels from him ; how doth the charity of God abide in him ? My little children, let us not love in word nor in tongue, but in deed and in truth.
Page 31 - Parents were separated from children, and husbands from wives, some of whom have not to this day met again; and we were so crowded in the transport vessels, that we had not room even for all our bodies to lay down at once, and consequently were prevented from carrying with us proper necessaries, especially for the support and comfort of the aged and weak, many of whom quickly ended their misery with their lives.
Page 56 - Will that they heard him publish pronounce and declare the same to be his last Will and Testament and...
Page 114 - I do revoke all former wills by me at any time heretofore made, and do declare this only to be my last will and testament.

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