{"1": {"fulltext": "^MIJNL I, GARRET", "height": "2853", "width": "1850", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "t? HK\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00bb.:\\nTi:\\ng T*", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ",\\\\/if\\\\^. AS\u00c2\u00bb.Vw^i\\nIN THE FORTUNE\\n.?...v.J\\nADAMS BASSRTT- BEAT^\\nBOMPASSE SICC\\nCANNON C 0 HMAN\\nDEANDE LA NOIE PJ.AVEL\\nFOfiDHICKS ^7 MORGAN\\nMORTON \\\\S- PALMER\\nPRENCE X X oLMONSON\\nSTATIE- STEWARTTENrH\\nWINSLOW- HT\\n^IN THB ANNE Tffi/*\\\\\\n^^LITTLE JAMES A) l623%#\\nANNABEL- BA^^^\u00c2\u00ab BARTLETT\\nBURCHER COr..^ r CLARK\\nCUTHBERTSON- DIX FAUNCE\\nFLOODHEARJDHOLMAN- JENNY\\nKEMPTON- ^UTCHELL\\nNORTON- C I- PRATT\\nRAND R\\\\l v.1^1 i c SNOW\\nSPRACUB ^EN\\nTRArPY V M", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "S ^i^uvM^(\u00c2\u00a3i^i^", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "THE PILGRIM SHORE", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "i^\\n..IE PILGRIM\\n0#O\\n1 1 little Pitlun\\nor jrom Fancy ov\\nre", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "?/A /C\\\\i\\nTHE PILGRIM SHORE\\nny Edmund /fCf^rett- ^itf? many\\nlittle Vifturings d^zvr^rom Nature\\nor jrom Fancy by r^e Vn^iter^pub-\\nli/hed at Soston Ity Sittle.Srown", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Copyright. 1900,\\nBy Little, Brown, and Company\\nUNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON\\nAND SON CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "Pheface\\nInterduction wHch may be skipt\\nTneBiglowPapers\\nVEN if travel abroad best\\nstrengthens our love of\\ncountry, we should not\\nneglect for it those\\nplaces, hallowed by their\\nassociations or history, that\\nHe at our very doors. And\\nso an occasional reminder\\nof the attractions of our own\\nland may not be amiss, and\\nit is for the purpose of set-\\nting forth in a familiar way\\nthe charm of a pilgrimage\\nthrough some of our own towns that this\\nbook is now published.\\nThe writer has already recorded in a like\\nmanner a journey northward to Cape Ann,\\nRomance and Reality of the Puritan Coast.\\n\u00c2\u00a3:r^", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "8 Preface.\\nand as this volume treats of the South Shore\\nof Massachusetts Bay,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the two books to-\\ngether describe the coast of the Puritans and\\nthat of the Pilgrims.\\nThese two regions, like the two peoples\\nthemselves, while having much in common,\\nyet present marked contrasts.\\nThe Puritan land is rich, populous, and en-\\nterprising. Along its length teeming cities\\nand growing towns are ever reaching toward\\neach other. All day long its air is vexed\\nwith the thunder of rolling trains and the\\nshriek of shrill complaining trolleys. Tall\\nfactory chimneys vie in height with its stee-\\nples and wreathe their smoke over its homes,\\nsails of toil and pleasure crowd its harbors.\\nIt is active, busy, energetic, laborious, and\\ncompetent. Its shore is comparatively high,\\nbold, and sternly rockbound.^\\nIn reality it extends southward to the rocks of Cohas-\\nset, for the river that flows through this town marked the\\nboundary between the Plymouth and the Massachusetts\\nIJay colonies. In this book, however, the whole South\\n.Shore from Boston to Plymouth is treated of under the-\\ngeneral title of the Pilgrim Shore.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Preface. 9\\nThe land of the Pilgrims is by contrast less\\nbold and rocky, and it has not kept pace with\\nthe other side of the bay, either in population,\\nmaterial prosperity, or enterprise. It has\\nbeen until quite lately very much more\\ncountrified and quiet, and having for many\\nyears been less easy of access, it is not so well\\nknown as a whole. In spite of this, however,\\nnone of the North Shore towns is so famous\\nas Plymouth, whose soil and waters nourished\\nthe Forefathers, men whose love of mercy\\nand justice, whose humanity and nobility of\\ncharacter, have hallowed the place of their\\ndwelling, and made their name revered at\\nhome and abroad.\\nThere are places and objects so intimately\\nassociated with the world s greatest men or\\nwith mighty deeds, says Governor Roger\\nVVolcott, that the soul of him who gazes\\nupon them is lost in a sense of reverent awe,\\nas it listens to the voice that speaks from the\\npast in words like those which came from the\\nburning bush, Put off thy shoes from off thy\\nfeet, for the place whereon thou standest is", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "lO Preface.\\nholy ground. On the sloping hillside of Ply-\\nmouth such a voice is breathed by the brood-\\ning genius of the place, and the ear must be\\ndull that fails to catch the whispered words.\\nNeed we wonder then that this old town\\nhas become an American shrine, and the ways\\nthat lead to it made paths of pilgrimage?\\nSomehow, in spite of the gentle and liberal\\ntendencies of the Pilgrims, one associates\\nthem most often with a bleak and wintry\\nshore such as they landed on that stormy\\nDecember night so long ago. It seems to\\nharmonize well with the stern courage which\\nprompted them to set forth for the New\\nWorld, and is a fitting background to the\\nhardy, temperate, manly lives of those res-\\nolute hearts, self-exiled for conscience sake.\\nHappily, however, the coast is not always\\nforbidding, nor its beauty awesome not al-\\nways does a leaden sky hang low over wan\\nsurges, nor the gray sea fling its freezing\\nspray across a pallid shore to black forests\\nbuffeted by the icy north wind. Far other-\\nwise is it when summer clothes it in crcnia]", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A Pilgrim.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "Preface. 13\\nand smiling beaut}-. Then kindly blue waves\\nlap its warm glimmering sands. To beach\\nand rock creep grass, and vine, and flowering\\nshrub. Birds then sing in its groves, but-\\nterflies flutter over its fields, the pines, like\\nswinging censers perfume the winds and cast\\nwelcome shadows over the warm earth. As\\nif dressed for a festival, the landscape glistens\\nunder the sun, and all is as sweet as the\\nmorning. It was in such pleasant times\\nthat the notes and sketches in this book\\nwere made, and the purpose has been, while\\nwandering along, rendering homage to the\\nland s beauty, to record its present aspect\\nand recall in a measure its traditions and\\nhistory.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CONTENT5\\nPage\\nPreface _\\nDOKCHESTER ^j\\nNepoxset ,Q\\nQUINCY\\nWeymouth __\\nHiNGHA.M gg\\nH^ Li- 97\\nCohasset ,Q(.\\nSCITUATE J, J\\n^IARSHFIELD J\\nDuxBURv J.-\\nKingston jgj\\nPlymouth j3_", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A LIST\\nOF THE\\n-m\\ny^:)fe\\nrvT\\nLLU^TgRATIONS\\nPriscilla Frontispiece\\nPreface, Decorative Iniiial 7\\nA Pilgrim 1 1\\nTailpiece 13\\nContents^ Decorative Headiiii; 15\\nList of Illustrations, Decoratii e Heading 17\\nDorc/iester, Decorati7)e Initial 21\\nGardens there were evcrywliere 24\\nThe Blake House 27\\nTill in turn she dreamed herself 31\\nCaptain Roger Clap 37", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "1 8 A List of the Illustrations\\nPAGE\\nA epoiiset^ Decorative Initial 39\\nMounted guard at a window 41\\nQiiincy, Decorative Heading 43\\nUnitarian Churcii, WoUaston 44\\nThe steep hill by the tablet 47\\nDorothy Q 51\\nThe Quincy House 55\\nMerrie Mounte 59\\nLord of Misrule 61\\nCut down the Maypole 65\\nChrist Church Fountain 69\\nJohn Quincy Adams was born here 73\\nJohn Adams House 76\\nWeymouth, Decorative Heading jj\\nThe Fore River 78\\nWattawamat 81\\nThe Smith Parsonage 84\\nHinghani, Decorative Heading 86\\nHome of General Lincoln 87\\nMajor-General Lincoln 89\\nAn Antique Treasure 94\\nHull, Decorative Heading 97\\nAs necessary as church and preaching 99\\nHollyhocks 103", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A List of the Illustrations 19\\nPAGE\\nCohassef, Decorative Heading 105\\nThe Jerusalem Road 107\\nCohasset River 1 1 1\\nCohasset Common 113\\nThrough the village 115\\nTheir home on the little hill 116\\nThe old Lincoln House 119\\nScitunte, Decorative Heading I2E\\nFourth Cliff, Scituate 122\\nThe Street, Scituate Harbor 125\\nThe mill that stood by it 129\\nThe Old Oaken Bucket 133\\nThe placid stream sleeps 135\\nOn Humarock Beach 137\\nAnd Jemmy the Negur shall catch it for\\nher 141\\nMarsJifield, Decorative Headim^ 143\\nOn the old White Estate 144\\nThe Winslow Arms 147\\nProud Peacocks 149\\nThe old Winslow House 153\\nDuxbury, Decorative Heading 157\\nThe Married Lovers 159\\nThe John Alden House 163\\nThe Arch Priscilla 167", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "PAGE\\n20 A List of the Illustrations\\nDuxbiiry (continued).\\nThe Grave of Miles Standish 169\\nAt Standish s Fireside 173\\nMiles Standish 175\\nThe Standish Cottage 179\\nKingston, Decorative Heading 181\\nBy Island Creek 182\\nMajor John Bradford s House 184\\nPlynwiith, Decorative Headitig 187\\nThe pewter plate and iron pot 192\\nPlymouth s first, last, and only duel 197\\nOne of the quaint chairs 199\\nFlax-wheel 199\\nCradle 200\\nNorth Street 203\\nMary Chilton first 209\\nSite of First House 213\\nAncient Mere-steads 217\\nGovernor Bradford 219\\nThe Bradford Monument 223\\nThe Oldest House 225\\nA Paradise to Etchers 227\\nPond Lilies 230\\nJust as the Pilgrims found it 231\\nTailpiece 234", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "DoRCliE5TER\\nhe way out of cities is not always a\\npleasant one, for between town\\nand country there lies commonly\\na forlorn region, neither the one nor\\nthe other, whence the country has\\nfled, and the city has not yet set\\nfirmly its foot. It seems like some\\nmelancholy shore on which beat the\\nwaves of urban life, casting up the\\nscum and dregs\\nof its poverty,\\ntoi.l, and\\nmisery.\\n-^^^1,3^ Over\\nthis land,\\nblighted\\nby the smoke and cinders of grimy work-\\nshops, brood squalor, intemperance, and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "2 2 The Pilgrim Shore\\nweariness, settling on the old dumps and\\narid wastes, fattening ever on the filth, the\\nunhealthy fumes, and the noxious odors that\\noverspread and arise from all this cast-out\\ndetritus. Hurry through this unlovely land,\\nif it cannot be avoided.\\nSuch a waste must be passed going to\\nthe Pilgrim Shore, unless one leaves the city\\nfrom the west, and so goes by the parks and\\nthrough Roxbury to the first town on the\\nSouth Shore, Good Old Dorchester.\\nSettled in 1630, it was first known as Matta-\\npan for in history we read that the Court\\nof Assistants held at Charlestown, September\\n7, 1630, ordered that Trimountaine be called\\nBoston Mattapan, Dorchester, and the\\ntowne upon Charles Ryver, Watertown.\\nWhy they called it Dorchester, says\\nelder James Blake, one of the earliest annalists,\\nI never heard but there was some of ye\\nTowne of Dorchester that settled here, and\\nit is very likely it might be in honor of ye\\naforesaid Rev d Mr. White of Dorchester.\\nThis Mr. White was Rector of Trinity Parish,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Dorchester. 23\\nDorchester, England, and was the most\\nprominent of the active promoters of the\\nPuritan emigration. He organized the church\\nthat settled here, and aided it with heart and\\npurse.\\nIn 1633 this was declared to be the great-\\nest town in all New England, by the author\\nof New England s Prospect, well wooded\\nand watered very good arable grounds and\\nHay-ground, faire Cornefields and pleasant\\nGardens. And this description of its attrac-\\ntions seems to have held good many, many\\nyears indeed no town near Boston for so\\nlong a time preserved its rural beauty, its\\ncountry simplicity, and its air of well-bred\\nEnglish quiet. I remember, especially, just\\nhow it used to look in the sixties seen from\\nthe neighboring high hills of Roxbury, so\\ninvitingly fair it was, stretching green un-\\ndulations against its blue bay and the sea s\\nrim, its houses and steeples shining white,\\nand its gardens hanging to its hillsides like\\napples on a bough. Gardens there were\\neverywhere, pleasant as in the days of the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "24\\nThe Pilo-rim Shore.\\nquaint old author of the Prospect, not like\\nthe shaven lawns and geometric parterres of\\nGardens tlure were everywlicre.\\n/C\\nto-day, nor shamming nature either, but\\npicturesquely formal and yet accidental.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "Dorchester. 25\\nTherein grew venerable pear-trees, and spread\\ncrooked apple boughs, and in cherry-time\\nluscious black-hearts and white-hearts hung\\nthickly above their own gummy trunks.\\nStreaked gooseberries fattened there, and\\ncurrants crimsoned, and in thorny thickets\\nlong blackberries ripened and sweetened\\ntill they dropped of their own weight to the\\nrich and shaded soil that nourished them.\\nAnd all kinds of old fashioned flowers spread\\ntheir bloom along the prim box-bordered\\npaths that led formally to the pleasant home-\\nsteads. Some of them old Revolutionary\\nmansions, and some that were already an-\\ntique when these were built, dating from that\\nfar colonial time when this was the greatest\\ntown in all New England.\\nOf all these old colonial houses, the only\\none remaining nearly in its original condition\\nis the old Blake house, said to have been built\\nbefore 1650 by elder James Blake. Its pre-\\nservation is due to the Dorchester Historical\\nSociety, whose home it now is. They re-\\nstored it, and moved it from its old founda-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "26 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ntion to its present site under the great trees\\nwhere the new park way starts from the end\\nof Massachusetts Avenue.\\nIt was on a winter s night, just after a great\\nsnow-storm, that I made my first visit to this\\nold colonial home. Upon the roof the snow\\nsparkled coldly against the frosty sky, and\\nthrough the latticed windows the lamp and\\nfire-light passed the black walls and flickered\\non the snow-drifts and the winter-laden trees,\\ngiving a promise of the warmth and cosy\\nold-fashioned comfort within. I seemed to\\nstep at once by the hospitably opened door\\ninto a past far from the promiscuous apart-\\nment houses near by, and the shrieking, clang-\\ning trolley car that had whisked me through\\nthe city streets with our modern marvellous\\nand unregarded magic. The present slipped\\naway from me, and my fancy peopled the low\\nceiled rooms with the shapes of staid God-\\nfearing Puritans. Undoubtedly, it was in\\nsome interior quaintly like this that Captain\\nRoger Clap, the first annalist of Dorchester,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Blake House.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "Dorchester. 29\\nset down his memoirs of that early time that\\nare now so precious. And I seemed to see\\nhim at his work upon them in moments\\nsnatched from ruder toil. And Mistress\\nJoanna Blake, too, hushing the children, or\\nsinging softly one of the old Puritan hymns\\nas she rocked the youngest to sleep, till in\\nturn she dreamed herself, dreamed of the\\nhedgerows and orchards of old Dorsetshire,\\nthe pleasant lanes, the breezy hills, the shel-\\ntered valleys, the roses, the hawthorn, the\\nskylark and nightingale, snugly thatched\\ncottages, the old ivy clad church and the\\nquiet church-yard in their old home beyond\\nthe wide, wide sea. I wonder if she did not\\nsometimes sigh for the motherland, in spite of\\nthe Puritan grit. No such weakness or ten-\\nderness, however, found a place in the hearts\\nof the men, if they were all like Captain\\nRoger Clap for, after reciting the sore straits\\nto which they were put by hardships, and for\\nwant of provisions for themselves and their\\nlittle ones, he could yet find it in his heart to\\nwrite, I do not remember that I ever did", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "30 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nwish in my Heart that I had not come unto\\nthis Country or that I ever did wish myself\\nback again to my P^ather s House.\\nBut comforts accumulated in time; for thus\\nhe apostrophizes his children, You have\\nbetter Food and Raiment than was in former\\ntimes but have you better Hearts than your\\nForefathers had? If so, Rejoice in that\\nMercy and let New England then shout for\\nJoy.\\nThe old house has been happily furnished\\nwith old colonial and provincial belonging, so\\nthat it is precious to the artist or antiquary.\\nIn the summer it seems a little out of keep-\\ning with its park-like surroundings, and one\\nis not surprised to learn then that it has been\\nmoved here. It has the look of those an-\\ntiques which one sees set in the glass cases\\nof museums, stripped of their natural uses\\nand surroundings, and become only objects\\nof curiosity.\\nHere, as elsewhere in Dorchester, one will\\nnotice the magnificent old trees. The people\\nmust always have loved trees, and to this day", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "Till in turn she dreamed ficrself.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "Dorchester. 3 3\\nthey protect and preserve them lovingly. A\\nbit of the sidewalk is not begrudged them,\\nnor even a little of the roadway. After all,\\nwhat decent man would not be willing to\\nturn a little out of his way for the sake of a\\ntree So they lift their screen of leaves in\\nthe summer, their lacing of twigs in the\\nwinter, over the streets, and cast shade and\\nbeauty over the whole place. However, this\\nold town is changing so rapidly that it seems\\nas if stone and brick must soon take the place\\nof leaves and grass, and the trees follow after\\nthe old houses. Indeed, the new houses\\nseem no longer like interlopers, for it is rather\\nthe old ones, hanging hopelessly to their\\ndiminished gardens, that seem out of place,\\nelbowed out of countenance by aggressive\\nnewcomers, like guests that have worn out\\ntheir welcome. It is a pity that they should\\nall go, as go they must in a short time.\\nBut if Dorchester is to be robbed of her\\nold landmarks, no one shall take from her\\nthe grand part she played in the making of\\nthe Puritan republic. Here was raised the\\n3", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "34 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nfirst meeting-house in the Bay Colony. She\\nclaims, too, the distinguished honor of having\\ninstituted the first special town government\\nin New England. But perhaps greater pride\\nyet is felt that the people of Dorchester were\\nthe first in all America who by a direct tax\\nor assessment made public provision for a\\nfree school. The instruction to the school-\\nmaster was that he should equally and\\nimpartially receive and instruct such as shalbe\\nsent and Committed to him for that end,\\nwhither there parents bee poore or rich.\\nThis was the corner-stone of our public\\nschool system. The moneys for this purpose\\ncame from the rental of Thompson s Island,\\nwhich was owned by the town.\\nThis island lies across Dorchester Bay, off\\nSquantum Point, and is seen in the glimpses\\nthat one has of the bay and harbor on the\\nroad to Neponset. At high tide this view is\\nvery pretty. In the foreground lies embow-\\nered Savin Hill, and beyond it South Boston.\\n1 It was built in 1631 on the plain near the corner of\\nCottage and Pleasant Streets.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "Dorchester. 35\\nThe latter was a great attraction to the Puri-\\ntan settlers, for on that grassy neck of land\\nthey found fine pasturage for their cattle.\\nFrom the Marine Park at the Point, the\\nlong iron pier is seen jutting out to Fort In-\\ndependence on Castle Island. This has\\nbeen a strong place since 1634, or almost\\nfrom the first settlement; for, says Captain\\nRoger Clap, God stirred up his poor ser-\\nvants to use means in their beginnings for their\\npreservation. At first they built a castle\\nwith mud walls which stood divers years\\nwhen the mud walls failed it was built again\\nwith pine-trees and earth. Brick walls\\nreplaced these in 1645, d says Edward\\nJohnson, Although this Castle cost about\\n;^4000 yet are not this poor pilgrim people\\nweary of maintaining it in good repair.\\nRoger Clap was captain of The Castle\\nin his old age, when it was indeed a strong\\nfort for that time, mounting 38 guns and 16\\nwhole culverin. Its name was changed in\\n1705 to Castle William, in honor probably of\\nthe Prince of Orange, William III., though", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "36 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nhe had at that date been dead three years,\\nand the colonies were under the rule of\\nsimple, homely Queen Anne. Again was it\\nrechristened, in 1799, after it had been ceded\\nto the national government, and the temper\\nof the people required a name more in keep-\\ning with their republican contempt of kings,\\nand so it was called Fort Independence, as\\nit is to-day.\\nThough the shore of Dorchester Bay was\\nperhaps never attractive except at high tide,\\nstill it must have deserved a better fate than\\nhas come to it. Neglect and other obvious\\nfactors have brought it to a state of decided\\nunloveliness. The redeeming feature of the\\nride shorevvisc is the outlook over the bay\\nand harbor, for there are few breaks in the\\nlong dreariness of the ride down to the village\\nof Neponset.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "Captain Roger Clap.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "EPON5ET\\niHlS part of Dorchester\\nis named from the\\nNeponset tribe of In-\\ndians, whose home it\\nwas. Here change is\\nas busy as in the other\\nparts of Dorchester,\\nand its old landmarks\\nhave nearly all passed\\naway. Perhaps the greatest loss was that of\\nthe Old Minot House, for it was not only a\\nvery old house, built before 1640, but it was\\ncalled the oldest wooden house on the conti-\\nnent. Yet although it seemed outwardly to\\nbe only of wood, it was really all lined be-\\ntween its ponderous oaken timbers with brick,\\nfort-like and bullet proof. Picturesquely an-\\ncient it was, with a pleasant outlook over the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "40 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nwinding river and the level marshes to the\\nBlue Hills.\\nIt had its legend, too, one tinctured with\\nthe resolute bravery of that old time which\\npulsed from the hearts of both men and\\nwomen. In this instance t was the courage\\nof a woman for it is related that, during King\\nPhilip s War, a straggling red warrior sud-\\ndenly appeared before the old house, when it\\nwas occupied by a lone maid and two of John\\nMinot s small children, but not to the con-\\nfusion of the young woman. For no sooner\\ndid she see the Indian, than she hid the two\\nbabies under a brass kettle and ran upstairs\\nfor a musket, and then mounted guard at\\na window. The Indian, who was armed like-\\nwise, fired first and missed her but she,\\ntaking careful aim, wounded him in the\\nshoulder. Mad with rage and pain, he then\\ntried to force an entrance through a window\\nwhereat the amazon rushed to the fire-place,\\nand, filling a shovel with burning coals, hurled\\nthem in his horrible painted face. Doubly\\nwounded with fire and lead, the foiled sav-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "Neponset.\\n41\\nage, weak and sufifering, crept off into the\\nwoods, in the depths of which he was after-\\nwards found dead.\\nMounted citard at a xviiidow.\\nUnhappily the old house caught fire in\\n1874, and burned to the ground. What a\\npity to have lost the theatre of such an\\nheroic adventure\\nFrom the wooden bridge over the Nepon-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "42 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nset River there is a pretty view inlahd across\\nthe green meadows and blue curves of the\\nriver to the steeples and groves of Milton,\\nunder the shadow of the Great Blue Hill\\nthat Captain John Smith called the high\\nmountaine of Massachusetts. Indeed, it was\\nfrom the native name of this hill, Massa-\\ntvachit-sctt, that the tribe of that name was\\ncalled, and so our State itself takes its name\\nsecondly from these same hills. How long\\nthe range has been known as the Blue Hills,\\nI do not know, but the reason is obvious to\\nany one who sees them from the bay. Wood,\\nin his New England s Prospect, 1634, says\\nthat, Up into the Country westward from\\nthe plantations is a high hill which is called\\nrattlesnake hill where there is great store of\\nthese poysonous creatures. I know that\\nthese dreaded reptiles used to be common\\nenough there, and I am told that they are\\neven now occasionally found by the park\\nguardians, and to this day the easternmost\\nof the chain is called Rattlesnake Hill.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Across the bridge\\nin Atlantic a road turns\\noff seaward to Squan-\\ntum, along a neck of\\nmingled beach and\\nmarsh. The name\\ncommemorates that fast friend\\nof the Pilgrims, Sqnantum\\nSquanto or Tisquanttim, as he\\nis variously called in the old\\nchronicles. He piloted ten\\nadventurous men of Plymouth,\\namongst whom were Standish\\nand Winslow, to this beautiful little promon-\\ntory in 1 62 1. According to Edward Everett\\nHale, the account of this expedition is the\\nfirst authentic record of the landing of Eng-\\nlishmen in the vicinity of Boston. The", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "44\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\nOuincy Daughters of the Revolution have\\nplaced here a cairn with an inscription in\\nmemory of that early pilgrimage.\\nUnitarian Cliurclt. Wollasfon.\\nThe peninsula is now cut up into private\\nestates profusely decorated with signs for-\\nbidding trespass, and is connected by a long\\ncauseway with Moon Island, the mouth of a", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Quincy. 45\\ngreat sewer. Years ago Squantum was a\\npretty little place, a miniature Nahant but\\nit now is hardly worth a visit.\\nIf one keeps on past Atlantic, and crosses\\nthe railway, skirting the Neponset River and\\nMeadows, where is the site of the first rail-\\nway in America, he will soon come up the\\nhill by the Unitarian Church into Wollaston.\\nRight by the square at the foot of First\\nHill is a tablet set in the greensward and\\nthus inscribed\\nThis and the neighboring\\nWollaston Hills were part of the\\nOriginal grant of 600 acres\\nMade by the town of Boston to\\nWilliam Hutchinson in 1636-7.\\nHis house stood near this spot,\\nAnd to it came his wife\\nAnn Hutchinson\\non the seventeenth of April 1638\\nWhen exiled from Massachusetts\\nby the General Court of the Colony,\\nand here she tarried for a brief space\\nWhile on her way to Rhode Island\\nThis Tablet placed A.D. 1894.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "46 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nSo we find that at the beginning of its his-\\ntory, Wollaston was sheltering and comfort-\\ning an advanced woman.\\nThis is one of the few places named after\\ntheir founders, for we learn from Dudley s let-\\nter to Bridget, Countess of Warwick, that one\\nCapt. Wollaston with some thirty with him\\nbuilt on a hill which he named Mount Wollas-\\nton. Now though this was undoubtedly a\\npart of the original domain of the Captain, the\\nfirst settlement was not made just here. That\\nplace, known sometimes as Merrymount, we\\nshall visit later, meanwhile it is best to climb\\nthe steep hill by the tablet, the roses, the\\npretty cottages, and the flagstaff, for Wollas-\\nton is really a pretty place, and would be\\nmisjudged if seen only from the lower road.\\nFrom the top of the hill. Grand View Avenue,\\nshady and pleasant, leads on to Second Hill,\\nwith many a vista over the harbor and the\\ntown-hemmed city.\\nA mile it is to Quincy, and, just before\\nreaching the centre, our road crosses Furnace\\nBrook. Then the first house on the right, at", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "r//t sU-c/ hill l y the tablet:", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "Quincy. 49\\nthe corner of Adams Street, is that of Brooks\\nAdams. A long low gambrel-roofed mansion\\nunder stately elms, and girt with pleasant\\ngardens, it has in a measure the air of some\\nold English manor-houses which have grown\\nslowly in a rambling and delightful way, by\\npushing out an ell here, or gallery there, as a\\ngrowing family required, or a waxing fortune\\njustified.\\nOriginally this was the country seat of a\\nrich and powerful colonial family, the Vassals.\\nT is said that they were of Italian blood, and\\nwealthy beyond the habit of those days, lords,\\ntoo, of vast estates in New England and the\\nWest Indies. From his possessions in the\\nlatter place, it was that Leonard Vassal\\nbrought the magnificent old Santo Domingo\\nmahogany with which one of the old rooms is\\npanelled from floor to ceiling.\\nThis, the most interesting of the Adams\\nhouses, has sometimes been called the House\\nof Golden Weddings; for in one of its\\nrooms have been celebrated the golden wed-\\ndings of John Adams, of his son John Quincy\\n4", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "50 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nAdams, and his grandson Charles Francis\\nAdams.\\nOpposite the old estate is President s Lane,\\na lovely shaded road which leads to the other\\nAdams houses. It is better, however, to cross\\nthe bridge over the railway, whence it is a\\nshort distance to the centre, or Quincy Square.\\nA pleasant walk it is, too, for this suburban city\\nis a delightful mixture of town and country.\\nGreat trees arch the streets, and under their\\nshade the fine old dwellings are interspersed\\nwith shops, churches, banks, and schools.\\nThe Square is the heart of Quincy from it,\\nlike arteries, the streets lead in all directions,\\nand through them pulses a \\\\ery modern life.\\nHow busy it is with the trolley cars whisk-\\ning about everywhere, flashing and clanging!\\nAnd beside all this bustling, noisy activity,\\nas if to emphasize it by deep sharp contrast,\\nlies the quiet old mouldering bur} ing ground\\nwith its heaped turf and crumbling stones.\\nHere, in their narrow beds amongst the fore-\\nfathers, sleep Josiah and Edmund Quincy and\\nthat stalwart patriot, John Hancock.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Dorothy (J.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "Ouincy. 53\\nWell cared for is the old place now, but\\nneglect fell upon it for a long time; for years\\nthe weeds choked its borders, the cows\\ngrazed among its broken and tottering head-\\nstones and trampled down the forgotten\\ngraves. Many of the oldest monuments\\nwere by this means lost, and to-day the\\noldest stone dates back to only 1666, al-\\nthough the graveyard is contemporary with\\nthe earliest settlement.\\nTwo gates give entrance to its quiet from\\nthe busy street. Over one is the grim re-\\nminder, Dust tliou art and unto dust shalt\\nthou return. But it seems a good omen\\nthat over the one usually opened is arched\\nthe beautiful promise, This mortal shall put\\non immortality.\\nAcross the square in the deep shade of\\ntrees the Stone Temple rises sedately from\\nits tiny greensward. Aloft it bears a cupola\\nfashioned like a small pagan temple, and its\\ngrim sombre granite is capped by dusky\\ngold. This edifice is the Unitarian church,\\nand it stands on a remnant of the old train-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "54 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ning-ground. It is called the Stone Temple\\nbecause twas built of granite taken from\\nquarries given to the town by Ex-President\\nJohn Adams, who requested that a temple\\nshould be erected from their stone. In the\\nchurch are the tombs of the two presidents,\\nand monuments of the Adams family.\\nIndeed one can hardly turn about in\\nOuincy without seeing something to remind\\nhim of the Adams or the Quincy family, and,\\nin fact, the historv of the town is in a crreat\\nmeasure a history of these two illustrious\\nfamilies. The city itself is named after\\nColonel John Ouincy, and one part of the\\npeople, not content to honor one family, have\\ncalled their locality Ouincy-Adams.\\nThe best monument to the Ouincy family\\nwould have been the preservation of the\\nOuincy homestead. This old mansion, much\\naltered and fallen in estate, may be reached\\nfrom the Square by going toward Boston on\\nHancock Street. It stands just beyond the\\nHigh School, where Furnace Brook slips\\nunder the road by some giant willows where", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "f.\u00c2\u00bb_; eSl*cor-\\nThe Qiiincy House.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "Quincy. 57\\na double row of trees marks what seems to\\nhave been an old garden walk along the\\nstream s bank.\\nThe poor old house where Dorothy O\\nwas born and in which generations of the\\nQuincys have lived and died has the very\\nair of neglect and desertion. Straggling\\nweeds and rank have crept over the driveway\\nonce so trim, so neat. Choked by them too\\nare all the garden walks and the formal old-\\nfashioned flower-beds over their bent and\\ntangled stalks brood the venerable lilacs, still\\nflanking the quaint old doorway. Beside the\\nantique panelled door with its ponderous\\nknockers and staring bull s eyes of turbid\\nglass, there still stands some of the old bor-\\ndering box. Unkempt it is now, but digni-\\nfied by the growth of many years, for this\\nslowest of growing plants now out-tops the\\ntallest man.\\nThe house itself has been disfigured by\\nclumsy and ugly additions; yet amid these\\nmodern barbarities you may find bits of\\nbackground wholly of the past, and in fact", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "58 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nsome portions date back to 1634. Even\\nabove the eaves the old lilacs tower matted\\nand branch-bound, they blotch with violet\\nshadows the gray walls and old windows, and\\nfret the many paned sashes, pied with the pale\\npinks, the amber greens, and amethysts of\\nancient glass= But their tints no longer color\\nthe landscape and stain the sky to outlooking\\nQuincy eyes the inside shutters are closed,\\nand against this panelled white, the panes\\nreveal their minor harmonies to the peering\\nstranger.\\nAt the side of the house, where a rickety\\nbridge now spans the brook, was a flight of\\nstone steps to a boat-landing, for Furnace\\nBrook widened here into Black s Creek,\\nand a great convenience it must have been\\nto have at one s door a thoroughfare to that\\ngreat highway, the sea for in the earl}\\ndays all communication between the settle-\\nments was by water.\\nThe first comers to Quincy settled, as was\\nthe custom, close to the shore, .and not far\\nfrom this old house, toward the Bay is Merry", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "Ouincy.\\n59\\n,/i\\nI Joloun\\nMount where the famous Maypole\\nwas set up in the days of King\\nCharles. Here it was that Captain\\nWollaston settled in 1625. And\\nfrom here he set sail, after a year s\\nhard trials, discouraged and strait-\\nened in circumstances, to try and\\nretrieve his fortune in Virginia; for\\nthe adventure was not happy, and\\nthe story of its early days is one of\\ntrouble and disappointment.\\nThe settlement was left in charge\\nof a Lieutenant Pitcher and a small\\ncompany. To them came one who\\nwas destined to weave into the fab-\\nric of New England s early history", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "6o The Pilgrim Shore.\\na (qw threads of vivid dye, gaudy, if not well\\nspun. This individual was one Mr. Mor-\\nton a lawyer (who had been a kind of\\npettifogger of Furnefell s Inne).^ He was,\\nif Governor Bradford may be believed, a\\npestilent fellow and a troubler of the country.\\nOf course Governor Bradford was not unpreju-\\ndiced, but Morton really seems to have been a\\ngood deal of an adventurer. However, he was\\nno common one, for he was educated, tal-\\nented, and, above all, whimsical and pictur-\\nesque. Devoted was he to all the follies and\\nvanities of Merrie England, which included,\\nfrom the Plymouth standpoint (it has been\\nsaid), The Book of Common Prayer.\\nNaturally he had no sympathy with either\\nPuritan or Pilgrim, and if he, too, in common\\nwith them, sought any liberty, it was surely not\\ntliat of conscience nor religion. For in the\\nplague-swept fields of the Massachusetts, and\\nthe silent shadowy paths of the primeval\\n1 Bradford s Historj Morton called himself Of\\nClifford s Inn, Gent., and Samuel Maverick says that he\\nwas a gentleman of qualitie.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "Lord of Misrule.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "Ouincy. 6^\\nforests, his heart turned not to God, but longed\\nfor the hcense of the old-world, and his nimble,\\nscheming brain visioned a little realm where\\nthe jollity of English wake and fair and revel\\nmight be enjoyed and fostered under his\\nespecial care.\\nSo, with his brain all fancy-stuffed, he\\ncraftily enticed the Captain s servants, and\\nconspired with them, until, taking opportunity\\nthey thrust Lavetenante Pitcher out a dorcs.\\nThen did Morton make himself Lord of\\nMisrule, and set up a Maypole on Mount\\nWollaston, 8o feet high, topped with a buck s\\nhorns and decked with flowers. On it, too, he\\nhung pagan conceits and gallantries in his\\nown verse, for to his other accomplishments\\nhe added that of rhyming.\\nBut a Maypole was of little use to a lot of\\nmen, and so, as there were no fair English\\ngirls at hand (Hawthorne to the contrary\\nnotwithstanding), he and his men were forced\\nto revel alone, or to beguile the Indian women\\nthereto. They did not revel alone, you ma}\\nbe sure.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "64 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nHow strange this motley assembly must\\nhave looked, capering about the Maypole on\\nthe lonely hill overlooking the lonely bay\\nand the lonely fields and forests Surely not\\na pleasant sight to the Pilgrims was it, for\\nthus does Bradford describe it, After this\\nthey fell to great licenciousness, and led\\ninto a dissolute life, powering out them selves\\ninto all profaneness. As if they had anew\\nrevived celebrated the feasts of ye Roman\\nGoddes Flora, or ye beasly practieses of y\\nmadd Bacchinalians. Phen they changed\\nthe name of their place to Merie-mountei as\\nif this joylity would have lasted ever.\\nPo maintain their prodigality, they sold to\\nthe Indians arms and ammunition, a com-\\nmerce king-forbidden. And besides furnish-\\ning their red brothers with firearms, they also\\nkept him in fire-water and themselves set a\\ngreat example of drunkenness. So, says\\nCharles Francis Adams, Mount Wollaston\\nwas the first recorded instance of what was\\nknown in later Massachusetts history as a\\nliquor nuisance. Phus the settlement be-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "^;WV\\nCul down the Maypole.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "Ouincy. 67\\ncame not only a scandal, but a continual\\ndanger and menace to both colonies.\\nThen the settlers scattered about the Bay,\\nthough they were all Episcopalians and gen-\\nerally held themselves aloof from the men of\\nPlymouth, besought aid of them that the mis-\\nchief at Merrie-mounte might be stopped.\\nTo this entreaty the Pilgrims turned not a\\ndeaf ear, and forthwith despatched Miles\\nStandish and a small guard to take the defi-\\nant Morton captive by force.\\nThis was easily done, for the Maypole crew\\nwere fortified only with Dutch courage, Mor-\\nton himself, though boastful and haughty, was\\nbut overloaded with it, and had in his drunk-\\nenness rammed his gun half full of powder\\nand balls.\\nSo he was easily disarmed and humbled by\\nthe Captain whom he had reviled with scofts\\nand scorns, and reduced at last to the petty\\nand spiteful revenge of calling his captor\\nCaptain Shrimp.\\nAfter the encounter, Morton was shipped\\nback to England, and the Pilgrims task was", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "68 The Pilsiini Shore.\\ndone, for it is to be noted that they pushed\\nnot the business farther then to dehver the\\ncountry of the Master of the Revels, and to\\nstop the sale of weapons to the Indians.\\nAfter admonishing the others, they left them\\nto their own devices and returned home.\\nNot so did the Puritans, however for Endi-\\ncott soon visited the Mount, cut down the\\nMaypole, and rebuked its votaries roundly,\\ndeclaring in plain words that if there was not\\nbetter walking he would make their Merry-\\nmount a woful mount for them. Thereupon\\nthe colonists mended their ways and changed\\nthe name of their abiding place to Mount\\nDagon, a name that endured not.\\nA romantic interest has always clung to\\nthese Maypole days at Merrie-mounte. Haw-\\nthorne gives a highly fanciful account of them\\nin Twice Told Tales. But in spite of all the\\nglamour that such a master of romance may\\nweave into this episode of scarlet and tinsel,\\none will never regret that the victory was\\nwith Standish and Endicott. Perhaps I may\\nclose aptly with the words of Governor Brad-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "C/iiist Church Fountain.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "Quincy. 71\\nford But I have been too long aboute so\\nunworthy a person and so bad a cause.\\nTo many the old Adams houses, birth-\\nplaces of the presidents, will be the most in-\\nteresting sights in Quincy. To reach them\\nwe must return to the Square, and follow\\nHancock Street in the other direction. It is\\nworth while to examine Christ Church on the\\nway. Before it stands a curious drinking\\nfountain, surmounted by a cross and lantern,\\nand decorated with scriptural texts and a\\nrepresentation of our Saviour. It is as use-\\nful as it is picturesque, and recalls the wayside\\nshrines of the old world.\\nTurn to the right from Hancock Street\\nopposite this fountain. Notice on the left\\nthe old churchyard of Christ s Church in\\nBraintree, New England (for Quincy was a\\npart of Braintree), where stood the first house\\nof worship from A.D. 1727 to a.D. 1833, and\\nare buried the founders of the church and\\nmany of their descendants.\\nThe car tracks guide us straight to the two\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0old Adams houses. They stand on a little", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "72 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ndelta of desolate land by the side of the road,\\nclose together. Little ground has been\\nspared them, and that is barren. Rude stiles\\nand a few shrubs soften slightly the grimness\\nof the John Adams House, standing gable end\\nto the street and facing its junior. In it\\nJohn Adams was born. It has been restored\\nby the Adams Chapter of the D.A.R.\\nThe other old house, with a picturesque\\nleanto and well-sweep, is called the cottage.\\nIt was the home of John and Abigail\\nAdams. Here goodwife Abigail wrote let-\\nters that time has not dimmed. John Ouincy\\nAdams was born here in 1767, The house\\nwas built in 1716, and was restored in 1896\\nby the Ouincy Historical Society. Both the\\nhouses are open in the afternoon, and may be\\nseen for a fee.\\nOur sincere thanks and gratitude arc due to\\nthe societies which have rescued these old\\nlandmarks from destruction. It is a pity that\\nthe surroundings are so singularly incongru-\\nous and unfortunate. However, both the\\nhouses are exceedingly interesting inside and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "yt/^\u00c2\u00ab Quincy Adams was born here.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "Ouincy. 75\\nout, and if they seem forlorn and woe-begone,\\nclinging dejectedly to their foundations, I have\\nno doubt that in time, when they have had a\\nlittle garden care and the companionship of\\nvine and flower and shrub, they will become\\nmore home-looking and seem a little less\\nlike relics.\\nIn Ouincy all roads lead to the Square, and\\nso we must return there to resume our jour-\\nney. This time we take the broad road be-\\nhind the Stone Temple, at the side of which\\nstands the Crane Memorial. This fine build-\\ning was given to the city by and is so named\\nafter Thomas Crane, a Ouincy stone-cutter\\nwho coined a fortune out of his town s granite\\nledges. One needs not to be told that it was\\ndesigned by Richardson. His thumb-marks\\nare all over it. How strikingly different is\\nthis Romanesque style to anything else in New\\nEngland But in our hodgepodge of styles\\nnothing seems incongruous. The hall s in-\\nterior, with its stately mantel, its oaken wains-\\ncoting, and dusky magnificence of stamped\\nleather, is rich and fine and worth seeing.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "76\\nThe PilQ:rim Shore.\\nu ^C;^-\\nAlong the level\\nroad to Weymouth\\nthere are occasion-\\nally glimpses of the\\nbay and the thickly\\nclustered cottages at\\nNantasket and Hull.\\nAt Quincy Point, un-\\nder fine elms, is a group of old fashioned man-\\nsions with great square chimneys whose rigid\\nlines are softened by vines. Then you come\\nto the bridge over Fore River, across which\\nlies Weymouth.\\n/o/i?t Adams House.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "ii^^^f\\nThe v^ew is pretty only at high tide. Up\\nthe river are green hills, parti} grove and\\norchard clad; down-stream black coal\\npockets, brown headlands, barren islands,\\na few old stranded wrecks, and hundreds of\\nlittle cottages huddled together in seaside\\npromiscuity.\\nThis bleak desolation was not when the\\nCharity and the Swan sailed up the flood\\nwith the first settlers. Of the landscape in\\nthose da} s Morton wrote, in his quaint de-\\nlightful way, When I had seriously consid-\\nered of the beauty of the place with all her\\nfair indowments, I did not thinke that in all\\nthe knowne world it could be paralel d. For\\nso many goodly groves of trees; daint} fine", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "78\\nThe Pilerim Shore.\\nhillucks, delicate faire large plaines, sweet\\ncristall fountainesand cleare running streams,\\nthat twine in fine meanders throueh the\\nThe Fore River.\\nmeads, making so sweete a murmuring noise\\nto heare as would even lull the senses with\\ndelight a sleepe.\\nTo this region then called Wessagusset\\ncame in 1622 Weston s colony, a brawling,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "Weymouth. 79\\nprofane crew, rude fellows made choice of at\\nall adventures, whom Governor Bradford\\nconsidered unfit for honest men s company.\\nAs might have been expected, these roughs\\nwere soon in hot water. After robbing the\\nPilgrims, they squandered their own stores,\\nand were soon at the mercy of the Indians,\\nand became but little more than slaves to\\nthem. At menial tasks they worked for the\\nsavages, or wandered about the shore, half\\nnaked and half starved.\\nBut their misery bred only contempt in the\\nhearts of their savage masters, who resolved\\nto slaughter them. This they could have\\neasily done, but they dreaded the punishment\\nby the Pilgrims, which they knew was sure to\\nfollow. So they conspired with the tribes\\nnear by to massacre also the little colony at\\nPlymouth. It was this conspiracy, as well as\\nthe danger menacing the miserables at Wey-\\nmouth, that brought Standish here in 1623,\\nresolved to deliver the colonists and punish\\nthe natives.\\nThe little Captain set out with only eight", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "8o The Pilgrim Shore.\\nmen. His small force met open defiance.\\nAfter a short parley with the Indians, Watta-\\nwamat sprang before the others, shouting,\\nWho is there to tight with the brave Wattawamat,\\nThen he unsheathed his knife, and, whetting the\\nblade on his left hand,\\nHeld it aloft and displayed a woman s face on the\\nhandle,\\nSaying, with bitter expression and look of sinister\\nmeaning\\nI have another at home, with the face of a man on\\nthe handle\\nBy and by they shall marry and there will be\\nplenty of children\\nThen stood Pecksnot forth, self-vaunting, insulting\\nMiles Standish:\\nWhile with his finger he patted the knife that hung\\nat his bosom,\\nDrawing it half from its sheath, and plunging it\\nback, as he muttered,\\nBy and by it shall see; it shall eat; ah, ha I but\\nshall speak not\\nThis is the mighty Captain the white men liave sent\\nto destroy us\\nHe is a little man let him go and work with the\\nwomen i\\n1 Courtsliip of Miles Standish, Longfellow.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "VVaitawamat.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "Weymouth. 83\\nBut little did this boasting avail him, for\\nwith that very knife did Standish slay him\\nin single combat. Wattawamat was also\\nkilled, and five others.\\nFollowing the English custom, Watta-\\nwamat s head was cut off, carried back to\\nPlymouth by Standish, and set on a pike,\\nthere to scowl from the fortress church.\\nThus the conspiracy was defeated, and\\nthe colony was delivered of a great danger.\\nBy ruthlessly murdering seven men, says\\nCharles Francis Adams, Standish re-estab-\\nlished the moral ascendency of the whites,\\nand so saved the lives of hundreds.\\nWith the Plymouth men departed what\\nremained of Weston s colony, and thus in\\nfailure, disgrace, and bloodshed ended the\\nfirst attempt of a settlement at Weymouth.\\nThis was, next to Plymouth, the oldest\\nsettlement in Massachusetts. As early as\\n1635 the Fore River was crossed by a ferry\\nwith rates established by law. It is not far\\nfrom the bridge to Bicknell Square, where\\n1 Charles Francis Adams.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "84\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\nstands the old Bicknell homestead. Just\\nbeyond, perched above the State Road, is\\nThe Smith Parsonage.\\nthe old Smith parsonage,\\nwhich was moved from its\\noriginal site, and is much\\nchanged. In it Abigail\\nSmith Adams \\\\vas born, and here John\\nAdams came a-courting. Her father, the vil-\\nlage parson, frowned upon the future presi-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Weymouth. 85\\ndent s suit, and the neighbors even did not\\nconsider an Adams quite good enough for a\\nSmith of Old Spain. But even in those\\ntimes of strait-laced sordidness, love found\\nthe way, and the parson s daughter, with\\na will as strong as his own, became Mrs.\\nAdams, and in time added to the glory of\\nbeing a Smith by becoming the first lady\\nof the land and the mother of a president.\\nIt is a tradition of the family that with her\\nown hands she scrubbed the floor of her\\nbedroom the afternoon before her eldest\\nson, John Ouincy Adams, was born.\\nThis part of Weymouth is called Old\\nSpain. Why or when it was so named there\\nis not even a tradition to explain. It is\\nneither ancient nor Spanish in appearance\\nbut a pretty village under branching elms,\\nand bustling with New England thrift and\\nneatness.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "Beyond Old Spain and the Back River,\\nthe road is long and lonesome, and hedged\\nin by woods all the way to Hingham. But\\njust before the town is entered, blue patches\\nof its harbor show through the white birches.\\nUp its winding channel in 1633 sailed the\\nship Diligent, the Mayflower of this settle-\\nment. As most of the newcomers came\\nfrom Hingham in Norfolk, they named their\\nnew home after the old.\\nSoon the quiet village green is reached,\\ndelta-like under great green elms, sur-\\nrounded by old fashioned houses and a\\nchurch with quaint belfry. At the right is\\nthe home of General Benjamin Lincoln. This\\ndistinguished Revolutionary ofificer rose to\\nthe rank of Major-General, and also served\\nas Secretary of War. In the quiet Hingham", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "Hingham.\\n^1\\nHome of General Lincoln.\\nr\\nstreets he must have cut\\nquite a figure. He was\\n\\\\-ery fat in his later years,\\nmaking up in breadth\\nwhat he lacked in height. He walked about\\nwith a tall cane his coat was blue with large\\ngilt buttons and he wore a buff waistcoat", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "The Pilorim Shore.\\nG\\nand the small clothes of the period. He\\nalways wore Hessian boots, and an enormous\\ncocked hat put the finishing touch of mag-\\nnificence and dignity to his appearance.\\nBut all this grandeur was in his old age\\nmarred by a strange affliction. In his chaise,\\nat table, in military council, even while stand-\\ning, he would fall asleep, sound and snoring.\\nYou may imagine what a fortress the family\\npew in the Old Church was to him, and\\nhow impregnable to the assaults of the\\npreacher.\\nBeyond the general s house, and high above\\nthe present road, is another Lincoln mansion,\\nnot quite so much altered. It still retains an\\nantique look, and was once a roadside inn.\\nThe Lincolns of Hingham have always had\\na part in making the town s noblest history,\\nand from this sturdy family have come some\\nof the great men of the nation, foremost\\namong them the martyred and great presi-\\ndent, Abraham Lincoln.\\nClose to the common is the village square,\\nonce called Broad Bridge, and where in old", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Major-Gcncral Lincoln.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Hingham. 91\\ndays stood the stocks and pillory for evil-\\ndoers. From it leads Main Street, beautifully\\nshaded by magnificent elms that droop over\\npicturesque cottages and fine old mansions.\\nJust beyond a grand old elm that towers\\nover a quaint little home is the Derby Acad-\\nemy, and in front of it, on a hill since levelled\\nto grade the street, stood once the first church,\\nerected in 1635. Surrounded it was by a\\npallisado, but from its top no cannon\\nfrowned, as at Plymouth for a belfry rose\\nthere from the first and sent its brazen call\\nto prayer into the depths of the dark forest.\\nAbout its walls on the hillside were laid to\\nrest the early dead. And here they reposed\\nfor two centuries in mouldering peace, when\\nthey were removed to the cemetery close by,\\nand a monument was erected over them by\\nthe town in 1839.\\nFor forty-five years this rude pallisadoed\\ntemple answered every purpose, but by 1679\\nthe town had so outgrown it that it was agreed\\nto build a new meeting-house with all con-\\nvenient speed.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "92 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nAfter much wrangling and great dispute,\\nembroiling even the Governor and Magistrates\\nat Boston, the present site was fixed upon,\\nand there the church stands to-day, the oldest\\nhouse of public worship in the original limits\\nof the United States.\\nThe outside of the meeting-house must\\nlook to-day much as it did in the old time;\\nbut the interior has suffered many changes\\nfrom time to time. At first the inside was all\\nopen to the roof, against which the rafters\\nand braces drew a stout oaken tracery. There\\nwas no plaster, and the walls were clapboarded\\ninside and out. There was a gallery on one\\nside and also at both ends. In that at the\\neast sat the maids, glancing shyly across to\\nthe opposite gallery, where, safely corralled\\ntogether, sat their longing swains. On the\\noaken seats and benches below sat the married\\nfolk and elders, the men on one side and the\\nwomen on the other. Well filled the seats\\nwere, for it cost a peck of corn to stay away\\nfrom service, or to leave before it was finished.\\nAbout everything really old has gone,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Hinorham.\\no\\nexcept the pulpit; but the church to-day has\\na proper air of staid old-fashioned dignity.\\nOne curious feature is the bell-rope, dang-\\nling over the middle of the central aisle. In\\nMr. Gladstone s church at Hawarden, the\\nbelfry is also over the centre of the edifice,\\nbut the bells are rung from the ceiling above\\nstill there s a trap-door beneath them, and\\nthrough it I have caught comical glimpses of\\nthe legs of the ringers, and their vigorous\\ngenuflections.\\nIt makes one shiver to think that in 1792\\nit was voted to take down the meeting-house\\nand build a new one. Fortunately this pur-\\npose was abandoned, and so the antique treas-\\nure, consecrated for so many years to the\\nworship of the Almighty, has been preserved\\nto us, a holy inheritance.\\nClose by the church, in the oldest part of\\nthe cemetery, is the tomb of Major-General\\nLincoln, and near by is a monument to the\\nfirst settlers of Hingham, whose bones were\\nremoved here from the old palisaded church-\\nyard.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "94\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\nBeyond, in the modern part of the grounds,\\nis a fine monument to tlie reat war crovernor\\nl%f|^v\\nAn Antique Treasure.\\nof Massachusetts, John Al-\\nbion Andrew, and an obelisk\\nof granite in memory of the\\nmen of Hingham who died in the War of the\\nRebelhon. But no monument interested me\\nmore than that to Sergeant Peter Ourish,\\nYoungest of all the town s volunteers, he died", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "Hingham. 95\\nof his wounds when only nineteen years old,\\nafter having fought in fifteen battles, many\\nof them the fiercest and most bloody of all\\nthat cruel war.\\nFrom the terraced hills here, there is a good\\nview over the harbor, where occasionally a\\nlonely coaster may be seen beating in or out\\nthe harbor. Once the little port was all\\nactivity, for a fleet of sixty sail of vessels hailed\\nfrom here fifty years ago. Most of them\\nwere engaged in fishing, according to King\\nJames, an honest trade and the apostle s own\\ncalling.\\nI regret that I cannot speak of the many\\nother interesting things in Hingham, but must\\nhurry on, calling attention as I leave the\\nSquare to the old Rev. Ebenezer Gay house.\\nPerched high above the street, its walls vine-\\nclad, and its old well half hidden under droop-\\ning boughs, it has the most interesting exte-\\nrior of all in Hingham and an air of real\\nantiquity.\\nBetween this old town and Nantasket, lies\\na lovely country, partly wooded, parti}", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "96 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nmarshland, bordering a little river that winds\\nby great masses of purple rocks that hedge\\nthe cedared slopes. Suddenly, however,\\ncomes the glare, the noise, the dust, the con-\\ntusion of The Beach Nantastcet.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "This has been a pleasure resort for over a\\nhundred years. The oldest summer hotel,\\nThe Sportsman, was the resort of Daniel\\nWebster and other distinguished men. Until\\nwithin thirty or forty years, however, there\\nwere few houses, and the beach stretched\\ntoward Hull, lonely, windswept, and barren,\\nbut with the dignity of the desert. Now it is\\nlittered with an illy-arranged assortment of\\nhotels and cottages, between which electric\\ntrains screech and rattle.\\nAll sorts of entertainment are here pro-\\nvided, including, according to a New York\\npaper, cultured clams, intellectual chowder,\\nrefined lager, and very scientific pork and\\nbeans.\\n7", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "98 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nThe beach retains its old Indian name,\\nspelled in the early accounts Natasco or\\nNantascot. Three hills dominate the length\\nof its fine long sweep, Strawberry, Saga-\\nmore, and Allerton. These, as well as the\\nplains at their base, were in the Pilgrim days\\nheavily wooded. From them the seamen\\ncould have good timber to repair their\\nweather-beaten ships and make long masts\\nand yards. To-day not a forest tree remains,\\nand it is worse than barren.\\nThe first settlement was probably where\\nHull now stands. Roger Conant was here\\nthen, and so was Isaac Allerton. The latter s\\nname is kept in remembrance by Point\\nAllerton, and that of his wife s family by the\\nBrewster islands. From time to time Hull is\\nreferred to as an uncouth place, or as hav-\\ning a straggling people, so that we may\\ninfer that it was never very prosperous.\\nHull itself was named for the English town\\nof that name in 1644. With one exception,\\nit is the smallest township in the State, and\\nuntil quite lately contained but a few people.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Ai necessary as church and /-reaching.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Hull.\\nlOI\\nIts quota to the Revolution was but three\\nmen, and in the present century it could claim\\nno more than twelve to eighteen votes. An\\nold saying has it, As goes Hull so goes the\\nState.\\nIn the good old days when every one, from\\nministers and deacons down, considered flip\\nand toddy inalienable rights, and as necessary\\nas church and preaching, this town had but\\none tavern, and, despite such monopoly, this\\nimportant institution had custom barely\\nsufficient to supply its venerable mistress\\nwith the necessaries of life. Perhaps, how-\\never, it was not so much the lack of people,\\nas their sobriety, that made such hard lines\\nfor the tavern s mistress for the men of Hull\\nwere early zealots in the cause of temperance,\\nand as long ago as 1721 voted to allow no\\ntavern to be kept within its limits. Thus\\nthey may have been the first no license\\ntown in the country.\\nThe history of Hull is not the history of its\\ncluirches, and the succession of its ministers,\\nso much as is the case with other towns for", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "I02 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nit seems to have been without either for great\\nlengths of time. Its small size, and the rigor\\nof life there, would have deterred any one\\nbut a real follower of Christ and his fisher-\\nmen apostles from settling within its tiny\\nborders.\\nA jocular writer in 1848 declared that\\nevery townsman of Hull had a religion of his\\nown, and that in the small population were\\nto be found, a slight sprinkling of Mormons\\nand Latter Day Saints, as well as Univer-\\nsalists, Baptists, Calvinists, Methodists, Uni-\\ntarians, Catholics, and Sculpinarians (a sect\\nwho worship the dried head of a sculpin).\\nThis diversity of opinion he ventures to put\\nforth as the reason why no minister was then\\nsettled there but he adds that the last one\\nwas fairly starved out, one who when he\\nsettled there was a corpulent man, but who\\nleft the town to accept a situation as a living\\nskeleton. But if the town had no minister, it\\nhad no lawyer and no doctor so you see it\\nmust have been spared much evil.\\nLittle is left of the old time. Here and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "Hull.\\n103\\nthere an old square chimney\\nrises among the hodgepodge of\\nQueen Anne accretions to the\\nold cottages, about all that is\\nleft except the great shady\\nelms and the hollyhocks that,\\nif they do not look old in their\\nfresh beauty, still look old-\\nfashioned.\\nHull s greatest antiquit}-,\\nperhaps, is the ruins of the old\\nfort on Telegraph Hill. In it\\nthere used to be a well with the\\nextraordinary depth of ninety\\nfeet. Years ago, when Boston\\nhad a merchant marine under\\nthe Stars and Stripes, its in-\\ncoming vessels were signalled\\nfrom this eminence to the city\\nby the use of one hundred and\\ntwelve flags, one for each ship-\\nping merchant. It is well\\nworth one s time to climb this\\nhill for the maenificent view\\n1, 1 ^tg^^.TV\\nHollyhocks.\\nit commands.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "I04 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nThe harbor, its approaches, Hght-houses, forts,\\nislands, and shipping stretch inland to the\\nsmoke -wreathed, dome-crowned city; the\\nNorth Shore dwindles away toward Cape\\nAnn; the level sea fills all the east; and\\nsouthward lies the curving Pilgrim Shore to\\nwhich we are bound.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "(jOnA55ET.\\nThe next town is Cohas-\\nset, and it is most pleasantly\\nreached by the famous Jeru-\\nsalem Road, which, though\\nnot as beautiful as its rival\\nalong the North Shore, is\\nstill very fine, A perfect\\nroad-bed, it winds along the\\nshore, at first far from the sea\\nand out of view of it. Across\\nthe little bay between it and the\\nBay, there stretches a long and\\nnarrow strip of rocks, once dot-\\nted with thickets of bayberry and wild rose.\\nNow this is covered by small crowded cot-\\ntages that lift a ragged line of rooftrees and\\ngables of mixed paint diversified.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io6 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nOver the curving road-bed go luxurious\\ncarriages with lady whips and hveried servants,\\nlandaus and barouches ghttering in the sun\\nand briUiant as if with flowers from the\\ndresses and parasols of their occupants, all\\nthe pomp of affluence in fact. Meanwhile\\nthe air is vexed with the rumble and screech\\nof plebeian trolley cars across the river.\\nOverhanging the road, the great rounded\\nshoulders and ramparts of the hills have been\\nsmoothed off, and the hollows and slopes\\ncoaxed into graded, shaven lawns. From the\\nheights, the villas of the great folks look over\\nthe ragged sky line of cheap cottages to the\\nsea.\\nBut when Green Hill and the terminus of\\nthe electric road is passed, the road in rising\\nsweeps toward the shore that tumbles to the\\nbreakers. Patches of golden and emerald\\ngreen gleam amid its rocky buttresses, gray\\nwhite or ruddy and tawny. The ledges and\\nbowlders are fringed by bronzes and browns\\nof clinging seaweed, and these sombre tones,\\nin whose shadows purple lingers, are in turn", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Cohasset.\\n107\\nedged by the dazzling contrast of supreme\\nwhite, the flashing foam of surf.\\nBordering the road are the\\nTlie Jerusalem Road.\\ncottages, some of them stately mansions\\nof stone or rambling composites, examples\\nof what we call colonial architecture. Their\\nsmooth lawns, broken here and there by\\nupheaved edges, are gay with scarlet gera-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "io8 The Pilofrim Shore\\nniums, rich green woodbine, and breeze-\\nsilvered poplars, all shining and glinting\\nunder the sea-sunshine.\\nWhere else, indeed, are the sunbeams so in-\\ntense or color so brilliant? Are not flowers\\nalways brighter by the sea? Do not the\\nfluttering flags, even, reveal tints gayer and\\nfresher than any they ever unfold elsewhere?\\nIt soon becomes a pageant this journey.\\nSeaward, the foreground is dotted with islets\\nand flecked by white sails. Farther out, a\\ngreat ocean steamer tears along, pushing\\nbefore her a mass of snowy foam, and trailing\\nbehind long wreaths of smoke slow barges\\ncrawl behind pufiing tugs; coasters spread\\nrusty sails; and be} ond all lies the dim pur-\\nple of the North Shore, beneath the graded\\nblue of our clear New England sky, glorious\\nwith the rolling cumuli of summer.\\nThere is one beauty spot where the road\\nturns away from this water view by low walls\\nand thin screens of sumachs and locusts, till it\\nwinds in shade between hedges that flaunt\\ngorgeous trumpet-flowers, reddening rose-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "Cohasset. 109\\nhips, and yellow honeysuckle, where the air is\\nall perfumed from the masked flower gardens\\nwhose galleries of phlox and hollyhocks rise\\nin tiers to the leaf-screened verandas.\\nWhere the shade ends, the hedges frame a\\npicture of rocky islets and blue bays, curving\\nto purple pebbly beaches. Landward, the\\ndusty dwindling road bounds calm ponds,\\nd}^ed gray and green by long drawn reflec-\\ntions of lichened rock and leafy trees. Here\\nand there only is the smooth mirror dashed\\nwith deepest blue, where the sea-breeze frets\\nits surface.\\nHow astonishing is the beauty of very\\ncommon things Here on the edges of these\\nponds, where the water had receded, I noticed\\nan edge of stagnant growth which, under the\\nsunbeams, shone transfigured with all the\\nlustrous tones of copper and verd-antique.\\nThe beauty of color could be matched only by\\ntlie shimmering reflections of antique Phoeni-\\ncian glass. Heightened was this strange\\nloveliness by the bordering turquoise and\\nazure of the reflected sk\\\\", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "iio The Pilgrim Shore.\\nPiled high along the shore, bleaching\\nwrecks, with timbers wrenched and shat-\\ntered, attest the fury of that great November\\nstorm in ninety-eight, when the waters rose to\\na height never known before. During that sad\\nnight, from one of the vessels cast away be-\\nyond Little Harbor, came some sailors up the\\nroad in search of aid for their injured ship-\\nmates. When at last the doctor was found,\\nand they were returning with him, however,\\nthey discovered to their dismay that all com-\\nmunication with the ship was cut off; for the\\nsea was breaking, with deep violence, right\\nover the road beyond Kimball s Point, and\\nthat where they had that morning passed dry-\\nshod was become impassable, smothered in\\nwhite foam.\\nBut in summer weather this road stands\\nwell above the sea, and beyond from the\\nbeach is more like a private drive than a\\nhighway, for it is lawn-edged and winds\\nthrough groves till the surf s sound is lost,\\nand one hears only the roll of carriages and\\nthe clamp of hoofs.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "Cohasset.\\n1 1 1\\nAnd when the Cohasset River is crossed,\\nwhere it winds through rocky gates and\\ncreeps into the deep sea s gulfy breast, a\\nmile of inland road, through shady woods,\\nleads to Cohasset village, directly to the\\nCohasset River.\\nsequestered common. There in the middle\\nstands a quaint little church, and all about\\nhundreds of beautiful elms. Over all broods\\nthe staid New England quiet.\\nThe town was, until 1770, a precinct of\\nHingham, and reference is once made to it, in\\nthe records of the General Court, as Cohas-\\nset alias Little Hin jham.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "112 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nIts name comes from the Indian word\\nOuonahassit, meaning a long place of rocks.\\nAnd it is aptly named. According to\\nThoreau, It is the rockiest shore in Massa-\\nchusetts hard sienitic rocks which the\\nwaves have laid bare, but have not been able\\nto crumble. It has been the scene of many\\na shipwreck.\\nOne of the most notable of these disasters\\nwas that of the brig St. John from Galway,\\nwrecked on the Grampus Rocks, October 7,\\n1849. On board of her were many Irish\\nemigrants, men, women, and children,\\nand fully a hundred of them lost their lives.\\nA graphic description of the sad scenes after\\nthe storm is given by Thoreau in his Cape\\nCod.\\nDrake says that, of the recovered bodies,\\ntwenty-seven were buried in the village grave-\\nyard. This quiet old burying-place is not\\nfar from the common, and backs upon the\\nOld Harbor, from which it is separated by a\\nfringe of melancholy blasted pines. It is not\\nso well kept but that a sweet neglect", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "Cohasset Common.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "Cohasset.\\n115\\nThrough the v lUageV\\nseems to brood over its mouldering stones and\\nthe liberty of its wandering vines and weeds.\\nSimple and natural it is in its half decay, but\\nlonesome even in the sunlight.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "Ii6\\nThe Pilofrim Shore.\\nA pleasant street leads\\nthrough the village to ^X^^^^ ^fe^^^\\nthe harbor and across\\nthe bridge to Govern-\\nTheir home on the little hill.\\nment Island, where live the keepers of Mi-\\nnot s Ledge Light and their families. Li\\ntheir home on the little hill many an anxious\\nheart must beat when gales sweep the coast,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "Cohasset.\\n117\\nand the white shroud of the winter night is\\nseared by the trail of appeaHng rockets;\\nmany an anxious eye must peer forth at\\ndawn to that lonely beacon rising beyond the\\nbreakers in the dark, wrathful sea.\\nBy day its grim gray tower, and at night\\nits flashing lamp rise in warning over one of\\nthe most treacherous stretches of sand and\\nshoal and reef and rock that ever fed with\\nwreck and corpse the cruel sea.\\nThe present structure replaces one built\\non iron piles which was swept away in the\\ngreat April storm of 185 1. The present\\ngranite shaft is nearly a hundred feet high.\\nThe lower forty feet are of solid masonry,\\ndovetailed and bolted together, and into the\\nreef below the sea, until it is almost a part of\\nthe ledge itself. It took years to complete\\nthe foundations alone, for there were in all\\nthe long twelve months but a few hours\\nwhen any work could be done. On Govern-\\nment Island the great blocks were fashioned,\\nand the places of construction may still be\\nseen.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ii8 The Pilo-rim Shore.\\nfc\\nLooking down the river, there s a fine view\\nof level stretches, rock-dotted, to Hominy-\\nPoint and the sea. Inland, the river winds\\nby rocks and cottages toward North Scituate,\\nand is called the Gulf.\\nCaptain John Smith was the first European\\nexplorer to enter this harbor, and it was he\\nwho first recorded its name, Quonahassit, on\\nthe page of history. Here he had a quarrel\\nwith the Indians, and, as he sailed through\\nthe narrow harbor mouth, the savages, am-\\nbushed (probably at Hominy Point), bade him\\na revengeful farewell with a shower of arrows.\\nOf all the old houses in Cohasset I think\\nthat the most interesting is the old Lincoln\\nhome on South Main Street, near the Scituate\\nline. It was built by the pioneer Mordecai\\nin 1 71 7, for his son Isaac, of whom Abraham\\nLincoln was a lineal descendant. Standing\\nas it does on a little hill, the old house com-\\nmands a delightful view. Near by, the street\\nis lined by great elms, and through their dark\\nshade gleams the blue winding river and the\\nlush sreen level meadows.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "Cohasset.\\n119\\nIf paint ever defiled the old homestead, all\\ntrace of it has long since gone, and the gray\\nThe old Lincoln House,\\nlichened shin\u00c2\u00abjles are\\nworn as thin as paper\\nand honeycombed by time.\\nAs one stands here in its quiet precincts,\\nthere comes through the rustlinc: elms the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "I20 The Pilo;rim Shore.\\nt\\nmonotonous beat of the mill near by on Bound\\nBrook, so-called because it was the boundary\\nbetween the colonies. Indeed, the brook and\\nits power was Mordecai Lincoln s greatest\\nwealth, and the real reason of his settling here.\\nHis house and the old mill are both gone, but\\nthey stood about where the new buildings are.\\nThe proverb says that the mill will never\\ngrind with the water that has past. Whether\\nMordecai disproved this saying or not, I do\\nnot know but it is on record that he man-\\naged, by an ingenious arrangement of dams,\\nto make the brook work six days a week, de-\\nspite the fact that by any ordinary arrange-\\nment it could have furnished power for but\\none third of that time. It must have been\\na sort of triple expansion. By trade the in-\\ngenious miller was a blacksmith; but he was\\nable to turn his hand to most anything, hav-\\ning what New Englanders call faculty. One\\nshould, if possible, visit the interior of Isaac s\\nhouse, for it is charmingly antique. I re-\\nmember, with much pleasure my visit there,\\nand the kindly courtesy of its owner, still a\\nLincoln.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "The shore of Scituate, the next Pilgrim\\ntown, is far from rocky; indeed it is one long\\nstretch of sand that is raised in places to low\\ncliffs. The level shallows outlying these\\nbeaches are as dangerous to vessels as the\\ngranite tusks of Cohasset, and many a ship s\\nbones have bleached upon the long curved\\nreaches of their wastes.\\nThe great November storm of 1898 was\\nfelt in all its force here, and there remains on\\nScituate Beach a curious reminder of its fury.\\nThis is the wreck of the pilot boat Columbia,\\nnow converted into a sort of Peggotty sum-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "122\\nThe\\nPil;\\ngrim Shore\\n^1/\\nV\\nI\\nA^\\n1r^\\nFourth Cliffy Scituate.\\nmer home. She\\nwas driven ashore\\nhere during that\\nterrible night, and crashed down upon a sea-\\nside cottage. All on board of her were lost.\\nThat night the sea not only littered the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "Scituate. 123\\nbeaches with wreckage, but it also swept the\\nsands themselves about, undermining here,\\nbuilding up there, or boldly cutting channel\\nor bay in the shore itself, thus making mar-\\nvellous changes. Hundreds of acres of valu-\\nable lands were submerged or ruined in\\nplaces, while in others, from the sea s bottom,\\nwide fields were lifted above the waters.\\nThrough the beach, just south of the Third\\nClifT, in a few hours, it cut a channel to the\\nNorth River nearly two hundred feet wide\\nand sixteen feet deep at low water, besides\\nswallowing up two islands that lay in the\\ncourse of its fury. On one of these islands\\nfour young men were camping out they\\nwere all lost.\\nBack from its beaches, Scituate stretches in\\nflat plains with only an occasional hill. In\\nyears gone by, these sparsely wooded lands\\nwere shaded by great groves of black walnut.\\nBut none of them remain to-day, the last one,\\na giant three feet in diameter, fell before the\\nwoodman s axe in 1820.\\nScituate, called so from Satuit Brook,, was", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "124 The Pilgrim Sliore.\\nsettled tis said, by Men of Kent in 1628,\\nand in growing it drew new blood from both\\nthe Pilgrims and the Puritans, lying as it did\\nbetween the Republic and the Commonwealth.\\nIn the latter part of the seventeenth century,\\nthis old town was the richest in the colony.\\nNow it has, as it was described fifty years\\nago, the appearance of stillness and retire-\\nment, One long street borders the meadow,\\nthrough which runs the estuary that forms\\na harbor, safe, but difficult of access and\\nemptied by the tides. Seaward, across green\\nlevels, is the sandy bulwark that keeps off the\\nocean. Strewn from end to end is this\\nhummocky beach with the paraphernalia of\\nmossing, for that is the principal occupa-\\ntion of the people to-day. A few years ago\\nScituate and the immediate coast furnished\\nall the Irish moss used in the whole country,\\nexcept what was imported from Ireland.\\nWhen gathered, it is as green as any weed.\\nIt is then washed in large tubs, and afterward\\nbleached and dried in the sun.\\nOf all the places in Scituate, the most inter-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "T/te Street, Scitualc Harbor.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "Scituate. 127\\nesting to many is The Old Oaken Bucket\\nhomestead. It is close to the raihvay station\\non a pretty little country road. At one side\\nof the way a narrow path winds, grass-fringed.\\nCrimson hardhack, yellow false indigo,\\nyarrow, white and pink, bespangle its borders,\\nand over all these nod the broad panicles of\\nthe Queen Anne s lace. A pleasant walk it\\nis crossing close by the railway over the dam\\nbetween\\nThe wide spreading pond, and the mill that stood\\nby it.\\nThe first mill on this site was erected in\\n1646, but before that time there had been a\\nwindmill on the Second Cliff.\\nAll the way, on either hand, lie the orchards,\\nthe meadows, and the deep-tangled wildwood,\\nso dear to the heart of the poet.\\nThe site of the old homestead is on the\\nNorthy place, at the right not far from the\\npond, and over its precincts the ancient well-\\nsweep still lifts its slanting sign of promise.\\nThere, shadowed by woodbine and lilacs, in\\nthe old well the water, emblem of truth,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "128 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nstill swells crystal clear, and as delicious as\\never. The old oaken bucket itself is rep-\\nresented by a successor bravely bound with\\nbrass, a gift from a distant city.\\nAs one stands here in the quiet level land-\\nscape, one can realize with what longing the\\nheartsick author of the touching song looked\\nback to the peace of the old home. From the\\ncares, regrets, and disillusions of the city, his\\nfanc} turned sadly back to his light-hearted,\\nhopeful childliood.\\nHe, Samuel Woodworth, w^as a printer and\\njournalist, and, like so many of his trade at\\nthat time, was a great wanderer and quite a\\nBohemian. Like most men of that sort,\\nhe suffered many vicissitudes of fortune. It\\nwas while he was an editor in the city of New\\nYork that he wrote the song which is his only\\nclaim to public remembrance.\\nIt is said that the inspiration came to him\\nin a popular bar-room. He had just taken a\\ndrink of cognac, and as he set down his glass\\nhe declared that it was the finest drink in\\nthe world.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "vr.\\n77/ f/itjf stood by it.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "Scituate. 131\\nThere you are mistaken, said one of\\nhis comrades, remember the old oaken\\nbucket and the clear cold water of the old\\nwell.\\nAt this reminder, tears rushed to his eyes,\\nand he left the room. He returned to his\\ndesk, and, with a heart overflowing with\\nthe recollections of innocent childhood, he\\nquickly set down the words that have be-\\ncome so dear to many others.\\nBut peace has not always been the lot\\nof Scituate, for in King Philip s War nine-\\nteen houses and barns were burned by the\\nIndians, and terror spread through its pre-\\ncincts. Right here, about the mill and the\\nNorthy farm, a savage fight occurred.\\nOn the day of the attack there sat in the\\nold Northy farmhouse. Dame Ewell, alone\\nexcept for her grandson, John Northy, who\\nslept beside her in his cradle. As she\\nlooked out of the windows toward Coleman\\nHeights, she saw the savages running down\\ntoward the valley. Thinking only of alarm-\\ning the garrison, she rushed from the house", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "132 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nwithout ever thinking of the baby. But,\\nin the midst of the battle, she remembered\\nhim, and returned stealthily amid its dangers,\\nfound the httle one peacefully sleeping, and\\ncarried him to a place of safety.\\nPerhaps the red men had some just cause\\nagainst the men of Scituate, for in the early\\ndays the colonists had not hesitated to\\nmake bondsmen of their savage brothers\\non various pretexts. Later on, negroes were\\npossessed by all the wealthy families, and\\nslavery left perhaps a deeper stain on Scit-\\nuate than upon any other town of the\\ncolonies.\\nBut if the town has not been always so\\npeaceful, neither has it been ever so inactive,\\nfor once it was a busy, bustling place with\\ntwo harbors, Scituate Harbor, already\\nmentioned, and the New Harbor, as the old\\nNorth River near its mouth was called.\\nThis river was once lined with ship-yards,\\nto which the tide rose and fell. Now,\\nsays Daniel E. Damon, historian of the\\ntown, its portals are closed to the passage", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "f^-^^^^\\nThe Old Oaken Bticket.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "Scituate.\\n135\\nof vessels, the ship-yards are all gone, and\\nwhere once was heard the sound of axe,\\nadze, and hammer, all is still, and the placid\\nstream sleeps unbroken by any passing keel.\\nThe placid stream sleeps.\\nIts beauty still remains, enhanced, perhaps,\\nby the fact that the obstructions at its mouth\\nkeep it always bank-full. Its history is\\nlargely the history of ship-building and\\nbuilders. Their achievements bred amongst", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "136 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nthem naval heroes and patriots. Here, in\\n1773, was built the ship Columbia that\\ngave its name to the mightiest river that,\\nflows into the Pacific.\\nIt was into this tranquil, landlocked water\\nthat the sea tore the deep channel already\\nmentioned, which connected again the river\\nwith the ocean, after many years of separa-\\ntion. Between this new channel and the\\nold mouth is stretched the long length of\\nthe fine beach that the Indians called Hum-\\narock. Once a peninsula, it is now an\\nisland five miles long and one thousand yards\\nbroad.\\nAlong its crest I saw other and melan-\\ncholy witnesses of the power of that great\\nNovember storm. High on its pebbly ridges,\\nbleaching and mouldering in sunshine and\\nrain, lay the great timbers of many a wreck.\\nSplintered and twisted were the great beams\\nof oak, and, wrenched from vessels sides,\\namong these timbers, great strips torn bodily,\\nand now decaying, all in rusty tones of black\\nand red, here and there enriched by gilded", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Scituate.\\n137\\ncarvings, remnants of former parade, but\\nall slowly yielding to the attrition of wind\\nand sand and weather. The white rimmed\\nports that once let in the light and breeze\\nOn Hitviarock Beach.\\nto cosy cabins, now stare skyward like the\\nglazed eyes of a drowned man, dead eyes\\nindeed.\\nThis coast is not so stuffed with legend\\nas the North Shore, for Pilgrim land was\\nnever the home of superstition. A certain\\namount of that, and a great deal of willing\\ncredulity, as well as imagination, are neces-\\nsary to the growth of such wonderful and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "138 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ngenerally gruesome tales as linger still on\\nthe other side of the Bay. Not even witch-\\ncraft itself was able to fasten its clutches on\\nthis community, although the elders, follow-\\ning the example of all Christendom, took\\nthe precaution to pass laws against it, and\\neven provided for the punishment and ex-\\necution of witches.\\nRight here in Scituate it was that this con-\\ntagious error first broke forth, and right here\\nit was stamped out forever in the Pilgrim\\nRepublic.\\nIt seems that one Mistress Dinah Sylvester\\nof this town declared, with many sacred oaths,\\nthat she had seen her neighbor, Goodwife\\nHolmes, in conversation with the devil. The\\nfiend in this case, so she averred, came not in\\nhorns and cloven feet, but appeared in the\\nform of a bear with whom, the accuser de-\\nclared, Mistress Holmes deported herself in a\\nway unbecoming both to a Christian and to\\na bear.\\nTo this accusation Goodman Holmes, who\\nstood stoutly by his wife and her good", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "Scituate. 139\\nname, replied in a sensible way by a suit for\\nslander.\\nIn those days any one charged with witch-\\ncraft stood in deadly peril, and it is doubtful if\\nin any other Christian community at that time\\nwould the magistrates have shown so much\\ncommon sense and simple justice; for after\\nhearing the case in a thorough and dignified\\nmanner, as befitted its gravity, they found\\nDame Sylvester guilty of slander, and ordered\\nher to be publicly whipped, or to pay Mr.\\nHolmes 5, or to publicly confess her sin and\\nto pay Mr. Holmes his costs and charges.\\nAs may be supposed, she chose the course\\ncheapest, both to her purse and person, for to\\nsuch an one it was little abasement to acknow-\\nledge herself a slanderer and backbiter.\\nThus was the delusion of witchcraft warded\\noff for a time by honest men.\\nBut sixteen years later, another attempt was\\nmade, and again in Scituate. Mary Ingham\\nwas denounced for having bewitched one\\nMehitable Woodworth, affecting her with vio-\\nlent fits, and bereaving her of her senses by", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "140 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nthe help of the devil in a way of witchcraft\\nor sorcery. This black charge Goodwife\\nIngham denied, and put herself on trial of\\nGod and the Country 1 Then a jury of\\nfreemen, presided over by Governor Josiah\\nWinslow, rendered the only just verdict, but\\nat variance with the spirit of the age, the\\njust verdict of Not Guilty. To them all\\nhonor, these clear-headed freemen, for with\\nthis case ended all attempt to inoculate the\\nminds of the Pilgrims with the dread dis-\\nease that so oppressed and shamed other\\npeoples.\\nAnd to this poverty of tales of witches and\\nwizards we must add the dearth of legends\\nhorrific, no ghosts, no shrieking woman,\\nno spectre leaguers, stone-throwing devils,\\nno, not even a sea serpent. Indeed, the\\ntraditional stories are mostly pleasant ones\\nof historic persons or events, and as simple as\\nthe people, often as quaint. As an instance,\\nlet me quote the story of an old will, in which\\none provision was, To my wife Frances, one\\nthird of my estate during her life, also a gentle", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Scituate.\\n141\\nhorse or mare, and Jemmy the Negur shall\\ncatch it for her.\\nOne who has not travelled the roads that\\nlead to Plymouth knows not in what a fair\\n:ountry the Pilgrims settled. Too apt are we\\nJ?\\nAnd Jemmy tlie IVegur sliall catch It for hery\\nalways to think only of the bleak and dismal\\nshore on which they landed. There were\\nhighways even then. To be sure, they were\\nbut Indian trails, but, though lonely, they\\nwere lovely, a sylvan loveliness, strange to\\nthe newcomers. Unlike the hedged lanes of\\nOld England, or the dyked paths of Holland,\\nwere these forest ways through long woods of", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "142 The Pilgrim Shore.\\npine and shadow. But now the way is bared\\nto the sky, and is bound by hedges, not of\\nclipped thorn and holly, however, as in\\nDevon or Dorset, but by that charming nat-\\nural screen which of itself springs up along the\\ngray stone boundaries of New England fields,\\nwilful, wayward, but beautiful.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Thus bordered, winds the road to Marsh-\\nfield, an old town that, as has been truly\\nsaid, shares with Plymouth the interest that\\nattaches to the early home of the Pilgrims.\\nUntil 1641 it was a part of Duxbury, when it\\nwas set apart and called Green s Harbor or\\nRexham.\\nThe road there from Scituate parallels the\\nshore, though not near it, and soon after\\ncrossing Little s Bridge, where was the old\\nIndian Ferry, later called Doggett s Ferry,\\ntortuous Snake Hill is climbed. From its top,\\none takes the first glimpse of Pilgrim Land,\\na grand view over Brant Rock, and the inter-\\nvening valleys and marshlands that give the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "144\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\ntown its name. Saliently stands the monu-\\nment on Captain s Hill, and far in the distance\\nis the blue ridge of Manomet.\\nOn the old White estate.\\nNear by, close to the South River, and at\\nthe foot of a wild rough lane, is the old White\\nestate. Here Peregrine White, the first child\\nborn to the colony, raised his roof-tree. Here\\nhe brought his bride, and settled on the land\\ngiven him by his stepfather, Governor Wins-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Marshfield. 145\\nlow. Here he lived for many years, years of\\ntoil and of honors, for he held many offices in\\nthe service of the people, and was twice\\nchosen a deputy to the General Court. At\\na green old age, fourscore and three, he\\npassed away, and was buried, it is said, by\\nthe side of his mother, who was the first\\nbride of the colony, in the ancient burying-\\nground.\\nThis estate remained in the possession of\\nhis descendants for six generations, until the\\ndeath of Miss Sybil White in 1884.\\nThe present house is a low ceiled cottage,\\nvery modern in appearance from the front,\\nbut inside it bears evidence of great age in\\nparts. It is said to rest on the original sills,\\nand to contain many of the rough-hewn\\nbeams, all spiked with hand-made nails.\\nLike the lusty Peregrine, who was a fine\\ntype of a rugged race, most of the old settlers\\nseem to have reached also an advanced age.\\nThe most notable example of long life in\\nMarshfield was the grandson of Governor\\nCarver, who died at the great age of 102. In", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "146 The Pilgrim Shore.\\n1775 he was at work in the field with his son,\\ngrandson, and great-grandson, the last of\\nwhom had in the house an infant son, in\\nall, five generations.\\nThe old burial-ground where Peregrine and\\nnearly all the old settlers were buried, is well\\nworth a visit. It is near the Webster place,\\nand commands a view of the coast and sea\\nfor it crowns a little hill, wind-swept and\\nalmost treeless. The old, old stones, leaning\\nand broken, have been worn by the weather\\ninto sharp tusks, and the inscriptions effaced.\\nHere, as I have said, by the side of her son\\nlies Susanna White Winslow, who came over\\nin the Mayflower. That is the tradition, and\\nthere is no reason to disbelieve it. But her\\ngrave is unknown, as indeed are all the graves\\nof the early settlers. To their memory, how-\\never, a monument has been erected, and on\\nit are inscribed their names.\\nThe weary pilgrim slumbers.\\nHis resting place unknown;\\nHis hands were crossed, his lids were closed,\\nThe dust was o er him strewn,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Marshfield.\\n147\\nThe drifting soil, tlie mouldering leaf,\\nAlong the sod were blown\\nHis mound has melted into earth,\\nHis memory lives alone.\\nNear by, under a stone sculptured with a\\ncoat-of-arms, lies the remains of General\\nJosiah VVinslow, half-brother to Peregrine\\nWhite. He was the\\nfirst n a t i V e-b o r n\\ngovernor, and was\\nburied at the ex-\\npense of the colony,\\nas a mark of esteem\\nand affection.\\nAnd here, in this\\nlonely burying-\\nplace, lies one with\\nwhose great fame\\nthe name of Marshfield must always be asso-\\nciated, Daniel Webster. All that was mor-\\ntal of him rests in the tomb of rough granite\\nunder a marble slab on which is cut his name\\nand the epitaph composed by himself as he\\nlay on his death-bed.\\nThe Winslo-w Arms.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "148 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nIn death he was not far removed from his\\nloved home, for reached by a short lane\\nthrough the woods and by the ponds is the\\nspot where his mansion once stood. Unfor-\\ntunately this old building was burned down\\nover twenty years ago, and a modern house\\nnow stands on its site.\\nIt was here that the great statesman\\nsought the quiet Hfe of a country home, amid\\nthat rural beauty he so dearly loved. His\\nestate extended over two thousand acres, and\\non it he could enjoy to the utmost his taste\\nfor farming, gardening, and stock-raising.\\nBut the utilitarian side of a farmer s life was\\nnot all to him he cultivated as well its beau-\\ntiful and ornamental part, for beside raising\\nthe usual crops and stock, he planted thou-\\nsands of shade-trees and a great flower gar-\\nden that stretched its bloom and fragrance\\nbetween the mansion and the sea. To his\\nsmooth lawns proud peacocks lent their\\nmagnificence, and rare and curious birds\\nand beasts added color and interest to the\\npicture.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "Marshfield. 149\\nHere, in 1852, amid the evidence of his\\nlabors, and surrounded by his family and\\nfriends, he passed away in hopeful resigna-\\ntion. His last words were, I still live.\\nProud Peacocks.\\nAnd, indeed, for such noble souls there is no\\ndeath.\\nIn his estate was contained part of an early\\nPilgrim domain, the Careswell of Edward\\nWinslow, who is called the founder of Marsh-\\nfield. He came here from Plymouth about\\n1637, and built what was then the finest house\\nin the colonies.\\nLike Standish, Winslow was of ancient and\\nnoble lineage, and he was the most accom-\\nplished in worldly affairs of all the Pilgrims.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "150 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nA Httle romance clings to his memory, for\\nhe was the first bridegroom among the new-\\ncomers. It was, however, not his first mar-\\nriage, for he had been married in Holland, and\\nhis wife Elizabeth came with him in the May-\\nflower. Her gentle nature was soon crushed\\nby the rigors of that first dreadful winter in\\nthe New World, and she soon faded away\\namid the New England snows. His wedding\\nin Plymouth was to the widow Susanna White,\\nwhose husband had died also during the\\nwinter. She had been a widow scarce twelve\\nweeks, and Edward had mourned his wife but\\nseven.\\nMistress White s son Peregrine, born in\\nProvincetown Harbor, v/as the first child born\\nto the colony. By her second union she\\nhad the honor, later, of being the wife of one\\ngovernor and the mother of another.\\nThis marriage, according to the manner of\\nthe Pilgrims, was a civil contract presided\\nover by a magistrate, according to y^ laud-\\nable custome of y^ Low-Cuntries, and\\nfollowed by all ye famous churches of", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Marshfield. 151\\nChrist in these parts to this time, An\u00c2\u00b0\\n1646. 1\\nYears afterward, when Winslow was on a\\nmission to England, the cruel Archbishop\\nLaud made this marriage, and Winslow s\\ndefence of the colonists practice in such\\nmatters, a pretext for casting him into the\\nFleet Prison, where he languished for seven-\\nteen weeks.\\nEdward Winslow, besides being governor,\\nserved the colony in many positions of trust\\nand honor, both in the New World and in the\\nOld. It was he who brought the first cattle\\nto Plymouth, but not in time, alas, as the poet\\nwould have us believe, to furnish the snow-\\nwhite bull for the wedding procession of John\\nAlden and Priscilla.\\nHis son Josiah, born of the second mar-\\nriage and half-brother to Peregrine White,\\nwas the first native-born governor, and was\\ncommander-in-chief of the military forces of\\nPl} mouth and the Bay colonies.\\nA warlike temper was a family trait of the\\nBradford s History.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "152 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nWinslows, down even to our time for from\\nthis stock was descended Rear-Admiral John\\nWinslow, who sank the Alabama in the War\\nof the Rebellion. And, to return to the old\\ndays, Governor Josiah s son John was a\\ngeneral in the Canadian Campaign of 1775.\\nTo his lot fell the execution of the harsh\\nedict that drove into exile, from their secluded\\nand peaceful homes by the Basin of Minas,\\nthe Acadian peasants of Grand Pre, to that\\nExile without an end and without an example in\\nstory.\\nSo he figures in Longfellow s Evangeline^\\nand the poet describes him standing in the\\nsacred shadows of the old church on the\\nsteps of the altar,\\nHolding aloft in his hands, with its seals, the\\nRoyal commission,\\nand then uttering the sentence which stripped\\nthe poor people of their homes and posses-\\nsions, and drove them, wanderers, to foreign\\nlands.\\nOf course it was in the King s service that\\nGeneral John Winslow was called upon to-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "The old Winslow House.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Marshfield. 155\\nexecute this cruel duty. But no one ever\\ndoubted the loyalty of the Winslovvs, and in\\nfact their home was a stronghold of Toryism.\\nDr. Isaac Winslovv s house was the chief\\nmeeting-place of a society of loyalists, three\\nhundred in number.\\nThis old Winslow house is interesting a\\ngrand old mansion in its day, it still retains\\nan air of its past grandeur. Like many great\\nhouses of its time, it has a secret chamber,\\nthe entrance to which is by a sliding panel\\nover one of the wide fire-places.\\nIt is related that one of the VVinslows, all\\nof whom were staunch Tories, took refuge in\\nthis hiding-place after the house had been\\nsurrounded by a body of patriots. In the\\nroom connected with the secret place, there\\nwas at the time a woman in bed with a new-\\nborn child. The colonists, with a delicate\\nforbearance, made but a superficial search of\\nher apartment, and so the royalist in hiding\\nescaped discovery.\\nLike the old mansion, Marshfield itself bears\\nnot the glory of its earlier years. In the first", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "156 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nof this century t was far busier, had more\\nhouses, and considerable ship-building.\\nWhen it was first settled, it was called\\nRoxham or Green s Harbor, and until 1641\\nwas a part of the next old Pilgrim town,\\nDuxbury.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "On this old place there has fallen also\\nthe calm of age, for fifty years ago it was\\na bustling place. Its sons were familiar to\\nChina, Japan, and the Indies, and its ships\\nwere known round the world.\\nSettled it was in 1630- 163 2, by men of\\nhonor and distinction in the civil and re-\\nligious history of the Pilgrims, and was\\ncalled Duxbury, after Duxbury Hall, the\\nseat of the Standish family in England for\\nMiles Standish settled here, as did John\\nAlden, his rival.\\nHere they raised the roof-trees of their\\nrough homes, which, like all the earliest\\nones, were surrounded by palisades to\\nkeep off wolves and savages. Fortified", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "158 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ncottages, they were lighted dimly by win-\\ndows of oiled paper which oaken shutters\\nmade secure. On the ground floor was a\\nlarge living-room with a kitchen, and gen-\\nerally one bed-chamber. Under the gam-\\nbrel roof were two chambers. The lean-to\\nroofs, which are still seen in many old houses,\\nwere of a later period. The walls were of\\nstout square planks, and they were clap-\\nboarded inside, as were also the partitions.\\nThe chimneys stood outside the walls, and\\nwere built, cob-fashion, of sticks and clay\\nplaster.\\nJohn Alden built his home in 1631, on\\nthe south side of Blue Fish River, near\\nEagle Tree Pond, ten years after his mar-\\nriage to Priscilla,\\nThe damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of\\nPlymouth.\\nHere, the married lovers raised a good\\nold-fashioned family of eleven children, and\\nhere they both died at an advanced age,\\ncrowned with honor and affection. Indeed,\\nJohn Alden outlived all the signers of the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Duxbury. i6i\\nfamous Mayflower compact, and was eighty-\\nseven at the time of his death. Many posi-\\ntions of honor and trust had he held in his\\nlong and useful life.\\nNear the site of his dwelling now stands\\nan Alden house, the third one on the\\nestate. This one, two hundred and forty\\nyears old, was built by his grandson. It is\\nof wood with a pitched roof and a massive\\nchimney of brick laid in pasture clay. The\\ninterior is very interesting, and most of the\\nrooms keep their old wainscoting of native\\npine. The house frame is all of hewn white\\noak. In it lives John Alden, the eighth, a\\nlineal descendant of Standish s envoy to\\nthe arch Priscilla. John Alden, ninth, was\\nkilled by lightning while a lad. In con-\\nnection with this cutting off of the line of\\nJohn Aldens, it is a curious fact that the\\nfirst death in all the colony from a light-\\nning stroke occurred in this very town in\\n1658.\\nThe ride to Old Powder Point and the\\nBeach is a very pleasant one. Here the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "1 62 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nFrench cable from Brest is brought ashore,\\nand it is more than interesting to visit the\\ncable house; for no one with any imagina-\\ntion could help yielding to the spell of this\\nwonder, this binding together of two con-\\ntinents ocean-parted. One thinks with awe\\nof the dark and silent depths through which\\nthese cables creep, and of the wonders of\\nGod there wrought.\\nWords, and the words of men, flicker and flutter\\nand beat\\nWarning, sorrow and gain, salutation and mirth\\nFor a Power troubles the Still that has neither\\nvoice nor feet.\\nIn the presence of this every-day miracle\\nof our time, we think of the gloom, deep as\\nthat of the ocean floor these cables traverse,\\nwhich, in the Pilgrim days, shrouded even\\nthe commonest phenomena of life and nature.\\nFor in their day, the rainbow and the light-\\nning had not given up their secrets the\\npendulum and the barometer were unknown;\\nthe circulation of the blood and the attrac-\\ntion of Gfravitation were undiscovered. Two", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "The John Alden House.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Duxbury. 165\\ncenturies and a half were to elapse before\\nthe invention of the telegraph. Considering\\nthe ignorance of the world at that time, we\\nshould marvel that the Forefathers were so\\nlittle ruled by superstition and its sister,\\npersecution.\\nBut in Duxbury the greatest interest at-\\ntaches to the life here of Miles Standish.\\nThe place of his dwelling is reached by the\\nlong and pleasant village street past many\\nan old-fashioned mansion, and under many\\nbeautiful trees.\\nOn the way is the little burying-ground\\nwhere his grave has recently been dis-\\ncovered. Elder Brewster is buried there\\ntoo, it is believed, and many others of the\\nfirst settlers.\\nFor years the last resting places of the\\nmost eminent of the Forefathers were un-\\nknown. It seems strange that the descend-\\nants of these Englishmen should so soon\\nhave lost the reverence and care for the dead\\nwhich is so characteristic a trait of their\\nnation, that loving care of the graves that", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 66 The Pilo^rim Shore.\\nthey have ahvays exhibited in the old church-\\nyards of England. In the little English vil-\\nlages, just such villages as the Pilgrims came\\nfrom, the tiny God s Acres are close to the\\nlives of the people, and they are kept sweet\\nwith flowers nearly all the year. In the long\\nsummer twilights the women and children\\nmay be seen carrying to them baskets of\\nflowers from the cottage-gardens to beautify\\nthe graves. And there is something gently\\nand sweetly sorrowful in the thought of\\nslipping away into forgetfulness so near to\\nthe busy life of the village. Sharp is the\\ncontrast with the lonely graveyards of New\\nEngland, so many of them remote and neg-\\nlected. On lonely hillsides, or by the dusty\\nroad, uncared for and forgotten, the weeds\\nand briers enwrap the headstones, and trees\\nspring up between the graves.\\nThis burying-place, for example, was for\\nyears wholly neglected, a tangled waste of\\nweeds choked it, and the cattle roamed over\\nit. It is only within a few years that it has\\nbeen cleared up and inclosed. While this", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "/lr^\\\\\\nThe arch Prtscilla.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "Duxbury.\\n169\\nwork was in progress, the workmen came\\nupon some peculiarly shaped stones buried\\nin the sand. Now there was a tradition that\\nStandish s grave had been marked by two\\nT/ie Grave of Mites Standis i.\\npyramidal stones placed due east and west\\nand about six feet apart. As the ones found\\nanswered to this description, very careful re-\\nsearches were made with the result, that three\\ngraves were finally uncovered there. In two", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "I/O The Pilo^rim Shore\\nof them were the skeletons of two young\\nwomen, one with abundant Hght brown hair,\\nand the other with long tresses of a darker\\nshade, and both with beautiful teeth. Be-\\ntween these two, in the middle grave, was the\\nskeleton of a man. Now the Captain s will\\nrequests that, should he die in Duxbury, that\\nhis body was to laied as neare as conven-\\niently may bee to my two deer daughters,\\nLora Standish my daughter and Mary\\nStandish my daughter in law. And there\\nis every reason to believe that the grave of\\nMiles Standish has been found. So the spot\\nhas been inclosed by a fort-like fence of\\nstone, guarded at the corners by cannon.\\nIt is probable that John and Priscilla Alden\\nalso found a resting-place here, and in fact\\nthe oldest dated headstone bears the name of\\ntheir son Jonathan, and many other Alden\\ngraves are here.\\nA churchyard this spot originally was, and\\nthe site of the church, the first meeting-house,\\nhas been located and marked by a stone.\\nNot far from the Captain s grave is the spot", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Duxbury. 171\\nwhere his house once stood. Shelterhig it\\nand high above it rises Captain s Hill crowned\\nby the monument that has been erected to\\nhis memory. His house was burned down\\nafter his death, about 1666, but the cellar is\\nstill plainly marked. His dwelling must have\\nbeen a very peculiar one, for it seems to have\\nconsisted of two wings converging like the\\nstems of a V. When it was built the penin-\\nsula on which it stands was thickly wooded,\\nand over it roamed the deer and many a\\ngaunt wolf besides, so the house was stoutly\\npalisaded to protect it from savage beasts\\nas well as men. At that time too it was\\ngenerally believed that lions and other\\nferocious beasts infested the woods of the\\nNew World. New England s Prospect\\nsays, Besides PHmouth men have traded for\\nLyons skinnes in former times. Whether\\nthis belief was held by the Pilgrims them-\\nselves, I do not know, but the Puritans along\\nthe North Shore never doubted that Lyons\\nto say nothing of demons, or even the evil-\\none himself, were lurking in the deep shadows", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "172 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nof the forests that swept backward from the\\nshores of Cape Ann.-\\nFor even them, you may be sure the Cap-\\ntain would have stood in little dread. His\\nnatural courage had been braced by a life of\\nadventure in camp and field. A life that\\nmakes him the most picturesque character of\\nall the Pilgrims. He has been ever rep-\\nresented as a man of fiery temper, impetuous\\nand masterful, a little chimney soon heated,\\nfor he, like Caesar and Napoleon, was of small\\nstature. But if he was quick, he was still a\\nfriend of peace yet ever ready to fight for it\\nand with little regard for the odds against\\nhim. He probably felt able to settle all\\ndisputes himself, for he was the rarest of liti-\\ngants, twice only did he appeal to the law,\\nand then to resent the cruel treatment of his\\ndumb animals. Once his dog was killed, and\\nanother time his sheep were worried by a\\nneighbor s dog. These wanton acts the old\\nsoldier would not tolerate and in each case\\nhe secured the punishment of the off enders.\\nAlso was he a friend of all good Indians,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Duxbury,\\n173\\nespecially of that proper lustie man, that\\nman of accounte for his vallour parts\\namongst y Indians, Hobamock, the staunch\\nA/ S/aiic/is/i s Fireside.\\nfriend of the Pilgrims. An intimate friend-\\nship existed between these two, and Hoba-\\nmock spent his declining years well cared for\\nat Standish s fireside. To this intimacy with\\nthe Indians the Captain owed, no doubt, his", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "174 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nskill in their language, for he surpassed all\\nthe other colonists in that respect.\\nHe was, too, the best linguist otherwise,\\nan accomplishment that had come to him in\\nhis roaming life, for when young he had held,\\nunder Elizabeth, a military commission to\\nfight in foreign parts, and so had mastered\\nFrench and Spanish, as well as Dutch and\\nFlemish.\\nIt was probably during his campaigning\\nagainst the cruel Spaniard that he met and\\nwas attracted to the Pilgrim Fathers. That\\nhe should have been so much their friend as\\nto have gone with them across the sea to a\\nsavage land seems the more remarkable be-\\ncause it is not clear that he shared their par-\\nticular faith. It has even been claimed that\\nhe was a Romanist, at least that he was a\\nscion of a noble Catholic family. Of a long\\nand noble line he really was, for on the roll\\nof the Norman barons, made soon after the\\nConquest, appears the blazon of Thurston de\\nStandish. This baron s son Hugh held an-\\ncient Dokesbury (Duxbury) Hall in 1306.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "Miles Stand!.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "Duxbury. 177\\nOne John Standish was knighted by Richard\\nII. for helping to kill poor Wat T} ler in\\n1 38 1. An Alexander Standish was knighted\\nin 1482, and indeed the family was ever emi-\\nnent in peace and war generally the latter.\\nThe Reformation di\\\\-ided the house against\\nitself, and the Duxbury Hall branch went\\nover to the Protestants, but the Standishs of\\nStandish Hall clung faithfully to the church\\nof Rome.\\nIt was from this latter branch that Miles\\nStandish was descended and at his death\\nhe bequeathed to his son Alexander all his\\nlands, as heir apparent b} lawful descent in\\nOrmistic, Bousconge, Wrightington, Maud-\\nsley, Newburrow, Cranston, and in the Isle of\\nMan and given to me as right heir by lawful\\ndescent, but surreptitiously detained from\\nme, my great grandfather being a second or\\nyounger brother from the house of Standish\\nof Standish.\\nEfforts have been made in this century by\\nhis descendants to unravel the secrets of his\\nbirth, and to prove the right of his claim.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "lyS The Pilgrim Shore.\\nAccording to the commission given him by\\nQueen Elizabeth, he must have been born in\\n1584 or 1585. But the lawful evidence in\\nEngland has been wilfully destroyed by oblit-\\nerating all the entries for those dates in the\\nparish register of Chorley, his native place.\\nMoreover, by authority of an ancient law, the\\nrector of Chorley has prevented any one\\nfrom examining the records, and so stands\\nguard for his patron, who, it is believed, holds\\nthe estates under a fraudulent title. Of im-\\nmense value are the lands now, and of great\\nextent, and yield each year an income of half\\na million dollars.\\nIt seems strange that Standish should have\\ngiven up his brilliant prospects as a brave and\\nskilful soldier, and his heirship to manorial\\nrights and honors, to cast his lot with a hand-\\nful of almost friendless, expatriated religious\\nenthusiasts, with whom it is even suspected\\nthat he was not wholly in sympathy. Why\\nhe should have sacrificed so much for no re-\\nturn cannot be explained by what we know\\nof his carlv life. It would seem that he must", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "Duxbury,\\n179\\nhav-e had some private reasons of which the\\nworld knows nothing nor can ever know.\\nYet was he content with the slim honors\\nand estate that his chivalrous devotion to his\\nThe Standish Cottage.\\nnew friends brought him. No task was for\\nhim too difficult or dangerous, none too hum-\\nble or disagreeable. Great as a ruler over\\nothers, he was far greater as a ruler over\\nhimself No one ever more decidedly had a", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "I So The Pilgrim Shore.\\nmission, and none ever more nobly fulfilled\\nit.\\nWhen he died he left a few choice books\\nthat show him to have been a man of literary-\\ntastes. Among them were three Bibles, just\\nthe number of his muskets. But this was not\\nall his arsenal, for he left beside a fowling-\\npiece, four carbines, two small guns, besides\\na sword and cutlass.\\nThe Standish cottage now standing was\\nbuilt by his son Alexander, and is nearly two\\nand a half centuries old. It was built partly\\nof materials taken from the old house.\\nElder Brewster, the Captain s old friend,\\nlived near him, but nothing remains of that\\nhouse to-day and not far away across the\\nmarshes and the river lived the dear compan-\\nion of his labors and responsibilities, Gov-\\nernor Bradford in Kinijston.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "And a pretty drive it is to this old town\\nwhich all the way looks invitingly across\\nthe bay. By the meadows the road winds,\\nand through them winds Island Creek. Just\\nat the entrance to Kingston Jones River is\\ncrossed, and here the first settlements were\\nmade. Here Governor Bradford lived at\\nStony Brook in the parish of Jones River,\\nPlymouth, for Kingston was not set off from\\nPlymouth until 171 7. The site of his dwel-\\nling is now marked by a tablet.\\nFrom his house he overlooked the meadows\\nto Captain s Hill to the dwellings of his friends,\\nStandish and Brewster. Here he entertained\\nthe Chief Wamsutta, and it is thought by\\nmany that this was his principal home. If", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "l82\\nThe Pilfjrim Shore.\\nit was not, he may dispute with Samuel\\nFuller, the old colony s first physician, the\\ndistinction of having been the first summer\\nresident of our coast, for the doctor had a\\n-r^.^^,,, \u00c2\u00abr-\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab*.Hi**i\u00c2\u00ab^ .---J\\nI\\nBy Island Creek.\\nsummer house near Smelt Brook, and a town\\nhouse on Leyden Street, not far from the\\ngovernor s.\\nThe most interesting landmark of Kingston,\\nhowever, is the Major John Bradford house.\\nClose by the river it stands on a high em-\\nbankment. It is not disfigured by paint, and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "Kingston. 183\\nits cool grays melt softly into the siiadows\\nof the great elms that shade it.\\nIn King Philip s War the house was par-\\ntially burned. It was at the time abandoned,\\nfor Major Bradford had removed for safety\\nto the guard house across the river. One\\nday he returned with a few of his neighbors\\nfor some forgotten goods. As he neared\\nhis home he saw smoke rising over the trees,\\nand upon drawing near he found that his house\\nwas on fire. At the same time his attention\\nwas attracted to an Indian sentinel who was\\nstanding guard on Abraham s Hill, and was\\nwaving his blanket aloft and crying, Choc-\\nwang! Chocwang (the white men are\\ncoming). He knew then that it was the\\nsavages who had set the fire. He and his\\ncompanions rushed boldly forward, but the\\nIndians were so intent on plunder that they\\ndid not hear their comrade s warning nor the\\napproach of the white men, so that Bradford\\nrushed without any warning upon them, and\\nfiring his piece apparently killed one of\\nthem before they fled. On coming to the", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "i84\\nThe Pilfjnm Shore.\\nspot where the man fell, however, he was\\nastonished not to find the body of the\\nplunderer, and for a time believed that he\\nV\\nMajor John Bradford s House.\\nmust have been mistaken. But after the\\nwar an Indian came one day to him and\\ndeclared himself to be the wounded man,\\nand in proof thereof showed the scars where\\nthree bullets had passed through his side.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Kingston. 185\\nThis old house was for years the casket\\nin which reposed that famous manuscript,\\nthe Bradford History of Plymouth Planta-\\ntion. But in 1728 Major John Bradford lent\\nit with other precious books to Thomas\\nPrince to take out of it what he thought\\nproper for his New England Chronology.\\nIt is known that others used it years after-\\nward and that Governor Hutchinson had it,\\nand by many it is believed that this Tory\\ngovernor carried it away with him to Eng-\\nland. Certain it is that it disappeared about\\nthe time of the Revolution, and for many\\nyears was lost to the knowledge of the world.\\nBut in 1855 it was by chance discovered in the\\nlibrary of the Bishop of London at Fulham.\\nHow or when it got there nobody knows.\\nSenator Hoar, speaking of the loss of the\\nbook and its discovery in England, declared\\nthat he knew of no incident like this in history,\\nunless it be the finding of the royal crown\\nand sword and sceptre of Scotland, in a\\nchest in the castle of Edinburgh, where they\\nhad lain unknown for over a century.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "1 86 The Pilorrim Shore\\niD\\nCalled by the English, The Log of the\\nMayflower, it was recognized by them to be\\nof great value. So that repeated attempts\\nfailed to procure its return to this country.\\nFinally, in 1897, through extraordinary good\\nfortune, our Ambassador to Great Britain,\\nthe Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, secured the\\nprecious document, and conveyed it to the\\npeople of the Commonwealth of Massachu-\\nsetts in the care of whose governors it now\\nrests.\\nThere are man}- other old and interesting\\nhouses here in Kingston, for the place is\\nmost intimately associated with the history\\nof the first-comers, for it was during nearly a\\nhundred years a part of Pl} mouth.\\nIt was named Kingston, it is said, at the\\nsuggestion of Lieutenant-Governor Dummer\\non the 28th day of May, 1717, that being the\\nbirthday of his gracious majesty King George\\nthe First. It is now connected with the\\nmother-town by an electric railway which\\naffords an enjoyable ride to Plymouth.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "^LY/AOUTH\\n,W. -^^^^^^i^JNW*\\nURELY, the journey\\nalong the Pilgrim\\nShore reaches the\\nclimax of its interest\\nat Plymouth, an inter-\\nest so great that most\\nvisitors rush directh to\\nthe mothertown, and regard\\nnot the man\\\\- attractions that\\nlie along the \\\\va}\\nt Or the\\\\^ come b} water, and\\nthus only see from the steam-\\ner s deck the low line of rocks and sand\\nalong which the colony spread and prospered.\\nWithout doubt they save themselves some\\ntrouble, for everything along the shore is not", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "1 88 The Piloi ini Shore\\no\\narranged for the sight-seer, as it is at Ply-\\nmouth, where all is ticketed and labelled,\\nwhere there are good guides and guide-books.\\nThis thoroughness is indeed a distinguish-\\ning feature of Pilgrim land and Pilgrim story.\\nNo episode of history has been so thoroughly\\ninvestigated. And it would seem that every\\nfact connected with the Pilgrim movement,\\nwhich must ultimately be regarded as the real\\norigin of the United States, every fact, I\\nsay, discoverable by the energy and persis-\\ntence of man must have already been brought\\nto light, classified, and recorded.\\nA considerable literature has grown up\\nabout these facts, one that continues to grow\\nin volume and even in interest. The writer\\nwill not attempt then to rehearse what has\\nalready been so ably and so gracefully told,\\nbut will confine himself to his own impres-\\nsions: those of a visitor who has only the\\ninformation of the ordinary reader, and one\\nwho is apt to view a subject from the pic-\\nturesque stand-point rather tlian from that of\\ncritical exactness or caeer denial.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 189\\nThe general impression of Plymouth, as\\none enters the town from Kingston, is that of\\nprosperity, thrift, and respectability. Good\\nstreets there are, well shaded and watered,\\ncomfortable houses, with finely kept grounds\\nand lawns, and a glimpse of thriving indus-\\ntries, while over all is an air of modernity.\\nIn this the newer part of the town is the\\nmonument that we saw long ago from Dux-\\nbury. It is called the National Monument to\\nthe Forefathers, and was erected by a grate-\\nful people in remembrance of their labors,\\nsacrifice, and sufferings for the cause of civil\\nand religious liberty. A work of recent\\nyears it is, for it was finished no longer ago\\nthan 1888, although the corner-stone had\\nthen been laid for twenty-nine years.\\nIt stands on a bare hill reached by shady,\\npleasant streets that make its shadeless\\nexposure seem more barren by contrast.\\nOpposite the entrance to its precincts, how-\\never, is a friendly wayside bench that affords\\na good view of it and a rest under green\\nleaves.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "IQO The Pilgrim Shore.\\nThe pile itself is granite of indifferent art, it\\nmust be allowed, but nevertheless, as it rises\\nfrom the bare hill against the sky, it has a\\ncertain amount of dignity, a dignity which\\nwould not be lessened, I believe, were the sur-\\nroundings softened a little by flower, shrub,\\nand tree. Why, said a native to me, that\\nhill s nothing but a heap of sand, but it s a\\ngood one. If we had it anywhere where\\ntwould be of use, t would be worth a fortune\\nfor mortar-sand.\\nThe monument coisists of a pedestal,\\noctagonal, from every other face of which\\nextends a buttress on these four buttresses\\nare seated as many figures of heroic size on\\nthe pedestal itself stands a gigantic figure of\\nFaith. She holds a Bible under one arm, and\\npoints heavenward with the other. The seated\\nfigures represent, respectively, Morality,\\nLaw, Education, and Freedom. All are\\nconventional in design, and are supplemented\\nby small accessory figures. On the faces of\\nthe buttresses are four slabs of marble carved\\nin high relief and protected by plate glass.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 191\\nThey represent the departure from Delft\\nHaven, the signing of the Social Compact, the\\nLanding at Plymouth, the Treaty with Mas-\\nsasoit.\\nNot far from the monument on the Main\\nStreet is the Museum, Pilgrim Hall.\\nWithin it is an interesting collection of many\\nand divers objects connected with or related\\nmore or less intimately to the history of the\\ntown, many of them of priceless value as\\nrelics of the Forefathers. But of course they\\ndiffer in degree of value and interest. For\\ninstance, in the Alden case is John Alden s\\nBible, a fine halberd found in the cellar of\\nhis house at Duxbury, and a few bricks from\\nBradford s house at Kingston, and beside\\nthese relics a Chinese razor and a pine-tree\\nshilling.\\nThe most interesting of all the cases is, I\\nthink that which contains the Standish be-\\nlongings. Here is the pewter plate and iron\\npot so familiar to us in photographs, and\\nbrought over by the Captain in the May-\\nflower. There s a piece of his hearthstone", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "192\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\ntoo, and other\\nrelics from his\\nhouse in Dux-\\nbury. Greatest\\nprize of all, how-\\nhis sword\\nhis trusty sword of Damascus\\nCurved at the point and inscribed with\\nits mystical Arabic sentence.\\nWhat food for thought and\\nfancy it is Its sun and stars suggest the an-\\ncient days of Persia, the glories of Babylon\\nand Nineveh. Indeed no one knows how old\\nit is, this blade of the Captain s. Centuries\\nbefore he dimmed its brightness with the\\nblood of his red brother (was it with tliis\\nblade he hewed off the head of savage and\\nbrave Witawamat?), centuries before that it\\nmay have been wrenched by Moslem hands\\nfrom some fierce fire-worshipper, then wet\\nwith blood of Greek, Christian, and Jew, when\\nthe hordes of Omah first humbled Palestine\\nto Islam s yoke. It may have flashed in\\ntriumphal processions beneath the minarets", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 193\\nof Damascus, or by Bagdad s shrines of\\nfretted gold. Then hundreds of years later,\\nperhaps, when t was drawn in defence of the\\nHoly Land, it was torn from swart Paynim\\ngrasp by a gaunt crusader, a Standish, on the\\nvery walls of Jerusalem.\\nAn heirloom then it became, descending\\nfrom Standish to Standish, until finally, after\\nbeing wielded against the cruel Spaniard in\\nthe Low Countries, twas brought across the\\nseas to be the defence of the Pilgrim Republic.\\nAll this may be true, indeed Professor\\nRosedale of Jerusalem does not hesitate to\\ndeclare that the sword was forged before the\\nyear A. D. 637. A part of the inscriptions he\\nsays are in Cufic, in which was written the\\nKoran in the time of the prophet Moham-\\nmed, one thousand years before Standish set\\nfoot in America.\\nOne of the inscriptions Professor Rosedale\\ntranslated thus\\nWith peace God ruled His slaves (creatures) and\\nwith the judgment of His arm gave trouble to the\\nvaliant of the mighty and courageous (meaning the\\nwicked).\\n13", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "194 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nThe hilt is not the one Miles Standish knew,\\nthe blade has probably known many another.\\nHis was a basket hih, like the ones carried\\nby Cromwell s Roundheads. As will be seen,\\nit is a backsword, and with its basket hilt\\nshould have made an excellent weapon for\\nthe hacking sword play of his time.\\nI used it as a model in drawing the crest\\nof the great seal of the Commonwealth of\\nMassachusetts, a broadsword held in an\\narm clothed and ruffled as the law demands.\\nBut there are gentler reminders of the\\nCaptain than this, for here are fragments of\\na quilt which once belonged to his first wife\\nRose,\\nBeautiful rose of love that bloomed for me by the\\nwayside.\\nBut more suggestive, and even as touching,\\nis the sampler embroidered by his daughter\\nLora. Its colors are but the ashes of their\\nonce bright hues, and the faded floss is sink-\\ning gradually into the background of yellow-\\ning linen. Still the pretty design of the\\nmarshalled bands is plainly marked, and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 195\\nbelow them one can yet distinguish the\\nprayerful verses\\nLorea Standish is my name.\\nLord guide my hart that I may doe Thy will\\nAlso fill my hands with such convenient skill\\nAs may conduce to virtue void of shame\\nAnd I will give the glory to Thy name.\\nIn the White case is the will of Peregrine\\nWhite. With what tender pity one thinks of\\nhim in looking at this last testament Bowed\\nby over fourscore years, and as the will re-\\ncites under many weaknesses and bodily\\ninfirmities, not even able to sign his name, for\\nat the end appears a cross, his mark, sign\\ntypical of his afflictions, for the infirm old\\nfingers could no longer guide the pen for\\neven this little. 11 ow bold and good his\\npenmanship once was may be seen by the\\nbond written and signed by him years before,\\nand now in the case K.\\nAll sorts of things are there in these cases,\\nmost of them connected intimately or remotely\\nwith the colony s history, -rare books, pre-\\ncious documents, china, silver, in short, most", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "196 The Pilgrim Shore.\\neverything, even to a broken brick or two\\nand a handful of nails. In one case is a\\nrapier which suggests Plymouth s first, last,\\nand only duel. Two of the young men\\nfought with rapiers and daggers after the\\nfashion of the day, and one was wounded.\\nThey were afterwards so ignominiously pun-\\nished that duelling was stopped forever in\\nthe colony.\\nThe VVinslow relics betray, as might be\\nexpected, evidence of a certain luxury beyond\\nthe others. A bit of real vanity is that fine\\nslipper of Madame Governor VVinslow s. All\\nembroidered in silver, it suggests moments of\\nelegant idleness that must have been almost\\nunknown in Old Colony days. It is what the\\nFrench call a mule, has a high Louis XIV. heel,\\nbut covers only the instep and toes.\\nInteresting, too, are the cunning baby shoes\\nworn by Governor Josiah Winslow, the first\\ngovernor s ring, Penelope s inlaid cabinet\\nand beaded purse. But all will find things to\\nlook at for themselves, still may I say\\na word about the things behind the rail", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "e", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "Plymouth.\\n199\\nWe know the two quaint\\nchairs by the pictures and\\ncopies of them that have so\\noften been made. Both were\\nbrought in the Mayflower,\\none by Elder Brewster, and\\nthe other by Governor Car-\\nver. They are of ash, and\\nahke in style, a style that is reflected in\\nthe ancient flax-wheel near by, and would\\nseem to indicate that the wheel also was of\\nthe same period. Still this\\nstyle, as applied to wheels,\\npersisted for many years,\\nand ma\\\\ be seen to-day\\nin remote districts of\\nHolland in wheels of a\\nmuch later date.\\nThen there is the cra-\\nFlax-ivheel.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "200\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\ndie, that in which Susanna White rocked her\\nbaby, the first Pilgrim baby. It is woven\\nof osiers, and recalls the skill of the Dutch\\nin wicker work. It\\nsuggests now, and\\nmust always have re-\\nminded the Pilgrims\\nof their Holland\\nhome, the low level\\nlandscapes, the\\nplacid canals, and\\nthe long dykes, wil-\\nlow-bound and\\nshaded. And while\\nthe picture of the\\nLow Countries is painted on our fancy, we\\nshould remember gratefully the brave hearts\\nof that land which for so many years offered\\nthe only asylum for the priest-oppressed, and\\nwho maintained so long the only bulwark, of\\nsoul freedom in all Europe.\\nThere s a model, too, of a ship of the\\nMayflower s type, and a beautiful ideal pict-\\nure of the Pilgrim ship in Mr. Halsall s lovely\\nCradle.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 201\\npainting of her at anchor in the ice-bound\\nharbor.\\nA great many pictures hang on the walls\\nbeside, but the most precious of them all is\\nthe portrait of Governor Edward Winslow for\\nit is the only authentic portrait of a May-\\nflower Pilgrim.\\nOf all the other things to see in Pilgrim\\nHall I will not speak. Each visitor will find\\nenough that is interesting and fancy-stirring.\\nSo I will leave the museum and return to the\\ntown.\\nOf all the old streets in Plymouth the love-\\nliest is surely North Street. Its elms and\\nlindens frame, with leaf and shade, a sparkling\\nglimpse of the sea. The row of great lindens\\nwith rugged furrowed trunks were, it is said,\\nbrought from England in a raisin-box, and\\nwere set out by Colonel George Watson over\\na century ago.\\nIt is said that Penelope Winslow set out the\\ntwo in front of the old Winslow house oppo-\\nsite, and a droll story is told of the one which\\nshades the seats on Cole s Hill.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "202 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nThe tale is that once upon a time a maiden\\nhved there, on the hill, who was made miser-\\nable by the attentions of an unwelcome suitor.\\nHints rolled off him like water from a duck s\\nback. On snubs and cuts his love throve as\\ndo pigs on sour milk. In fact, his devotion\\nwas as steadfast as it was disagreeable. No\\nwonder then that the maid, at the end of her\\npatience, at last armed herself with a stout\\nswitch one night, and falling upon the persist-\\nent swain with amazonian ardor, drove him by\\nforce from the field. Then, the story goes,\\nshe cast her switch away upon the brow of\\nthe hill, where it took root and grew, a monu-\\nment to unrequited love.\\nThe old Winslow house at the corner of\\nNorth and Winslow streets is a fine example\\nof colonial architecture made extra decorative\\nby the recent additions. Its frame was brought\\nfrom England, so t is said, in 1745, the year\\nof its building. It has been very much\\naltered lately, and is more picturesque than\\never. In its antique drawing-room Ralph\\nWaldo Emerson was married to his second", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "North Street.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 205\\nwife. Upon his wedding day he drove from\\nConcord to Plymouth in his chaise. That\\nevening he was married, and the next morn-\\ning he set forth in the chaise again and\\nbrought his bride before sunset to their new\\nhome in Concord, a journey of more than\\nsixty miles each way.\\nCole s Hill is at the end of North Street,\\nand overhangs the road as it dips to the\\nwharves. On its brow are a few seats which\\nma} be divided after the fashion of a Spanish\\nbull ring into sonibra and sola. They are\\ngenerally occupied by professional as well as\\namateur loafers, and the latter will probably\\nfind that they will have to sit in the sola.\\nSeaward from this point is a broad view of\\nthe harbor, and at high tide it is a lovely one\\ntoo, but, when the water recedes, gray green\\nflats rise to sight and to smell. Through\\nthese levels wind the channel and crooked\\nsluggish streams of varying widths that all\\nseem fouled by the muddy bottom.\\nHowever, let us not turn up our noses at\\nthese flats, for perhaps the tiny colony owed", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "2o6 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nin a large measure its preservation to the\\nunlimited store of clams and lobsters that\\nthese flats afforded.\\nOn the farther side of the harbor stretches\\nthe long, low, slender line of Plymouth\\nBeach, hummocky and sandy, then beyond\\nits ribbon, farther seaward, the headland and\\nlights of the Gurnet. On that low bluff, t is\\nsaid, was buried in 1004 the bold Norse wan-\\nderer and chieftain Thorwald.\\nThe next headland to the left is Saquish\\n(meaning plenty of clams), and the next in\\nthe same direction is Clark s Island. Weather\\nand tide permitting, it is a pleasant sail to\\nthis last, where, remote from trolley and tour-\\nist, the spell of old Pilgrim memories is apt\\nto be much more potent than in the town\\nitself\\nThe island is quite large, containing over\\na hundred acres, and although the original\\nwoods were long ago cleared away, it has\\nfine trees and a good soil. It is said that\\ncrops of figs are grown there in the open air.\\nNear the middle of the Island is a hu^e", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 207\\nbowlder formerly called Election Rock, be-\\ncause in the old days the young folks used\\nto picnic there on ancient election holidays.\\nBut now it is called Pulpit Rock, because,\\naccording to tradition, in its shelter the Pil-\\ngrim explorers worshipped God on that first\\nSunday in Plymouth Harbor. On it there-\\nfore have been cut these words from Mourt s\\nRelation On the Sabbath day wee rested.\\nThis great bowlder is similar to Plymouth\\nRock, and is the only other one of any size\\nalong the coast. However, there is a small\\none on the southeasterly shore of the Island\\nbearing some strange black markings said by\\nsome to be the footprints of the Evil One\\nhimself, while by some others they are no\\nmore than the trail of a passing witch.\\nSometimes, however, they are called Mary\\nChilton s footsteps.\\nBut after all there is but one rock\\nPlymouth Rock. Right at the foot of Cole s\\nHill it lies, under a granite canopy, and as\\nnearly as possible in its proper place. For\\nthe rock has been a traveller, and for a time", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "2o8 The Pilo^rim Shore\\niD\\nit rested in Town Square, from the breaking\\nout of the Revolution till 1834, when one\\nFourth of July it was carried in triumphal\\nprocession to the lot in front of Pilgrim flail,\\nwhere it rested for forty-six years. In those\\ndays, it used to seem to the visitors that the\\nPilgrims had made pretty long steps to land\\non it from their shallop. Happily its stupid\\nand unnatural position was at last recognized\\nby a gentleman from Baltimore, Mr. Joseph\\nHenry Stickney, who, without any flourish\\nof trumpets, returned it to its original site.\\nThat this is the actual spot at which the\\nPilgrims landed Mary Chilton first is\\ntoo well attested by facts and tradition to\\nadmit of any doubt. In those days it was\\nthe only convenient landing-place from such\\na deep and bluff-bowed boat as the Pilgrim\\nshallop, and the Pilgrims had had quite\\nenough of landing on the sands by wading\\nin the icy wintry waters. Then it was on the\\nedge of the beach that was backed by the\\ndeserted cornfields of the natives, and, as now,\\nnear the mouth of the sweet brook that", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "Mary Chilton first,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 211\\nslipped down there from the forest-girdled\\nponds inland. To-day its surroundings are\\nprosaic and unlovely, and I doubt that they\\nare always forgotten by those who step\\nthoughtfully on the hallowed spot.\\nHowever, let us go down the steps\\nDown to the Plymouth Rock that had been to their\\nfeet as a doorstep,\\nThe corner-stone of a nation.\\nI have said that the Rock has been a\\ntraveller in recent years, but it is more of\\na Pilgrim than these short Journeys would\\nwarrant. Whence and when did it come\\nhere? For it is as much a stranger on these\\nsandy shores as were the Pilgrims them-\\nselves. Let the words of Goodwin answer.\\nIn dim and prehistoric ages, Fore-\\nfathers Rock had been reft from its parent\\nledge by icy Nature wrapped in the chill\\nembrace of some mighty floe or berg of\\nthe glacial epoch, it had been slowly borne\\nfor centuries over mountain and valley,\\nuntil, guided by the Divine Hand, it found\\nat last a resting place between land and", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "212 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nwater where in future eons it was to become\\nthe most noted bowlder in Christendom.\\nOn that rockless strand it had patiently-\\nawaited the great day which should, though\\nunconsciously, make it forever famous as the\\nstepping stone of New England civilization.\\nIt was on Cole s Hill that the dead who\\ndeparted in the first dreadful winter were\\nburied, and if one re-ascends the steps, and\\nturns to the left by the tiny greensward, a\\nflat tablet will be seen which marks the spot\\nwhere rest the bones of some of those unfor-\\ntunates. Over their heads the Pilgrims\\nplanted the waving wheat, that it might, with\\nits grace and greenery, shield from savage\\neyes the resting place of so many dead.\\nLest they should count them and see how many\\nalready have perished.\\nOther sad memories must the Forefathers\\nhave had of Cole s Hill, for I doubt not that\\nit was from this vantage ground that they\\nwatched the Mayflower depart, that only\\nbond between them and the Old World. Yet", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "Site of the First House,", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 215\\nnot one of them repented their venture, even\\nwith the recollection of the dreadful winter\\nfresh and sore upon them.\\nO strong hearts and true not one went back in the\\nMayflower\\nNo, not one looked back, who had set his hand to\\nthis ploughing\\nClose to their doors were these early\\ngraves, for near by, where Carver Street over-\\nhangs Leyden Street, may be seen the site of\\nthe first common-house. A gambrel-roofed\\nhouse stands there now, and on it the Common-\\nwealth of Massachusetts has placed a tablet\\nwhich sets forth that here the Pilgrims built\\ntheir first common-house, and in it, on the\\n27th of February, 1621, they first exercised\\nthe right of popular suffrage, and Miles\\nStandish was chosen Captain by a majority\\nvote. Strange that it was not a unanimous\\nchoice And under its roof, too, was made\\nthe memorable treaty with Massasoit,\\nafter friendly entertainments some gifts\\ngiven him, a peace that continued for\\ntwenty-four years.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "2i6 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nAs one looks down into Leyden Street\\nfrom near the great elm in front of the\\nchurch, one regrets that the neighborhood of\\nthis, the First Street of the Pilgrims, which is\\nin part so picturesque, should be so marred\\nby the necessities of modern life. Among\\nthe old-fashioned houses with quaint roofs\\nand massive chimneys, these wombs of light\\nand power make an incongruous and unwel-\\ncome presence.\\nT was along Leyden Street that the rows,\\nof roughly fashioned thatch-roofed houses\\nwere huddled together under the protection\\nof the fort on Burial Hill. And separated\\nthey were from the hills to the south by the\\nTown Brook, whose sweet waters then\\ntumbled, unfettered and unfouled, into an\\nestuary that could shelter several ships in\\nwinter s need.\\nTo-day its mouth is disfigured and ugly,.\\nbut along its banks the sloping gardens of the\\nold houses, sites of the ancient mere-steads,\\nmake many a picture full of queer lines and\\nsurprises. And along its length, almost to", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "Plymouth.\\n217\\nits source, its natural beauty is marred by\\na succession of dams and mills whose clatter\\nreaches quite into the forest.\\niii .!T\u00c2\u00bb ;ii ii;;;-:\\nAncient Merc-steads.\\nHowever, I was not writing about the\\nbrook, twas about the Pilgrims First Street,\\nof which Leyden Street was a part. On it,\\nnear its other half, Town Square, is a drink-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "2i8 The Pilgrim Shore.\\ning fountain built of field stone. Over it is\\ninscribed\\nDrink here and quench your thirst.\\nFrom this spring they drank first.\\nIt is called the Elder Brewster spring, be-\\ncause it is on the land allotted to him in 162 1,\\nand where he built his house.\\nThe Square is a busy place, the centre of\\nPlymouth s activity. At its head stands the\\nfine new church of the Pilgrimage. At first,\\nthe Newcomers worshipped in the fort on the\\nhill, each man with his matchlock beside\\nhim, while a sentry on the cannon-guarded\\nroof kept a sharp lookout for foes but in\\n1638, they built a meeting-house, and for a\\nhundred years it was sufficient to their needs.\\nThen another church was built, which en-\\ndured for a century more, when it was re-\\nplaced by a gothic edifice, which, in turn,\\nwas destroyed by fire in 1892.\\nThe present fine structure was built five\\nyears later, and on its front it bears a tablet\\nwhich reads", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "Governor Bradford.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 221\\nTHE CHURCH OF SCROOBY LEYDEN AND THE\\nMAYFLOWER\\nGATHERED ON THIS HILLSIDE IN 162O\\nHAS EVER SINCE PRESERVED UNBROKEN RECORDS\\nAND MAINTAINED A CONTINUOUS MINISTRY\\nITS FIRST COVENANT BEING STILL THE BASIS OF ITS\\nFELLOWSHIP\\nIN REVERENT MEMORY OF ITS PILGRIM FOUNDERS,\\nTHIS FIFTH MEETING HOUSE ERECTED AD M. D. CCC. XCVII.\\nOn the right hand side of Town Square,\\nlooking toward Burial Hill, lived Governor\\nBradford, and here he died in the sixty-eighth\\nyear of his age, having lived long enough\\nto see the struggling colony, of which he\\nhad so long been the guardian, firmly and\\nprosperously established.\\nUpon his shoulders had rested more than\\nupon any other s the care and responsibility\\nof government. Thirty-one times was he\\nchosen governor, and many of these times\\nmuch against his will, for he believed in\\nrotation in office, and that every one should,\\nin turn, do his part. But he never shirked\\na dut} and even in the years when he was", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "22 2 The Pilsrini Shore\\nnot chief magistrate, he bore most of the\\nburdens of the office, if not its honors. Only\\nby importunity he gat off, as Winthrop\\nsays, during a few years of deserved leisure,\\nand, to secure this respite, he once filed\\neight objections to a re-election.\\nYet, in the midst of his many duties, he\\nfound time for study in those branches of\\nlearning wherein he excelled. A good lin-\\nguist he was, speaking Dutch and French,\\nand knowing Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.\\nIn connection with his study of this last\\ntongue, he touchingly says Though I am\\ngrown aged, yet I have had a longing desire\\nto see with my own eyes something of that\\nmost ancient language and holy tongue, in\\nwhich the law and oracles of God were written,\\nand in which God and the angels spake to the\\nholy patriarchs of old time and what names\\nwere given to things from the creation.\\nBeside his linguistic skill, he was versed in\\nantiquity, history, philosophy, and theology.\\nBut his learning was less remarkable than\\nhis liberality in that narrow age, and most", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "Plymouth.\\n223\\nunusual was his freedom from nearly all of\\nthe superstition which like a nightmare op-\\npressed his age and confused the keenest\\nThe Bradford AToiiumcnt.\\nintellects. For him, the comets had no\\nterror, nor had the eclipses, for witchcraft\\nhe felt only contempt, and in his history\\nnever alludes to it. His tolerance in relie-", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "224 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nious matters, as well as his courtesy and\\nthoughtfulness for others, is witnessed to by\\nthe Jesuit Father Druillette, who visited him\\nin Plymouth. The visit falling on Friday,\\nthe Governor served the priest a dinner of\\nfish, in respect of the usages of the Church\\nof Rome. His most precious gift to the\\nworld, next to the fostering care he gave the\\nstruggling settlement, is the history that he\\nwrote of Plymouth colony, and which, after\\nbeing lost for many years, has since been\\nreturned to the Commonwealth of Massa-\\nchusetts by the Bishop of London. Of all\\nthe Pilgrims, he is the most eminent. He,\\nmore than any other, sowed the seeds of that\\ntolerance and freedom which have become the\\ncrowning glory of the Republic.\\nOn Burial Hill, that had sheltered his happy\\nhome of many years, he was buried with sad\\nand reverent honor by his mourning people.\\nThere his grave has been discovered and\\nproperly marked, and thousands of pilgrims\\neach year seek it out with reverence. Near\\nthe crest of the hill it is, and on it a marble", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 225\\nobelisk has been erected. Do not basely\\nrelinquish what the Fathers with difficulty\\nattained is its Latin inscription, and in\\nT/ie Oldest House.\\nHebrew: Jehovah is my lot and mine\\nheritage.\\nBurial Hill, though low, is steep, and domi-\\nnates the country in every direction. It was\\nthe natural place for the fort that defended\\nPlymouth, a fortress and church combined,\\n15", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "2 26 The Pilgrim Shore.\\nfor in it the Forefathers met to worship God,\\nand on its roof they mounted six cannon.\\nThe site of the fort is marked, as well as the\\ncorners of the watch tower which was after-\\nwards put up on nearly the same place.\\nOn the Hill it is beheved that the Pilgrims\\nburied their dead from the earliest time, ex-\\ncepting those who died during the first\\nwinter. But the gloom of a graveyard does\\nnot hang over it, for its situation is so pleasant\\nand so accessible that it is used as a park,\\nand in fact few pleasanter resting-places can\\nbe found anywhere. The view it commands\\nof the harbor and the town itself is charm-\\ning, and a cheeriness is given to it by the\\nmany visitors. With a guide-book, it is easy\\nenough to find all the interesting things, and\\nthere are always guides who are ready to\\nhelp one for a small fee.\\nI have spoken of these, the well known\\nsights of Plymouth, because it is next to\\nimpossible not to but if the visitor confines\\nhimself to them he will miss much that is\\ninteresting. A walk through the older parts", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": ".#sr^\\nC\\nA Paradise to Etchers.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 229\\nof the town is quite worth while, for al-\\nthough Plymouth is not so extraordinarily\\nbuilt as is Marblehead, and holds not so\\nmany fine old houses as does Salem, still it\\nhas a picturesqueness and charm far from\\ncommonplace, and is in its unexpectedness\\nquite fresh and original.\\nIn the older parts of the town the ancient\\nhouses are set on the very edge of the sidewalk,\\njust as they are in the Old World. Doubtless\\nthis custom was brought from England by\\nour ancestors. A few of these old houses\\nare parallel to the streets, either lengthwise\\nor endwise, but the most of them have no\\nregard for street lines, even if they are not\\nset quite eater-cornered. Each one seems to\\nhave been placed according to the particular\\nneeds of the house and the lot, and were\\nadapted, as were the streets themselves, to\\nthe lay of the land. Thus the town s ways\\ngo twisting in and out or up and down, as\\noccasion demands, along a serrated line of\\nbuildings.\\nAll the old houses, of which there are a", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "230\\nThe Pilgrim Shore.\\nnumber, have been much\\nahercd, and everywhere\\nan extraordinary accre-\\ntive style of building has\\nbeen developed. A par-\\nadise it is to etchers and\\nsketchers, for it abounds in\\nbits quaint and unusual.\\nThe picturesque old town it-\\nself is finely set, for down to its\\ndoors almost come the light\\nforests that spring from the thin\\nsoil. A country of little hills it\\nis, with a dry scant loam like\\nCape Cod woods of oak and\\nbirch and pine are interspersed\\nwith fields of moss, and scant\\ngrass, embossed here and there\\nby clumps of bayberry, sweet\\nfern, blueberry, and wild rose.\\nAnd everywhere gleam the shal-\\nlow Cape ponds, hundreds of\\nthem, like sapphires in emerald\\nsettings. Powdered are they with", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": ":x\\n/us/ as the Pilgrims found it.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "Plymouth. 233\\nwhite lilies, and hedged by broad bands of\\nbkie flags, green rushes, the purple pickerel\\nweed, and nodding pink sabbatia.\\nHere in early spring under the pines, the\\nMayflower blooms, just as the Pilgrims found\\nit so long ago, and gave it, so tis said, the\\nname of Mayflower, in loving remembrance\\nof the good ship which had brought them\\nsafe across the seas, and had been for so long\\na time their only home.\\nThrough these woods a few of the wild\\ndeer still roam and breed. Plenty there\\nwere in the old days, and a great help they\\nwere to the colonists. The wolves, against\\nwhich the early comers had to protect them-\\nselves, have long since been extinct.\\nProbably the country itself looks about as\\nit did at the time of its settlement, for the\\nCape was never heavily wooded like the\\nNorth Shore, and the annalists speak of much\\nopen and fine champaign country.\\nAnd if the landscape has changed but\\nlittle, is it not also true that the lofty spirit\\nof the Pilcfrim Fathers still lives unchanged", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "2U\\nThe Pila:rim Shore.\\nin their descendants all over our broad land?\\nFor has He not multiplied their seed as the\\nstars of the heaven and as sand which is\\non the seashore Surely. So from every\\npart of this great nation their children come\\nto do homage to the memory of those illus-\\ntrious men who, self-exiled for conscience\\nsake, crossed the wild seas to an unknown\\nwilderness, and founded a nation on the sure\\nfoundations of Justice, Charity, Liberty, and\\nCharacter.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "In uniform style exquisitely illustrated\\nTHREE HEROINES of NEW\\nENGLAND ROMANCE\\nI. PRISCILLA, by Harriet Prescott Spofford\\n11. AGNES SURRIAQE, by Alice Brown\\nIII. MARTHA HILTON, by Louise Imogen Guiney\\nWith notes on the towns in which they lived, and eighty-\\nseven illustrations, including numerous full-page pictures\\nBy EDMUND H. GARRETT.\\n12mo, Cloth, gilt top, $2.00\\nFull morocco, gilt edges, $4.50\\nA charming volume, dealing witri the courtship and marriage\\nof three famous beauties of old colonial times.\\nMr. Garrett s notes describe and illustrate the famous old\\ntowns of Plymouth, Marblehead, and Portsmouth.\\nThe old stories are told again with renewed sweetness by the\\npens of three New England women of to-dav. Ne-xv England\\nMagazine.\\nGracefully written and felicitously illustrated. Tlie Literary\\nWorld.\\nOne of the most dainty and altogether pleasing examples of\\nsymmetrical and iiarmonious book-making we ha\\\\ e seen.\\nl^he Independent.\\nThe romantic stories of these three beautiful women are placed\\nin a book bound in artistic manner in delicate gray, pale\\nblue, or white with gold a volume uiiich would have been\\na wonder to plainly nurtured Priscilla, whose sole books were\\ndoubtless her leatlier-bound Bible and her ill-printed, parch-\\nment-covered psalm-book. Even the luxurv-loving Lady\\n\\\\\\\\^entworth knew naught of such daintiness. Alice Morse\\nEarle, in the Book Buyer.", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n014 076 653 7", "height": "2620", "width": "1747", "jp2-path": "pilgrimshore00garre_0246.jp2"}}