{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3211", "width": "2504", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3024", "width": "2348", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3035", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3097", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "AN OLD-TIME NEW ENG-LAND GAR-DEN.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "A\\nHistory of New England\\nIN WORDS OF ONE SYLLABLE,\\nIN-DIAN CA-NOE.\\nBy MRS. H. N. CADY.\\nPROFUSEL Y ILL USTRA TED.\\nChicago, New York, San Francisco\\nBELFORD, CLARKE CO.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "Fi-\\nCOPYRir.HT BY\\nBELFORD, CLARKE CO,\\nDoNOHUE Henneberry, Piinters and Binders, Chicago.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\nBefore writing this history of New England,\\nthe hmitations of a book in monosyllabic words\\nwere so seriously felt, that from the outset it was\\nthought best not to use words of that class exclu-\\nsively. For the most part only such have been\\nemployed longer ones, when introduced, have been\\ncarefullv divided into syllables, rendering their pro-\\nnunciation easy. In such cases the examples of\\nthe best primary educators have been followed,\\nby continuing the use of a word when it has once\\nbeen mt reduced, until perfectly familiar to the\\nreader. It is sincerely hoped that all young people\\ninterested m New England, and especially in her\\ncolonization, will gain from these pages a love for\\nthe subject which will lead them to pursue it in\\nworks where it is given a more exhaustive and\\nelaborate treatment. a. c. c.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.\\nAn Old-time New England Gar-den,\\nFron-lis-pi\\nCap-tain John Smith s Map of New Eng-\\nland, A.L). 1614,\\nOld Stone Mill at New-port,\\nRock near Mount Hope,\\nDigh-ton Rock,\\nSkel-e-ton in Ar-mor.\\nCo-lum-bus s Ship,\\nSir Fran-cis Drake s Chair. Made from\\nRe-mains of the Gold-en Hind,\\nVer-raz-za-no s Ship,\\nIn-dian En-camp-ment,\\nIn-dian Pipes,\\nIn-dian Can-oe,\\nIn-dian Snow-shoe,\\nMay-flow-er,\\nSign-ing the A-gree-ment in the Cab-in\\nof the May-flovv-er,\\nFirst Wash Day of Pil-grim Moth-ers\\nFore-fath-er s Rock,\\nPil-grims,\\nGov-er-nor Car-ver s Chair,\\nFive Grains of Corn,\\nThe Chil-dren soon Learned to Love\\nSquan-to,\\nSpin-ning,\\nPd-grims Go-ing to Church,\\nEl-der Brews-ter s Chair,\\nMass-a-so-it Tells Wins-low,\\nAu-to-graph of Myles Stan-dis\\nTri-mount,\\nPine-tree Shil-ling,\\nA Witch,\\nThe Tith-ing Man,\\nLake Win-ni-pi-seo-gee,\\nGo-ing to Call on a Friend,\\nPe-quods,\\nPu-ri-tan Girl, a.d. 1644,\\nDrum Rock,\\nMount Hope,\\nPhil-ipat Mount Hope,\\nPhil-ip s Mon-u-ment,\\nPu-ri-tan Youth, a.d. 1644,\\nChurch and An-na-won,\\nWeav-ing Cloth,\\nA Marm s School,\\nPage from an old School Book\\nSick Child,\\nAn old Fire-place,\\nh,\\n10\\n1 1\\n13\\n14\\n15\\n17\\n18\\n20\\n24\\n26\\n27\\n28\\n33\\n34\\n36\\n38\\n39\\n42\\n43\\n45\\n47\\n48\\n51\\n52\\n54\\n56\\n58\\n59\\n63\\n67\\n69\\n73\\nn\\n81\\n83\\n88\\n91\\n96\\n99\\n100\\n102\\n103\\n104\\nA Bus-tie in the Kit-chen,\\nA Cun-ning Lit-tle Ta-ble all to Them-\\nselves,\\nMass-a-chu-s^tts Coast,\\nChar-ter Oak\\nWood-en Plough,\\nA New Eng-land Jump-er,\\nNew Eng-land Ba-by of a.d. 1700,\\nRoom in a Bos-ton House, a.d. 1700,\\nI Don t Care to Sell them. Sir,\\nSite of the old Bea-con,\\nBurn-ing of the Gas-pee,\\nRare Chi-na,\\nCo-lo-ni-al Fam-i-ly at Break-fast, a.d\\n1770,\\nA Min-ute Man,\\nGen-er-al Put-nam at Home,\\nW^el-come Home,\\nHark I hear Guns,\\nDriv -ing Home the Cows,\\nAn Old Mill,\\nYoung Man of Bos-ton in 181 2.\\nFirst Meet-ing House in Con-nec-ti-cut,\\nHouse of Em-er-son, Con-cord, Mass-a-\\nchu-setts,\\nRalph Wal-do Em-er-son,\\nHen-ry W. Long-fel-low, and his Home\\nin Port-land,\\nJohn G. Whit-ti-er\\nWhit-ti-er s Birth-place, near Hav-er-\\nhill, Mass-a-chu-setts,\\nSport in Maine,\\nHouse where Hor-ace Gree-ley Went to\\nSchool,\\nDan-iel Web-ster,\\nMiss Lou-is-a May Al-cott,\\nThe Or-chard House, Con-cord, Mass-a\\nchu-setts. Home of the Al-cotts,\\nMrs. A. D. T. Whit-ney s Home, Mil\\nton, Mass-a-chu-setts,\\nThom-as Bai-ley Al-drich,\\nT. B. Al-drich s Stud-y,\\nJ. T. Trow-bridge,\\nHome of J. T. Trow-brid\\nSeal of New Hamp-shire,\\nHome of T. B. Al-drich,\\nI ve Come to See Pa-pa Milk\\nGov-er-nor Buck-ing-ham,\\nSeal of Mass-a-chu-setts,\\n105\\n?e.\\n205\\n206", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS.\\nChapter I. The First White Men,\\n11. From Leif to the Pilgrims,\\nIII. The Red Men,\\nIV. The Pilgrims,\\nV. The Men at Plymouth,\\nVI. How the Pilgrims Lived,\\nVII. The White Men at Weymouth,\\nVIII. More Men Come to these Shores,\\nIX. First White Men in Maine,\\nX. First White Men in New Hampshire\\nXI. First White Men in Connecticut,\\nXII. First White Men in Rhode Island,\\nXIII. King Philip s War,\\nXIV. King Philip s Death,\\nXV. Church Takes Annawon,\\nXVI. Home Life,\\nXVII. The First Thanksgiving Day,\\nXVIII. Sad Times with the Charters,\\nXIX. State of Things in the Colonies in i/CO,\\nXX. P rench and Indian Wars,\\nXXI. Things which Led to the Revolution,\\nXXII. Boston Massacre,\\nXXIII. The Great Tea-pot,\\nXXIV. Paul Revere s Ride,\\nXXV. Bunker Hill,\\nXXVI. Washington Takes Charge ot the Army,\\nXXVII. Free at Last,\\nXXVIII. The War still Goes on,\\nXXIX. Battle of New London,\\nXXX. Vermont,\\nXXXI. When the War was Done,\\nXXXII. Bright New England Men,\\nXXXIII. War of 1812,\\nXXXIV. Nantucket,\\nXXXV. A Time of Rest and Peace,\\nXXXVI. Dorr War,\\nXXXVII. Those in New England who Write for th\\nXXXVIII. Things which Led to the Civil War,\\nXXXIX. The Civil War\\nGirl\\ns and Boy", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF NEW ENGLAND.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nTHE FIRST WHITE MEN.\\nTo all who were born in this place, or whose pa-\\nrents once lived here, the name of New Eng-land\\nhas a dear, sweet sound. We love its rocks and\\nstone walls, great hills and green dales, and the pure\\nwhite sand on its shores. The tales of the In-dians\\nwho first lived here are dear to the hearts of us all,\\nand have quite as great a charm for the young as the\\nFai-ry folk lore they love to read.\\nIt is of these In-dians who lived here when no\\nwhite man had trod our shores we must first speak,\\nif we would have this his-to-ry a true one. While\\nthe land was theirs, the great woods, filled with fine\\nold trees, came down to the shore of the sea and the.\\nAvhole place would have looked strange and wild to\\nus if we could have seen it then. If you will look on\\nthe next page you will see a strange old map made\\nby Cap-tain John Smith, a man who first came to\\nsome oth-er part of A-mer-i-ca, and sailed up its\\nshores in 1614. His map is not right in all parts, as", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "lO\\nHistory of Nciv England.\\n^oiilliHampton\\nJD T/ /lo Wifely 1\\nhe could not take the time to know the land well\\nbut some of the names he gave to the capes and\\ntowns are the same to-day that they were then. As\\nyou read on, you will find a map made in our own\\ntimes, which shows these shores as they are. He it\\nwas who gave the\\nname of New Enof-\\nland to the whole.\\nWhen men sail\\nto new lands, they\\nlike to name them\\nfor some place they\\nhave known and\\nloved and so it\\nis that the word\\nNew is found in\\nthe names of the\\nNew World,\\nas A-mer-i-ca was\\ncalled by those who\\nfirst came here. We\\nhave New York,\\nNew Jer-sey, etc.;\\n7^,\\ng^r Chmles _\\nCAPT. JOHN smith s MAP OF NEW ENG-LAND, A. D. 1614. 1 K f -f U fU\\nNews, that spot in the north-west of our land\\nwhich Smith called New EnQ--land. That stranee\\ncoast line of Cap-tain Smith s old map tells us where", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "OLD STONE MILL, AT NEW-PORT.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "12 History of Nciu England.\\nthe trees leave off and the sea comes in. On its\\nedge the In-dians had their homes, where they could\\ncatch fish and dig clams on the beach. They also\\nate corn and killed the game which they found in the\\nwoods near at hand; but they used clams and fish for\\na large part of their food. The small huts which to\\nthem meant home, were grouped near some spring of\\npure sw^eet wa-ter and some of these are still known\\nby the same names that the In-dians gave them so\\nlong ago.\\nIt is thought by men who know a great deal, that\\nsome white men came to this spot way back in looo,\\nthat is some nine hun-dred years ago, and sailed down\\nthe coast. These, some think, built the Old Stone\\nMill at New-port, and cut rude marks on the rocks\\nwhich, if we could read them, would tell us much we\\nwould like to know. But the wise men say that the\\nold mill is not as old as the time of these first white\\nmen.\\nThey came from the north of Eu-rope, a-cross the\\nsea to Green-land, and sailed down the coast for a\\nlong way. They told when they went back, of a fair\\nland they found when they had sailed up a long in-\\nlet; and the bay they spoke of, which charmed them\\nso much that they spent a whole win-ter there, is\\nthought to be the Nar-ra-gan-sett. At Mount Hope,\\na fair, high hill, whose sides reach down to the clear", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "The First White Mi\\nen.\\nwa-ters of the bay, they made their home and they\\ncalled the place Vm-laitd, or Wine-land, from the\\ngrape-vines and rich wild grapes they found there.\\nThese peo-ple were known as Norse-men, and their\\nchief was called Leif. The first time they came to\\nVin-land they filled their boats with the grapes and\\nsailed to their friends in Green-land but they were\\nROCK, NEAR MT. HOPE..\\nSO much pleased with the place that they came back\\nthe next year, and brought their wives and kine with\\nthem.\\nThey made their home where a riv-er winds\\ndown through the low land and then through a bay\\nout in-to the sea. Grapes and wild wheat grew on\\nthe sides of the hill, and there were fish in the bay,\\nand wild beasts in the woods. The In-dians, whom", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "4\\nHistory of Neiv England.\\nthey tell us were black, with great dark eyes, and\\nstraiofht hair, used to come in the sum-mer in strange\\nboats, made of skms, to trade with them. The place\\nthey called Hop, which means a place far in from\\nthe sea.\\nDIGH-TON ROCK.\\nA few years a-go a rock was found on the shore of\\nthe bay, just north of Mount Hope, up-on which\\nstrange marks were cut and the wise men said,\\nwhen they had seen it, that the lines and boat must\\nhave been made by Leif and his men nine hun-dred", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "The First White Men.\\n15\\nyears a-go. The rock is not in view when the tide\\nis in, and that is why the marks have not been seen\\ntill now.\\nUp the stream and on the east side of the bank,\\nsome ten miles or more from Mount Hope, is a rock\\nwhich has long been known to the wise men it, too,\\nis on the edge of the stream, and at high tide can-not\\nbe seen. More marks are to be found on its face, and\\nthe wise men are still try-ing\\nto find out what they mean.\\nAs it is found at a place\\ncalled Digh-ton, it is known\\nas Digh-ton Rock.\\nIn Fall Riv-er, a place\\nhalf-way from Mount Hope\\nto Dio*h-ton, a strano^e thine\\nwas found some fif-ty years\\na-go, which leads us to feel\\nsure that white men were\\nhere at some far date. This skel-e-ton in ar-mor.\\nwas a skel-e-ton in ar-mor. Some men while at work\\non the side of a hill, saw the earth cave in, and a\\ngreat box or roll of bark was laid bare. When they\\nhad torn this bark a-way they found the bones of a\\nman on the chest was a breast-plate of brass, and\\nround his waist a belt of brass tubes, to ward off the\\ndarts of his foes. There the poor man had sat for all", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "1 6 History of New England.\\nthese years, just to tell us, it would seem, that white\\nmen had lived here ere the land had a name which\\nwould last.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFROM LEIF TO THE PILGRIMS.\\nIn 1492, Co-lum-bus was sent by the king and\\nqueen of Spain, to find a short way to the East In-\\ndies. He thought that if he sailed west from Spain,\\nhe would, in due time, come to this rich land. At\\nfirst he could find no men who would go on such a\\nwild quest but three small ships, two of which had\\nno decks, were made fit at last and when he sailed\\non the third of Au-gust, 1492, one hun-dred and\\ntwen-ty men went with him.\\nOne night the cry of Land was heard from\\nsome of the crew and when the sun rose a-bove the\\nsea, Co-lum-bus saw a strange, new shore be-fore his\\neyes. This land was a small is-land which he named\\nSan Sal-va-dor and the black men he found here he\\ncalled In-dians, for he thought he had reached In-dia.\\nIn-dia is not here at all, you know; but a-cross the\\nPa-cif-ic o-cean, in A-sia. He did not set foot on the\\nmain land of A-mer-i-ca at this time, but when he", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "a!\\nij", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "1 8 History of New England.\\nhad seen a few of the is-lands near by, he sailed back\\nto Spain. He had been here just three months.\\nWhen the news of this voy-age reached Eng-land,\\nHen-ry VII.,\\nwho was king at\\nthe time, sent\\nJohn Ca-bot a-\\ncross the sea to\\nthe west to\\nclaim all the\\nland he could\\nfind for Eng-\\nland. In those\\ndays, when a\\nship came to\\nsome place\\nwhich was not\\nknown of by the\\npeo-ple of Eu-\\nrope, the man\\nSIR FRAN-CIS DRAKE S CHAIR. MADE FROM RE-MAINS OF WllO liaCl Cliarge\\nTHE GOLDEN HIND. T i. L U\\noi the ship\\nwould land, and with much pomp, claim the whole\\nplace for his king.\\nCa-bot sailed west as Hen-ry VII. wished, and\\nin time came to Nov-a Sco-tia. This was in the year\\n1497, so he was, in truth, the first to reach the main", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "From Leif to the Pilgrims. 19\\nland of A-mer-i-ca. In 1579 Sir Fran-cis Drake, an\\nEng-lish-man, sailed in a ship called the Gold-en\\nHmd for the new world. He came to steal from\\nc-ie Span-iards the gold and spoils they, in their turn,\\niiad ta-ken from the na-tives but he saw much of\\nthe new land on his way up the coast of the Pa-cif-ic.\\nBut Ver-raz-za-no, an I-tal-ian by birth, who sailed\\nin a ship of the king of France, was the first white\\nman, after Leif, to come to New Eng-land. In 1524,\\nhe sailed up the coast and saw both New-port and\\nCape Cod, which he spoke of to the king in terms\\nof praise. At first he was looked up to and liked by\\nthe na-tives, for he was the first white man they had\\nev-er seen, and they tried to make friends with him,\\nand did all they could to please hmi. Once, when a\\nyoung man from his ship was a-bout to drown, they\\nsaved his life. But the French, it seems sad to say,\\nwere not good to the poor In-dians, and paid for this\\nkind act by a bad one. They stole a small In-dian\\n;irl and took her on board the ship. They tried to\\ntake a big one at the same time, but she made so\\nmuch noise, they were forced to let her go.\\nSo the na-tives soon learned that they could not\\ntrust Ver-raz-za-no and his men and the bad name\\nhe won from them went be-fore him, so that by the\\ntime his ship reached the coast north of Cape Cod,\\nthe In-dians would not let him land, but forced both", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "20\\nHistory of New England.\\nhim and his crew to stay in their boats. When they\\nhad things to trade with the French, they would put\\nthem on the end of a long pole, tie them well, and\\nthen pass them down to the boat. It seems sad that\\nVER-KAZ-ZA-NO S SHIP.\\nthe In-dian, who was like a grown up child, should,\\nfrom the first, find out that he could not trust the\\nwhite man.\\nHow wild and lone the whole New Eno^-land", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "From Lcif to the Pilgrims. 2T\\ncoast must have seemed to Ver-raz-za-no and his men,\\nwho were used to the moun-tains of France and\\nI-ta-ly! and what a strange sight his ship, with its\\nwhite sails spieid to the breeze, must have seemed\\nto the poor In-dians, hid by the trees, as they watched\\nit ghde down their clear, still wa-ters They thought\\nat first it came from heav-en and that the white\\nmen, with their clear, bright skins, were gods. But\\nthey must have learned the truth when their dear\\nba-by girl was snatched from their midst.\\nWhen Ver-raz-za-no had gone back, New Eng-\\nland was not seen by white men of whom word has\\ncome to us, for a long term of years, the space of a\\nman s life time. Then, in 1602, Bar-thol-o-mew\\nGos-nold sailed from Eng-land, straight to the west,\\nand reached Cape Ann in a cruise of sev-en weeks\\nwhich was then thought to be quite a short time in\\nwhich to cross the seas to the New World.\\nHe sailed down by Cape Cod, to which he first\\ngave that name, and stopped on one of the E-liz-a-beth\\nIs-lands, in Buz-zard s Bay. This is-land still bears\\nits old In-dian name of Cut-ty-hunk.\\nHere he built a house, the cel-lar of which may\\nstill be seen. There were deer on the isle, but no\\nRed men there were sas-sa-fras trees all about, the\\nroots of which were dug up by Gos-nold and his men,", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "2 2 History of New England.\\nand stored in their ship for the bark was then thought\\nmuch of xw Eno^-land as a drugr.\\nThe same year, he sailed back to Eng-land with\\nhis twen-ty-eight men, and his load of sas-sa-fras, and\\ndid not come back but the name of E-liz-a-beth Is-\\nlands, giv-en by him, lasts yet and so does that oi\\nCape Cod, though Cap-tain Smith changed it to\\nCape James, for a few years.\\nNext year came Mar-tin Pring for more sas-sa-\\nfras but he did not get on well with the Red men,\\nand soon went back.\\nNext, when e-lev-en years more had passed, came\\nCap-tain A-dri-an Block, from Hol-land. In 1614,\\nhe sailed up the East Riv-er, and built a log fort\\non the spot where New York Cit-y now is. The whole\\nis-land he called New Am-ster-dam a name which\\nit kept for fif-ty years. Then he sailed through Long\\nIs-land Sound, and close to the coast of Con-nec-ti-cut.\\nHe went for a short way up both the Hou-sa-ton-ic\\nand the Con-nec-ti-cut riv-ers. He then passed the\\nend of Long Is-land, and came to a bit of white sand\\nand green grass, which he called by his own name.\\nBlock Is-land. He it was, who gave the name ot\\nRoode to what is now Rhode Is-land. That same\\nyear Cap-tain Smith sailed up the coast and made his\\nmap of New Eng-land.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "The Red III en. 23\\nCHAPTER III.\\nTHE RED MEN.\\nWhile the white men came and went, and all\\nEu-rope looked up-on this land as new, the Red men\\nor In-dians, who had known no oth-er world, thought\\nit as old as time. They lived their wild life on these\\nlone shores, and did not dream that some day the\\nplace might not be theirs. The men fished and went\\nfar back in the woods to hunt for game, while the\\nwo-men cooked, and tilled the soil. They had no\\ni-ron tools, so went to work in what we should call an\\nodd way, to clear their fields. First they would burn\\ndown the trees on the spot where they wished their\\ncorn field to be, then they dug the ground with sticks\\nof wood, or stone hoes, which they made of hard stone\\nor flint, from which they broke off bits till the right\\nshape was reached. Then they would hunt in the\\nwoods for a small straight tree it must be young and\\nin a place where it would grow well. They cut\\nthrough the trunk of this by means of a sharp piece\\nof flint, and placed the. stone axe or hoe in the slit,\\nwhich they tied up with bark twine. If the tree did\\nnot die, in time the trunk would close round the stone\\nand orrow so ti^ht that it could not be moved. Then", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "^1 -^i:.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "The Red Men. 25\\nthe tree was burned down, and the axe-head with its\\nhelve left for use. These were thought much of by\\nthe In-dians and this was not strange, as it took\\nsome years to make them, and they were left by fa-\\nther for son through a-ges. They had hoes made of\\nwood, of the bones of the deer, and of tur-tle shells\\ntied to sticks and with these the girls scratched up\\nthe soil. Then they made the holes three or four feet\\na-part, and placed in each four or five grains of corn.\\nAs the corn grew it looked much as you see it to-day.\\nBeans, which formed part of the na-tives food, grew\\nwith the corn, and pump-kin vines ran wild through\\nthe fields.\\nIn the fall the wo-men and girls, who did much\\nof the hard work, cut the stalks, husked the corn, and\\nstored it for their win-ter s food. Then the men would\\njoin them in a wild dance, and all would have a good\\ntime. These were the first New Eng-land husk-mg\\nbees, iDut no white man had been to one then they\\nhad not seen the In-dian corn at that time. You all\\nhave seen pop-corn most of you have popped it but\\nyou did not know that these same In-dians first\\ntaught us how to pop corn. They called it the corn\\nthat blos-somed, which was a ver-y sweet name for it.\\nThey made sue co-tash from the corn and beans\\nwhich grew in their fields, and baked hoe-cake on a flat\\nstone or on the bot-tom of their pot, just as our grand-", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "26\\nHistory of N cw England.\\nmoth-ers used to make them on a flat board set up in\\nfront of the lire.\\nThey ground their meal be-\\ntween flat stones, and mixed it\\nwith wa-ter for their cakes. When\\nthey were to go on a long tramp,\\nthey took a sack of this which\\nthe wo-men had parched, and\\nused it for food on the way.\\nThey mixed it with wa-ter from\\na sprmg, or m win-ter with the\\nsnow by the path, and ate it so.\\nNew Eng-land dough-nuts\\nare well known to us all; but did\\nyou know that the In-dians made\\ndough-nuts long be-fore the white\\nmen came They dropped small\\nballs of meal in-to hot ma-ple sap,\\nand thouo^ht them TOod. I think\\nmost girls and boys of to-day\\nwould think so too. From the\\nhusks of the corn, they made\\nmats, and balls with which the\\nyoung played for the In-dian\\nboys and girls were fond of\\nsports, and loved their games of\\ntag or ball quite as well as you do yours.\\nIN-DIAN PIPES.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "The Red Men.\\n27\\nThev all Ined in huts, called wio:-\\\\vams, made of\\nbark, or the skins of wild beasts, and stretched ov-er\\na frame of tree branch-es and they dressed in the\\nsame kind of skn^s. The men were fond of bright\\ntints, and each would paint his face and dress with\\nthe briofht clay found near his wior-wam. Thev made\\nCD J ZJ J\\npipes of a kind of stone, and used them when they\\nmet to talk of the great things the tribe must do.\\nIN-DIAN CA-NOE.\\nThese wig-wams were hot in sum-mer and cold\\nin win-ter. They had no chairs a heap of dry leaves\\nand twigs and the fur or skin of a bear formed their\\nbed, while a great pot made of clay was used to cook\\ntheir food in and to eat it from. You may be sure\\nthey did not stay in the house much of their time\\nand the free life in the clear, crisp air made them a", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "28\\nHistory of iXeiu England.\\nlaree, strone race. The In-dians (3f New Enor-land\\nwere tall, fine men. Their skin was a dull red, and\\nthey had large dark eyes and long coarse black han\\nThey were brave and had no fear of pani, but were\\nas cru-el as could be to those who were in their\\npow-er.\\nThey loved their young- and the sons were taught\\nwith much care all thev thouoht an In-dian ouo^ht to\\nknow. They were made to fight, run, and swim,\\nIN-DIAX SNOW-SHOE.\\ncatch game and fish, and kill and scalp their foes. In\\nthe warm months, they pad-died on the bays in small\\nlight boats, made of bark or skins, and called by them\\nca-noes. From these they fished for the food so\\nmuch used by all the tribes. They were fond of\\nclams, and the great banks of shells found on the\\nsites of their homes show us that these formed a laro-e\\npart of their food. They made the first clam-bake,\\nlong be-fore Rhode Is-land had a name, and from", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "The Red Men. 29\\nthem the white men first learned how to cook these\\nshell-fish by means of hot stones and sea-weed.\\nIn the cold months they found it hard to catch\\ngame, and some-tmies whole tribes suf-fered for want\\nof food. The snow was deep and the win-ters were\\ncold, in those far-off days, w^hen the white men were\\nnot seen on these shores and the poor In-dian would\\nhave found it hard to get his food or go from place to\\nplace, if it had not been for the snow-shoes he made\\nand wore on the smooth soft crust.\\nHis life seems hard and bare to us who now live\\nin the place he once knew as home, and we feel sad\\nas we think we shall know him no more but if he\\nwere here to-day I fear we should not love him, and\\nwe might not treat him as well as our fath-ers did\\nwhen they first came here to dwell. We shall learn\\nmore of him and his ways as w^e read on in this\\nhis-tor-y of that small part of A-mer-i-ca known as\\nNew Eng-land.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "30 History of Nczv England.\\nCHAPTER IV.\\nTHE PILGRIMS.\\nIn 1608 the Pil-grims, as they have since been\\ncalled, left Eng-land, the land in which they were\\nborn, and went to Hol-land. They did this that they\\nmight wor-ship God in a way they thought right.\\nThe KintT made all who lived in his realm o-q to the\\nChurch of Eng-land, so they went to live in Hol-land.\\nBut the boys and girls who were born in their\\nnew home, with those who were quite young when\\nthey first came, spoke much in Dutch, which they\\nheard most of the time. This made the Pil-grims\\nsad for they feared their own sons would soon not\\nknow how to speak their own tongue. This, and\\nsome oth-er things, caused them to make up their\\nminds to come to A-mer-i-ca.\\nTwo ships were to bring them, and ma-ny of the\\nstrong young men and wo-men of the place went on\\nboard and set sail for Eng-land in Ju-ly, 1620. In\\nSep-tem-ber they left for the New World. The\\nSpeed-well, one of the ships, went but a short way\\nand then turned back but the May-flow-er kept on,\\nand a slow, hard time she had. The small ship\\nleaked, and the wind blew hard the whole time, so", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "MAV-FLOWEK AT SEA.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "2,2 History of New England.\\nthat it was No-vem-ber when they saw the land of\\nNew Eng-land not far off. Their hearts were full of\\njoy, as they looked up-on the New World for the first\\ntime.\\nThe Pil-gnms did not mean to come to Mass-a-\\nchu-setts, but were on their way to the Hud-son\\nriv-er, where, they had been told, was a nice place\\nfor their home. But the cap-tain of the May-flow-er\\nfound his ship leaked so much that he did not dare\\nto sail through the rough wa-ter just south of the cape,\\nso he was forced to turn to the first land he saw and\\nthat land was Cape Cod.\\nWhat a lone, drear place it must have seemed to\\nthem, with the cold gray sea at their backs, and no\\nhouse or friend to greet them on the shore. Trees\\nand sand, with here and there a low shrub, were all\\nthey could see. It was cold, and no leaves were on\\nthe trees. They had thought to get here the month\\nbe-fore, while it was yet warm, and were to found\\ntheir home near men who were at New Am-ster-dam\\nbut now they knew they were near no col-o-ny, no\\nfriends while the near-est white men were two hun-\\ndred miles off.\\nTo be sure they still had a ship but the cap-tain\\nwarned them day by day that they must be quick to\\nfind a place for their home. His food would not last\\nlong, and he must keep some for his crew to eat on", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "The Pilo riius.\\n33\\ntheir voy-age back. The crew were tired, and wished\\nto sail home so at last some of them said that if the\\nPil-grims did not choose a spot for the new col-o-ny\\nsoon, they would turn them and their goods on shore\\nand leave them.\\nIt was not an ea-sy task to find such a place, for\\nthe sail-boat must first be fixed, and this would take\\nSIGN-ING THE A-GREE-MENT IN THE CAB-IN OF THE MAY-FI.OW-ER.\\nsome days. They went to work with a will and in\\nthe mean-time they wrote a page of rules in which\\nthey said they would help each oth-er, make laws as\\nthey should need them, and do the best they could\\nto make their home a good one. Then for-ty-one of\\nthe men siorned their names to it.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "34 History of N eiu England.\\nNow some of them went on shore to look at the\\nplace but they feared to go far from the ship. They\\nwere not gone long, and brought back with them\\nsome strange wood, which they said smelled sweet,\\nfor the fire. But they saw no house or man. The\\nFlKSr WASH T)AV OF PIL-ORIM MOTH-ERS.\\nnext M on-day, the Pil-grim moth-ers went on shore\\nto wash their clothes and the twen-ty-eight small\\nfolks begged so hard to go with them that we may\\nbe sure they went too. The men paced the shore\\nwith their guns in their hands, on watch for an", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "The Piloriins. ^c\\nen-e-my, should he come that way while their wives\\nwashed and rinsed their clothes in the salt sea. They\\nwere glad to be on land once more.\\nIn a few days, Cap-tain Miles Stan-dish and six-\\nteen men went up the cape to look at the place.\\nThey saw no In-dians, but came to some of their\\nhomes and graves. In one place they found a bas-\\nket of corn, which they took back to the ship. They\\nmeant to pay for it if they found the own-er, and so\\nthey did.\\nTwo or three times they mad^ trips up from the\\nshore, and at last, eigh-teen went in the sail-boat to\\nfind the site for their home. They chose the spot\\nwhere Plym-outh now stands, and then went back to\\nthe May-flow-er. In five days she sailed up the bay\\nwith all on board. Here one hun-dred and one Pil-\\ngrims came to live and a hard time they had the first\\nwin-ter.\\nIt is said that the foot of a vounof orirl Ma-ry\\nLhil-ton by name, was the first to press Fore-fath-\\ners Rock, as the stone up-on which they stepped\\nIrom their boat was named. If you should go to\\nPlym-outh, \\\\ov\\\\ would be shown this same rock, which\\nhas been kept with care all these years.\\nIn the ship was John Car-ver, their first go\\\\^-er-\\nnor, El-der Brew-ster, their pas-tor for the time, Cap-\\ntain Miles Stan-dish, Wil-liam Brad-ford, and Ed-", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "FORE-FATII-ERS KOCK.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "The Pilgrims. 2 7\\nward Wins-low. One dear ba-by boy was born on\\nthe ship while they were on their way. He was the\\nson of Wil-liam White, and was named Per-e-grine.\\nGov-er-nor Car-ver and his wife and child died ni\\nthe first few weeks and by spring, on-ly for-ty-six of\\nthose who came in the May-flow-er still lived.\\nThey were kind to the red men, and in turn were\\nhelped by them. A-mong the first they saw was one\\nwho came from what is now Maine. His name was\\nSam-o-set, and he had learned to speak some Eng-lish\\nfrom the crew of a ship that had come there for fish.\\nWhen he saw the Pil-grims, he called out, Wel-come\\nEne-lish Then he told them that the o^reat chief\\nof the land was on his way to see them. This was\\nMass-a-so-it, the chief of the Wam-pa-no-ags.\\nWil-liam Brad-ford, who was then gov-er-nor, kept\\nSam-o-set to tell him what Mass-a-so-it said for the\\nIn-dians could not speak Eng-lish, you know. When\\nthe great chief came. Gov. Brad-ford gave him a few\\ngifts, and thus won his heart, so that a trea-ty was\\nmade which was kept fif-ty years. Nine-ty chiefs,\\nnot as strong as Mass-a-so-it, were made by hmi to\\nsign the trea-ty.\\nMass-a-so-it lived at So-wams, a small In-dian\\ntown on the left bank of a branch of the Nar-ra-ran-\\nsett bay close by his wig-wam was a fine spring of\\nclear cold wa-ter which ran down the slope and in-to", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "The Pi I ST WIS.\\nthe bay, while near at hand was the great wood where\\nhe hunt-ed his game. That spring still flows from its\\ndark fount un-der the stones and in time joins its\\nwa-ters as when the old chief lived by its side,\\nwith those of the bay near at hand. But the In-\\ndians have all gone from the spot. Since their day\\ngreat ships have sailed from\\nits side with their tanks filled\\nfrom the pure stream. Now\\nthe ships come no more, but\\nthe old spring still runs on.\\nOn hot days, boys and girls\\nin small boats row up to its\\nmouth, and quench their thirst\\nfrom its cool depths.\\nOn the far side of the bay\\nlived Ca-non-i-cus, the chief of\\nthe Nar-ra-gan-setts who was\\na foe to Mass-a-so-it, and so took part a-gainst\\nEng-lish. Soon af-ter the trea-ty that I have just told\\nyou of was signed, he sent to them a bunch of ar-rows\\ntied with the skin of a rat-tle-snake, to show that\\nhe would fio^ht them when he had the chance. But\\nwhen the Gov-er-nor knew what was meant by this\\ngift, he filled the skin full of pow-der and sent it back\\nto Ca-non-i-cus. This act made the tribe fear the\\nwhite men.\\nGOV. CAR-VER S CHAIR.\\nth.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "40 History of Nciu Efigland.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nTHE MEN AT PLYMOUTH.\\nAt the time Cap-tain John Smith sailed up the\\ncoast, all the land from Flor-i-da to the St. Law-rence\\nwas known as Vir-gin-ia and it was the north part\\nof this that he called New Eng-land. He named\\nthe spot which the In-dians called Pa-tux-et, Plym-\\nouth. This was in 1614, six years be-fore the Pil-\\ngrims came.\\nHe was pleased with the whole coast, and praised\\nit so much when he went back to Eng-land, that the\\nking gave it to some men known as the Plym-outh\\nCoun-cil. Both they and the king were in haste to\\nget rich from the New World, so they urged men to go\\nthere to live. But no one seemed to care to go so far\\nfrom home, and it was not till the Pil-grims came that\\nwhite men were to be found on the soil of that part\\nof the land known as Mass-a-chu-setts. They did not\\nmean to come here, as you know; but had made terms\\nwith the Lon-don Com-pa-ny to go to the part of Vir-\\ngin-ia which be-longed to them. When they found\\nthey were on the land of the Plym-outh Coun-cil they\\nsent a man to Eng-land to buy a right of them to stay\\nin the place. It was ten years when it was grant-ed.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "The Men at Plymouth. 41\\nThen it took the name of Plym-outh Col-o-ny,\\nwhich it kept sev-en-ty-two years it then joined the\\nMass-a-chu-setts Col-o-ny.\\nThey buik but sev-en log huts the first win-ter.\\nThe logs were laid in place, and the chinks filled with\\nmud mixed with straw, while the roofs were spread\\nwith flags cut from the swamps. The fire-place and\\nchim-ney were of stone. They built one large house\\nwhich was a kind of fort, which they called the ren-\\ndez-vous, and a shed for their stores. Soon they felt\\nthe need of a hos-pi-tal for their sick, and one was\\nbuilt. This was used more than the rest of the\\nhous-es that first year, for it is said that at one time\\nall but sev-en of the col-o-ny were sick.\\nAs time went on, the friends of the Pil-grims who\\nwere left in Hol-lancl and Enor-land came to the New\\nLand to join them, and thus the col-o-ny grew. They\\nhad much that was hard to bear, but they felt it was\\nin the cause of Right, so were brave and strong.\\nWhen the place at Plym-outh be-came too full,\\nbands led I^y a min-is-ter would start out through the\\nwoods in search of a spot for a new home. Most of\\nthe men, wo-men, and young ones walked and a hard\\ntime thev had on their way through the dense w^oods\\nand damp lone swamps. Wlien a place was found\\nwhich pleased them, they said God had led them to\\nit, and went to work to build their homes. They", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "42\\nHistoi y of N ciu Eugiaud.\\nmade a strong wall, or fort of large logs, a-round the\\nplace and on its top fixed one or two large guns\\nwhich they brought with them. Then the log hous-cc\\nwere built. In this way most of our old New Eng-\\nland towns were first formed.\\nAt some times the Pil-grims were m sad straits\\nand once food was so scarce that but five grains of\\ncorn were dealt out to each for a day. Think of liv-\\ning for a whole day on five\\nsmall grains of corn, and you\\nwill be-mn to know what a\\n^^)il^^^^ hard time they had. These\\nhard times did not last long,\\nfor when spring came they\\ncaught fish and game till the\\ncorn grew which they had\\nbought from the In-dians and\\nplant-ed.\\nA short tmie af-ter Sam-o-set came to see them,\\nSquan-to, an In-dian who had lived at Pa-tux-et, came\\nto his old home and wished to join them. He proved\\na good friend, and taught them much how to fish\\nand hunt as the In-dians did, and, with the rest, how\\nto plant the corn. They must wait, he said, till the\\noak-leaf was as bii^ as a mouse s ear, and then dio- the\\nholes in each they must drop one or two fish and\\nthree or four grains of corn. In this way they w^nild\\nFIVE GRAINS OF CORN.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE CHIL-DREN SOON LEARNED TO LOVE SQUAN-TO", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "44 History of N ezv England.\\nhave a good yield. They did as he bade them, and\\nin the fall had a large crop. The chil-dren soon\\nlearned to love Squan-to, and were fond of walks ni\\nhis arms.\\nThe wives spun and wove, and the men cut\\ndown the great trees, and made from them things\\nfor the house, such as stools and bench-es and in\\ntime built ships, so they could send to Eng-land the\\nfish and furs they did not need at home.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nHOW THE PIL-GRIMS LIVED.\\nWhen a man had built his house, he put in it\\nwhat few thmgs he had brought from his old home,\\nthen made what more w^as want-ed. Some of the\\nPil-o^nms were of the fine folk of Eni{-land, and thev\\nhad more and bet-ter things than the poor of the col-\\no-ny. A strong, large chair for the man, and at\\ntimes one for his wife too, were found in the log\\nhouse. Two or three chests of draw-ers were brought\\nfrom the Old Coun-try, and some sil-ver spoons.\\nThey slept in great high post-ed bed-steads, while the\\nboys and gn*ls were glad of the low truck-le-bed,\\nwhich was kept out of sight in the day-time. Low", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "How the Pilo^rims Lived.\\n45\\nstools made of logs were used for chairs and at one\\nside of the one room was a set of shelves where the\\npew-ter plates were kept. These were scoured each\\nSPIN-XIXG.\\nday with fine white sand and soft soap, and shone\\nhke sil-ver, as the light from the great fire-place played\\nup-on them.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "46 History of N^ciu Engiand.\\nThese fire-places were large, so that great logs\\ncould be burnt in them and the good wives cooked\\ntheir food in i-ron pots or on boards in front of the\\nblaze. The spin-ning-wheel and the loom each had\\na place in the room, and the great ta-ble of oak was\\nused to eat from. When night came on, the fire was\\nheaped with ash-es to keep it through the night. As\\nthey all went to bed at dark, no lamps were used.\\nBut they learned from the In-dians of the pine-knot\\ncan-die, and used it when some one was sick, or at\\ntimes w^ien a light was need-ed in the night.\\nA kind of bread, dark and coarse, was made of\\nrye, wheat, or bar-ley meal and formed the chief\\nfood of the col-o-ny. This was the Bos-ton Brown\\nBread so much liked by all New Eng-land folk.\\nYou must think when you next eat a piece, that the\\nPil-grims lived on just such bread for ma-ny years.\\nWhen the first crop of corn was ripe, the In-\\ndians showed the white men how to pound the grains\\nand sift the meal. The fine part the wives made into\\nbread, and the coarse, which the In-dians called\\nhom-i-ny, they made in-to mush, and ate it with\\nmilk, as we do now. Large fields of cran-ber-ries\\nwere found on Cape Cod, and the Pil-grims ate this\\nfruit with their meat. We do the same. They leaked\\nand l^oilecl the great cod which they caught off the", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "Hcnu the Pilo-riius Lived.\\n47\\ncoast, and all had a feast when some man had the\\nluck to kill a deer in the woods.\\nWhen the In-dians showed the white men they\\ncould not be trust-ed, Miles Stan-dish, the best sol-\\ndier in the col-o-ny, formed a com-pa-ny of which he\\nm\\nPIL-GRIMS GO-ING TO CHURCH.\\nwas cap-tain and these, well armed, were to guard\\nthe place.\\nOn the Sab-bath day all were made to go to\\nmeet-ing. At the hour of nine, a drum-mer went", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "48\\nHistory of Nezu England.\\nthrough the street and beat his drum. Then each\\ncame out of his house and walked to the ren-dez-\\nvous. Some of the men went first with their euns\\nm\\ntl\\nleu\\nhandi\\nthen the Gov-er-nor and El-der\\nBrews-ter came, and last the\\nrest of the men with their\\nwives, boys, and girls while\\ntheir serv-ants brought up the\\nrear. In church the men kept\\nthen* guns where they could\\nget them quick-ly, for they\\nfeared the In-dians more and\\nmore, as they learned to know\\nthem.\\n_ __ To-ward night, on the\\nEL-DER brews-ter s CHAIR. Sab bath day, a man went to\\neach house to find out if all had been to meet-ing.\\nIf a-ny had not been and could show no good cause\\nwhy, they were pun-ished.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "TJie White Alen at iVeyinoitth. 49\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nTHE WHITE MEN AT WEY-MOUTH.\\nIn the spring of 1621 the Pil-grims sent a few\\nmen through the woods to learn what they could of\\nthe land north of them, which Cap-tain Smith had\\npraised so much. Squan-to told them that the Mass-\\na-chu-setts In-dians were bad men, who had tried\\nthem be-fore now, and that they would kill the whites\\nif they could get the chance. So the band went well\\narmed. They saw both tribes, went to their vil-lages,\\nand came back in safe-ty. They said the land near\\nthe Charles riv-er was a fine place to live, and wished\\nthey had made their home there. But their hous-es\\nwere built, and it was now too late to change.\\nThe next year, 1622, six-ty men came from Eng-\\nland and made their home at Wey-mouth, a short\\nway from Plym-outh. These were not good men,\\nbut were paid by a man named Wes-ton to come here\\nand hunt furs for him. They did not save food for\\ntheir win-ter s need, and then stole corn from the In-\\ndians, which turned them to foes. They sold their\\nclothes for food, and some died from the cold. They\\nwent so far as to brino^ wood and wa-ter for the In-\\ndian squaws for a bit of corn cake or meat.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "50 History of Nciu England.\\nThouofh a few of the In-dians seemed to be their\\nfriends, the tribes had made up their minds to kill all\\nthe white men in the land. They feared the Eng-\\nlish would take all their lands from them, and in a\\nshort time there would be no woods in which to hunt\\nfor game so they all joined and formed a plan by\\nwhich they would clear both col-o-nies from the land.\\nThen it was that Mass-a-so-it, the friend of the Eng-\\nlish, came to their aid.\\nAt this time the Pil-o rims heard that the o-reat\\nChief was ill so Wins-low and a few men went to\\nSow-wams to see him. When they reached the\\nplace they found him quite as ill as they had heard.\\nThe med-i-cme men of the tribe were mak-ing a\\nloud noise to drive the sick spell a-way, and the old\\nChief was blind. But when he was told that the\\nEng-lish had come he called them to his side. Then\\nhe said to Wins-low, whom he knew well, Oh\\nWins-low, I shall not see you more\\nHe did not die, thanks to Mr. W^ins-low, but in\\ntime grew strong and well. Then he said Now I\\nsee the Eng-lish are my friends and love me, and I\\nwill not for-get the kind thing they have done to me.\\nIt was then that he told them of the plot the In-dians\\nformed to kill them.\\nThe men at Wey-mouth found out the plan at\\nthe same time, and as they were weak and had but", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "MASS-A-SO-IT TELLS WINS- LOW.\\n51", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "52\\nHistory of A^ciu Englaiid.\\nMvM ^im\\nfew arms, they sent a man to Plym-outh to beg for\\nhelp. Then Cap-tain Miles Stan-dish and eight men\\nwent to them, and in time killed two of the head In-\\ndians, sent some of the men back to Eng-land, and\\nbrought the rest to Plym-outh. This was the end of\\nthe first Mass-a-chu-setts Col-o-ny.\\nSoon af-ter this a min-is-ter named Wil-liam\\nBlack-stone came to Shaw-mut, and built his house\\non a spot which is now in Bea-con Street, Bos-ton.\\nHere he lived on the corn\\nhe raised, the fish and\\ngame he caught, and the\\nmilk from his one cow.\\nBos-ton owes much to\\nWil-liam Black-stone s\\ncow, for it is said the first\\nstreets of that ci-ty were\\nlaid out by the beast.\\nThe paths she made\\nthrough the woods near her home were built on by\\nthe set-tiers, and so the streets were formed. That is\\na strange way for a ci-ty to be laid out, don t you\\nthink so\\nBy the year 1 626 there were a num-ber of log huts\\nin and near where Bos-ton now stands. The year\\nbe-fore, a few men came to a place near the Charles,\\nwhere Ouin-cy now is, and trad-ed with the In-dians.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "Jlloi e JMcn Covic lo these Shores. 53\\nThey were a wild set and at one tmie they raised a\\ngreat May-pole, and danced a-round it with the In-\\ndian girls they could coax to joui them. These they\\ngave rum to drink, and tried to spoil the good the Pil-\\ngrims had done.\\nWhen the men at Plym-outh heard of these things\\nthey were sad for they thought danc-ing a-round a\\nMay-pole was a great sin, and to give the poor In-\\ndians rum was still worse so they watched, and soon\\nhad a chance to clear the land of these bad men.\\nThere was a law that men should not sell euns to\\nthe In-dians; and w^hen they found Mor-ton, w^ho\\nwas the head of the col-o-ny at Mer-ry Mount, where\\nthe May-pole had been raised, had sold such things\\nto the na-tives, and had taught them to use them, the\\nPil-grims took him to Plym-outh, tried him, and sent\\nhim back to Eng-land. He came back the next year\\nand g^ave them more care.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nMORE MEN COME TO THESE SHORES.\\nIn the year 1628, the Plym-outh Com-pa-ny in\\nEngland sold to the Mass-a-chu-setts Bay Col-o-ny a\\nstrip of land which reached from one o-cean to the", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "54\\nHistory of New England.\\noth-er, and from a-bove the Mer-ri-mac to a few\\nmiles south of the Charles and John En-di-cott with\\nsev-en-ty men came to dwell on the spot where Sa-lem\\nnow stands. In 1629 two hun-dred came. But a\\nTRI-MOUNT.\\npart of these set-ded in Sa-lem and the rest in Charles-\\ntown.\\nThe next year Gov-er-nor Win-throp and one", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "]\\\\Iorc Alen Come to these Shores. 55\\nthous-and more came and lived at Shaw-mut, or\\nTri-mount, as Bos-ton was first called, from the three\\nhills which marked the place. Of these some died\\nfrom cold and lack of food, for they had been used to\\nnice thino^s in Enof-land, and could not bear such\\nhard-ships. These men, like the Pil-grim Fath-\\ners of Plym-outh, took life in a firm, stern way they\\nfound the ways of most Eng-lish folk too light, and the\\nrites of their church too much like those of the Pope.\\nThe oth-er folk in Eng-land did not like to be looked\\ndown on and thought less good, be-cause their ways\\nwere not the same and mocked those who aimed at\\nsuch a high, pure life, with the name of Pur-i-tans\\nand as such they have been known from that time.\\nEach year brought more men to our shores and\\nin all the towns near Bos-ton they made their homes.\\nThese men were just to the In-dians, and paid\\nthem well for their lands. They bought corn and\\nfood from them, and gave a fair price for it. It was\\nat this time that El-i-ot, the great miss-ion-a-ry to the\\nIn-dians, came and tried to make Christ-ians of the\\nna-tives. He worked with them for six-ty years, and\\nmade a bi-ble which they could read. When he died,\\nthere were five thous-and pray-ing In-dians, as they\\nwere called. His name is loved by all good men.\\nThe Pur-i-tans felt that if they were to make good\\nmen of their sons, they must teach them to know a", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "56\\nHistory of N eiv England.\\ngreat deal so in just ten years from the first set-tle-\\nment at Bos-ton, they found-ed Har-vard Col-lege.\\nThis they named for John Har-vard, who gave them\\nfour thous-and dol-lars and his books. In a few\\nyears a law was passed that made each town fit up a\\nschool in which all the young should be taught. The\\nsame law was soon made at Plym-outh and Con-nec-\\nti-cut.\\nIn 1652, a mint in which to coin mon-ey was\\nformed in Bos-ton. Here the first A-mer-i-can coin\\nwas made. It was\\ncalled the Pine-tree\\nshil-hno, and was\\nmade 01 sil-ver.\\nr or some years\\nthe Pil-grims had no\\nmon-ey, but trad-ed\\nwith the In-dians for the furs, game, and fish they\\nbrought, with corn and fruit. At times they used\\nthe In-dian mon-ey called wam-pum. These furs,\\nand dried fish, the Pil-o^rims sent to Ene-lancl, and\\n1 1 O\\nkept up a large trade with that place, but they could\\ntrade with no oth-er land, for they were un-cler Eng-\\nlish rule. This was hard for them, as they felt they\\nwould get more pay if they could send their goods to\\noth-er ports.\\nIn all else they were well pleased their land\\nPINE-TREE SHIL-LIM,", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "More Men Come to these Shores. 57\\ngave them large crops, and just then they were at\\npeace with the In-dians. The hard times they had\\nborne were things of the past and hfe looked bright\\nto them. To be sure they worked hard for all they\\nhad but they were used to that, and were pleased to\\nknow they were liv-ing as they thought God wished\\nthem to live.\\nThese good men thought they were right in all\\nthings. If one dared to think of God in a way un-like\\nthem, they were stern and if he would not give in\\nto their w^ay of think-ing, he was sent a-way in the\\nwoods. The poor Qua-kers and Bap-tists had a hard\\ntime, and in some places were killed for their her-\\ne-sy, as the Pu-ri-tans called their faith.\\nThev were stranoe men, those Pu-ri-tan fath-ers\\nof ours and for these and some oth-er of their acts\\nwe are sad. In 1690, or near that time, the men at\\nSa-lem had strange i-deas. They thought that some\\nper-sons in their midst were led by bad spir-its to do\\nwrong things. Some young girls, w^ho knew of this,\\nwent so far as to make their pa-rents be-lieve they\\nwere be-witched by such.\\nThey would lie up-on the floor, and roll and twist\\nas if in great pain, while they would beg the church\\nmen to pun-ish the poor old man or wo-man whom\\nthey said was the cause of their troub-le. Some old\\nwo-man was most of-ten the one chos-en and if these", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "58\\nHistory of Nezu England.\\nthe girls and\\nA WITCH.\\ngirls bore a grudge a-gainst a-ny\\none, they had but to say she was a\\nwitch to have her killed. There\\nwere twen-ty men and wo-men killed\\nfor witch-craft at Sa-lem at that time,\\nand of these one was a good mm-is-\\nter. This was a great blot on the\\nfirst page of New Eng-land his-to-\\nry, for which we all feel sad.\\nIt was no fun for\\nboys of those days to go to church,\\nor meeting, as the Pu-ri-tans said.\\nThev had to hear a ser-mon two\\nhours long, with pray-ers not cjuite\\nas long. If one was tired and by\\nchance fell a-sleep, the keen-eyed\\nTith-ing man would soon find them\\nout, and wake them with his rod.\\nPoor lit-tle boys and mrls of that\\nlonor a-TO We should think it hard\\nto sit on the hard bench and more\\nso if we had to keep a-wake. The\\nchurch was a small house, which was\\ncold in win-ter. Each of the wives\\ntook with her a small square box,\\nmade of tin in a frame of wood,\\ncalled a foot-stove\u00e2\u0080\u009e This was filled\\nwith coals from the fire, and was", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE titH-IXG man.\\n59", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "6o HistoT) of N civ England.\\npassed a-long the pew to each of the folk in turn.\\nThe wo-men wore great cloaks, made thick and long,\\nwhich kept them warm if the weath-er was not too\\ncold. The young had thick warm clothes, and so\\ndid not mind the cold.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nFIRST WHITE MEN IN MAINE.\\nThe first white men who came to Maine sailed\\nby its coast for the fish which were found there.\\nThese men came, filled their boats, and then sailed\\na-way. But it was six years or more af-ter the Pil-\\ngrims came to Plym-outh, that the first real homes\\nwere made in the place.\\nIn 1622, the Ply-mouth com-pa-ny gave to tw^o\\nmen. Sir Fer-di-nan-do Gor-ges and John Ma-son,\\nthe land which stretch-es from the sea to the St. Law-\\nrence on the north, and be-tween the Mer-ri-mac and\\nthe Ken-ne-bec riv-ers. Gor-ges chose the part east\\nof the Pis-c t-a-qua, and Ma-son to the west. That\\nwhich lies in what is now Maine was Gor-ges as you\\nwill see if you look at your map.\\nNow, he was a good man, and wished to found a\\ncol-o-ny where the folk might live in peace and be", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "First Wliitc Men in Maine. 6i\\nhap-py. At first he hired some men to come and Hve\\non his land, and in 1630 he came with a large num-\\nber, and for a time the col-o-ny did well. The first\\nmen who came had a hard time. The win-ters\\nwere cold and food was scarce. They caught fish,\\nwhich they sold to the Eng-lish ships, and so kept\\na-live.\\nAt this date, the men who lived on the west coast\\nof Eng-land sent ships a-cross the sea in the fall, to\\ncatch the cod-fish, which have al-ways been found off\\nthe coast of New Eng-land. These ships, which\\nreached the fish-ing ground by the last of De-cem-ber,\\ntried hard to see which would take back the most fish,\\nso they were all glad to buy, when they could, from\\nthe men on shore.\\nThis was at Sa-co and when Gor-ges came, he\\nfound-ed a place which he called Ag-a-men-ti-cus, not\\nfar off, which he wished to make a great cit-y. But\\nthe good man did not live long, and in time the few\\nmen who were left in Ag-a-men-ti-cus went a-way,\\nand no great cit-y was formed. Gor-ges gave Maine\\nits name.\\nThe for-mer name had been La-co-nia, and the\\nIn-dian tribe was called Ab-en-a-kis. They had five\\nlaree vil-la-ees two of these were in Can-a-da, and\\none on each of the riv-ers An-dros-cog-gm, Ken-ne-\\nbec, and Sa-co. These vil-la-ges had strong, high", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "62 History of New England.\\nfen-ces built a-round them and the wig-wams were of\\nstout poles bent in shape and cov-ered with bark.\\nThe French claimed Mame at first, and lived\\nthere for a short time in 1598.\\nGreat ships have been built in this State. The\\nfirst one, of for-ty tons, called the Vir-gin-ia, was\\nbuilt on the bank of the Ken-ne-bec by Thom-as\\nDitr-bv. It was first used to take some col-o-nists\\nback to Eng-land.\\nIn 1652, Maine west of the Ken-ne-bec was joined\\nto Mass-a-chu-setts. In 1820 Maine was made a\\nse-par-ate State.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nFIRST WHITE MEN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.\\nThe grant of land which fell to John Ma-son s\\nshare was that be-tween the Mer-ri-mac and the\\nPis-cat-a-qua riv-ers. This he called New Hamp-\\nshire. In 1629 he sent a few men to this land, and\\nthe\\\\ lived where Ports-mouth and Do-ver now stand.\\nIn the year 1623, six years be-fore this, a Scot-tish\\ngen-tle-man, Da-\\\\id Thomp-son by name, came to\\nthat bit of coast known as O-di-orne Point, which is\\nnow Rye. With the few men he brouo-ht, he made\\nit a post, or place where the white men could trade", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "64 History of Nezu England.\\nwith the In-dians. He caught fish too, which with\\nthe furs and game he bought from the In-dians he\\nsent to Eng-land. He called the place Pis-cat-a-qua,\\nfrom the stream at whose mouth it lay. This is an\\nIn-dian name, which means the branch-ing of the\\nriv-er.\\nMr. Thomp-son built him a large house, and\\na-round this he made a high, strong wall. He lived\\nat peace with the In-dians and paid them fair sums\\nfor their furs and game.\\nThis old house, the first m New H amp-shire,\\nstood for a long time but now not a bit of wall is\\nleft to tell where it used to look off o-ver the is-land\\nto the great sea at the east. On the slope near by\\nare a few orraves on which the o^rass and wild vines\\ngrow. Here Thomp-son s men have slept through\\nthe long years which have passed since they and the\\nIn-dians lived a-lone in the fine old Gran-ite State.\\nIn 1630 more men came to live on the Mason\\nGrant, and one named Neal, a brave sol-dier, went\\nup the riv-er in search of the lake the In-dians had\\npraised so much. But he went the wrong way, and\\ndid not find it. This was the Win-m-pi-seo-gee,\\nwhich some of you see each year on your way to the\\nmoun-tains.\\nIn 1 64 1 the men of New H amp-shire by their\\nown wish joined Mass-a-chu-setts, and were a part of", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "First White Alcn in Connecticut. 65\\nthis col-o-ny till 1679, when they be-came the col-o-ny\\nof New H amp-shire once more.\\nCHAPTER XL\\nFIRST WHITE MEN IN CONNECTICUT.\\nThe Dutch, who lived where New York now is,\\nhad for ma-ny years trad-ed with the In-dians on the\\nnorth coast of Long Is-land Sound, but had shown\\nno wish to live there. In 1631 Wah-gin-na-cut, an\\nIn-dian chief, went to Bos-ton to ask the Gov-er-nor\\nto form a col-o-ny in the Con-nec-ti-cut val-ley. The\\nLi-dians saw by this time that the Eng-lish were of\\nuse, and liked to have them near to buy their skins\\nand game.\\nSo the chief told Gov-er-nor Win-throp that he\\nwould send so much corn and so ma-ny bea-ver skins\\nto Bos-ton each year, if the Eng-lish would set-tie\\nnear the great riv-er.\\nThe men of Bos-ton could not do this at once\\nand when the Dutch heard that the Pu-ri-tans mi^ht\\ncome to that place, they bought a small tract of land\\nof the Li-clians and built Fort Good Hope. This\\nwas near Hart-ford. Soon af-ter, Gov-er-nor in-\\nthrop sent a small ship un-der a man named Holmes,", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "66 History of Ncio England.\\nto form the col-o-ny as the In-dians had wished. He\\nsailed up the riv-er past the fort. As he came near\\nits walls, the Dutch asked why they, had come. The\\nFu-ri-tans said they were on their way to found a set-\\ntle-ment, but the Dutch told them to go back when\\nthe Pu-ri-tans w^oulcl not turn, the fort fired up-on\\ntheir ship. No one was hurt, and the set-tle-ment\\nwas made six miles a-bove the fort, where the town\\nof Wind-sor now stands. The Dutch tried the best\\nthey could to oust them, but it was of no use, and at\\nlast were forced to let them stay. In a few years\\nthey sold their claims to the Eng-hsh.\\nIn 1635 a few men from W a-ter-town and some\\nof the oth-er pla-ces near Bos-ton made up their\\nminds to go out west and live in a new land. They\\nleft in the fall, and made their way through the woods\\nas best they- could. They drove their cat-tie be-fore\\nthem. It was so cold that they were lorcecl to stop\\nnear Plym-outh, and in the spring some of their men\\nwent back home. The oth-ers, led by the good and\\nwise Thom-as Hook-er, went on to Hart-ford. This\\nwas out west then. In the warm months more\\nmen came to the Con-nec-ti-cut val-ley to live.\\nWeth-ers-field was one of the spots these men\\nchose for a home. In 1636 these three towns joined\\nun-der one set of laws or con-sti-tu-tion, as it was\\ncalled, and the Con-nec-ti-cut Col-o-ny was formed.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "GO-ING TO CALL ON A FRIEND", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "68 Histoi-y of Nezu England.\\nThis con-sti-tu-tion has been so much hked for its\\nwis-dom, that much of it has been cop-ied in those of\\nthe oth-er States of the Un-ion. As it was the first\\nwrit-ten con-sti-tu tion of its kind in the world, the\\nmen of Con-nec-ti-cut are proud of it, and well they\\nmay be.\\nIn 1662, when the col-o-nies of Con-nec-ti-cut and\\nNew Ha-ven were joined, they sent to Charles II.,\\nwho was King of Eng-land at the time, for a char-ter.\\nThat is, the men of the col-o-ny were so shrewd they\\nwrote the char-ter they wished on a piece of pa-per,\\nand had the young-er Win-throp, son of the Gov-er-\\nnor of that name, take it to Eng-land for the King to\\nsign.\\nWin-throp was just the man to do this, for he had\\nmuch wit, and was a good man to talk. He made\\nlife in the far west seem like a bright myth to the\\nKing, with his tales of the great woods, and the\\ngame found in them, the rich soil, and sweet fruits\\nnot found a-cross the seas. Then the fights with the\\nIn-dians seemed such wild, bold acts, to those who\\ndid not see the sad side of them, that it was not\\nstrange the King was so much pleased with this far-off\\nland that he signed the paper as Win-throp wished.\\nOf this char-ter, which bore the date A-pril 1662,\\nyou will hear more as you read in the his-to-ry.\\nHook-er and his men had but just built their", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "PE-QLODS FIGHT THE WHITE MEN.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "JO History of New England.\\nhous-es and the small meet-ing house you see in\\nthe cut, when the Pe-quod In-dians made raids on\\ntheir homes and cat-tie. John En-di-cott was sent to\\nwhip them, and he did this so well that he made a foe\\nof the strong tribe.\\nThe Pe-quods were a tribe of fierce In-dians, who\\nlived be-tween the Con-nec-ti-cut Riv-er and Nar-ra-\\ngan-sett Bay. The next spring they came down on\\nthe white men, and killed thir-ty. Now the Eng-lish\\nfelt that they must wage war on these In-dians; so\\nnine-ty men well armed sailed down the riv-er, and\\nby the Pe-quod fort a-round in-to Nar-ra-gan-sett Bay.\\nWhen they had made up their minds to rid the\\nland of this bad tribe, help came from a source they\\nhad not thoui^ht of. You know Ca-non-i-cus tried to\\nz\\nmake war with the Pil-m ims when he sent the bunch\\nof ar-rows now he came to the Eng-lish, and begged\\nthem to let him fight the Pe-quods with them. The\\ntribes were still foes, and the old chief saw in this a\\nchance to get the best of his en-e-my.\\nThe In-dians saw the white men sail by, and\\nthought they feared to land, when they saw how\\nlarge a force they had in their fort so they were glad,\\nand danced and shout-ed, and made all the noise they\\ncould, that the whites might fear them the more. In\\ntime they grew tired with these wild do-ings, and by\\nmorn were all fast a-sleep. Then the Eng-lish came", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "First White Men in ConnecticiLt. yi\\nup to the fort, set it on fire, shot most of the men,\\nand killed the squaws and young so that but few of\\nthe tribe were left. These joined oth-er tribes and\\nthe Pe-quods were no more. Af-ter this the white\\nmen in Con-nec-ti-cut had no fear of the In-dians for\\nsome years.\\nIn 1637, a band from Bos-ton came to New Ha-\\nven and bouo^ht the land of the In-dians. Mr. Ea-\\nton, a Lon-don mer-chant, and John Dav-en-port, a\\nmin-is-ter, were the head men. This was for a long\\ntime called the New Ha-ven Col-o-ny, but was at\\nlast joined to the Con-nec-ti-cut by the char-ter you\\nhave just read a-bout.\\nThen Con-nec-ti-cut was a large place. King-\\nCharles II. said that Mass-a-chu-setts should bound\\nit on the north. Long Is-land Sound on the south,\\nwhile Nar-ra-gan-sett Riv-er was on the east, and\\nthe Pa-cif-ic O-cean on the west. Men did not know\\nat that time how far a-way the Pa-cif-ic was.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "72 History of A^cw England.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nFIRST WHITE MEN IN RHODE ISLAND.\\nThe Pu-ri-tans were set in their ways of thought,\\nas has been said; and would let no one stay with them\\nwho did not think and live as they did. They knew\\nthey were right and all oth-ers were wrong.\\nWhen Rog-er Wil-liams, a min-is-ter of Sa-lem,\\nsaid he felt they were too strict; that he did not think\\nit well to force men to go to church, and some oth-er\\nsuch things, they made him give up preach-ing.\\nThey said, too, he must leave the land. But as it\\nwas cold, they at last told him he could stay till\\nspring, but must not preach in the time.\\nFor a while all went well then the Pu-ri-tans\\nheard that he still held meet-ings in his own house,\\nand they were a-bout to put him in jail, when he\\nheard of it, and was warned to go to Mass-a-so-it by\\nthe Gov-er-nor him-self. So, in the cold snow, he\\nmade his way on foot through the woods to the Nar-\\nra-gan-sett.\\nHe first went to the house of Wil-liam Black-\\nstone, in Re-ho-both, and stayed with him for a time.\\nBlack-stone was, you know, the first white man in\\nBos-ton. He lived there a lone qui-et life, till the", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "First Mliitc Men in Rhode Island.\\n72\\nwhite men came from Sa-lem. To be sure, it was by\\nhis own wish that they came. The wa-ter in Sa-lem\\nPU-RI-TAN GIRL, A.D. 1 644.\\nwas so bad that it made the men who had come there\\nto hve, sick w^hen they drank it and the spring at", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "74 History of Nczu England.\\nBlack-Stone s land was sweet and pure so he sent for\\nthem to come there to live. But in time he found he\\ndid not like their ways, so he sold most of his land\\nto them and went far off in the woods to live, where\\nhe could do what he thought right.\\nThis tract of land they set a-part as a com-mon\\nfield for their cows, or a place for the men to drill\\nin when they were forced to do so. That field is\\nBos-ton Com-mon.\\nThen Wil-liams stopped at See-konk, now East\\nProv-i-dence but Gov-er-nor W in-throp sent him\\nword in a kind let-ter that the land he was on be-\\nlonged to the Plym-outh Col-o-ny. On this, he went\\nto the west shore, and walk-ing round a small point of\\nland to a fine hill not far off, made his home there.\\nHe called this place Prov-i-dence, in thanks For\\nma-ny oth-er Prov-i-denc-es of the most ho-ly and\\non-ly wise. These were his own words.\\nRog-er Wil-liams was a good man, and he left\\nma-ny friends in Mass-a-chu-setts. For some years\\nhe had been learn-ing the In-dian tongue. He had\\nspent hours in their wig-wams m the smoke and dirt;\\nhad slept in them too, that he might learn to talk\\nwith the Red men and make them Christ-ians, as you\\nknow El-i-ot did. Now that he was cast here in a\\nland filled with In-dians, he found it nice to speak\\nwith them. The In-dians were pleased as well, and", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "First White Men in Rhode Island.\\n/D\\nsoon be-came his fast friends. They helped him\\nbuild his house, and when he was in need gave him\\nfood to eat.\\nIt is said that as he and his five friends came in\\nsight of the wa-ter, an In-dian ran out of the woods\\nand cried, What cheer, friends? What cheer!\\nThe slate rock on the west side of the See-konk\\nRiv-er, on which he first stepped, is called What\\nCheer Rock and is looked up-on with pride by all\\ntrue Rhode Is-land-ers. The fine park in Prov-i-\\ndence that bears his name, was once the farm on\\nwhich he and his In-dian friends plant-ed the corn\\nfor their bread.\\nWhen his house was built, he sent to Sa-lem for\\nhis wife and chil-dren and they came to Rhode Is-\\nland to live. His friends in Mass-a-chu-setts came\\nto see him in his new home, and some made homes\\nand stayed. He called on Mass-a-so-it at So-wams,\\nten miles a-way, and had a good friend in the great\\nchief as long as he lived. The In-dian name for\\nProv-i-dence was Moo-shau-sick.\\nIn the spring of 1637, the Pu-ri-tans at Bos-ton\\nwere ill at ease, for more of their mem-bers were not\\ncjuite right in their thoughts of God at least the Pu-\\nri-tans felt so. They tried to make them see as they\\nshould, but it was of no use so eight-een persons", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "76 History of New England.\\nwere sent out from Bos-ton to make a home where\\nthev could.\\nOne bright wo-man, Anne Hutch-in-son by\\nname, led these peo-ple. She had thought much,\\nand felt, like Wil-liams, that the Pu-ri-tans were too\\nstrict. These stern men did not think that wo-men\\nhad a rioht to talk or think a-bout such thino^s, and\\nwere sad and much hurt in their hearts by her bad\\nways, as they called them so sent her off. She,\\nwith her friends, knew they could find a home in\\nRhode Is-land so they made their way to that place.\\nRog-er il-liams told them of a fair is-land down the\\nbay w^here they might make them a good home he\\nwent with them to see it and then helped them buy\\nit of Ca-non-i-cus. This was the is-land of Rhode\\nIs-land, and they lived on the north end. They\\ncalled the place Ports-mouth.\\nSo ma-ny came to join them, that some were\\nforced to go to the south end, where New-port now\\nis. Wil-liam Cod-cling-ton, a rich man, was the first\\nto set-tie there. He was in time made the first\\nGov-er-nor of Rhode Is-land.\\nAs the land a-round Prov-i-clence was filled, men\\nwent down the bay to a place on the Paw-tux-et Ri\\\\\\ner, and lived there. In a year or more, Sam-u-el\\nGor-ton, a man who went from place to place to\\npreach, came there. The men of Paw-tux-et did not", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "DRUM ROCK.\\n77", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "yo History of Nciv England.\\nwant him, and turned him out, as the Bos-ton peo-\\nple had once done to them.\\nThen Gor-ton bought a spot the In-dians called\\nShaw-o-met, and went there to live. The place is\\nnow known as War-wick Neck.\\nHere is to be seen the far-famed Drum Rock,\\nwhich was used by the In-dians to call then band to-\\ngeth-er, when for a-ny cause they felt the need of do-\\ning so. It rests up-on two points, and is so well\\npoised that it can be moved by the hand, and it is\\nsaid, is at times rocked by the wind. When start-ed,\\nit moves for some time, and makes a dull sound\\nwhich can.be heard a Ions: wav. On still nio hts it\\nhas been heard as far as six or eio^ht miles. How\\nstrange it seems to use a rock for a drum call.\\nIn 1 64 1, Rich-ard Smith set up a trad-ing post\\non the west side of the bay, on land he bought of the\\nNar-ra-gan-sett tribe. The town of W ick-ford now\\nstands on the spot.\\nThere was now war in Eng-land for a long time,\\nand the Col-o-nists ceased to think or ask much of\\nthat land, l^ut ruled in the New World as they\\nliked. In 1643, Mass-a-chu-setts, Plym-outh Col-o-\\nny, Con-nec-ti-cut, and New Ha-ven joined their\\nstrength to bet-ter fight their foes, the Dutch and\\nthe In-dians. They called this un-ion The U-nit-ed\\nCol-o-nies of New Eno^-land.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "First W^Jiitc Men in Rhode Island. 79\\nRhode Is-land wished to join but Rog-er Wil-\\nliams was a Bap-tist, you know, and the Pu-ri-tans\\nwere not friends of this sect so they told the Col-o-\\nnies of Prov-i-dence and Rhode Is-land they need\\nlook for no help from them.\\nThis was not the wofst thing in the case. The\\nPlym-outh Col-o-ny said they owned a large part of\\nthe poor lit-tle col-o-ny, and Con-nec-ti-cut claimed the\\nrest. No one knew just where the lines which\\nbound-ed these col-o-nies ought to be. Prov-i-dence\\nun-cler Rog-er Wil-liams, and Rhode Is-land un-der\\nCod-ding-ton, were so weak that it seemed they would\\nsoon cease to be. So in 1652 Rog-er Wil-liams came\\nback from Eng-land with a char-ter which joined the\\ntwo.\\nIn Ju-ly, 1663, Charles II., who, you know, gave\\nCon-nec-ti-cut the char-ter they wished, sent a still\\nbet-ter one to Rhode Is-land. This rave to the col-\\no-ny rio hts which the oth-ers did not have, and best\\nof all, fixed the line which bound-ed their land. This\\nchar-ter is still to be found in Rhode Is-land, and was\\nthat un-der which the men of that State lived till\\n1842, long af-ter the U-nit-ed States were free from\\nEng-lish rule.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "8o History of New England.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nKING PHILIP S WAR.\\nAs each year brought more white men to our\\nshores, the num-ber of red-skins grew less and less\\nso by 1657, some thir-ty years af-ter the Eng-lish first\\ncame, there were fif-ty thous-and white men and on-ly\\nthir-ty thous-and na-tives in New Eng-land. There\\nwere ma-ny pray-ing In-dians in all the tribes but\\nthose of Rhode Is-land; these still held their own\\nfaith.\\nThe a-ged Mass-a-so-it, who had been so good a\\nfriend to the Pil-grims, slept with his fath-ers and\\nPhil-ip, his son, ruled o-verthe Wam-pa-no-ags. Phil-\\nip s home was at Po-ka-nok-et, the In-dian name for\\nMount Hope. Phil-ip was a proud, brave man, and\\nwould have been a good friend to the whites if they\\nhad done their part. But the Pil-grims were stern\\nand hard, and felt that those In-dians who would not\\njoin the pray-ing band had no right to be thought of.\\nSo they bought up from time to time the land, and\\npaid small sums for it, till the Wam-pa-no-ags were\\npushed in-to two small necks near the town of Bris-\\ntol.", "height": "3014", "width": "2307", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "iil!!, mMPi,\\n1 iM rtL\\nW\\nO\\nEh\\no\\nmi\\nML", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "82 History of Nciu England.\\nOne by one they saw their best corn-fields ta-ken\\nfrom them, and the woods where they had hunt-ed\\nwere fast be-ing cleared a-way. It seemed to them\\nthen, that they would soon be pushed in-to the bay,\\nif they did not do some-thing to stop it.\\nBut Phil-ip, whose In-clian name was Po-met-a-com,\\nwas a wise chief, and did not like to make foes of the\\nwhite men so he bore all this in quiet, and tried to\\nkeep his war-riors with him at Po-ka-nok-et, so that\\nthey should do no harm to the Eng-lish near by.\\nHe knew full well that he had but sev-en hun-dred\\nwar-riors he could h^ sure of aid-ing him. The Nar-\\nra-gan-setts were his foes, as they had ev-er been, and\\nmight take sides with the whites. All the In-dian\\ntribes in New Eng-lancl were scat-tered, and he could\\nnot trust them as friends.\\nBut the Eng-lish were joined, and well armed.\\nThey had towns and strong hous-es to fall back to,\\nand best of all plen-ty of food while he had but\\nthe swamps and his poor wig-wams, and lit-tle food\\nstored for his men. If he was forced to leave his\\nhome, all his stores were to be left too for these were\\nhid in holes dug in the ground. Holes were made,\\nand then lined with a kind of bas-ket work the In-\\ndian squaws made of the sweet-flag, which grows to\\nthis day near Mount Hope. Then the corn was\\npoured in, and the whole cov-ered with flags and dirt.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "p^4\u00c2\u00a3:-%.\\nPHIL-IP AT MOUNT HOPE.\\n83", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "S4 History of New England.\\nSo you see it was not safe for a tribe to go far from\\nhome in the cold months.\\nHe hved on the east slope of Mount Hope, with\\nhis wife and ba-by boy whom he loved ve-ry much, a\\nsad lone life. From his wig-wam, lined with mats\\nand soft furs, he could look o-ver the land that used\\nto be his, but was now well dot-ted with the log\\nhous-es of the Pil-^rims. He was true to the friends\\nhe made a-mong the white men, and more than once\\nsaved them from his mad war-riors.\\nAt last, in the year 1774, a false In-dian went to\\nthe Pu-ri-tans and told tales of his chief. Then the\\nwhite men sent word to King Phil-ip to come to them\\nand be tried for the thing they had a-gainst him. His\\nwar-riors were an-gry at this, and killed the In-dian\\nwho told the tales. When the Eng-lish heard of it,\\nthey caught the men who had done the deed, ,and\\nhanged them for it.\\nThis act made Phil-ip s young war-riors wild with\\nrage and not heed-ing -what their chief said, they\\nrushed upon the set-tiers in Swan-sey, and killed\\neio ht or nine men. War was thus beoun and it is\\nsaid that Phil-ip wept when he heard the white men s\\nblood had been shed! He was forced to fight a-\\ngainst his will but when he saw there was no help\\nfor it, he made a foe the Eng-lish might well dread.\\nThe Mass-a-chu-setts Col-o-ny joined the Plym-", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "King Philip s War. 85\\nouth, in whose grant of land Mount Hope lay, and\\nin less than a month drove all the In-dians from Po-\\nka-nok-et. Phil-ip and his men spread through the\\nwhole land, and roused the tribes as they went.\\nNow the Pil-grims went to the Nar-ra-gan-sett\\ntribe, and by threats forced Ca-non-chet, their chief,\\nto say he would keep the peace. He al-so was to\\ngive up any In-dians who were foes to the whites,\\nshould they come on his land. We can say here that\\nhe did not keep his word he did not mean to keep\\nit when he gave it, for he hat-ed the white men quite\\nas much as Phil-ip did.\\nIn-dians do not fight like white men. They hide\\nbe-hind trees or rocks, and fire at their foes, when\\nthey have no thought a foe is near. So the whole\\nland was full of war, and no one knew when he was\\nsafe. Men were shot in the fields, and boys while\\nthey watched their sheep hous-es were burned, and\\nwhole fam-i-lies slam. Moth-ers with their babes in\\ntheir arms, were shot down, and the sight of an In-\\ndian made a strong heart quail.\\nAt this time Deer-field was burned, and Brook-\\nfield set on fire. H ad-ley was al-so fired one Lord s\\nDay while the folk were all in church, but a her-mit,\\nthat is a man who lived in the wood, and had\\nnaught to do with men, saw the flames, and rushed\\nto the church, rave the a-larm, and so saved the", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "86 History of New England.\\nplace. Then he went back to his home, and was\\nseen no more.\\nA man named Beers, with twen-ty of his friends,\\nwere killed near North-field; and news of blood-shed\\nwas heard from ev-e-ry vil-lage.\\nOn the 1 8th of Sep-tem-ber, 1675, La-throp s\\ncom-pa-ny, made up of one hun-dred fine, bright\\nyoung men, the flow-er of Es-sex, as they have\\nbeen called, were on their way from Deer-field to a\\nnear town, with the grain they had reaped, when they\\nwere fired on by a band of In-dians who were hid be-\\nhind the trees. The white men were all killed and\\nthe name Blood, giv-en to a small stream which\\nflows by the spot, still tells the tale of that day.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nKING PHILIP S DEATH.\\nSoon af-ter this sad day at Deer-field, Spring-field\\nwas burned, and m the same month H ad-ley was\\nfired once more.\\nBut as win-ter came on, the white men had not\\nso much to fear the leaves were off the trees, and\\nthere were less good spots for their foes to hide in.\\nSoon the tribes went to make their win-ter home with", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "King Philifs Death. 87\\nthe Nar-ra-gan-setts, on the west side of the bay.\\nHere they built their wig-wams in the midst of a\\ngreat swamp, and stored their food near by.\\nNow seemed a good chance for the Eng-hsh to\\npay them for the bad things they had done. So in\\nDe-cem-ber, a large force, un-der Cap-tain Church,\\nrushed in up-on them, burned their wig-wams and\\ntheir win-ter s food, and killed ma-ny In-dians. It is\\nsaid that all the old men, wo-men, and young of the\\ntribe died in the flames. Ca-non-chet ran a-way but\\nwas soon caught in a place a few miles north of Prov-\\ni-dence.\\nThose In-dians who got off found it hard to get\\nfood or homes through the rest of the win-ter. They\\nwere forced to scratch un-der the snow for the a-corns\\nand nuts which lay on the ground and the blood\\nstains left on the crust showed how sore their hands\\nwere from this hard task. They were glad to get a\\ndead horse, or a cow which had been sick and died,\\nto eat and by spring this kind of food made most oi\\nthem sick-en and die. You know that flesh of an-i-\\nmals which have died is not safe to eat. The cow or\\nox must be in health when it is killed, if w^e are to be\\nmade strong by its flesh.\\nNow the war had been a long time, and the In-\\ndians as well as the white men were tired of it.\\nWhile the vil-la-ges of Gro-ton, Marl-bo-rough, Wey-", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "PHIL IP S MON-U-MENT.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "King Philip s Death. 89\\nmouth, Med-field, and Lan-cas-ter were fired and\\nburned, the In-dians were turn-ing a-gainst Phil-ip,\\nand tried to lay all the blame of their woes on him.\\nAt last the poor chief left his wife and ba-by, and\\nwent back to his old home to take a last look at the\\nspot he had once been hap-py in, and to see the\\ngraves of his fath-er and broth-ers. Here, but a\\nstone s throw from the site of his wig-wam, he was\\nshot by an In-dian spy, and with his death the war\\ncame to an end.\\nThe white men took his boy, who had nev-er done\\nthem the least harm, and sent him to Ber-mu-da,\\nAvhere he was sold for a slave. In that way they paid\\nMass-a-so-it for his kind acts to them.\\nIn this war more than six hun-dred white men had\\nbeen killed, and as ma-ny of their hous-es burned.\\nWhile we are talk-ing of King Phil-ip and his\\nIn-dians, you may like to know how they talked, so\\nhere is the Lord s pray-er in Wam-pa-no-ag\\nNoo-shun kes-uk-qut, qut-tian-at-am-unch koo-we-\\nsu-onk, kuk-ket-as-soo-tam-oonk pey-au-moo-utch, kut-\\nte-nan-tam-00-onk ne nai, ne-ya-ne ke-suk-qut kah\\noh-ke-it. As-sa-ma-i-in-ne-an ko-ko-ke-suk-o-da-e nut-\\nas-e-suk-ok-ke pe-tuk-qun-neg. Kah ah-quo-an-tam-a-\\ni-in-ne-an num-match-e-se-ong-an-on-ash, ne-wutch-e\\nne-na-wun wonk nut-ah-quo-an-tam-au-o-un-non-og\\nnish-noh pasuk noo-na-mon-tuk-quoh-who-nan, kah", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "90 Histoiy of New England.\\nahque sag-kom-pa-gin-ne-an en qutch-e-het-tu-ong-a-\\nnit, qut poh-qua-wus-sin-ne-an wutch match-i-tut.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nCHURCH TAKES ANNAWON.\\nCap-tain Ben-ja-min Church had but just reached\\nhis home in Lit-tle Comp-ton, when word came to\\nhim from the men at Plym-outh that the In-dians,\\nwith An-na-won at their head, were in the woods near\\nSwan-sey and Re-ho-both, and had caused the men\\nof those towns much frieht.\\nHe knew that on the day of Phil-ip s death he\\nhad heard a great, sour faced In-dian call out I-oo-\\ntash! I-oo-taskf and had asked one of his In-dians\\nwhat it meant. That, said his friend, is An-na-\\nwon, Phil-ip s great war-rior, call-ing to his men to be\\nbrave and fight the white men well. But the poor\\nred man saw he had no chance to win, so made his\\nway, with the small band of In-dians left, to the near\\nwoods.\\nCap-tain Church had a hard time to raise men for\\nthis work, for all were tired bv this time of the fiohts\\nwith the In-dians; but at last he made up a small\\nband, and with them went to-wards the spot where", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "Cluirck Takes Ann aw on.\\n91\\nthe foe was thought to be. F^or some days they\\nwalked the woods, but saw no signs of them. One\\nPU-RI-TAN YOUTH. \\\\.V 1 644.\\nday an In-dian who had just jouied the whites begged\\nap-tain Church to let him go and fetch his fath-er,\\nc", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "92 History of New England.\\nwho, he said, was about four miles from that place in\\na swamp, with no one but a young squaw. Church\\nmade up his mind to go with him for he thought he\\nmight learn from these new In-dians where An-na-\\nwon was.\\nAt this time Church had but one white man and\\nsix In-dians with hmi for when he came, he had\\nthought to get some i-de-a of where the foe was, and\\nthen send back to the old fort at Po-cas-set for Lieu-\\nten-ant How-land and the rest of his men. But he\\ndid not like to lose what looked like a chance of find-\\ning where the In-dians were, so pushed on with his\\nsmall force.\\nWhen they came to the swamp, he bade the In-\\ndian eo and find his fath-er, while he and his men\\nwait-ed for them at that place.\\nAs soon as he had gone, Church saw an In-dian\\ntrail, or path, a few feet off in the woods, and called\\nto his men to he low, some on one side of it and some\\non the oth-er. Soon they heard the In-dian howl for\\nhis fath-er, and in a short time some one called back.\\nNow a step was heard on the path near them and\\nnext an In-dian, with a gun in his hand, came in\\nsight. Back of him was a bright-eyed In-dian girl,\\nor squaw. Church jet them come to where he was\\nhid, then jumped up and laid hold on l^oth. He\\nasked the girl what camp she came from last, and she", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "Church Takes Annawon. 93\\nsaid Cap-tain An-na-won s. Church was glad\\nthen. But when he learned that An-na-won did not\\nstay ni the same place two nights at a tniie, that he\\nhad from fif-tv to six-ty brave war-riors with him now,\\nhe did not quite know what to do.\\nHow ma-ny miles is he from here? he asked of\\nthe oirl.\\nI do not know your miles, she said, but if\\nyou start now and walk through the swamp, you wiil\\nreach his place by the time the sun goes down.\\nThen Church asked his men what they thought of\\nthe quest. Though the In-dians knew the foe they\\nwere to meet far bet-ter than their white friends, they\\nsaid where Church went they would go. So all the\\nrest of the day they tramped through the lone swamp,\\nwhile the old In-dian and the squaw led the way.\\nJust as the sun went down the guide told them to\\nhalt. What for? asked Church, who wished to\\npush on.\\nAt this hour, said the girl, An-na-won sends\\nout his scouts to make sure that all is safe when thev\\ncome back, he makes his camp, and rests for the\\nnioht.\\nWhen the shades grew black, and the stars came\\nout one by one a-bove the great tree tops, the small\\nband went on once more. At last they came to a\\nlarge ledge of rock, moss-grown, and quite hid from", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "94 History of New England.\\nview by the tall trees on all sides as they neared it\\na dull sound seemed to come from the oth-er side,\\nand there, the guide told them, they would find the\\ncamp.\\nThis rock is of a strange shape on its north side\\nthe slope is so slight that one can walk to the top\\nwith ease, but on the south it is as steep as the side\\nof a house, and some thir-ty feet high. It was un-der\\nthis Qfreat wall of rock that An-na-won and his men\\nwere at rest. Cap-tain Church crept to the top and\\nlooked down on the camp.\\nThe great In-dian cap-tain, with his son and a few\\nof his head men, were near a camp fire, stretched out\\nat whole length on the ground while the rest of the\\nband was spread out in spots near by.\\nAt a place a short way from them were all their\\nguns, placed a-gainst a rail which was stretched on\\ntwo forked sticks. They were kept from the dew by\\na mat which was thrown o-ver them.\\nIn front of some of the fires, great piec-es of meat\\nwere roast-ing on spits while o-ver them huge pots\\nwere hung, in which their suc-co-tash boiled.\\nf Near by, an old squaw was pound-ing in a mor-\\ntar some dried green corn, which she thus made in-\\nto meal. That was the dull noise they had heard\\nwhen they first came near the spot. Down this steep\\nwall they must go, or be shot; for the In-clians would", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Ciini ch lakes Annaivon. 95\\nknow a foe was near if they tried to reach them by\\nsome oth-er way. The guides told them that An-na-\\nwon would not let his men come back by a-ny oth-er\\npath.\\nThe old squaw made a great deal of noise with\\nher mor-tar, and at last Church thought how he could\\nreach his foes, and they not hear him come. First\\ntheir guns must be ta-ken. So he sent the In-dian\\nand the squaw on in front, and came close to them,\\nun-der the great bas-kets they had on their backs. If\\nAn-na-won saw them, he would think they had just\\ncome from their hunt in the woods, and would not,\\nhe hoped, see the white face so near. But for fear\\nhe might see them. Church thought it best not to let\\nthe tribe hear their steps. When the old squaw\\npound-ed, they went down but when she stopped to\\nturn her corn, they lay back on the rock to rest.\\nJust as they reached the ground, young An-na-\\nwon saw Church but in fear threw his blan-ket\\no-ver his head, and lay quite still. The brave Cap-\\ntain dashed on and took the guns, and set four of his\\nIn-dians as guard o-ver them. Then he turned to\\nold An-na-won, who had at last seen him, and stood\\no-ver him.\\nHo-woh (the In-dian word for wel-come,) cried\\nthat old war-rior as he looked up to the white face.\\nHe seemed to have no thouo-ht of flioht, for he thouo^ht", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "CHURCH AND AN-NA-WON.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "CJuirch Takes Annaivon. 97\\nthere were ma-ny more white men on all sides of his\\ncamp. Church let the oth-er In-dians know he would\\nnot harm them if they were qui-et. How could he\\nwith his six men? He then told An-na-won that he\\nhad come to sup with him. What have you to eat\\nhe asked.\\nCow beef and horse beef; which will you have\\nhe said.\\nIt would not be hard to guess that Cap-tain Church\\nliked the cow beef best, or that he made a good\\nmeal of it with the cakes the squaw made from the\\ncorn she was pound-ing when they jumped down the\\nrocks.\\nThen he and his men watched while the In-dians\\nslept. An-na-won did not sleep, but lay with his gaze\\nfixed on a lone star, through the long night. To-\\nwards morn, Church saw him glance over at hmi to\\nmake sure he slept, and then with soft steps run off\\nin-to the woods. He watched with his eyes half\\nclosed, and soon saw the old chief come back with a\\nlaroe roll in his arms. This he brouQ^ht to where\\nChurch lay, and with a sad face said, Great cap-\\ntain, you have killed Phil-ip, you have won his lands,\\nand now you have tak-en the last of his war-riors the\\nwar is end-ed by you, and so these things are by right\\nyours. Then he took from his pack a fin? belt which\\nwas Phil-ip s. It was nine inch-es wide, and of such", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "98 History of N ew England.\\nlength that when it was put a-round the neck of\\nChurch it hung to his feet. This was made of wam-\\npum so strung as to make fine pic-tures of birds,\\nbeasts, and flow-ers its whole length. He then took\\nout a belt, just as fine which was used for Phil-ip s\\nhead dress. This had two flao^s that huno^ down his\\nback. Now a small belt with a star on one end w^as\\npassed to him this An-na-won said Phil-ip wore on\\nhis breast. At last two horns of pow-der and a large\\nfine red cloth were laid by the belts, and Church had\\nthe full dress of state the crown, we might say of\\nthe great Wam-pa-no-ag tribe.\\nAn-na-won was sent to Plym-outh, and Church\\ntried hard to spare his life but while he was off for\\na short time, the coun-cil had the old war-rior killed.\\nThe good cap-tain felt sad when he heard of this, but\\nhe could not help it then.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "Home LifP:\\n99\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nHOME LIFE.\\nA F T E R\\nKinij Phi\\nip s war had\\nceased, the\\nP i 1 o; r 1 m s\\nhved in qui-\\net for a time.\\nThe wives taught their girls to sew, spui flax and\\nwool, and to weave. A-nv Q-irl could knit .a stock-ino-\\nI3y the time she was eight years old, and at ten she\\nwas made to do her share of the spin-ning. All their\\nclothes were made at home, and the cloth too. The\\nWEAV-ING CLOTH.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "lOO\\nHistory of N eiv England.\\nblan-kets and sheets, tow-els and ta-ble cloths, were\\nall wov-en by the wife and girls of the house. This,\\nwith the house-work, took up most of th eir time. The\\nPil-grim moth-ers were neat and clean house-wives,\\nA MARM S SCHOOL\\nand each girl had her share in the work. As bare\\nfloors were in use, each had to be scoured two or\\nthree times a week. But this was not all small\\nheaps of damp sand were thrown on in spots, which", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "Home Life. loi\\nno doubt made it look quite fine, in the eyes of the\\nPu-ri-tan wives. On the next day, the sand, now\\nwell dry, was swept o-ver the floor in strange shapes.\\nOne, which was well liked, was called her-ring bone,\\nand was made by sweep-ing the width of one or two\\nboards one way, the next Ime an-oth-er way, and so\\non the whole room. When it was done the boys and\\nirirls were made to walk o-ver it with care, and in\\nsum-mer could not come in at all but to eat and\\nsleep. For some years the young chil-dren were taught\\nin one of the hous-es, at what was called a M arm s\\nschool. Here, in the same room where the marm\\nlived, cooked, wove, and slept, she had her school. In\\nwin-ter the log house was not a warm place, and if one\\nsat far from the great fire-place, he had to look out\\nfor frost-bites on his toes and ears. So in such tmies,\\nthe hard bench was moved up to the fire-place, and\\non it the chil-dren said their strange les-sons, while\\nthe marm spun or knit as she wished. One old,\\nold la-cly who went to such a school when she was a\\nsmall girl, told me that she was of-ten made to help\\nin the work marm had on hand at the time. Once,\\nsome great bask-ets of on-ions and red pep-pers had\\nto be strung, and les-sons were not said till the task\\nwas done.\\nThen m peach time, the pits were all cracked\\nand struntj for the doc-tor of the town and who", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "I02\\nHistory of Neiu England.\\nbut the marm s chil-dren had time for this work.\\nThe marm took the pay, of course.\\nHere is a page from one of the books the chil-dren\\nused in school, in that time now so long past. Are\\nyou not glad you have much nic-er books to learn\\nfrom, and are not forced to use those in v/hich f\\nand s look the same\\nAt an ear-ly date a small house was built in each\\ntown, where the\\nCrJfe wife.;. Dofe (dofe hofe bfs nofe rof\\nUfe Cufe mule^. Elfc. Bate date fa^e sate\\nBate late mate pare rate. Bite kte mite r;te.\\nDoremotemoteivote. L jtemufe. Cave have\\npaveravefave wave. Dive Bve hive (.give live\\nfive). Rove (dove love^ (move). Gaze maze.\\nSize.\\nMire eafy LeJJms on the forj^ot^f^ I aVef^ covJijVmg\\nof IVordi mt excesdrng Four Lsiicrs^\\nLESSON r.\\nGOD doth inind all that we fay and do.\\nThis [.ire is ugc long buc the Life to\\ncome has no End.\\nWe mult love them chat do not love us, as\\nwell as ihem that do love us.\\nWe muft pray forthem that hate Ui\u00c2\u00ab\\nPAGE FROM AN OLD SCHOOL HOOK.\\nJ-d\\noi-aer\\ngirls\\nboys and\\nwent to\\nschool. A man\\ntaught in this, and\\na hard time these\\nyouths must have\\nhad un-der his\\nsway. He was\\nas stern and harsh\\nin school as the\\ntith-ino man was\\nin meet-ino-. Phil-\\ne-mon Por-mont was the first school-mas-ter in Boston.\\nThe Pu-ri-tan chil-dren were strong and well but\\nwhen they were ill with a-ny of the things you all are\\napt to have, their moth-ers did not send for the doc-\\ntor as is done in these days, but the poor things were\\ndosed with all sorts of bad tast-ing herb drinks. They", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "Home Life.\\nlO\\nwere sure to get well as quick as they could, for they\\nwere kept in bed while sick and no child likes that,\\nthough he may have no bad tea to drink.\\nSICK CHILD.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "ID you know that\\nthe Pil-grims f j\\nkept the first Thanks- P\\ng iv-mg When they had been here a year, that is\\n\\\\n the fall of 1621, Gov-er-nor Brad-ford seta-part\\na day for pray-er and praise. They had raised a\\nlarge crop of corn, had beans and gold-en pump-kins\\nstored in their shed and now felt it but rioht to thank\\nGod for giv-ing them so much of th\\nthe land.\\nIn 1623, a long drought came on; and the Pil-\\ngnms, m fear lest their crops should be spoiled, set a\\nday in which they were to pray and fast. But while\\nthey were pray-ing, the rain came down and their\\ncrops were saved so they changed their fast to a\\n[c gooc\\n1 things of", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "The First Thanksgiving Day^\\n10\\nfeast. Each year, in the fall, this feast was kept\\nand was soon known by the name of Thanks-giv-\\ning.\\nFirst, all the folk in the place were made to go to\\nmeet-mg, where a long, dry ser-mon was preached.\\nAf-ter that, the feast which, by the way, I doubt if\\na-ny of my young friends of to-day would think a feast\\nat all was eat-en by each house-hold. So the first\\ngrand Thanks-giv-ing Days were kept.\\nLa-ter, as men moved to new lands, they liked to\\nall meet once a year, in the old home where they had\\nlived when young and what time seemed so good for\\nthis as Thanks-mv-inof Day\\nlaustle in tine l(itcl:] e xx\\nQt Vifl, -.51x1211 of oal\\\\e and ^1^5\\n(7m\\\\iiren runn mo i2\\\\/eruvul]eve\\n^itrj bi iarjlT- and \u00e2\u0080\u00a2mQuderiila eue^\\npui^-aad- K 0iu5- o]^- ooo)d--tl]mp\\nV", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "io6\\nHistory of New Englaud.\\npunnmn htUe\\nTo^- them 5!? I lie 5\\na 5blprLcl ni dinner\\non a1r-\\n25 LiUQ \u00e2\u0080\u00a2^orl\\\\c, a-ciatttn -inn\\nnDuC5 -tnot- 00 115 -^ast\\n5 m -the \u00c2\u00a3iJeniuQ\\nQn. npTjaukc^oivliup -pau,\\nNew Eng-land folk have kept up this cus-tom;\\nand e-ven now the great fam-i-ly finds its way back to\\nthe old farm-house on Thanks-giv-ing Day, and for a\\ntime at least, en-jovs the cold and snow^ of the harsh\\nwm-try sea-son.\\nNow is the time that the great goose is roast-ed\\nin front of the fire, and the long lines of pump-kin\\npies on the shelf tell us that the brick o-ven has done\\nits share for the feast. You know the brick o-ven\\nis a great square hole made m the chim-ney when", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "Sad Tunes with the CJiarters. 107\\nthat was first built, and was used to bake in lonof be-\\nfore stoves were made. It has an i-ron door which\\nis air tight. In old-en times, once a week, the brick\\no-ven was filled full of wood, which was then set on\\nfire, and the door left o-pen. As the wood burned,\\nthe sides and top were made so hot that they held\\nthe heat for a long time. When the wood had all\\nburned, the o-ven was swept out, and the pies, bread,\\nbrown-bread, In-dian pud-ding, and beans for the\\nweek, were put in and the door was closed. Most\\nof these were left in all night, and in the morn-ing\\ncame out hot for break-fast. At Thanks-mv-ine\\ntime all these and more good things find their way\\nin-to the brick o-ven, to help out the feast which none\\nare too old to en-joy.\\nCHAPTER XVIII.\\nSAD TIMES WITH THE CHARTERS.\\nWhen the war was at an end in Eng-land, and\\nCharles II. was made Kino Mass-a-chu-setts did not\\nin the. least court his smiles. She was so used to hav-\\ning her own way in all things, that her head men did\\nnot like the Kino- to tell them what thev should do.\\nIn time, Charles turned his thouohts to this land,", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "io8 History of N ezu England.\\nand sent men here to rule the folk. The col-o-nists\\nwould have naught to do with these and soon the\\nKing s men went back to Eng-land, quite awed by\\nthe stern words and set ways of the Mass-a-chu-setts\\nmen.\\nIn 1674 Charles II. gave to his broth-er, the Duke\\nof York, af-ter-ward King James II., all the land\\nfrom the Con-nec-ti-cut Riv-er to Ma-ry-land and\\nJames made up his mind to have all that land ruled\\nby a man whom he should choose. He did not mean\\nto give in to the col-o-nists, as Charles II. had done.\\nSo in the sum-mer of 1674, Sir Ed-mund An-dros\\nwas sent by him to be the gov-er-nor. An-dros sailed\\nto Con-nec-ti-cut with some armed sloops, and tried\\nto take the fort at Say-brook but when the men saw\\nwhat he was to do, they ran up the Eng-lish flag, and\\nthus showed him that the fort was an Ens^-hsh one.\\nThen he went on land and tried to make the men\\nown him their gov-er-nor. But they had the char-ter\\nKing Charles gave them, and in it they were to\\nchoose their own gov-er-nor so they would have\\nnaught to do with An-dros, and at last had the fun\\nof see-ino him sail out in the Sound, to-wards New\\nYork. In 1685 Charles died, and James be-came\\nKinsr.\\nIn De-cem-ber, 1686, An-dros, dressed in red\\ncloth and gold lace, came in fine style to Bos-ton, as", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "Sa(i^ Times zoith the Charter^\\n109\\nKEWflUflYPOni\u00c2\u00ae\\n^CflPS ANM\\no-ov-er-nor of all New Eno^-land. He tried hard to\\n1\\nhave things his\\nown wav, but he\\nhad to do with a\\nrace he did not\\nknow. He took\\ntheir land from\\nthem, and made\\nthem pay rent\\nfor it. When\\nthey showed him\\nthe I n d 1 a n\\ndeeds, he said\\nthey were worth\\nno more than the\\nscratch of a bear s\\npaw.\\nHe made\\nthe men pay a\\npen-ny a pound\\nlor all themon-ey\\nthey had, and a\\npoll-tax of twen-\\nty pence, to the\\nKing.\\nIn\\nma^s-a-lhu-se r 1 s coast\\n1686,\\nwhen An-dros had done all the harm he could in", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "no History of N civ England.\\nMass-a-chu-setts, he went to Rhode Is-land, and\\ncalled for the char-ter. He did not get it that time,\\nthanks to Gov-er-nor Wal-ter Clarke but the next\\nJan-u-a-ry he went once more, took it, and broke the\\nseal. Then hard times in Rhode Is-land came on.\\nIn the fall of that same year, he went to Con-nec-\\nti-cut once more. Here he found the As-sem-bly\\nin ses-sion. That is, the head men were at their\\nmeet-ino-, where thev made the laws, or saw that those\\nwhich had been made in times past, were well kept.\\nHere he called for their char-ter, in the King s name\\nand they did not dare to keep it from him. So they\\ntalked a long time o-ver it, and the room grew quite\\ndark but still they had much to say, so can-dies\\nwere brought. The char-ter lay on the ta-ble, and\\nsome of them felt sad as they thought it would soon\\nbe no more.\\nJust then, as the wise and good Gov-er-nor Treat\\nspoke a few last words, all the lights were put out\\nand when they were lit no chal -ter was to be found.\\nWil-liam Wads-worth of Hart-ford, took it and ran\\nto an old oak near by, where he hid it in a hole on\\none side. An-dros did not find it, though he tried\\nhard to do so. That tree was the ijrand old Char-\\nter Oak oi Hart-ford, which stood till a few years\\na-TO.\\nThe good times in the col-o-nies seemed now to", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "CHAR-TER OAK.\\nIll", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "112 History of Nezo Eiiglaud.\\nbe at an end but help came ni a way, and at a time,\\nthey did not think of. James II. was made to leave\\nthe throne, and VVil-liam of Or-ange, with Ma-ry his\\nwife, ruled in Eng-land. Ma-ry was a daugh-ter of\\nJames II.\\nOn A-pril 4, 1689, the news of this reached\\nBos-ton. An-dros soon heard of it, and tried to keep\\nit from the men he went so far as to shut the one\\nwho had brought it in jail, but the news spread like\\nfire. There was much joy felt by all the col-o-nists\\nand at last, on the i8th of the month, the men of\\nBos-ton and the near towns, well armed, marched to\\nAn-dros house, and made hmi their pris-on-er.\\nIt is but a short ride from Bos-ton to Plym-\\nouth and in four days from that time all the King s\\nmen there were thrown in-to jail and the old pa-per,\\nsigned m the May-flow-er, was once more brought\\nout and made the law of the place. Not one of the\\nfath-ers who signed it was then a-live the days of\\nthe Pil-grims were past. A new race had sprung\\nfrom them, which was as firm and just in its i-deas of\\nthe right as they had been.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "State of TJujigs in the Colonies in 1700. 11,\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nSTATE OF THINGS IN THE COLONIES IN 1700.\\nIx 1700 there were 94,000 folks in New Eng-\\nland of these 2000 were slaves and 1200 In-dians.\\nIn Bos-ton a-lone were 10,000 souls. Slaves were\\nkept in most of the homes of the rich, and were not\\nw^orth more than a good cow of to-day. Eight-y dol-\\nlars was thought a good, fair price for a young and\\nstrong slave. The col-o-nists owned at this time 190\\nships, and sent them to all parts of the world.\\nBen-ja-min Frank-lin was born in Bos-ton, on a\\nspot just a-cross from the Old South Church, on\\nJan-u-a-ry 6, 1706. In the next year, 1707, w^e are\\ntold that po-ta-toes were served at a Har-vard din-\\nner but, as the balls and not the roots were cooked,\\nthey were not much liked.\\nIn I 718, a band of Scotch Pres-by-te-ri-ans came\\nto New H amp-shire, and brought a few^ seed po-ta-\\ntoes with them. These they cut up and gave to men\\nin these parts some e-ven found their way to Con-\\nnect-i-cut. At this time men thought four or five\\nbush-els a large crop for they ieared to eat them, as\\nit was said that if one should eat them each day he\\ncould not live long.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "114 History of Nciv England.\\nTo raise these, as well as most of the gar-den\\nwork, fell to the wives and girls of the col-o-ny. They\\nmade and kept the kitch-en gar-den, where all the\\nsweet herbs then in use were sure to be found, while\\na small plat in each was filled w4th the sweet old\\nflow-ers now scarce ev-er seen. They al-so cared for\\nthe bees, two or three hives of which were thought a\\npart of the well-kept gar-den. These New Eng-land\\nbees were not here when the white men came, but\\nall came from a few hives brought to Bos-ton when\\nthe place was first set-tied. The Red men called\\nthem the white man s flies.\\nThe wives and girls milked the cows as well.\\nIn some parts of Mass-a-chu-setts, a man, called a\\nhay-ward, was hired by the place to care for all\\nthe cows in the vil-lage and they were kept in one\\nherd and sent from place to place as the grass was\\npoor or used up. Each man s cows were brand-ed,\\nor marked with some mark or let-ter by a red hot\\ni-ron, that he might tell them from the rest of the\\nherd. If a lono- neck of land reached out in-to the\\nsea near where the cows were owned, it was made\\ncom-mon field, fenced from shore to shore at the land\\nend, and used for the cows for here they could not\\nget out or the wolves get in. Cow Neck on Long\\nIs-land, and the beach at Na-hant, were both used in\\nthis way.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "State of Things in the Colonies in 1700. 115\\nAt this time a great deal of ci-der was made and\\nused in New Eng-land and it is said that in 1721,\\na place which had but for-ty fam-i-lies made three\\nthous-and bar-rels. They must have worked hard to\\ndo this, for the ci-der mill of to-day was not in use\\nthen. The ap-ples were all pound-ed by hand in a\\nwood-en mor-tar, like those used in mak-ing meal.\\nThis cheese, as it is at times called, was then pressed\\nin bas-kets made at home.\\nThe fame of the but-ter, milk, and cheese of\\nRhode Is-land was heard at this elate and the cows\\nof that place must have had bet-ter care than those\\nof the rest of New Eng-land. For it is said that in\\nthe cold months, when the boys and girls of most\\nparts of the col-o-nies had to soak their bread in ci-\\nder, those in this place had bread and milk for their\\nmeals.\\nPigs were found in great droves all down the\\ncoast and some of them fed so much on the waste\\nparts of the cod-fish, that their flesh had quite a\\nstrong taste of fish. The In-dians did not like this\\nat all so would steal and eat the white men s dogs,\\nwhile they left the pigs. In each house was a pork\\nbar-rel, in which each fall the flesh of one or two of\\nthese pigs was pressed down with much salt, when it\\nhad been cut in small blocks. One or more smoke", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "ii6\\nHistory of New England.\\nhous-es were to be found in each place, where the\\nhams were cured or smoked.\\nIn 1667, a man named Hull the same man\\nwho made the pme-tree shil-lmg chose Point Ju-\\ndith, on the south end of Rhode Is-land, as a good\\nplace for rais-ing hors-es and by i 700 the hors-es of\\nthis place and near the land of Con-nec-ti-cut were\\nWOOD-EN PLOUGH.\\nknown all o-ver this New World and a-cross the sea.\\nThe Nar-ra-gan-sett Pa-cers were of these, and\\nare said to have learned their stranore rait from the\\ncows that were kept in the same fields with the colts.\\nAll the tools were of a rude form and make, and\\nsome were so scarce that it is said that one plough oft-\\ntimes did the work for a whole place. The own-er", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "State of Things in tJic Colonics in 1 700.\\n117\\nwent with it and did the work for his friend, or lent\\nit, as the case might be. Carts were made at home\\nin the cold months.\\nA NEW EXG-LAND TUMP-ER.\\nThese men had been here a long time when they\\nfirst learned to make and use sleds for there was\\nno need of such in Old Enor-land from whence they", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "irS History of Neiv England.\\nhad come. These were made of rough-hewn logs,\\nsteamed and bent in shape, for the run-ners, and\\ncaught to the frame by means of pins made of strong\\nwood. They were not fine to look at, but the col-o-\\nnists found them of great use while the whole land\\nwas spread with a deep crust of snow. The jump-\\ner still in use on some farms for haul-mg great loads\\nof wood to the door yard, is much like those made\\nby the first white men.\\nThe grain was all cut with the sick-le, and\\nthreshed with the flail.\\nAs you have read, Squan-to taught the men to\\nput fish in their hills of corn if they would have a\\ngood crop so fish were need-ed by all. One min-is-\\nter on Cape Cod took for a part of his pay two hun-\\ndred fish from each man in his meet-mg, to use in\\nhis sand-y corn field.\\nThe first pa-per in this land, the Pub-lick Oc-\\ncur-renc-es, was start-ed in Bos-ton, Sep-tem-ber 25,\\n1690, by Rich-ard Pearce and Ben-ja-mm Har-ris\\nbut was stopped at once by the Brit-ish. Then\\ncame, A-pril 24, 1704, the Bos-ton News Let-ter,\\nand in 1719, in Bos-ton, came out the Ga-zette.\\nOn the 7th of Aug-ust, 1721, James Franklin\\nand his broth-er Ben-ja-min start-ed the New Eng-\\nland Cour-ant. The New H amp-shire Ga-zette,\\nstart-ed in Oc-to-bcr 1756, and the old-est pa-per in", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "French and Indian Wars. 119\\nthis land, is now in its one hun-dred and thir-ty-sec-\\nond year.\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nFRENCH AND INDIAN WARS.\\nAs more white men came to New Eng-land, the\\nIn-dians seemed to grow less. That is, they were\\npushed back in-to the woods, or up in-to Can-a-da.\\nThe French had come a-cross the sea long be-fore\\nthe Eng-hsh made their homes m Plym-outh. They\\nnow lived on the coast, from the Ken-ne-bec to the\\nSt. Law-rence, and on the banks of this riv-er and\\nthe great lakes. These men tried hard to make the\\nIn-dians then* friends. They made their own lives\\nas much like those of the In-dians as they could,\\nlived in wig-wams made like theirs, and at times\\nin the same one with the red-skins. Some of the\\nFrench men took In-dian girls for wives and so you\\nsee a strong bond grew up be-tween the two.\\nNow the Eng-hsh had not tried to make the In-\\ndians their friends. They did not see the need of it.\\nThey had been just to them, had e-ven tried to make\\nChrist-ians of them; what more could they do?\\nThat was their whole du-ty, they thought.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "I20 History of N czv E^igland.\\nThe French did not hke the Eng-hsh much\\nthey felt they had more good things in this New\\nLand than they ought. So it was an ea-sy thmg for j\\nthem to make the In-dians foes to the col-o-nists, as\\nwell. The French spared no pains to make these\\nRed men see how much they had been wronged by\\nthe Eno^-lish, and uroed them to do all sorts of bad\\nthings to them, when they had the chance. These\\nthings led to a chain of wars, like beads on a string\\nthough they were in truth one long, long war, which\\non-ly changed its name when a new kmg ruled in\\nEnor-land.\\nThese were ist. King Wil-liam s War, in 1689\\n2nd. Queen Anne s War, in 1702; 3rd. King\\nGeorge s War, in 1744; 4th. The Old French and\\nIn-dian War, from 1755 to 1763.\\nThe last was by far the worst of all though m it\\nNew Eng-land took but a small share.\\nIn these wars, the In-dians fought as they did in\\nPhil-ip s time, by means of fire at night, or in the\\nday-time, from be-hincl trees and stone walls. They\\nchose the weak and lone hous-es for then spoils, and\\nwould lie in wait a week at a time, for a chance to\\nfire a house, kill the folk, and steal what they liked\\nfrom it. Dur-ing 1704 to 1710, in Queen Anne s\\nwar, the towns of Hav-er-hill, York, Ex-e-ter, Do-\\nver, Sud-bu-ry, Gro-ton, and oth-ers in New Eng-", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "French and Indian ]]\\\\irs.\\nI 21\\nland, were set on fire by the In-dians; and some\\nwere all burned to the ground.\\nA sad sto-ry is told of a man named Thom-as\\nDus-tin, who lived in Hav-er-hill, Mass-a-chu-setts.\\nThe In-dians had been on the watch for him to\\nleave the house for\\nsome time. At last\\none morn-ing they\\nsaw him with his gun\\nin hand start for a\\nfield some way from\\nthe h o us e Then\\nthey rushed up to his\\nhome. Mr. Dus-tin\\nsaw them, and came\\nback in tmie to save\\nsev-enof hischil-clren.\\nBut his wife was sick\\nin bed with a new\\nba-by at her side, and\\nthe In-dians were so\\nplaced, he could not Ntw eng-land ba-ry of a.d. 1700.\\nget to her room. With the sev-en chil-dren, he ran\\noff to the woods, kill-ing the In-dians who tried to\\nstop him.\\nMrs. Dus-tin was pulled from her bed, and with\\nthe ba-by, her nurse, and one lit-tle boy, who was", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "[22 Histoiy of New England.\\nin the room at the time the In-dians came, was\\nforced to go with the foe. Soon the ba-by was killed\\nand thrown in-to the brush, for the In-dians said j\\nthey could not run so fast while she had that with\\nher when they were tired and faint, their foe made i\\na camp for the night but they now learned that they\\nhad been spared on-ly to be killed in a sad way on\\nthe next day. They could not sleep who could in\\nsuch a plight Mrs. Dus-tin was a brave wo-man,\\nand thought hard what she could do to save them i\\nfrom their fate. At last, when the In-dians were all\\na-sleep, she gave a sign to the boy and nurse, who\\neach caught a tom-a-hawk from a near foe, and\\nwhile the sleep-ing band were in doubts what had\\ncome to them, these brave folk killed those who\\ncame in their way, and made off in a ca-noe to the\\nnear-est house. Here they were cared for, and m\\ntime went back to their home and Mr. Dus-tm.\\nThis state of things made the men of New Eng-\\nland feel far from safe and once more they knew all\\nthe sad ills which come from fio-hts with In-dians.\\nStill they were not as bad off as their friends in the\\nwest or far south.\\nWhen thinos in the col-o-nies had been bad for a\\nlong time, the men tried to think of some way by\\nwhich the French could be kept in their own lands,\\nand the fights if there must be such kept there", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "French and Indian Jfd7 S.\\n12\\ntoo. To help them, Eng-land and France, on the\\noth-er side of the sea, were at war so they thought\\nof a plan which did this for them. The col-o-nists\\nsent men to Eng-land to urge the kmg to send ships\\nto the St. Law-rence, to fight the French there, and\\nto take Can-a-da from them, if that could be done.\\nThey gave their word to the king that they would\\ndo all in their pow-er to help in this for they knew\\nROO^[ IX A 1\\nrox HDi SK, A. n. 1700.\\nin that way they would save their homes and fam-i-\\nlies.\\nNorth of Maine, on the is-land of Cape Bre-ton,\\nwas a strono- fort called Lou-is-burQ^. On-lv one fort\\nin A-mer-i-ca was as strono^ that was Oue-bec, on\\nthe St. Law-rence. This fort of Lou-is-burg was\\nheld by the French, but the Eng-lish wished to\\ntake it from them.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "124 History of N ciu England.\\nIn A-pril, 1745, a fleet with three thou-sand\\nmen sailed from Bos-ton to Can-so, where it was\\njoined by a large num-ber from Rhode Is-land,\\nCon-nec-ti-cut, and New Hamp-shire. These were\\nall led by Wil-liam Pep-per-ell. They had but\\ntwen-ty-one field piec-es, or large guns while there\\nwere one hun-dred and sev-en large can-non m the\\nfort. But the men were strong and brave and af-\\nter a siege of fif-ty days, Lou-is-burg was theirs. It\\nwas a grand day for New Eng-land when these men\\ncame home to Bos-ton, for it meant peace and qui-et\\nto the land once more.\\nIn 1748, the French and Eng-lish met at a place\\nin France called Aix-la-Cha-pelle, to sign a pa-per,\\nwhich was called a treat-y. By it they a-greed to be j\\nfriends, and stop the war and Eng-land gave back\\nto the French, the hard-earned Lou-is-buro^ fort.\\nIn less than six years, the Eng-lish and French\\nwere at war once more; so the treat-y of Aix-la-\\nCha-pelle, as it was called, did not do much good for\\nthe col-o-nists. This war was o-ver the French and j\\nEng-lish lands in A-mer-i-ca, and most of the fight-\\ning took place here. The French claimed a large\\npart of this land all, in fact, that was drained by\\nthe Mis-sis-sip-pi Riv-er or its branch-es. If you\\nlook at your map you will see that takes a large part", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "T/inigs zu/u ck Led to the Revolution. 125\\nof our land. The Eng-lish wished the same part,\\nand the two could not come to terms.\\nThough the col-o-nists in New Eng-land helped\\nmuch in this war with both their mon-ey and men,\\nnot much of the fioht-ino- was done in their midst.\\nAf-ter a long, hard fight the Eng-lish won and\\nCan-a-da, as well as most of that part of A-mer-i-ca\\nwhich is now known as the U-nit-ed States, was\\nmade one great Eng-lish col-o-ny.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nTHINGS WHICH LED TO THE REVOLUTION.\\nYou have seen of what a firm race these New\\nEng-land men were. They bore all kinds of hard\\nthings for the sake of truth and right, but they would\\nhave naught to do with what they thought to be\\nwrono\\nAs the col-o-nies o^rew rich throuo-h the hard\\nI ll\\nwork and strong wills of their men, Eng-land wished\\nto get all the mon-ey out of them she could. For\\nyears, you know, when they were hav-ing such hard\\ntimes w4th the In-dians, when food was scarce, and\\nno mon-ey was in the land, she had left them quite\\na-lone. They could l^e of no use to her then. But", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "126 Histoj-y of Nciv Engiaiui.\\nnow A-mer-i-ca was a fine place, and she was proud\\nto own it as her own. But hke some folk, she was\\nso ea-ger for gain that she went too far, and as you\\nwill soon see, lost all. You have all read the sto-ry\\nof the goose that laid the eggs of gold, and of the\\nold wo-man who killed her to get more eggs. Well,\\nEng-land was quite like that old wo-man in the\\nsto-ry.\\nFar l^ack, in 165 1, Eng-land made a law that\\nA-mer-i-cans must trade in none but Eng-hsh ships.\\nThen in 1660, she said no for-eign ships should go\\nto these A-mer-i-can ports.\\nIn 1663 she made still an-oth-er law that all\\nthings sent from one col-o-ny to an-oth-er must be\\ntaxed. That is, if Con-nec-ti-cut raised more corn\\nthan she need-ed for her own food, and so sold some\\nof it to Bos-ton, or New York men, she must pay a\\npart of the mon-ey she got for it, to Eng-land. At\\nlast the col-o-nists were bade not to make such thino s\\nas they could buy from Eng-land for the Eng-lish\\nwished to sell their goods, and none would buy if\\nthev could make them here.\\nThat Eng-land might get still more mon-ey, the\\nKing said that all A-mer-i-cans must write their\\ndeeds and law work on one kind of pa-per, which\\nhad a stamp on the top of the page.\\nThis pa-per the col-o-nists could not make, but", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "Things IV hick Led to the Revolution. 127\\nmust buy of men sent from Eng-land to sell it to\\nthem.\\nThe whole land from Mame to Geor-gia was\\nmuch tried by this act. The men sent here fled\\nback to Eng-land; so that when the time came for\\nthe law to be put in force, no one was found who\\ncould sell the pa-per. So the col-o-nists wrote on\\nthe same kind they had used, and took no no-tice of\\nthe Stamp Act, as it was called.\\nAll these things did not tend to make the men\\non this side of the sea love Eng land.\\nWhen the King saw that the Stamp Act did no\\ngood, he gave it up that is, he said it should be a\\nlaw no lono^-er. But he and his chief men still\\nlooked to see where they could get cash out of\\nthe A-mer-i-cans and at last thouoht of a fine\\nway.\\nThe col-o-nists, and most of all, the Mass-a-chu-\\nsetts men, ought to be put down, he thought. They\\nwere too free and wil-ful in their ways. He would\\nsend a lot of sol-diers to Bos-ton, and the near towns,\\nwho should see that his law was kept. These sol-\\ndiers were in the Eng-lish ar-my, and so were paid\\nby the King. Now he could save by this plan, for\\nhe would make a law that the Bos-ton folk must\\ntake the sol-diers in their homes, and give them food\\nand good rooms to sleep in. Then he thought of a", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "128 History of New England.\\nnice plan by which the col-o-nists should pay them\\ntheir wa-ges as well.\\nA tax was laid up-on some things which were\\nbrought to this land, and the cash from this was to\\nbe paid to the sol-diers. These plans were, no\\ndoubt, wise and well made, but the King and his\\nmen did not know the kind of men they had to deal\\nwith here.\\nLate in the year i j(^ Gen-er-al Gage sent to\\nBos-ton two sets of sol-diers but the folk of the\\ntown would not give them the fine rooms or food the\\nKing wished, and Gen-er-al Gage had to pay board\\nfor them all. This did not please the King, but still\\nhe sent more troops here. These were served as\\nthe first had been.\\nThere was no love felt for these sol-diers, and\\nthev knew it. Cross words passed from them to the\\nmen of the towns, and were paid back with force\\nbut John Ad-ams, Sam-u-el Ad-ams, John Han-\\ncock, and oth-er head men tried to keep or-der, and\\nhold the A-mer-i-cans in check. They saw that a\\ngreat war was to be, but did not care to start it.\\nIn and near Bos-ton, the boys and girls felt the\\nwrongs their fath-ers had to bear; and at times\\nshowed this in a plain way. One day an of-fi-cer\\nrode up to a small boy who with his sis-ter had just\\npicked a pail of ber-ries. He jumped from his horse", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "A //i^-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 z^\\n7\\nJ\\\\\\ni don t care to sell them, sir.\\n129", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "J30 History of i\\\\cw Jingla?ia.\\nand came quite close to where the child stood\\nWell, my lad, said he, give me those ber-ries\\nand you shall have this half crown.\\nI don t care to sell them, sir, said the boy, as\\nhe put them back of hmi.\\nBut you can pick more, and I would like those\\nfor my lunch, urged the man. Here, I ll give\\nyou this, said he and he placed one more coin m\\nhis hand.\\nI can t sell them to a red-coat! said the lad, as\\nhe and his sis-ter jumped the fence and ran home\\nthrough the fields.\\nCHAPTER XXH.\\nBOSTON MASSACRE.\\nJust at dusk on March 5, 1770, a part of the\\nBrit-ish troops met a few men in one of the streets of\\nBos-ton, and in a short time hard words passed be-\\ntween them. Then more men came up, and at\\nlength, more sol-diers too. No one knows just what\\nwas said but at last all were an-gry, and it was but\\na step more for the sol-diers to take their guns and\\nshoot in-to the crowd. Three men were killed and", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "Boston Rlassacre.\\n131\\neight wound-eel. This was the first blood shed in\\nthe Rev-o-lu-tion.\\nWhen news of it spread through the land, all\\nsaw that the time they had feared was not far off,\\nand each town, m a still way, raised all the guns and\\noth-er thnigs used in war it could, and stored therh\\nSITE OK OLD BEA-CON.\\nin some safe place, where they could be found when\\nthey were need-ed.\\nAt this time the Bos-ton boys made snow slides\\nfor their sleds, on one side of the Com-mon, as their", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "132 History of N ciu England.\\nfath-ers had done, and as the Bos-ton boys do now.\\nThrough the cold months they felt that this part of\\nthe Com-mon was theirs, and the men of Bos-ton\\nwere glad to let them have it for their sports. It\\nwas near the old bea-con which gave its name to\\nBea-con Street years be-fore. But the sol-diers liked\\nto tease, and had not much to do, so they spoiled\\nthese slides as fast as they were made.\\nOne cold morn, Gen-er-al Gage who, by the\\nway, was a kind man at heart was called up-on at\\nhis rooms by some of the boys. When he saw them\\nhe said\\nWhy have you come to me?\\nWe come, sir, said one who took the lead, to\\nask you to pun-ish those who wrong us.\\nWhy, my boys, have your fath-ers made reb-els\\nof you too, and sent you here to talk as such to me\\nNo one sent us, said the boy, while his bright\\neyes flashed at the thought of his wrongs we have\\nnot harmed your sol-diers in a-ny way, but they have\\ncut up our ice, and torn down our snow hills. We\\nfound fault, and they laughed at us, and called us\\nyoung reb-els; last night our slides were torn down\\nonce more, and we will bear it no long-er\\nGreat heav-en said the Gen-er-al to a man at\\nhis side, the ve-ry chil-dren draw in the love of lib-\\ner-ty with the air they breathe Then he turned", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "BURN ING OF THE G \\\\S-PF.E.\\n133", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "1 34 History of jVeio England.\\nto the boys, and told them they might go and be\\nsure that if a-ny of his men made troub-le for them\\nin the days to come, they would be pun-ished.\\nBos-ton was not the on-ly place tried by the\\nEng-lish sol-diers at this time. The King sent a\\nship called the Gas-pee to the Nar-ra-gan-sett\\nBay, to see if his laws were kept in Rhode Is-land.\\nThe head men of this ship were rude to the col-o-\\nnists, and in turn were not liked by them.\\nOne bright day in June, 1772, a Prov-i-dence\\nship on its way to that town did not fire a gun, or\\nsa-lute, as she passed the Gas-pee this made the\\ncap-tain of that ship so an-gry that he chased the\\nreb-el craft far up the stream. But in his haste to\\npun-ish his foe, he ran on a shoal which the oth-er\\nship had passed, and could not get off. That night\\nsome brave men rowed down from Prov-i-dence, and\\nset fire to the Gas-pee. The point of land v/here\\nshe was burned is still called Gas-pee Point. This\\nact made the King an-gry, and was one more step\\nto-wards the war.\\nOne of the things taxed by the King, was the\\ntea sent to A-mer-i-ca by the East In-dia Com-pa-\\nny. The col-o-nists at once gave up that drink, and\\nthe com-pa-ny could not sell its tea. At last the\\nKing saw that these folk were firm, and were not to\\nbe led then he felt some fear that they might make", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "The Great Tea-pot. 135\\nhim more troub-le so he said the tax-es need not be\\npaid. This he did to please the col-o-nists. But to\\nshow them that he had a right to tax them, they\\nsaid he had no such right, he kept a small tax on\\nthe tea. This was so small that tea brought to\\nA-mer-i-ca did not cost as much as it did m Eng-\\nland. Now, the Kmg thought, they would not\\nmind the tax and he would have his way.\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nTHE GREAT TEA-POT.\\nThis made the East In-clia Com-pa-ny glad; and\\nthey sent four ships full of tea to A-mer-i-ca. One\\nof these came to Bos-ton. But when it reached\\nthere, the Mass-a-chu-setts men would not let it land\\nthe tea. The gov-er-nor, whom the King had sent,\\nsaid the ship must not go back to Eng-land for he\\nknew that when thir-ty days had passed, his troops\\ncould force the men to let the chests of tea be\\nbrouoht to the shore.\\nThe men of Bos-ton knew this as well, and were\\nnot long at a loss what to do. One night a large\\nmeet-ing was held in the Old South Church,\\nwhere the wise men of the place spoke long and well", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "136\\nHistorv of N civ Eno land.\\nof the sad times in the col-o-nies. As it closed,\\nstrange men dressed as In-dians were seen in the\\nstreets, but no one seemed to know just who they\\nwere. Some word hke tea was heard from tmie\\nto time, but the troops did not heed it. On the\\nmorn it was found that these men\\nhad gone on board the ship in the\\nnight, and turned o-ver three hun-\\ndred chests of tea in-to the sea.\\nAf-ter that, Bos-ton Bay was at\\ntmies called the o-reat Bos-ton\\nTea-pot.\\nThe King was more an-gry still\\nwhen he heard how the tea had\\nbeen served, and said he would\\nwhip the Bos-ton men well for this\\nact. So he sent still more liojos\\nto the town.\\nThe seat of pow-er, that is, the\\nplace where the laws are made,\\nwas chanijed to Sa-lem. Bos-ton\\nmust be ru-ined if he could do it.\\nThe port was closed to all ships\\nbut the Eng-lish war ships, and such as brought\\nfood or wood to burn. This law was called the\\nBos-ton Port Bill. All the col-o-nists in A-mer-\\ni-ca were made an-gry by this bad act of the King s,\\nRAKE CHT-NA.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "TJir Great Tea-pot.\\n^Zl\\nand meet-ings were held in all parts of the land to\\njoin the strength of the col-o-nies, and thus throw off\\nthe Brit-ish yoke. For by this time all saw that\\nwar must come, ere men on this side of the sea could\\nhave their rights.\\nCO-LO-.M-AL FAM-I-LV AT IIREAK-FAST, A.U. I770.\\nIt seemed sad that this must be, for now there\\nwas much wealth m the col-o-nies, and fine hous-es\\nwere seen in all parts of New Eng-land. Some rich\\nmen owned slaves. This was wrong, as you know", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "138 History of New England.\\nbut the men of those days did not think it so. The\\nhomes were well filled with nice things, and much\\nsil-ver and chi-na had found its way to this side of\\nthe sea. Bits of rare chi-na and glass-ware from far\\na-way were placed on shelves, and were much\\nprized by the good wives of the towns.\\nBut all were not of this rich class some still\\nlived on their farms, and wore clothes made from\\nwool grown on their land. Their boys and girls\\nwere taught in the small, cold school-hous-es, seen in\\nall parts of New Eng-land but they grew up bright\\nand orood, and made men and wo-men of which our\\nland may well be proud.\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nPAUL REVERES RIDE.\\nThe col-o-nists had a large store of guns and\\nfood at Con-cord and the Brit-ish, who looked well\\nto what their foes were do-ing, knew of this. In the\\nfirst part of A-pril, 1775, Gen-er-al Gage made plans\\nto burn these stores. The A-mer-i-cans were told of\\nthis and watched him well. They were well joined\\nnow, and all the men in New Eng-land were rea-dy", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "Paul Reveres Ride. 139\\nto fight at the least no-tice, if they were need-ed\\nhence they were called min-ute men.\\nOne day a large troop of Brit-ish sol-diers was\\nseen on the com-mon and the pa-tri-ots, as we will\\nnow call the col-o-nists, knew tliey were to go for the\\nstores. So the brave Gen-er-al War-ren, who fell at\\nBun-ker Hill, at once sent Paul Re-vere to rouse\\nthe land. He crossed the Charles at dusk, and\\ntook up his lone watch for he was not to start till\\nhe had a sign from the town. Up and down the\\nbank of the riv-er he walked, with his eye on the\\nspire of the North Meet-ing-house. At last two\\nlights were seen to shine from its dark side, and by\\nthem he knew the Brit-ish were soon to start. Then\\nhe sprang on his horse and dashed on through the\\nnight, call-ing all he passed to arms. By morn the\\ntowns were up and in arms.\\nWhen the Brit-ish reached Lex-ing-ton, they\\nfound six-ty-eight armed men, led by Capt. John\\nPar=ker, drawn up on the com-mon of that place.\\nThese Gen-er-al Pit-cairn with a bad oath told to go\\nhome, but they would not move. Then the Brit-ish\\nfired, and e-lev-en men fell dead, while nine more\\nwere wound-ed. Then the pa-tri-ots left the field,\\nand just then the sun came up in the east and shone\\non the sad sioht.\\nThe Brit-ish were now in haste to reach Con-", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "140 History of Nezu England.\\ncord, where the stores were to be found. On their\\nway they saw men com-nig from all points, and\\narmed with all sorts of guns. When they reached\\nCon-cord they went to look for the stores, some by\\nthe way of North bridge and some by the South, but\\nthey found naught. At last, near the North bridge,\\nthey fired on the pa-tri-ots in their rage. These men\\nwere not to send the first shot, but now they felt\\nthey were right m fir-ing back, and they did this so\\nwell that the Brit-ish were forced to turn and run to-\\nwards Bos-ton. Shot flew at them all the way down\\nthe road, from the guns of the min-ute men hid be-\\nhind trees and stone walls, and they reached Bos-ton\\nat last in a much more sad frame of mind than when\\nthey left it a few hours be-fore.\\nThe news of this fight spread through the col-o-\\nnies and all now saw that they must take part in\\nthe war, if they were to have their rights from Eng-\\nland. They did not hope to be quite free from her\\nat this time. Mass-a-chu-setts sent word that she\\nneed-ed more troops, and fif-teen thous-and soon\\ncame to her aid. Gen-er-al W^ard led those from\\nMass-a-chu-setts; Gen-er-als Spen-cer and Put-nam,\\nthose from Con-nec-ti-cut Gen-er-al Green, those\\nfrom Rhode Is-land; and Gen-er-al Stark, those\\nfrom New Hamp-shire. On June 15, 1776, New\\nH amp-shire called her-self free from Eng-land, and", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "A iMIN-UTE MAN.\\nT4T", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "14- History of Nczv England.\\non the next day, June 17th, Con-nec-ti-cut did the\\nSeine.\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nBUNKER HILL.\\nMore Brit-ish troops were now sent to Bos-ton,\\nand Gen-er-al Howe was their chief. The pa-tri-ots\\nsaw that there was no time to lose, so vo-ted to throw\\nup a breast-work on Bun-ker HilL On the i6th of\\nJune, 1775, twelve hun-dred men, armed with guns\\nand spades, met just at dusk in Cam-bridge, and with\\nGen-er-al Put-nam at their head marched to Breed s\\nHill. Here they threw up a bank of earth six feet\\nhio-h in the nio^ht. It was lono^ af-ter sun-rise the\\nnext morn when this first met the eye of the cap-tain\\nof a Brit-ish ship not far off.\\nWhat have the Yan-kees done on that hill he\\ncried, m rage, to a man near by. He thought the\\nterm Yan-kee was a bad one, and did not dream\\nthat we should some day be proud of it.\\nThey have built a breast-work, sir! said the\\nman.\\nHe made sure that this was so, then fired up-on\\nit from his ship. The Brit-ish were at times called", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "Bunker Hill.\\n143\\nred-coats, for they wore fine reel cloth clothes.\\nNow their reel forms could be seen all o-ver the\\ncom-mon for they had heard the guns, but did\\nnot know what they meant.\\nThat night the sun went down on as sad a day\\nGKN-ER-AL PUT-NAM AT HOME.\\nas Bos-ton ev-er knew. A hard bat-tie had been\\nfought and the red-coats had won, if it could be\\ncalled that. No doubt our men would have oained\\nthe bat-tie if their pow-der had last-ed l^ut when", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "144 History of Nciu England.\\nthat was gone, they gave up, and left the field. In\\nthis bat-tie the Brit-ish loss was more than looo,\\nwhile that on our side was but four hun-dred and\\nfif-ty. It was just at the close of the bat-tie that the\\nbrave War-ren fell. All New Eng-land was sad\\nwhen news of that day s work was known.\\nSome five weeks be-fore this, E-than Al-len, of\\nVer-mont, took the strong fort at Ti-con-de-ro-ga, on\\nLake Cham-plain, from the Eng-lish. This bold\\nact gave great joy to the pa-tri-ots all through the\\nland. It was planned in Con-nec-ti-cut and the\\nsmall band of men grew larg-er as it passed through\\nMass-a-chu-setts, on its way north. But the chief\\npraise, next to E-than Al-len, is due to the Green\\nMoun-tam Boys, as the men of Ver-mont were\\ncalled.\\nOn May lo, 1775, E-than Al-len, with eigh-ty-\\nthree men, crossed the lake, and rushed with a war-\\nwhoop through the o-pen gate of the fort. The\\nBrit-ish lead-er jumped from his bed, and with his\\nclothes on-ly half on, ran out of his room to see what\\nwas the mat-ter. When he saw these strange men,\\nhe asked them by what right they were there.\\nTn the name of the great God and the Con-ti-\\nnen-tal Con-oress! Al-)en cried. This was a bright\\nspeech, as the Con-ti-nen-tal Con-gress was not sit-ting", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "Washiugion Takes Charge of the Army. 145\\nat that hour it was to meet that day at noon for the\\nsecond time. It first met on the 5th Sep-tem-ber,\\n1774, at Phil-a-del-phia.\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nWASHINGTON TAKES CHARGE OF THE ARMY.\\nAt the meet-ing of Con-gress in Phil-a-del-phia,\\nin May, 1775, it was thought best to raise an ar-my\\nof twen-ty thous-and men. George Wash-ing-ton,\\nfrom Vir-gin-ia, who, when a young man, had done\\nsome brave deeds in the French and In-dian war,\\nwas called to be its Com-man-der-in-Chief.\\nOn the third day of Ju-ly, 1775, Wash-ing-ton\\ncame to Cam-bridge to take charge of the ar-my.\\nUn-der the old elm on Cam-bridge Green, he took\\nhis sword. It was a fine tree then but old and\\ntorn now, it still stands, propped up to keep it off\\nthe ground. A slab of stone stands at its bas-e, that\\nreads\\nUn-der This Tree\\nWASH-ING-TON\\nFirst Took Com-mand\\nOF THE\\nA-MER-I-CAN AR-MY,\\nJu-LY 3, 1775.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "146\\nHistory of New Engla^id.\\nHe lived for a short time in an old gam-brel\\nroofed house which still stands. In this same house\\nOl-i-ver Wen-dell Holmes was born, and in it he\\nwrote Old I-ron-sides.\\nWash-ing-ton went from here to the house which\\nfor ma-ny years was the home of Hen-ry W. Long-\\nWEL-LOME HOME.\\nfel-low, the great-est po-et that A-mer-i-ca has ev-er\\nknown.\\nAf-ter the bat-de of Bun-ker Hill, the Bos-ton\\nfolk had a hard time. Through the long, cold win-\\nter food and wood were dear, and hard to oret. The", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "Fj^ec at Last. 147\\ntowns near did all they could to help theh friends,\\nbut the red-coats tried to make life ni the town as\\nhard as they could.\\nOne night in March, 1776, Wash-ing-ton had a\\nlong hne of breast-works thrown up, on the top of\\nDor-ches-ter Heights; he had planned for some time\\nto get this point, as it was a good place from which\\nto fire up-on the Brit-ish troops in Bos-ton.\\nWhen Gen-e-ral Howe saw them on the next\\nmorn, it is said that all hopes of hold-ing Bos-ton fled\\nfrom his mind. At first he thought to fight them\\nfrom his ships, but soon gave up the plan. And\\nnow, when his last chance was gone, he took all his\\ntroops on board his ships and sailed off.\\nThere was great joy in Bos-ton when the last\\nred -coat had gone. As these ships sailed a-way,\\nGen-er-al Wash-ing-ton and his men marched in-to\\nthe town.\\nCHAPTER XXVIL\\nFREE AT LAST.\\nOn the 4th of Ju-ly, 1776, the Con-ti-nen-tal\\nCon-gress gave the Dec-la-ra-tion of In-cle-pen-dence\\nto the world.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "148 History of Neiu England.\\nIt is said that Rich-ard Hen-ry Lee, of Vir-gin-\\nla, was the first to put forth the claim that this land\\nshould be free. John Ad-ams of Mass-a-chu-setts\\ntook up the cause and in a short time a num-ber of\\nmen were named to see how this could be done.\\nThey were John Ad-ams, Ben-ja-min Frank-lm of\\nPenn-syl-va-nia, Rob-ert R. Liv-ing-ston of New\\nYork, and Rog-er Sher-man, of Con-nec-ti-cut\\nand of course Mr. Lee was of the num-ber. Ben-ja-\\nmin Frank-lin was born in Bos-ton, but spent most\\nof his life in Penn-syl-va-nia, and so is said to be-\\nlong to that State.\\nCon-gress told these men to write a pa-per which\\nshould tell to Eng-land and the rest of the world\\nthat the men of the col-o-nies had made up their\\nminds to be free. Mr. Lee was to write this; bat\\nhis wife was sick at the time, so he was forced to go\\nto her and Thom-as Jef-fer-son was named in his\\nplace. When this pa-per was done it was signed\\nby John Han-cock and Charles Thom-son. The\\noth-er fif-ty-six names which are seen at its end, were\\nplaced there on Au-gust 2nd.\\nWhen the news of this step went through the\\nland, there was great joy felt by all. F^ ranee was\\nglad too, fdr she had not made up with Eng-land\\nfor tak-ing all this land from her. Now that it had\\npassed out of Eng-land s grasp, the French sent", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "Free at Last. 149\\nwords of good cheer to its folk, and in time sent brave\\nmen to help them.\\nIn the wm-ter of 1777, Gen-er-al Try-on, with a\\nsmall Brit-ish force, burned Dan-bu-ry, Con-nec-ti-\\ncut. But the pa-tri-ots did work, as well, in these\\ncold months.\\nAt Sag Har-bor, on Long Is-land, the Brit-ish\\nhad their stores of food. Col-onel Meigs, with a\\nforce of A-mer-i-cans, went a-cross the Sound to the\\nplace, burned the stores, and took nine-ty of the\\nBrit-ish. On his way back he burned twelve of the\\nfoe s ships and, best of all, he did not lose one of\\nhis men.\\nAll this time, the Brit-ish held New-port, Rhode\\nIs-land. Gen-er-al Pres-cott, their com-man-der, lived\\nin a house some ways north from the town. On the\\nnight of Ju-ly loth, in that same year, Col-onel\\nBar-ton crossed Nar-ra-gan-sett Bay from the main\\nland, pulled Gen-er-al Pres-cott from his bed, and\\ntook him to the A-mer-i-can lines. This was done\\nso still that the Brit-ish at New-port did not know of\\nit till the next morn.\\nOne year from this time, a force of Brit-ish men\\nburned New Ha-ven, Fair-field, Nor- walk, and\\nsome oth-er towns of the Con-nec-ti-cut coast. That\\nfall the Brit-ish left New-port.\\nAll this time the war w^as in the west and south,", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "150 History of N czv England.\\nand New Eng-land sent men and gold to help the\\ncause.\\nCHAPTER XXVIII.\\nTHE WAR STILL GOES ON.\\nLet us now see what was done ui Ver-mont in\\n1777. Of all the gen-er-als sent by Eng-land none\\ncould boast of the great things they were to do like\\nBur-goyne. He would soon put the A-mer-i-cans\\nwhere they ought to be.\\nIn Ju-ly he came down from Can-a-da, went up\\nLake Cham-plain, and took Ti-con-de-ro-ga with\\nease for but a small force held the fort, and they\\nleft when they saw his ar-my. Then he felt sure\\nthat he could do what he liked, he and the bad In-\\ndians in his band. So he made up his mind to\\nsend to Ben-ning-tbn, in Ver-mont, and get the food\\nand guns the A-mer-i-cans had stored there. He\\nfound that his own were too few for the great ar-my\\nhe had to feed and keep in guns.\\nGen-er-al Baum was sent with a eood sized force\\nto do this. He was told to seize all the hors-es\\nand cows he found on the way. The A-mer-i-cans\\nheard of this move, and a band of brave men from", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "The Wai Still Goes On. 151\\nVer-mont, Mass-a-chu-setts, and New H amp-shire,\\nun-der Col-o-nel Stark, who had fought at Bun-ker\\nHill, set out to meet Baum. Col-o-nel Stark was a\\nfirm, brave man and it is said of him that just as his\\nmen were to fight, he called out to them, There are\\nthe red-coats Be-fore niijht we must beat them, or\\nMol-ly Stark is a wid-ow With such a man to\\nlead, and such true men to fight, we might know\\nthat the A-mer-i-cans won. This fight at Ben-ning-\\nton gave hope and joy to all the land.\\nIn Oc-to-ber of the same year, Gen-er-al Bur-\\ngoyne, with his whole force of five thous-and men,\\nwas tak-en by the A-mer-i-can Gen-er-al Gates.\\nThe Brit-ish had lived at New-port since the\\nlast part of the year 1776, and no one had tried to\\noust them. But in Ju-ly, 1778, D Es-taing, one of\\nthe men sent from France to help the A-mer-i-cans,\\ncame to the Nar-ra-gan-sett with twelve ships and\\nfour thous-and men. He was sent to Phil-a-del-phia,\\nbut did not reach the Del-a-ware till the Brit-ish had\\nleft the place. He feared that the bay at New\\nYork was not as deep as his ships would need, so\\nsailed to New-port. All the A-mer-i-cans in Rhode\\nIs-lancl were glad at the move, for now they felt\\nthey could drive off the en-e-my. As he came in\\nsight, twen-ty and one of the Brit-ish ships were\\nburned, to keep them from the A-mer-i-cans for the", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "152 History of New England.\\nBrit-ish thought that their last chance was gone.\\nGen-er-al Pi-got held New-port with six thous-and\\nmen. Sul-li-van, at the head of ten thous-and men,\\nwas at the north end of the Is-land. He had Gen-\\ner-als Greene and La-fay-ette as chiefs. The fleet\\nand land force were to join on Au-gust 12th in an\\nef-fort to oust the Brit-ish but for some cause Gen-\\ner-al Sul-li-van moved first, and failed to let D Es-\\ntaing know of it; while D Es-taing wait-ed in vain\\nfor a word to start. At last, on the 9th, when the\\nFrench fleet was read-y, a Brit-ish fleet of thir-ty-six\\nships, with Lord Howe at its head, sailed in-to\\nNew-port. D Es-taing put to sea, but the Eng-lish\\nwould not fight. At this pomt a great storm came\\non, and sent both fleets to the right and left. They\\nwere ten days at sea; and when D Es-taing s ships\\ncame back to the bay, they were so much torn by\\nthe storm that he thought he must take them to\\nBos-ton to have them fixed. But now he did a\\nstrange thing he took all his force some four\\nthous-and men on board, and had them go too.\\nThe A-mer-i-cans in Bos-ton as well as in Rhode\\nIs-land did not see the sense of this, as he might\\nhave left them to help Sul-li-van, and sailed with a\\nfew men as well. The A-mer-i-cans pushed on, and\\nsoon were well down on the Is-land. The Eng-lish\\nfell back to New-port. When at last Sul-li-van", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Tiic ]]\\\\ir Still Goes On. 153\\nplanned to fight on the 29th, his men held the three\\nroads which run the leno^th of the Is-land, and Oua-\\nker, Tur-key, and Butts hills. But the Brit-ish\\nheard of his move and in their turn went up to-\\nwards the mid-die of the Is-land to meet him. Here,\\njust north of Ports-mouth grove, a great fight took\\nplace in which, though the A-mer-i-cans were forced\\nto turn back, they lost but two hun-dred while the\\nBrit-ish lost one thous-and men. Gen-er-al La-fay-\\nette was heard to say when it was o-ver that it was\\nthe best fouorht bat-tie of the war. It last-eel sev-en\\nhours. Then, as Sul-li-van heard from Wash-ing-ton\\nthat a large Brit-ish fleet was on its way from New\\nYork to help, he took his whole force a-cross to Tiv-\\ner-ton, in the night and the next morn one hun-dred\\nBrit-ish ships un-der Clin-ton sailed in-to New-port\\nhar-bor. Clin-ton was an-gry when he found that\\nthe A-mer-i-cans had gone, and so did all the harm\\nhe could to their coast. He sailed east and burned\\nNew Bed-ford and Fair Ha-ven, with all the ships\\nat then wharves.\\nAt this time all thought New-port would be the\\nlarge ci-ty of this land. Its wa-ters were o-pen when\\nall oth-ers were closed with ice and so it was that\\nthe Brit-ish tried hard to hold it. They did not\\nquit the Is-land till Oc-to-ber of the next year, 1779.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "1 54 History of Nezv England.\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nBATTLE OF NEW LONDON.\\nIn 1 78 1, Clin-ton sent a man named Ben-e-dict\\nAr-nold, with sev-en-teen hun-dred men, to burn\\nNew Lon-don, in Con-nec-ti-cut. Ar-nold was born\\nin this place, and had, but a short time back, turned\\nfoe to the A-mer-i-cans, and formed a plan to give\\nthe fort at West Point up to the Brit-ish. The plot\\nwas found out in tmie, and so came to naught.\\nNew Lon-don made and fit-ted out ships to fight\\nthe Brit-ish, and Clin-ton wished to stop this. Then\\nhe sought to draw Wash-ing-ton, with his men, to\\nthe north, who was then on his way to Vir-gin-ia\\na move the Eno--lish feared.\\nAr-nold reached the mouth of the Thames, Sep-\\ntem-ber 6, 1781. Here he had his men land. The\\npart which he led went up on the side on which\\nNew Lon-don stands, while the rest went up the\\nGro-ton side. Not far from New Lon-don was\\nFort Trum-bull, which at the time had but twen-ty-\\nthree or four men, un-der Cap-tain Shap-ley. When\\nthe Brit-ish reached that place and fired on the fort,\\nthese men fled to Fort Gris-wold, on the far 1:)ank of", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "hark! I HEAR GU\\nNS.\\n^55", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "156 History of New England.\\nthe stream. The force of Brit-ish which went up on\\nthat side, firecl up-on Fort Gris-wold but for a long\\ntime were kept back. At last, when the Brit-ish\\nCap-tain learned how small the force in the fort was,\\nhe told his men to scale the walls. A hard, brave\\nfight the small band still kept up to hold their post,\\nbut the Brit-ish were five men to one man of the\\nA-mer-i-cans, and the bat-tie soon told a-gainst them.\\nWhen all hope had fled, their chief, the brave Lieu-\\nten-ant Col-o-nel Led-yard, told them to lay down\\ntheir arms, which meant that they gave up the fort\\nand them-selves to the foe. Had the Brit-ish done\\nright, they would have stopped the fight then but\\nthey did not, and still fired at the poor men who\\ncould not fire back. At the tmie the fort was giv-en\\nup, on-ly three had been killed and a few wound-ed\\nbut when the Brit-ish stopped, eight-y men on our\\nside had been killed and thir-ty wound-ed. While\\nthis mad act was at its height, Ma-jor Brom-field,\\nthe chief of the Eng-lish, stepped up to Led-yard,\\nwhom he did not know, and said in a rough way,\\nWho com-mands this fort? I did, but you do\\nnow, said he, as he passed his sword, hilt first, to\\nthe Ma-jor. Brom-field took it, and with one swift\\nthrust sent it through the brave man.\\nThis fort stood on a hill and when the fight\\nwas done, the Brit-ish filled a laroe cart with the", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "Jhittlc of N^cw London. 157\\nwound-ed A-mer-i-cans and sent it full speed down\\nthe hill to the riv-er. But they did not stop to see\\nthe end of their work, as they were in haste to burn\\nthe town of Gro-ton and so did not know that the\\npoor men were saved from death by a tree which\\nstood at one side of the path, and held the cart from\\nits fa-tal plunge. Some of these men died as it was,\\nfrom the jar they had on their rough ride down the\\nhill.\\nWhile all this was tak-ing place on that side of\\nthe stream, Ar-nolcl had reached New Lon-clon and\\nburned all the ships and wharves, with some one\\nhun-dred and fif-ty hous-es in the place. It is said\\nthat at one time a la-dy, who had known him well\\nwhen he lived there, stood at her door, and heard\\nhim tell his men to spare her house. For some\\ntime he was near her and she felt so much ill will\\nto-wards him for his acts that day in the town where\\nhis young years were passed, that she wished she\\nhad a o^un to shoot him with her own hands. At\\nno time in the war was there so much ill will felt to-\\nwards the Brit-ish as just af-ter this act of Ar-nold s.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "158 History of New England.\\nCHAPTER XXX,\\nVERMONT.\\nThis place was so called by the French, who\\nfirst saw its grand old moun-tanis with their sides\\nrobed \\\\w rich dark green trees. The name Ver-\\nmont means green moun-tain.\\nIn 1724 some men from Mass-a-chu-setts came\\nto this land, and built Fort Dum-mer, near the site\\nof Brat-tle-bor-ough. The whole place was claimed\\nby New H amp-shire, as part of her grant in the old\\ndays of the first col-o-nies. As the years passed by\\nmore men went there, and in i 763 it was claimed\\nby New York as part of the grant giv-en by Charles\\nIL to the duke of York. For the next ten years\\nNew York tried in vain to rule the place; but the\\nmen sent to do this were tied to trees and whipped,\\nor made to suf-fer in some such wa\\\\^ by the men ol\\nthat part, till none could be found who wished to go.\\nAt last Ver-mont asked Con-oress, then held in\\nPhil-a-del-phia, to make their land a free col-o-ny,\\nlike the oth-er thir-teen but this was not grant-ed,\\nas New York and some col-o-nies in the south did\\nnot wish it to be such.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "Vermont.\\n159\\nIn 1777 her men said they would be free m spite\\nof Con-gress\\na n d on the\\nstrength of this\\nthey chose a\\ngov-er-nor, and\\noth-er State of-\\nfi c e r s In\\nF e I3 r u a-r y,\\nI 781, the men\\nof New York\\nfclt that the\\nbrave State ought\\nto be free, and vo-ted to\\nmake it so but their Gov-\\ner-nor would not have it so.\\nThe next month, the Brit-\\nish had Bev-er-ly Rob-in-\\nson write to E-than Al-\\nlen to uro e hmi to make\\nVer-mont a Brit-ish col-o-ny. As no word was sent\\nDRIV-ING HOME THE COWS.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "i6o Hislory of New England.\\nback, Gen-er-al Clin-ton wrote once more, in Feb-ru-\\na-ry, 1782, and said that if Ver-mont would turn\\nfrom the A-mer-i-can to the Brit-ish side, it should\\nbe a free Brit-ish prov-ince. The men thought well\\nof this of-fer and most did not see why they should\\nfight the Brit-ish, who were their friends, to guard\\nthe col-o-nies which gave them no rights. At last\\nAl-len and the Gov-er-nor of Ver-mont sent both\\nnotes to Con-gress. I-ra Al-len, a broth-er of\\nE-than, said to the Brit-ish men who brought the\\nlast word from Clin-ton that he thought they ought\\nto go with the side which won, if they could get a\\nfree char-ter. If not they would turn sav-a-ges and\\ndo what they pleased.\\nIt was these things which caused the men of\\nVer-mont to be looked up-on by some as trai-tors.\\nBut this term does not seem a just one to use, for\\nthey were true to the cause of the A-mer-i-cans,\\nwhen they had no rights of their own. And when\\nthe war was done Ver-mont had not joined the\\nBrit-ish, though it was not made a part of the\\nUn-ion till i 791.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "When tJie War luas Done. i6i\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nWHEN THE WAR WAS DONE.\\nNow at last the war was done but the time of\\nrest all had hoped for was not felt in the land. The\\nmen who had been to the war now went home.\\nThey w^ere used to camp life, and did not like to\\nwork. Then, too, they had been forced to get in\\ndebt for food and clothes, and now found it hard to\\npay such. The tax which all had to pay for State\\nand war debts, was felt by most to be too high.\\nThe gold had been used up in the war, and the\\nnotes which took its place were so poor none liked\\nto use them.\\nAs there was no great head in the whole land,\\neach man felt that he could do much as he pleased\\nfor our Con-sti-tu-tion had not been made then, and\\nthe old Con-fed-er-a-tion which was formed lone\\nyears be-fore, was but a strong league of friends,\\nwith no pow-er to help the States.\\nIn 1/86, Dan-iel Shays, a man who had fought\\nat Bun-ker Hill, and had since been made Cap-tain^", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "1 62 History of Nczv England.\\nwent to Spring-field, in Mass-a-chu-setts, at the head\\nof two thous-and men, and tried to take the guns\\nwhich were kept there. These were to be used on\\nthe men who made the laws by which they were\\nforced to pay their tax-es and debts. But the plot\\nwas found out in time, and one hun-dred and fif-ty\\nmen of Shays band were put in jail. He hid for\\nyears in New York State, but at last was made free\\nby the law.\\nShays Re-bel-lion, as this was called, was one\\nof the main things which led the States to see the\\nneed of a wise head and strong hand to rule them\\nall. So each sent men to meet at Phil-a-del-phia\\nto talk of some plan which should be fair to all.\\nThese men talked long and well, and at last wrote\\nwhat we call our Con-sti-tu-tion, which was a wise\\nand just thing. On the 4th of March, 1789, the\\nold Con-ti-nen-tal Con-gress ceased, and the first Con-\\ngress of the U-nit-ed States met in New York.\\nGeorge Wash-ino^-ton, who had led so well in the w^ar,\\nwas made the first Pres-i-dent of the land. Of all\\nthose who have served since his time three have\\nhailed from New Eng-land. These were John Ad-\\nams, who ruled from 1797 to 1801 John Quin-cy\\nAd-ams, his son, from 1825 to 1829; and Frank-lin\\nPierce, whose term was from 1853 to 1857.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "Bright New England Men. 163\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\\nBRIGHT NEW ENGLAND MEN.\\nThough, as I have said, some men found it hard\\nto work when they first came from camp, these were\\nnot the best or wise men of New Eng-land. Most\\nof those who came from the grand old stock of\\nwhich the Pu-ri-tans were made, did what came to\\ntheir hands to do, while they thought much as to\\nhow to make this land the first and best on the\\nglobe.\\nOne man who changed the work of the whole\\nworld by his wise thoughts and deeds, was E-li\\nWhit-ney, who was born at West-bor-ough, Mass-\\na-chu-setts, De-cem-ber 8, 1765. He worked hard,\\nand thus made his way through Yale. Then he\\nwent to Geor-gia, where he found a strange plant,\\nwhich had small pods filled with soft white down\\nand dark seeds. The men in those parts said cloth\\ncould be made from it but it was such hard work\\nto free the down from the seeds that not much was\\nused in that way. At this time all the seeds had to\\nbe picked out by hand. This plant grew wild in\\nmost of the hot lands, and the cloth made from it", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "164\\nHistory of N ciu England.\\nwas so TOod it seemed sad that more of It could not\\n_\\nbe used.\\nE 1 i W h i t n e y\\nthought much of this,\\nand at last found out how\\nto get the seeds from\\nthe down in a quick\\nway. He made his\\nown tools, and had to\\ndraw the wire for his\\nwork but he made his\\ngin, as the thmg was\\ncalled. One ni^fht\\nsome thieves broke m-\\nto his shop and stole it\\nthen they made more\\ngins like it, and poor\\nE-li Whit-ney did not\\neet much orold for his\\nwork. But his name\\nhas been blessed by\\nmen in all lands and\\nthat is af-ter all worth\\nmore than gold. Do\\nyou not think so\\nWhen he made his gin, in 1791, one hun-dred\\nand eight-y-nine thous-and pounds of cot-ton was all\\nAN OLD MILL.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "Bright Nczv England Men. 165\\nthat was grown in our land but in i8i i, six-ty-two\\nmil-lion pounds were sold. This is what a New\\nEno-land man s brain did for the South.\\nSam-u-el Sla-ter, who had worked for Strutt and\\nArk-wrieht in Eno-land, came to New York in\\n1789. The next year he set up three card-ing\\nma-chines in Paw-tuck-et, Rhode Is-land. In\\n1793, he built mills in Ox-ford (now Web-ster),\\nMass-a-chu-setts, and thus gave a start to that work\\nfor which New EuQ^-land has so lonor been famed.\\nIn 1 79 1, a mill in which cloth or wool was made,\\nwas put up in Hart-forcl; and in three years more\\none was built at By-field, Mass-a-chu-setts.\\nThe first rail-way in the land was built at Quin-\\ncy, Mass-a-chu-setts, by Thom-as H. Per-kins and\\nGrid-ley Bry-ant, in 1826. The cars were drawn\\nby hors-es, and the road was used to take the great\\nblocks of stone which were dug from the earth in\\nthat place, to the sea where they could be placed\\nin ships and sent to all parts of the world.\\nIn 1798, E-li Whit-ney, who did not make\\nmuch gold by his gin, asked the chief men of\\nthe land to let him make the fire-arms used by their\\nmen and by this work, we are glad to say, he grew\\nto be a rich man.\\nS. F. B. Morse, who first showed the world how\\nto talk through wires, was a New Eno -land man.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "i66 History of New England.\\nHe was born at Charles-town A-pril 27, 1791, and\\ndied April 2, 1872.\\nIn 1 8 14, Sam-u-el Colt was born in Hart-ford;\\nand in the years to come his name was near-ly as\\nwell known as E-li Whit-ney s. When a lad of\\nfour-teen, he ran off to sea and on that voy-age,\\nwhile near In-dia, he made a small pis-tol of wood,\\nwhich was the first step to-wards the Colt s re-vol-\\nver, the best fire-arm known at the time. But Mr.\\nColt did not rest on the praise this brought him.\\nHe made long strides in sci-ence, and m tmie made\\na kind of gun, you might call it, which was worked\\nun-der the wa-ter; and would keep the foe from a\\nlarge town, if used in the right place. These guns\\nare well known now, and men in all parts of the\\nworld have made them but when Mr. Colt thought\\nof his they were new to all. He taught men to\\nwrap the wires which bring our news from o-ver the\\nsea, in a way which keeps them from harm and rust.\\nIn 1825 E-ras-tus Fair-banks, of Mass-a-chu-\\nsetts, put up his fac-to-ry m St. Johns-bu-ry, Ver-\\nmont, where he made the scales now so well known\\nall o-ver the world. Here it is still to be found\\nand from its doors go forth scales to Rus-sia and all\\nstrangle lands, with the weisfhts which are used in\\nthose lands, as well as all those used in A-mer-i-ca.\\nThe first sew-ing ma-chine was made by a Mass-", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "Bright Mill of Nczv E}i gland. 167\\na-chu-setts man, E-li-as Howe; a poor man who\\nsaw and felt for the wives who worked so hard near\\nhis home, and made up his mind to help them if he\\ncould. While he worked all day in a ma-chine\\nshop in Bos-ton, he thought out the parts which at\\nnight he made at home. When the ma-chine was\\nfirst done, in 1841, he had a hard time to get men to\\nsee how much work it would save their wives but\\nin 1854 th^ world owned him to be a great man,\\nand in a few years from that time he had gained\\nmuch wealth.\\nThe fish caught by the men of New Eng-land\\nhave done much to-wards mak-ing the land rich.\\nAt first they were used for food when naught else\\nwas to be had, and at times drove death from their\\ndoors so the cod-fisli w^as made the sign of New\\nEng-land. The men had one hung in their court-\\nhouse when they first came to these shores, and to\\nthis day it still is seen on the walls of the State\\nHouse m Bos-ton.\\nIt is said that the In-dian name for New Ene-\\nland was Km-shon, which means fish and a fish\\nmade of wood was sent by the In-dians of that place\\nto those in the West, as a pledge that they were\\nfriends.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "1 68 History of New England.\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\\nWAR OF 1 812.\\nYou know that John Ad-ams ruled in our land\\nwhen Wash-ing-ton s term had ceased. He was a\\nwise, good man, but made some laws which were\\nnot liked and one of these was to seize and send\\noff those men who came to our land from strange\\nports, though no one could prove they had done\\nwi one. This made him foes both here and o-ver\\nthe sea, and so he was pres-i-dent but one term, that\\nis but four years. While Jef-fer-son, the next pres-i-\\ndent, ruled, a war of France with Eng-land broke\\nout, and we had a hard time to keep out of the way of\\nboth. The Enor-lish King: said his men had a riorht\\nto search our ships when they came near them, to\\nsee if we had his men on board. As we spoke the\\nEng-lish tongue, sad things came of this, for two or\\nthree times the whole crew of our ships were thus\\nta-ken and none left on board to fetch them home.\\nSome years be-fore this, Frank-lin had said that\\nThe war of the rev-o-lu-tion has caused a rev-o-lu-\\ntion but the war to make us free is yet to be\\nfought.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "War of 1812.\\n169\\nNew Eng4and and the States on the coast had\\nhard times in those days, for most of their wealth\\n.MAX OF lU)S-TOX IN iSl\\nwas made through their ships; but tney were not\\nfor war, and tried hard to keep our land from one-", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "I 70 History of Nczu England.\\nIt did come, though, in spite of their words; and,\\nwhen it did, New Encr-land men and New Encr-\\nland gold did more to help it than all the rest of the\\nland. The In-dians in the north-west, then not\\nmuch known, took part with the foe, and thus made\\nthe fio hts on land hard for us. You know Eno-land\\nowned all of Can-a-da, and so could bring her men\\nand land them on our shores just north of our line.\\nOn the first of June, 18 13, a Brit-ish ship called\\nthe Shan-non sailed near Bos-ton, and sent word\\nto Cap-tain Law-rence, of the Ches-a-peake, to come\\nout and fight. The note which told Law-rence that\\nhe could choose time and place did not reach him.\\nHis ship was not in trim for a fight, and some of his\\nmen were drunk in the streets of Bos-ton on the\\nmorn when the word came; but he called them on\\nboard and sailed to-wards the Shan-non. The\\nfight, which was seen from the hills near Bos-ton,\\nlast-ed but a quar-ter of an hour; but in that short\\ntime the brave Law-rence was shot. His last words\\nwere, Tell the men to fight fas-ter and not give up\\nthe ship! It seems sad that such a brave man lost\\nhis life, and yet no good came to us from the fight,\\nfor the Shan-non won, with a much less loss of\\nmen than the Ches-a-peake.\\nOn the same day De-ca-tur, a brave man who\\nhad fought much on the sea, was chased in-to New", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "JJ cjr of I Si 2. 171\\nLon-don, with his three ships, the Mac-e-do-nian,\\nU-nit-ed States, and Hor-net, bv a lars^e force\\nof Brit-ish ships. Here they were forced to stay till\\nthe end of the war. The Brit-ish tried hard to take\\nthem, and to fire the town but the men from near\\nand far came to help them, and kept up such a bold\\nfront that the foe could not come near.\\nA nice sto-ry is told of a good wife of that time,\\nwho did her part in sav-ing the town. You know\\nthat to fire large guns, such as are used in forts,\\nsmall flan-nel bags are used to hold the pow-der.\\nNow in this siege, which last-ed a long time, all\\nthese bags were used up, and more were need-ed to\\nkeep the foe at bay. The fact was told to a Mr.\\nLa-tham, who said he would get more. When he\\nhad done all he could in that Ime, he called on Mrs.\\nBai-ley, who lived near hmi, and said, I have\\ncalled to see if you have an-y spare flan-nel m the\\nhouse the men at the fort are short of it. I have\\nsent them all I could buy in town, and still it is not\\ne-nough. If you have an-y to spare I should like to\\nget it of you.\\nWell, I don t know, said she, I have none in\\nthe house, but I guess I can find some for you, if\\nyou will wait till I come back. Then she went to\\nher friends and got all they could spare but when", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "I 72 History of Nczv England.\\nshe came back with her load, Mr. La-tham said\\nmore was still need-ed.\\nYou shall have my skirt then, said the brave\\ndame, as she cut the string with which it was tied,\\nand let it drop to the floor. As she stepped out of\\nit, she add-ed, It was a warm, new one, and I hate\\nto part with it, for I don t know when I shall have\\none like it but I don t care for that all I want is to\\nsee it kill the Eng-lish! This brave act was told to\\nthe men in the fort, and made Mrs. Bai-ley known\\nfar and wide in the land, while both great and brave\\nmen called to see her. She lived till she was nine-\\nty years of age, and then met with a sad death,\\ncaused by her clothes tak-ing fire, on Jan-u-a-ry 10,\\n1851.\\nIn Ju-ly, 1 8 14, Sir Thom-as Har-dy took East-\\nport, Maine, and burned the ship Ad-ams, at\\nH amp-den, on the Pe-nob-scot while Cas-tme, a few\\nmiles down the stream, was tak-en but the fort was\\nfirst burned by the A-mer-i-cans, who then fled.\\nThen a large part of Maine was held by the Brit-ish.\\nAt this time there was a great sea-fight which\\ntook place on Lake E-rie of which we must speak,\\nthough it did not take place on New Eng-land s\\nwa-ter but the brave man whose brain planned it\\nand whose sword won the vic-to-ry was a Rhode\\nIs-land-er. His name was Ol-i-ver Haz-ard Per-ry,", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "irar 0/1812. [73\\nand he was born in South Kings-ton, Rhode Is-land.\\nIn this fight he took all the foe s ships, a thing\\nwhich had not been done be-fore. It was this brave\\nman, who when he had won that great fight, sent\\nback to the head of the war in Wash-ino-ton, the\\nplain words, We have met the en-e-my, and they\\nare ours\\nThe war went on for two and a half years, and\\nwhen at last peace was made all were glad in Eng-\\nland as well as in this land. In it we gained what\\nFrank-lin said we should, our free-dom.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "1 74 History of New England.\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nNANTUCKET.\\nA SMALL is-land not far south from the coast of\\nMass-a-chu-setts should claim a share of our time, if\\nwe would be just to all New Eng-land s sons for\\nhere were born and brought up some of her most\\nbrave and no-ble men. The first Eng-lish-man who\\nsaw it was Gos-nold, who sailed by its shores in a\\nsmall bark in 1602.\\nWe hear no more said of the place till 1641,\\nwhen the whole is-land was sold to Thom-as May-\\nhew and his son, by Lord Sterl-ing. At this tmie\\nthe is-land, with Mar-tha s Vine-yard, was part of\\nthe New York grant.\\nIn 1659, Thom-as Ma-cy, who lived at Sal-is-\\nbu-ry, Mass-a-chu-setts, was fined for hav-ing four\\nQua-kers come in-to his house out of a hard show-er.\\nThe Pu-ri-tans were hard men, who had no love for\\nthe poor Qua-kers, as you know and this act of\\nMa-cy s was thought by them to be a sin so for it\\nthey made his life so hard that he was glad to go to\\nsome place where he could do as he pleased.\\nIn the fall of that year, he took his fam-i-ly, and", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "Xautiicket. 175\\nwith the help of Ed-ward Star-buck sailed in a small\\no-pen boat to Nan-tuck-et. They made friends with\\nthe In-dians, and lived in peace and qui-et with\\nthem. In the next spring, Ed-ward Star-buck went\\nback to Mass-a-chu-setts, and brought eight more\\nfam-i-lies to Nan-tuck-et. Then the land was made\\nin-to ten shares, and each man bought a share.\\nThese were Tris-tram Cof-fin, Rich-ard Swam,\\nThom-as Bar-nard, Pe-ter Cof-fin, Chris-to-pher\\nHus-sey, Ste-phen Green-leaf, John Swam, and\\nWil-liam Pile. They felt the need of more men on\\nthe is-land so it was thought best for each to take a\\npart-ner, who with his wife and chil-dren should live\\non his tenth of the land. Each took some friend\\nso the small band on Nan-tuck-et was from the first\\na brioht and u-nit-ed one.\\nThese next ten men were John Smith, Na-than-\\niel Star-buck, Rob-ert Pike, Thom-as Look, Rob-ert\\nBar-nard, James Cof-fin, Tris-tram Cof-fin, jun-ior,\\nThom-as Cole-man, Ed-ward Star-buck, and Thom-\\nas May-hew.\\nWhen the In-dians had sold their right to the\\nland, the white men felt it best to let them till as\\nmuch as they liked. Like those on the main land,\\nthey did not like to work and at times would have\\nstarved but for the kind care of the whites. There\\nwas one bright In-dian in their midst, whom the", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "I 76 History of Nczu England.\\nmen chose as a kind of judge for the tribe. He was\\ncalled Es-quire Ka-doo-da, and had to see that\\nthe laws were kept.\\nIt is said that he was fond of the whip; and at\\ntimes when one In-dian found fault with an-oth-er,\\nhe had both whipped, at first, and then heard what\\nwas to be said. This did not tend to bring him\\nmuch work, but has sent down to our time the say-\\ning, Ka-doo-da s laws, which means a just, quick\\ndeal-ino- with bad folks.\\nAs there was not much land cleared at first,\\neach man kept but a few sheep, cows, and hors-es\\none ereat tract was fenced off for a corn-field, and\\nthis was cut up in-to shares for each house.\\nThe first mill of which we hear was built in\\n1666, to grind corn. This was moved by wa-ter;\\nbut la-ter both horse and wind mills were used.\\nPe-ter Fol-ger was called from Mar-tha s Vine-yard\\nto keep this mill, and his toll was fixed at two quarts\\nof corn for each bush-el he ground this was to pay\\nhim for his work, as not much gold found its way to\\nthe is-land in those days. When Mr. Fol-ger was\\nnot at work in his mill, he wove, or talked with the\\nIn-dians for the white men, as he had learned their\\ntongue. His son E-le-a-zer made the shoes worn in\\nthe place.\\nFish were found in the sea near the is-land, and", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "N^antiLcket. 177\\nmade a large part of the food of the place. It is\\nsaid the first whale caught by Nan-tuck-et men,\\ncame to its shores and stayed there three days be-fore\\nit was caught. The men were much pleased with\\nthe strange fish, and tried to think of some way to\\ncatch him at last they made a kind of spear with\\nwhich they killed him. For near-ly two hun-dred\\nyears, Nan-tuck-et gained most of her rich-es from\\nher whale ships.\\nIn the Rev-o-lu-tion, this is-land had a hard\\ntime for its men were most of them Qua-kers, and\\nso thought it wrong to fight. The Eng-lish knew\\nthis, so came and took what they liked from the\\nhous-es on the is-land, as none would fight them off.\\nThe wives of the first men were wise, good moth-ers,\\nand taught their chil-dren at home so it was ma-ny\\nyears be-fore a school-house was raised in the place\\nbut some of the best sea cap-tains in the coun-try\\nhave come from Nan-tuck-et, and were taught by\\nthose brave wo-men.\\nThe seas which wash its shores take each year\\nsmall bits of the isle and grind them down in the\\no-cean so it is thought by those who make such\\nthings a stud-y that in some far-off day, no mark will\\nbe left to tell where this fair isle once lay.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "17\\nHistory of Nczu England.\\nCHAPTER XXXV.\\nA IIME OF REST AND PEACE.\\nHOUSE OF EM-ER-SON, CON-CORD, MASS-A-CHU-SETTS.\\nWhen the war of 1812 was at an end, New\\nEng-land had once more a time of rest and peace.\\nHer boys and girls were taught, m the same plain\\nway, the sound sense and strong views of God which\\ntheir fathers had.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "A Time of Rest and Peace.\\n179\\nIn the first part of the nine-teenth cen-tu-ry, a\\nnumber of babes were born whose names are now\\nknown to the end of the world. Ralph W al-do\\nEm-er-son, the first of these, was born m Bos-ton,\\nMay 25, 1803. The end of his course at Har-vard\\nc a me in 1821.\\nThen he preached\\nfor a time l)ut m\\n1832 he went to\\nEng-land, and\\nwhen he came\\nback lived a qui-et\\nlife at Con-cord,\\nwhere he wrote\\nthe books which\\nhave made him\\nknown to all wise v\\nmen. He died in I\\n1882.\\nN a-t han-iel\\nHaw-thorne was\\nborn at Sa-lem, on\\nJu-ly 4, 1804. He was at Bow-doin with Frank-lin\\nPierce, who, when Pres-i-dent of our land, thought of\\nhis old friend and sent him as U-nit-ed States Con-\\nsul to Liv-er-pool, Eng-land. Haw-thorne was a\\nshy man and it is said that when Pierce asked him\\nRALPH WALDO EM-ER-SON.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "i8o\\nHistory of New England.\\nto go, his first words were Will the man who goes\\nhave to talk much? His books are the best of\\ntheir kind in the land and you will be sure to like\\nthem when you can read them well. He did not\\nHEN-RY W. LONG-FEL-LOW, AND HIS HOME IN PORT-LAND.\\ndie in Con-cord, where he had lived so long, but up\\nin the New Hamp-shire hills. Frank-lin Pierce\\nwas with him in his last hours, and went with the", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "A Time of Rest and Peaee.\\ni8i\\nlong line of sad friends to see him laid in his hill-\\n[d(\\nnear the old Con-cord bat-tie-field he\\nsiae grave,\\nloved so well.\\nIn 1807, when Em-er-son and Haw-thorne were\\nstill small boys, clad in girl s clothes, two babes were\\nborn in New Eng-land\\nwhose names are known\\nand loved in all parts\\nof the world. One was\\nHen-ry W. Long-fel-\\nlow, who was born at\\nPort-land, Maine, on\\nFeb-ru-a-ry 27th, of that\\nyear. He was a bright\\nbov, and so fond of his\\nbooks that he went to\\nBow-cloin Col-legewhen\\non-ly four-teen years of\\nage, and at the end of\\nhis course in 1825, took\\nhigh hon-ors. Mr.\\nLong-fel-low died a few\\nyears a-go, and more\\nkind thino^s were said, and more tears shed for New\\nEng-land s first po-et, than are spent up-on a King\\nor Czar.\\nThe oth-er babe came to a plain Oua-ker home\\nJOHN G. WHIT-TI-ER.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "l82\\nHistory of JVeza England.\\nin Hav-er-hill, Mass-a-chu-setts, and is an old man\\nnow but his name is loved more dear-ly as the\\nyears pass by and we fear each year, as De-cem-ber\\nbrings his birth-day to our minds, that it may be the\\nlast. New Eng-land is, and has a right to be,\\n\\\\VHIT-TI-ER S LIRTII-PLACE, NEAR HAV-ER-HlLL, MASS- A-CIIU- SET iS.\\nproud of her dear Oua-ker po-et, John G. Whit-\\nti-er. When a boy he worked on the farm, but this\\ndid not keep him from his books, and m time he was\\ncalled to hold some of the best seats m tiie land.\\nHe thought all men should be free, and was a o reat", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "A Time of Rest and Peace. 8\\no\\nfriend to the poor slaves in the South. Har-ri-et\\nBeech-er Stowe, a New Eng-land wo-man, whose\\nname is known all through the world, also did a\\ngreat deal for their cause.\\nOl-i-ver W. Holmes was born at Cam-bridge,\\nMass-a-chu-setts, Aug-ust 29, 1809. When his\\ncourse at Har-varcl was done, he went to Eu-rope,\\nand in time came back to heal the sick and mend\\nthe brok-en bones in Bos-ton and its near towns.\\nBut Dr. Holmes did not give his whole time to\\nsuch tasks. He found time to write bright and\\nwit-ty things, and through his pen he is best known\\nto the world. You, my young friends, must have\\nheard of the One Hoss Shay, for all girls and\\nboys like to read that.\\nJames Rus-sell Low-ell, the po-et, was al-so born in\\nCam-bridge, in 1 8 1 9. His name is known to the whole\\nworld and not on-ly Bos-ton, but all of New Eng-\\nland takes a just pride in Mr. Low-ell s fame.\\nAs you grow in years, you will read the fine\\nthings which these, and ma-ny more of New Eng-\\nland s sons and daugh-ters have writ-ten and will\\nthen see, as you can-not now, why they have a place\\nin the his-to-ry of our land. War and brave men s\\ndeeds do not make up the whole his-to-ry of a place.\\nThe men who think and write good books, those\\nwho find out new ways of do-ing things, and those", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "I 84 History of Nczu England.\\nwho teach us to hve brave and pure hves, are the\\nones in fact best known to the world, and best loved\\nby all men.\\nIn 1820, Maine asked to be a State; but the\\nmen of the South did not wish her to be one. At\\nthat time the slave trade was much thought of by\\nboth North and South, and there were just as ma-ny\\nStates which did not think it right to keep slaves as\\nthere were that did. If Maine came in as a State,\\nshe would of course do all she could to stop the\\nslave trade. At last the men on both sides made a\\nline which reached from sea to sea, and said that no\\nslaves should be kept north of it then Maine was\\nmade a State.\\nStill she had a care which vexed her much. If\\nyou will look at your map you will see that most of\\nthe line which bounds the State on the north-west\\nand west, lies next to Can-a-da. This line was the\\ncause of her troub-le. A large lot of land, more\\nthan the whole State of Ver-mont, was claimed by\\nher, and by Can-a-da too and they each thought\\nthey had the right to it. At last Dan-iel Web-ster,\\na great and wise man of New Eng-land, and Lord\\nAsh-bur-ton, from Eng-land, drew a line which gave\\nto Can-a-da five thous-and, and to Mame sev-en\\nthous-and square miles.\\nOne strange thing took place in 1826. On the", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "^maik..^j^=tJC.iUlu;at^l.,.. 4iJ.l ilM]l.i:iii:L-i.!^i.i;:i;i^;\\n;POKT IN MAINE.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "iS6\\nHistory of Nczv England.\\n4th of Ju-ly, just fif-ty years from the date of our\\nland s birth, two of its first pres-i-dents died. John\\nAd-ams and Thom-as Jef-fer-son had both signed\\nthe Dec-la-ra-tion, both been pres-i-dents, and each\\nin his way had done much for our land. Now their\\ntime to die had come and at near-ly the same hour,\\nthey both passed to the next world, one in Bos-ton\\nand one in Vir-gin-\\nia. As the sun _^\\nset, Ad-ams heard\\nthe noise of fire-\\narms in the streets\\nof Bos-ton. He\\ncalled a friend to\\nhis side, and sent\\nword by him to tell\\nthe men to hold\\nfast the rights the\\nF ou r t h had\\nbrought them and\\nthe cheers they sent up as his words were told them,\\nwere heard by the sick man just as he closed his\\neyes in death.\\nJef-fer-son heard a gun in the far-off town, and\\nhis last words as he passed a-way were: Is this the\\nFourth\\nIn 181 7, Hen-ry D. Tho-reau was born in Con-\\nl7^-?^^?figtgi^\\nHOUSE WHERE HOR-ACE GREE-LEY WENT TO SCHOOL.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "Dorr War. 187\\ncord, Mass-a-chu-setts. He was clone with his course\\nat Har-varcl in 1837; then he taught school for a\\nwhile. Tho-reau was a strange, shy man, who wrote\\ncharm-ins: books, and lived a lone life in the woods.\\nHe thought meats were not good food for men, so\\nhe lived on fruits and the roots of plants. He died\\nin 1862.\\nOn Feb-ru-a-ry 3, 181 1, Hor-ace Gree-ley was\\nborn at Am-herst, New H amp-shire. He worked\\non his fath-er s farm while a lad, as Whit-ti-er had\\ndone and gained his first love for books at the\\nsmall school-house near his home.\\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\\nDORR WAR.\\nOne thing which took place in Rhode Is-lancl\\no-ver for-ty years a-go should have a place in this\\nbook. It was the Dorr war, which at first was\\nthought to be a grave thing, but at last passed off\\nwith-out the loss of a man. You know that King-\\nCharles 1 1 gave a char-ter to the State ma-ny years\\na-go this was a good one when it was made, but\\nthe State had grrown since that time and now it did\\nnot fill the need of the men. In the days of Charles", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "i8S\\nHistory of N ezv England.\\nII. New-port was a large ci-ty, while Prov-i-dence\\n7/as but a small town so more men were sent from\\nNew-port to help make the laws than from the last\\nnamed place. That is, by the old char-ter six men\\nwere sent by New-port, while on-ly four went from\\nProv-i-dence. This was of course all right while\\nNew-port was the larg-er\\nci-ty but in 1846 Prov-\\ni-dence had twen-ty-three\\nthous-and, while New-\\nport had but eight thous-\\nand folks so you see\\nwhy Prov-i-dence did not\\nthink the old char-ter\\njust. By it, too, on-ly the\\nmen who owned land,\\nand their old-est sons,\\ncould vote and this was\\nnot liked.\\nThe men of the State\\nurged the law-mak-ers to\\nchanore these thino-s in the\\nchar-ter so that it should be more just to the whole\\npeo-ple, but could not move them to the step so at\\nlength a few of them took things in-to their own\\nhands. They met in Oc-to-ber, 1841, made a new\\ncon-sti-tu-tion, and gave it to the men of the State.\\nDAN-IEL WEB-STER.\\n1", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "Dorr War. 189\\nIn A-pril, 1842, they chose Thom-as W. Dorr for\\ngov-er-nor, and on the 3cr of May, Dorr with his\\nfriends tried to take change of the State.\\nSam-u-el King, who had been made gov-er-\\nnor by the old char-ter, would not let him do this\\nso arms were ta-ken up, and the Dorr men were\\nforced to give up their cause June 25th, when\\nThom-as Dorr was caught, and thrown in-to jail.\\nThus the war, which all the rest of the land lauo^hed\\nat, and from the size of the State called A tem-\\npest in a tea-pot, was at an end. But it did what\\nthe Dorr men tried for, caused the con-sti-tu-tion\\nto be changed the next year for one more just\\nto all.\\nWhile on Rhode Is-land, one man well known to\\nfame, who was born and brought up m that small\\nState, should find a place m our thoughts. This is\\nMath-ew Cal-braith Per-ry, born at South Kings-\\nton, whose fath-er was broth-er to Ol-i-ver Haz-ard\\nPer-ry. He was the Com-man-der of the fleet\\nwhich first made Ja-pan friends with our land. A\\nfine bronze stat-ue of this he-ro is to be seen near\\nthe old stone mill at New-port.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "I go\\nHistory of Neiv England.\\nCHAPTER XXXVII.\\nTHOSE IN NEW ENGLAND WHO WRITE FOR\\nTHE GIRLS AND BOYS.\\nThere is no place in our land which can boast of\\nso ma-ny good writ-ers of girls and boys books as\\nNew Eng-land. You\\nall have read Lit-tle\\nMen or Lit-tle Wo-\\nmen, or at least have\\nheard them read, and\\nmost of you know\\nthat Lou-is-a May\\nAl-cott wrote them.\\nYou know, too, how\\nsad we all felt, a few\\nmonths a-go, when\\nthe news of her death\\nreached our ears.\\nMiss Al-cott was born\\nm Mass-a-chu-setts m\\n1833. At the time\\nof the Civ-il War she\\nwent South and helped take care of the sick and\\nMlbb LOlj-Ib A MAY \\\\L-C011.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "Those ill New England ivJio rite for the Girls and Boys. 191\\nwound-ed and when she came home she wrote a\\nbook which told of these sick sol-diers.\\nOne of the most charm-ins: writ-ers of mrls books\\nin our land, is Mrs. Ad-e-line D. T. Whit-ney.\\nShe was born in Bos-ton in the year 1824, so is\\nTHE OR-CHARD HOUSE, CON-CORD, MASS- A-CHU-SETTS. HOME OF THE AL-COTTS.\\nnow quite an old la-dy but she still writes the\\npure, sweet sto-ries of bright home life which have\\nal-ways come from her pen. Mrs. Whit-ney s name\\nis known and loved by the folk a-cross the sea, as\\nwell as those in our own land and all who have", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "192\\nHi story of New England.\\nread her books u-nite in the hope that ma-ny long\\nyears may still be hers.\\nThom-as Bai-ley Al-drich was born at Ports-\\nmouth, New Hamp-shire, in 1836. When a small\\nboy he went to live in New Or-leans; but when still\\nMRS. A. D. T. WHIT-NEY S HOME? MIL-TON, MASS-A-CHU-SETTS.\\nquite young he came back North, and has lived in\\nNew Eng-land most of the time since. His book\\ncalled The Sto-iy of a Bad Boy, who, by the way,\\nwas-n t bad at all, is one of the best books ev-er\\nwrit-ten for boys. Mr. Al-drich is the ed-i-tor of a", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Those in Nezv England zvho Write for the Girls and Boys. 193\\nofrown folks mao^-a-zine, known as The At-lai^-tic\\nMonth-ly. You have on page 194 a pic-ture of his\\nstud-y, where he writes ma-ny of the nice things\\nwhich your fath-ers and moth-ers hke so much to\\nread.\\nOne oth-er writ-er we must speak of, who, al-\\nthough not born in New\\nEng-land, is clamied by\\nher as her own. This is\\nJohn T. Trow-bridge\\nwho was the ed-i-tor of a\\ngirls and boys mag-a-zine\\ncalled Our Young Folks.\\nThis was read by your\\nfath-ers and moth-ers when\\nthey were young and a\\ngrand mag-a-zine it was.\\nMr. Trow-bridge wrote\\nsome of the best things\\nto be found in its pa-ges.\\nHe was born in Og-den, New York, Sep-tem-ber\\n17, 1827, and lived on a farm while a boy; but he\\nworked hard and taught him-self both Ger-man and\\nFrench. He now lives at Ar-ling-ton, Mass-a-chu-\\nsetts, a small qui-et town not far from Bos-ton. Mr.\\nTrow-bridge is a po-et as well as a prose writ-er; and\\nhis po-ems are such bright sun-ny bits of work, which\\nTHOM-AS BAI-LEY AL-DRICH.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "94\\nHistory of Nczv England.\\ntreat of real life, that you will be sure to en-joy them\\nwhen you can read them.\\nBe-sides these there are ma-ny more men and\\n.vo-men who are well known as writ-ers and ar-tists,\\nT. B. AL-DRICH S STUD-Y.\\nwho be-long to New Eng-land but we have not the\\nspace to speak of them here. As you grow old-er\\nyou will learn to love this land more and more as", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "Thinos luJiich Led to the Civil JFcrr\\n195\\nvou hear of all the brio^ht and toocI folks who were\\nborn on its soil.\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nTHINGS WHICH LED TO THE CIVIL WAR.\\nWhen New Eng-lancl was still young, slaves\\nwere kept in most of the homes of the rich to do the\\nwork of the house\\nbut soon these men\\nsaw the sin of this,\\nand one by one freed\\ntheir slaves till none\\nwere left in the place.\\nThen these good\\nmen felt it quite as\\nwrong for the South\\nto keep its slaves, and\\ntold those who lived\\nthere so w^hich did\\nnot tend to make\\nfriends of that class.\\nThe North had\\nfreed its slaves why\\nshould not the South do the same\\nJ. T. TROW-BRIDGE.\\n|il{{|,l.i|ll", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "190\\nHistory of Nczv England.\\nSome men in that part of our land would glad-ly\\nhave done this but where could they get the men\\nto work on their great fields of cot-ton, su-gar, rice,\\nand to-bac-co White men, they thought, could\\nnot stand the hot sun as the blacks did then\\nHOME OF J. i TROW-BKIDGE.\\nthey had paid great sums of gold for these their\\nslaves, and no one likes to throw gold a-way, as they\\nfelt they must do if they freed them.\\nFor years there were hard words be-tween New", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "Thinfrs luhich Led to the Civil ]\\\\^ar\\n197\\nEng-land and the South for our men, with their\\nstern, just way of look-ing at things, did not in the\\nleast fear to say just what they thought of the\\nmat-ter.\\nO-ver fif-ty years a-go, a young New Eng-land\\nman who wrote for the pa-pers was called to Bal-ti-\\nmore to work on a pa-per in that place. He was\\nmuch shocked by the\\ngreat slave pens which\\nmet his eye at each turn,\\nand hunofout their sio^ns\\non some of the best\\nstreets.\\nThese he saw were\\nfilled from the ships\\nwhich brought the poor\\nblacks from Af-ri-ca\\nand the slaves were sold\\nfrom them to go south\\nor west in great droves,\\nquite as he had seen cows or pigs sold in Bos-ton.\\nHe was a brave young man, and he knew his cause\\nwas a right one so he urged the men of that place\\nto stop their sin-ful slave trade. His words had no\\npow-er but to cause him to be thrust in-to jail. When\\nhe was let out he made his way back to Boston,\\nwhere he was met with joy by the whole ci-ty.\\nSEAL OF NEW H AMP- SHIRE.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "198\\nHistory of Nezu England.\\nBut Wil-liam Lloyd Gar-ri-son, for that was the\\nyoung man s name, did not for-get the thmgs he\\nhad seen m the South and in time was at the head\\nof a kmd of chil^ which had the slave trade for its\\nchief thought. This was formed on what was known\\nHOME OF T. 11. AL-DRICH.\\nas Nig-ger Hill, Bos-ton, in a school-house, un-der\\nthe Af-ri-can Bap-tist Church, on the 6th of Jan-u-a-\\nry, 1832.\\nSome of the men of Bos-ton at this time w^ere", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "Things ivJiich Led to the Civil War. 199\\nfriends of the slave trade and one night in Oc-to-\\nber, three years af-ter this ckib had been formed,\\nthey burst in up-on one of its meet-ings while Miss\\nMa-ry S. Par-ker was pray-ing. With shouts and\\nyells they caught up the Bi-bles and Hymn books,\\nand threw them in-to the street. Then they cast a\\ncoil of rope o-ver Gar-ri-son s head, and tried to drag\\nhim through the streets. They were at last stopped\\nby the ci-ty of-fi-cers, who had just reached the spot.\\nGar-ri-son was at the time ed-i-tor of The Lib-e7^-a-\\ntor, the great an-ti-sla-ver-y pa-per of A-mer-i-ca.\\nAt the time the line was drawn north of which\\nno slaves should be kept, the men on this side\\na-greed to give up to their own-ers those slaves who\\nwere found on their land that is, the slaves who\\nran a-way to the North. Now, in 1842, a slave from\\nVir-gin-ia, named George Lat-i-mer, came to Bos-\\nton, in hopes the men of that place would not send\\nhim back to his mas-ter. Those men who were\\nfriends of the South took him and thrust him in-to\\njail for they said they had the law on then side.\\nA great meet-mg was held in Fan-eu-il Hall, where\\nspeech af-ter speech was made by the best men m\\nNew Eno;-land. Let-ters were read from such men\\nas John Quin-cy Ad-ams and George Ban-croft,\\nand the men were so roused by the thought that the\\npoor slave was to be sent back to his hard life when", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "200 History of N cw England,\\nhe had got so far from his old home, that at last a\\nbrave and good man said he should stay, and so\\npaid his mas-ter m Vir-gin-ia the price he asked for\\nhis slave.\\nNow the whole of New Eng-land was full of the\\nAn-ti-sla-ver-y Cause, as it was called and John\\nG. Whit-ti-er wrote po-em af-ter po-em m its cause\\nwhile Wen-dell Phil-lips, The-o-dore Par-ker, Dr.\\nSam-u-el G. Howe, and Charles Sum-ner, then\\na young man, did all they could. These men\\nthouo^ht the slaves who came to them for aid ouo^ht\\nto be free and so they formed what they called the\\nFree Soil Par-ty. For a time they had their own\\nway but the South was not at rest, and in the fall\\nof 1850, Mil-lard Fill-more, who was then Pres-i-\\ndent, signed the Fu-gi-tive Slave Law. This law\\nmade it the right of an-y man to take his slave in\\nwhat part of the land he should find him, and none\\ncould stop him.\\nNow the own-ers could take their men in what\\npart of the land they were found. This act made\\nthe New Eng-land men ver-y an-gry, and a great\\nmeet-ing was held in Fan-eu-il Hall, Oc-to-ber 3,\\n1850, at which great men spoke. Mr. Sum-ner\\nmade a speech which was grand and brave, and for\\nyears to come will not pass out of men s minds.\\nFour years from that time a like scene took", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "TJic Civil War. 201\\nplace in the same hall. An-tho-ny Burns, a slave,\\nhad been ta-ken un-der the Fu-gi-tive Slave Act,\\nand lodged in jail. The men did not feel it right in\\nGod s sicfht to let him oo back to his mas-ter but\\nthe law ruled, and on June 2d he was ta-ken from\\nhis cell, and in the midst of a great square of armed\\nmen he was marched off to the ship which was to\\ntake him back. On all sides the hous-es were\\ndraped in black, and as the men moved on, the bells\\nwere tolled, as they are for the bod-y of some great\\nman. In this way the folk of that ci-ty tried to\\nshow how sad to them was the whole slave trade.\\nIt was not strange that this strife should m time\\nend in war; and in the sprmg of 1861, when Fort\\nSum-ter fell, the men of New Eng-land were glad to\\ntake up arms in so good a cause.\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nTHE CIVIL WAR.\\nWhen the war came which the wise men of all\\nparts of our land had looked for so long, it found\\nNew Eng-land read-y with gold and men to help it\\non and Mass-a-chu-setts may well be proud of the\\nfact that she sent the first men to the field.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "IVK COMK TO SI -.K I A-PA M11,K.\\n202", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "The Civil U^ar\\n20\\nGov-er-nor An-drew, of that State, like the oth-er\\nwise men, had seen what would come so, in a still\\nway, had formed a few reg-i-ments of men in Bos-ton\\nto be used in case of need. On Mon-day morn,\\nA-pril 15, 1 86 1, news came through the Bos-ton\\npa-pers that the war was to be and on the next day,\\nthe men of the Sixth Mass-a-chu-setts met on the\\nCom-mon. Wed-nes-day eve, A-pril i 7th, they left\\nfor Wash-ing-ton, which, with the aid of the few\\ntroops of the ci-ty, they kept from the hands of the\\nfoe for a whole week, while aid from the North was\\non its way to them.\\nOn their way to Wash-ing-ton, these troops had\\nto pass through Bal-ti-more as the trains to the\\nSouth and those to the North did not leave from\\nthe same de-pot. They were in fact a mile a-part\\nbut as there was a horse car road from one to the\\noth-er, it was thought best to take each car and have\\nit drawn a-cross by means of hors-es.\\nIt was well known that some of the men in the\\nci-ty were friends of the South, and would do all\\nthey could to keep the troops back from Wash-ing-\\nton. The first eight cars made their way through\\nthe crowd with ease but the ninth, which held the\\n7th com-pa-ny, was met by shouts and jeers. Bricks\\nand great stones were hurled throuo^h the car blinds\\nby the mob, and at last shots were sent with the", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "204 History of N ew England.\\nstones. The men in the car had been warned of\\nthese things, and were bade not to fire back till some\\none in their midst was hit. At last one brave man\\nhad his thumb shot off; then they were told to lie\\nlow on the floor of the car, load their guns, and fire\\nat the crowd. In this way they at last reached the\\nplace where they were to change cars.\\nThose who passed through the ci-ty af-ter this\\nhad a still more try-ing time. To be sure, May-or\\nBrown came to their aid and marched with them for\\na short time for they were now forced to make\\ntheir way on foot, as the rails had been torn up by\\nthe mad mob, but, as Cap-tain Fol-lans-bee said,\\nthe stones and balls came too near his head and he\\nleft. Mar-shal Kane, the head of the ci-ty po-lice,\\ndid much to help them through this then* first taste\\nof war and blood-shed.\\nNow it was not thought safe to have the troops\\npass .through Bal-ti-more on their way South, so\\nPres-i-dent Lin-coln sent word for them to go\\na-round the ci-ty. Hence it was that the Mass-a-\\nchu-setts 8th, which left Bos-ton A-pril i8th, just\\none day la-ter than the 6th, took a whole week long-\\ner to reach Wash-ing-ton. The New York 7th were\\nkept back in the same way, and reached Wash-ing-\\nton at the same time.\\nGov-er-nor Sprague, at the head of the Rhode", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "1 he Civil War\\n205\\nIs-land 2ncl, soon fol-lowed the Mass-a-chu-setts 8th\\nto the South, and in all the months and years of the\\nwar which were yet to come, the drum-beat of the\\nNorth led hosts of New Eng-land men to the strife.\\nThe War gov-er-nors, as they were called who\\nheld their seats dur-\\ning the war, did much\\nto push on the cause.\\nOf these, as you\\nhave read, Gov-er-\\nnor An-drew took\\nthe lead. He was\\nborn in Maine, but\\nis claimed by Mass-\\na-chu-setts, as h e\\nheld high pla-ces m\\nthat State for a great\\npart of his life. He\\nwas loved by all who\\nknew him, and did\\nmuch for the poor\\nsol-diers and their\\nGOV-KK-NOR IU CR-1N(;-HAM.\\nkin.\\nGov-er-nor Buck-ing-ham, of Con-nec-ti-cut, was\\nno-ted for his zeal in the un-ion cause all through\\nthe war, and was so well liked by the men of that\\nState that he held his of-fice from 1858 to 1867. In", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "2o6\\nHistory of Nezv England.\\n1869 he was sent from the State to the U-nit-ed\\nStates Sen-ate.\\nGen-er-al N. P. Banks, the Bob-bin boy, as\\nhe was called, was once a poor boy in Low-ell,\\nwhere he learned a trade, and where his fath-er\\nwished him to work. But young Banks spent all\\nhis spare hours in stud-y, and in time was a great\\nman in our land. He\\nwas made a gen-er-al\\nin the war, and fought\\nto the close. When he\\nwas through with fight-\\ning^ he was sent to Con-\\nogress.\\nGen-er-al Burn-side,\\nfrom Rhode Is-land,\\nwas a brave man and\\nall through the war had\\nthe cause of the North\\nnear his heart. He\\ndied but a few years\\na-go at his home in Bris-tol, and Rhode Is-land men\\nhave raised a fine stat-ue to his name in the ci-ty of\\nProv-i-dence.\\nGen-er-al Jo-seph Hook-er, known as Fight-ing\\nJoe, was a Mass-a-chu-setts man, and at one time\\nhad the rank of ma-jor-gen-er-al in the Un-ion ar-my.\\nSEAL OF MASS-A-CHU-SETTS.", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "The Civil U^ar. ro7\\nWe could not, in a small his-to-ry like this, give\\nthe names of the high of-fi-cers e-ven, who went from\\nNew Eng-lancl to the war but in each home some\\ndear one was missed, and prayed for each night l^y\\nfond moth-er or sis-ters. Those who could not go,\\nworked at home to help in some way the cause.\\nGirls met when their school work was done and\\npicked lint, or made clothes for the sol-diers; and\\neach gave with a glad heart what she could for those\\nwho were giv-ing their lives for our land. On each\\nbat-tle-field of the South ma-ny brave New Eng-land\\nmen, and lads too, laid down their lives and in the\\nhmall-est vil-lage, on the 30th of May of each year,\\n..ome grave will be found with its soft green mound\\nsid by sweet blooms, which tell the sad tale of a life\\ngiv-en that the slaves might be free.\\nIt is said that Mass-a-chu-setts sent 159,165 of\\nher sons to the war and more than twice that sum\\nwent from the rest of New Eng-land. Of these\\nsome did not come back at all while ma-ny who\\nmarched with brave step to the sound of fife and\\ndrum w^ere brought back cold and still, to be laid by\\nsad, lov-ing hands, in their last sleep un-der the sods\\nof some qui-et church-yard.", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "208\\nHistory of New England.\\nNow that hard, long war is a thing of the far\\npast. Babes who were then too young to know\\nwhat the sad eyes and tear-stained cheeks meant, are\\nnow fath-ers and moth-ers of just such fat, mer-ry\\nelves as they were then.\\nThe same strong will which helped the Pil-grims\\nto bear their hard lives, has made New Eng-land s\\nsons and daugh-ters loved and hon-ored in all parts\\nof the earth. Ma-ny of the large towns through the\\nwide West were first formed by men from this spot,\\nand New Eng-land thrift, and New Eng-land will,\\nwere the seeds from which these great cit-ies sprung.\\nWhere New Eng-land men have built, there you\\nwill find the church and the school-house near at\\nhand and a wise, brave, and God lov-ing band of\\nyoung peo-ple grow-ing up to make the world fair-er\\nand bet-ter with their lives.\\nAnd now, my dear young friends, you who can\\nclaim a share in this grand old stock, if you still have\\nyour home in that place, or are part-ed from it by\\nmiles of land or sea, nev-er for-get that blood more\\nto be prized than that of kings flows in your veins\\nand while you thank God for it, try to live such pure,\\nclean lives that each of your names shall be in the\\nlong list which ev-en now is mak-ing up the pres-ent\\nhis-to-ry of New Eng-land and her peo-ple.\\nTHE END.\\non 7", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "Treatment Date. ^QQft\\n1,1 Thomson PaiK Drive\\nCranberry Township, PA 16066\\nI", "height": "3029", "width": "2353", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3086", "width": "2338", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3274", "width": "2506", "jp2-path": "historyofnewengl00cady_0220.jp2"}}