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TRURO --- CAPE COD
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LAND MARKS AND SEA MARKS
BY SHEBNAH RICH 1 MEMBER OF THE NEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY
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SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED.
BOSTON D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY 32 FRANKLIN STREET 1884.
FIH TAR4. 1884
COPYRIGHT, 1883.
D LOTHROP AND COMPANY.
1 - JUL 20 Copy 1966
PREFACE.
T RISTRAM SHANDY did not want to shake his credit for veracity by telling an improbable story, however indis- putable the facts. We have not ventured into that debatable land between credulity and unbelief. Whatever the quality of our work, whether fish, flesh, or good red herring, we have taken the liberty of telling it honestly and in our own way.
Our constant purpose has been to write nothing we should wish unwritten, and to leave unwritten nothing that belongs legitimately to our history. That we have not fully accom- plished this purpose would be the most reasonable confession in the world.
In every community there is an unconscious force, or sen- timent, that lives in a thousand multiform conditions. Seemingly light as gossamer, it is tough as the Tellman shield of seven bull skins. Its intuitions of a good name - of home and kindred, in a described orbit, are among the best of human sensibilities. That the Cape people share quite freely in this sentiment is altogether praiseworthy, but it is a virtue susceptible of abuse and morbidly sensitive.
I have aimed to write of them as they were, according to the best history and the best tradition; as they are, accord- ing to my own observation and experience. I have called things by their own names; narrated the customs, habits, traditions, character, personalities and individualities of the people ; what they said and what they did; their toil and poverty ; their fortunes and misfortunes ; their energy, economy and thrift;
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the lights and shadows of their lives. That the soil is light and sand abundant; that the trees are stunted and hills barren ; that the bleak winds sweep over the hills, and some- times blow the turkeys' wings over their heads, I cannot deny, and have no apologies to make. My duty, if to write at all, was to write honestly and impartially. The verdict is with the reader. These remarks are well intended. Some who have written well of the Cape, have not been well received.
Thoreau's Cape Cod, the most scholarly, truthful, and unprejudiced description that I have seen of the Cape, was not popular with the press or the people there. I do not remember an important misstatement of fact, an uncharitable or unchristian fling, in his book. On the contrary, the out- come of his conclusions is always directly or indirectly complimentary. He did not discourse of statesmen, philoso- phers, scholars, money kings, or dilettanti. He wrote of and described a hardy race of fishermen and sailors, of whom he seemed to be proud, as of kinship. Men of the gaberdine, with the face and language and grotesque analysis of that day. Himself a philosopher, a student of men, and an honest man, he wrote of them as they seemed to him, and honored them as the world has ever done, for their bold daring, hard common sense, and bluff independence. Praise enough.
It is true that Thoreau drew a long bow, and swept a wide field in his comparisons not always flattering to sectional vanity. But his was a wide culture, a liberal spirit, and an inde- pendent nature. Cape Cod Folks can scarcely complain with a good grace of methods of speech that require broad latitudes.
Of all literary work, local history is ungrateful in its best conditions. If single-handed and doubtfully environed, the odds magnify. It is, however, pleasant to acknowledge much encour- agement and many courteous attentions in this arduous work.
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I am under obligations to Mr. Josiah Paine of Harwich, for papers and cheerful assistance. To Rev. Frederic Freeman of Sandwich, and his daughter Miss Isabella, for friendly offices. To Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, President of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for a kind letter ; to Charles Deane, LL.D., Secretary of the same Society, for many favors. To the offi- cers of the Boston Public Library, Atheneum, and the New England Historic and Genealogical Society, for invariable polite- ness and accommodation. To William B. Merrill Esq., of Boston, Walter T. Avery Esq., of New York, and Benjamin Lombard Jr., of Galesburg. Ill., for timely encouragement. To Freeman S. Atkins, of Charlestown, for Army and Navy papers. To Captain Jeremiah Paine, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for legend- ary lore. To. Willard S. Allen, A. M., Librarian of the New England Methodist and Historical Society, and Rev. J. B. Hengely, of Bridgewater, for papers. To George H. Clark, town clerk of Eastham, for attentions. To Rev. J. W. Hamilton, of the People's Church, Rev. C. N. Smith of Ips- wich, and J. H. Davis, Superintendent of Public Schools of Somerville, for letters. Also to the following of Truro: To Rev. Dr. Noble, for use of church records, letters, and encour- agement in my work; S. C. Paine, the former town clerk, and John B. Dyer, his accommodating successor, for access to town records, the venerable Jesse Collins, and his sister, Miss Polly, free, fair, and fourscore, and Mrs. Sally ( Rich ) Paine, for family recollections. To Captain Sears Rich, concerning the meeting-house of 1794, and to Barnabas Paine, a school- mate and life-long friend, for continued services worthy of his historic name, which an elect lady of Truro thought the hand- somest in the English language. Others have rendered me service whose names will appear in the book. To all these and others who have assisted by word or deed, I express my gratitude and thanks.
SHEBNAH RICH.
BOSTON, April 19. 1883.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTION
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Dry Bones. Piles of Stone and Piles of Wood. The Procession. Relevancy. Our Ancestors The essential Aggregate Human Society. The true Ques- tion. A broken Arch. New and Old. Town Histories. Deserving Merit. Governor Winthrop. Historians. Our Purpose. Lost History. Individual- ity. De Toqueville. Modern Ideas. The common People. What they did. Average Citizenship. Misfortunes. Education. Alcibiades. Sir Walter Scott. The Schoolhouse. The College. Fitnesses. Practical Traits. Lord Bacon. Phsyical Geography. Criticism. The Verdict.
CHAPTER II.
THE NATIVE AMERICAN.
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Elizabeth's Court. National Niche. Greek Mythology. Common Structure. The dumb Nations. Test of Civilization. Nature and Religion. Pliny. Roger Williams. Liquid Language. Courage. Canonicus the Brave. The Chal- lenge. The Pequots. Judge Potter. The Paomets. Cape Tribes. Nine Kings. A lusty Pamet. Capt. Standish and Winterwemet. Capt. Richard Bourne. Praying Indians. The simple Leagne. The young " Injuns." Indian Trinity. Indian Nobility. Indian Poetry. Indian Pictures. Indian Graves.
CHAPTER III.
ENGLISH ADVENTURES AND THE RISE OF THE PILGRIMS. .. 34
Cape Cod and Cornwall. The Golden Age. English Sailors. Hudson. A Mermaid. Sir Francis Drake. Bart Gosnold. Cape Cod named. Benjamin Drew's Poem. The Ancient Mariner's Log. Repeated Failures. American Fisheries. The Condition of Europe. Who were the Pilgrims? How they came to think so. Buxton. Victor Hugo. The human Mind. The Roman Yoke. Green. Social Life in England. The Bible. The Love of moral Beauty. The Puritan Mind. Independency. The Covenant. The Puritan Character. The Westminster Declaration. The Pilgrims or Separatists. Their Union and Covenant. Persecution. Removal. In Holland. Emigra- tion. The Mayflower. Sight of Land. Cape Cod. Mourt's Relation. Brad- ford's Description. Poop of the Mayflower. The first Landing. De Costa. American Sahara. The Compact. A Historic Picture. Various Opinions. The Weight of Testimony. The Mayflower and Plymouth Rock.
CHAPTER IV.
THE PILGRIMS IN TRURO.
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The first Boat. Where they landed. Description. Travellers' Veracit r. Crit- icism. American Forests. New England Plantation. Mr. Higginson of Salem. Old England. The Shallop. Captain Miles Standish. A T bleau. The Rendezvous. East Harbor. First Water in America. 1620-1878. The Signal. On to the "Supposed River." The Pond. The elcared Land, or Indian Cornfields ? Great Hollow. The first Indian Grave Strawberries. Cornhill. The Coast Survey The first Indian Corn. Corn vs. Grapes. An- glo-Saxon Argument. Corn Planting. Captain Dermer The River. Tom's Hill. Savages. Providence A Deer-trap. Stephen Hopkins. Second Dis- covery. Master Jones, Iron Men. Early Graves. Up the River. Lodging under the Pines. The main Chance and Seed Corn. Pilgrim Pluck. Indian Trails. Arbitrary Lines. Indian Grave. Speculations. Wigwams. Confer-
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ence. Pro and Con. Truro Water. Robert Coffin. A narrow Escape Per- egrine White. Bereavements. Providential Names. Young Billington. Third Discovery. Freezing Cold. Grampus Bay. The first Encounter. Per- ilous Voyage. Good News. Webster on Plymouth Rock,
CHAPTER V.
1670-SETTLEMENT AT PAMET OR PAOMET-1709 . . . . . . ...
Indian Spelling. The Old-comers. Settlers of Eastham. The Old South Meeting-Ilonse Nauset. Pamet Lands Proprietors. Purchases. Drift Fish. Indian Lands. Tom Paine. Earlier Settlers. Cape Cod. Indian Fidelity. Governor Hinckley. Marshpee Deacon. Removal. Provision for a Minister. Nathaniel Ells. Commonage. tar Island. Protection to Trees. New England Ministry. High Commissioner's Court. Hannah North. New Lights The Declaration. Enoch Pratt. Records of 1703. Drift Highway. Tashmuit. Ilog's Back. Ministerial Lands. Mr. Theophilus Cotton. Indian Shell Beds. Rev. Samuel Treat. Calvinism. Awakenings. The Great Snow. The first Clerk A Colonial Charter.
CHAPTER VI.
PEACE, PROGRESS AND WHALING. .. . . IOC
Last Officers of Pamet. Purchases of Indians. Waste of Forests. Cattle Owners. The first Windmill. Crows and Blackbirds. Ancient Bounds Fat Office. Fencing the Wolves. Cape Cod Canal. George Washington. The first Suez Canal. The Path to India. The Dream of Europe. Province Lands. Precinet of Cape Cod. Boundaries. Sojourners. 1717 - Missionary Enter- prise - 1877. Incorporation of Provincetown. Precarious Existence. Reha- bilitation. Lands a Begging. Whale and Whaling. The " Lydia and Sophia." Oily Flavor. Dr. Freeman in 1794. Burke's Argumentum Piscatorium. C'ape Cod Schoolmasters. Richard Paine. Rev. Levi Whitman. Fighting Whale. The Bible Captain. Globiceph Alus Melas. Daniel Rich's Morning Spurt. Captain llenry Atkins. The ship " Whale."
CHAPTER VII.
TRURO OLD AND NEW .115
Dangerfield and Poole. Act of Incorporation. Dudley and Mather. Who named T uro? Roger Conant. Etymology of the Name. Truro in Cornwall. History and Associations. Queen Victoria's Description. Granger Hill. St. Mary's Cathedral Bishop and Archbishop Benson. How a Cathedral is finished. Viscount Vivian. Owen Fitzpen. Truro Market Tablet. Trago- thian. Falmouth and Provincetown. Pendennis Castle. Cornish Language Barbarisms. Cornish Travellers. Handsome Women. Cornish Race. Mild Superstition. Personalities. King Arthur. Land's End. Prominthian Fountain Cornish Politics. Election of a Member. Liberals and Conserva- tives. Cornish Curiosities. John Wesley's first and last Sermon Holy Wells Cornish Tourists. Dean of Canterbury. English Inn. Sam Gilbert. Cornish Fare. Cornish Toast. Penzance Pilchards and Pirates. Truro Par- ish. Old Polick Church. General Washington's Pew and Coach. Truro Station.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE FIRST CHURCH IN TRURO. ..
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The Ilill of Storms. The Spirit of Elia. Ruling Elders. The Great Land- mark. Fundamentals and Magna Charta, Error of Ilistorians. The first Meeting-house. Galleries. Fasts established. First Pew-holders. Puritan Architecture, The Book of Common Prayer. Rev. Phillips Brooks.
CHAPTER IX.
1709- REV. JOHN AVERY - 1754. ... 151
The first settled Minister of the Church of Christ in Truro. Thorean. The old Ministry. Good History. Great Battles. Town Vote Acceptance. Agreement. Ordination. First Members. First Baptisms. Family Ilistory.
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Harvard College Line. Truro Family. Water Springs. Tashmuit - Shaw -- mut. Salary. Dr. Freeman's Enlogy. The Parsonage and Smithy. Canter bury Tales. Records Moving cautiously. Advance in Salary. Old Tenor. An even-spun Life. Drawing to a Close. Assistant. Turner, Upham and Angier. Economy. Preparations for Ordination. Death of Mr. Avery. Gravestones. Last Will and Testament.
CHAPTER X.
HOW THEY WORSHIPED, OR LAW AND GOSPEL. ... 167
Saturday Night. The New England Sabbath. The Deacon and the Host. Going to Meeting. The Ilour Glass. Long Sermons. Legislation. Pilgrim Polity. Confederation. Tyrants and Taxation. Whipping Post. Sunday Laws. Muskets to Meeting. MeFingal. Matchlocks. Fines. Quakers and Indians. Reaction. Ye Constable. Funeral Fashions. Drums. Tithing Man. Nanghty Boys and long Prayers. Uprising and Downsitting. Days of Humiliation. Mr. John Lothrop. Thanksgiving. Wonder-working Prov- idence. Edward Johnson The first Grave. Silent Habitations. God's Aere. Win. H. Lapham. Decoration Week. A worshipful Spot. Sentiment and Superstition. The ben- ghted Traveller. Entombed. The bewitched Captain. Southey and Tregeagte. Spiritual Visitants. Cotton Mather. Winter Evening Tales. The Chimney Corner. A seared Boy. Love of the Marvellous. Old Chapman.
CHAPTER XI.
GEOLOGICALLY AND OTHERWISE CONSIDERED .188
Clams and Clamming. Seollops and Pilgrims. Ocean Flora. Fertility of the Ocean. Planet Sinking. Salt-water Lawns. English Hay. Ah Sin. Pond Acreage. French Alchemy. Rev. Mr. Ward and Professor Shaler. Geologi- cal Speculation. Physical structure. Bart. Gosnold. Lost Territory. Points Care and Gilbert. Gosnold's ( cography. Georges Bank. Nantucket Shoals. Matthias Rich. Captain Eldredge's Chart. Loss of the Byron. The Sparrow Ilawk. Deaeon Doane Marvellous Changes. Amos Otis. Professor Agas- siz. Map. New England Storms. Amputation. Driving Stakes. Science. Song of the Carbons. High Head. Hitchcock. Pretty Landseape. Coombs. Merrivale. Euglish Weather. Clay l'ounds. Highland Light. "Diluvial Ele- vations. Mountain Waves. Lagoons. The Question settled. Corn Hills. Tashmuit. A deserted Village. English Cannon Balls. East Harbor. Old Lewis Cameron. A lonely Grave. Good Farms. Bank Dividends. Land Empirics. Barnstable Coat of Arms. What Ireland deserves. Kendall. 1 green old Age. Solid Knowledge.
CHAPTER XII.
1715 -GENERAL HISTORY OF THE TOWN - 1750. . . . . .. 216
Destruction of the Forest. Lawless Sojourners. Increase of Fishing Ships. Importance of Cape Cod Harbor. Drifting Sands. Government Jobs. Stout's Creek. Hog Island. Parran Porth. St. Patrick and St. Andrew. St. Prian and his Tomb. Schools. Schoolmaster Spear. Doncastor. Office a-begging. Economy. Iligh Sense of Honor. Samuel White. The humane Man. Bel- lamy the Pirate. The Whidalı. Cob Money. Ilaley's Island House. Cap- tain Kidd. Schoollionses. Value of Land. Province Treasury. Storms of 1723 and 1635. Richard Mather. Hector the last Slave. Bill of Sale. Manumitted. The General Court. The Minority hold the Fort. The Majority appeal. Proprietors of 1730. Petition for a new County. Dr. Dyer. Records of 1733. Ice Punch in July. Memorial. Longnook. Land Bank Scheme. Sam Adams. Judge Solomon Lombard. Legislation. Deacon Joshua Freeman. Severe Drought.
CHAPTER XIII.
1755 -REV. CALEB UPHAM - 1786-SECOND SETTLED MIN- ISTER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN TRURO .... . 235
Call of Mr. Charles Turner. Acceptance. Release. Quit-claim. A Whale breaks np the Meeting. Call of Mr. Upham. His model Answer. His Ordi- nation. Notice by Rev. James Freeman. Mr. Upham a Poet. His Work. Scotch Practice repealed. The Psalms vs. Tate and Brady. Close Vote.
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Church Singing. Sternhold and Hopkins. Majesty of God. Rous' Version. Marquis of Lorne. Paraphrasing. Bay Psalm Book. Lampooning. Church enlarged. Sale of l'ews. Deacon Anthony Snow. Christian Forbearance. A Briton. Deacon Ephraim Harding. Mr. Upham's Death. A Patriot. The Graveyard. The Names. Schoolmaster Hincks. Ilis Marriage. Gen. E. W. Hincks. Rev. Samuel Osborn. Church Consistory.
CHAPTER XIV.
1750- GENERAL OUTLINES - 1800 ..... .246
Fish Laws. The French War. Grammar School. Three R's. Cole's Rate. The Fishing and General Court. God's Providence vs. Man's Folly. Revenue. Free Seining restricted. First Free School. Cape Cod Fictions. New Eng- land and Virginia. Town Meeting 1761. John Bacon's Will. First Protest against Slavery. Pomp's Lot. Capt. Matthias Rich. Forbidding the Banns. The dark Day. Lighthouses. Sailing and Sailors. Forbisher's great Fleet. Northwest l'assage. Death Rate. Training Field. Long Noonings. Old liutta Dyer. Bassing. Yarns. Direct Tax of 1798 Rev. James Freeman. D. D Description of Truro. Washing away. Mild Mythology. Margate and Ramsgate. Dr. Jason Ayers. Harbor at the Pond.
CHAPTER XV.
THE FISHERIES AND THE WARS 63
Exposed Condition. A Precarious Town. Dark Prospects. Beginning of the Fishing. Rivals for the Prize. Henry the IV. Sir Walter Raleigh. Stock Companies and the Nobility. Dutch Fishermen. Newfoundland. Catholic Europe. English Statutes. The Problem of Kings. Royal Kitchen and Royal Economy. Pine-Tree Shillings. Charles and Codfish. The People. 1485- English Commerce-1880. Education. Supply and Demand. From Newfoundland to New England. St. Saviour. Acadia. Fighting Men. Louis XIV. Louisburg. A modern Crusade. Victory. One Vote. Fisher- men Knighted. Peace. Codfish and Molasses. Free Rum. Merchant Voy- ages. The Cape threatened. The Armada. Lawful Money. Crown Point. Petition for Protection. Watch and Ward. The Scheme. Privateering. Second Seige of Louisburg. Change of Rule. Dissatisfaction. An impending Crisis.
CHAPTER XVI.
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION . 275
Emigration. Compensation. Peace. The Exhibit. Criticism and Agitation. Stamp Act. Memorial. Port Bill. The English Merchants. Buckle on George III. East India Co.'s baneful Tea. Report of the Committee. Patriotic Letter to Boston. A good Test. Military School. April, 1775. Preparations. Prov- incetown a Rendezvous. Hummock Krigade. Independence. Voted to fall in. No Wavering. Board of War Convention at Concord. Active Efforts. Hard Times and hard Dollars The Somerset wrecked. General Otis. The fished Pipc. English Officers Dr. William Thayer. Pressing Requisi- tions. The Continental Soldier Condition of 1782. Positive Suffering. Un- flinching Devotion. Privateering. Gobbling Prizes. Marblehead and Captain John Manly. Salem. Declaration. Battle of Yorktown. Dr. Sam Adams. Rev. Levi Whitman. A high Compliment. Number of Men. Brigs Resolution and Intrepid. David Snow and Son.
CHAPTER XVII.
1786 - REV. JUDE DAMON- 1828. . 289
The third settled Minister of the Church of Christ in Truro. Ordination. Sketch of Mr. Damon. Church Wheels. Dr. Hersey's Will. Deacon's Con- gress. Utopian. Election of Deacons. First and last Baptisms. A Peace- maker. A side Wind. Polite Boys. The "old Shay." Four Kings. Mr. Damon and Mr. Job. Orthodoxy. Rev. Joseph Cook. A good Man. A good Minister. The great Sickness of 1816. The Triumvirate. The old North. Moral Excellence. Christian Forbearance. Old Blood. Huldah Rich. The Squire and the Priest. Peggy Rider. Accepting the Terms: Bible Society. John. Stately Gravestones. Mr. Damon's Register. His best Monument. The Truro Astronomer. The Conclusion.
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CHAPTER XVIII.
1792 -THE PEOPLE CALLED METHODISTS- 1882 .304
The first Minister. Local Preachers. Circuit Riders. The first Meeting-house. The Cradle of Methodism. General Minutes. Historians. Grand Dedication. 1795. Jesse Lee. Persecution. Inquisitionists. Bigotry and Humanity. Joseph Snelling. A Constellation of Worthies. They marry. Spiritual De- velopments. Enthusiasm. Criticism. Converted to the Core. Qualifications. Men of one Book. Preaching without Liberty. Barnard of Bateombe. The College at Seven Ponds. Cob and Corn. The Queen of Sheba. An eleet Lady. New House of 1831. List of Appointments. Rev. Benjamin Keith Rev. Thomas Dodge. ' Rev. Joel Steele. The M. E. Church in Truro. First Trustees. New Meeting-house. Remodeled 1:45. List of Appointments. Great Revival. Millennial Day. Ephraim Doane Rich. His Psalter and Arithmetic. The Doncastor Doctor. Stephen Collins. Give Lenox a pull. The old Bethel. Father Taylor. The Wellfleet Singer. Clam Bait. Leafy Temples. The first Camp Meetings. Preaching up to the Times. John Smith. Rev. Daniel Atkins. Rev. Doane R. Atkins.
CHAPTER XIX.
HOW THEY LIVED
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Modern Improvements. Middlemarch. Scientific Activity. Victor Hugo. An honest Purpose. Pilgrim Habits. Kathrina. Charles I. Mr. Winslow and the Royal Charter. Blackstone. English Homes. Truro, Eng. Fashion- able Gentlemen. Fashionable Ladies. Kitty Trevylyn. Okt Grimes. Home- spun. Labrador Tea. Lora Standish. Needlework Live Geese. High Beds. Old Houses. The Sundial The Kitchen. Geraldine. Gervase Mark- ham. Tusser, the English Botanist. Fireplace Equipments. Jack-of-all-trades. Pewter Ware. Bean Porridge. The Punch-Bowl. Temperance Reform. Trenchers. Mortar and Pestle Spider Cakes philosophically considered. Faculty. Well-fed. Sunday Dining. Resources. Herbert Spencer. Pump- kin Pie. Old Orchards. High-top Sweetings. Atlantic Apples. Old P'ear- tree Tradition. The Old Colony Club. Daniel Webster. Home. The highest Honor. Contentment. Brother Joe.
CHAPTER XX.
WAR OF THE EMBARGO. . 353
Prosperity. Turn of the Tide. Rotting Vessels. Petitions. An obstinate President. New Intercourse Act. Home Manufactures. Right of Search. Declaration of War. Letters of Marque. Privateering. Captain Reuben Rich. Yankee Navy. Songs of Victory. The " Majestic." The Target. Mill Hill. Pranks. British Officers Society. Dazzling Guineas. Provincetown Fortunes. Trading to New York. In their own Coin. The Boy Pilot. The Newcastle. Peace. How it reached Provincetown. Old Dartmoor Prison. Truro Prisoners. Damp Weather. The Scape-Gallows. A polite Yankee.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE MODERN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH . 362
Dividing Line. Act of 1777. New Departure. The Bell Meeting-house. Honest Work. Rev. Stephen Bailey. Law Suit. John Harding. David Snow. Rev. Charles Boyter. Maximum of Prosperity. Government Bounty. Sailing for the Banks. Stewart and Bismarck. Love of the Marvellous. Spiritual Visitants. Public Sentiment. An Oracle. Lueky Fishermen. Smart Men. Captain Godfrey Rider. Uncle Wiff. "Jonas." Sermon on Luck. Rev. C. B. Elliott. A dual Life. Rev. E. W. Noble. Installation. 1849-Quarter Centennial-1874. Hon. Thomas N. Stone, M. D. Interesting Services. Poem. Sunday Fishing. Jeremy Taylor. Noble Christian Men. Cooging. Sunday-school. James Collins. The old Arithmetic. Character. Rev. Osborn Myrick. Union Church.
CHAPTER XXII.
SEAFARING AND LANDFARING . 384
Seafaring. Daniel Webster's Letter. A cardinal Point. Dr. Dwight. Capt. Obadiah Rich. Cant. Benj. Rich. The good Samaritan. Dr. Young. The Humane Society. Letters of Sympathy. The Hill-top Groves. Rev. Charles Rich. Capt. John Collins. A model Sailor. E. K. Collins. The Dramatic
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Line. The Collins' Steam Line. From tho Pinkey to the Ship. Capt. Richard Baker. Richard Baker, Jr. Capt. Elisha Baker. The Atkins Family. Lom- bard. Isaac Snow Gross. Capt. Levi Stevens, Isaae Rich. Matthias Rich. Capt. Edmund Burke.
CHAPTER XXIII.
FISHERMEN.
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Yachting. A new Life. A Race. Nobody Beat. Changes. Tom Hood. The Coast Guard's song Long Ned. Judy Callagham. Codfishing. Hygiene and the Banks. Shut Up. Saturday Night. The Song of Welcome. Unele Sam. Ship " Mediator." Pleasant Memories. Henry Pearce. Sinking of the " James Beard." Mackerel. How they were caught High Line. Kings. Commodore. Daniel Clark. Tide Harbor. A Breakwater. River and llar- bor Improvements. Union Wharf. Beginning of Business. Elisha Newcomb. Beach Speculations. Sea Vandals. Improvements. John N. Devereaux. Captain Hinckley. Marine Insurance Company. Surplus Revenue, Benevo- lent Society. Picturesque Speech. A dull Sailor. Mr. Ambrose Snow. Mr. William White. Two Pine-trees.
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