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Climate of Plymouth County, 4
Clocks of Colonial type, 169-173
Clubs, the 4-H, 334-336
Coast Guard, Wareham, 264
Codfish aristocracy, 767
Codfish the totem of Massachusetts, 767-784; Dr. Edward Everett Hale, on early Massa- chusetts maritime affairs, 767-768; Cape Cod seamen in the Revolution, 767; terrific speed from ocean to ocean, 770-772; wiping an em- pire off the map in twenty minutes, 772; for- tunes made by early mariners, 773; "Sur- prise" launched in 1850, 774-775; Donald Mc- Kay, great clipper shipbuilder, 775; nautical training ship, 776-778; "Jolly Roger" often in the offing, 778-780; Captain Kidd and others, 781-784
Cod-fishing, leading industry in early times, 48-50
Cohasset honor list, 1154
Cohasset, in Norfolk County, though surrounded by Plymouth County towns; Cohasset Rocks; Thoreau's description, 1079
Colonial discipline severe, 180-182
Colonial governors, 931
Colonial period to the Civil War, 249-259
Colonies, United of New England, at time of Confederation, 59-60
Colonists brought by land-hunger, 786-787
Colonists started life with the Bible, 1049
Colored man in notable events, 1022
Commissioner of Massachusetts Nautical Train-
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ing School, 777
Communism of Pilgrims was a failure, 325-326 Compact, "Mayflower," 693-697
Confederation, Slavery, and King Philip's War, 59-83
Corey, torture of Giles, 954
Corn first planted, 36
Cotton industry in Norfolk County, 999
Counties, launching of the three, 153-156 County extension home section, 332-333
Court, First General, 959
Court trials, early, 951
"Covered Wagon," removal to the West in the, 251-252
Cradle of Liberty given to Boston by a slave dealer, 1030
Cranberry acreage in these counties, 161
Cranberry crop on Cape Cod, 848
Cranberries in Plymouth County, 161; "God's cranberry bog," 163
Crows, extermination of, 788 Cushing elm at Hingham, 58
Customs in the good, old days, 785-805; Christ- mas observance considered idolatrous, 785- 786; land hunger not love of agriculture, 786-787; bounties offered for extermination of crows and animals, 788; putting the rum in decorum, 789-792; military drills and weapons, 793-795; Yankee traders, 796-799; pre-war decade, 800-802; evils in the "good old days," 803-805
Dairy cattle first arrived on the "Charity," 38 Day of humiliation, 935
Dean Academy in Franklin, 1059
Deborah Sampson, heroine of the Revolution, 113-117
Decisions without aid of lawyers, 959
Decorum, putting the rum in, 789
Dedham called mother of towns, 978
Dedham courthouse a noted landmark, 973 Dedham, historical, residential and industrial center; new Masonic Temple, 1080; first ar- rivals in the mother town, 1081; early govern- ment of the town, 1082; government and defense, 1084; in Indian and Revolutionary wars, 1085-1086; has the first canal, 1087
Dedham honor list, 1154-1157
Dedham, incorporation of, 926
Dedham saw advantage of the new railroad, 1039 Dedham tavern-keeper, 1043
Defense and learning universally guarded, 1049- 1070; Loyalists in the Revolution, 1050; mi- litia engaged in watchful waiting, 1050; dis- tinct types of patriots, 1051; the real strength of the nation, 1054; some early private schools, 1056; beautiful college for women, 1057; founded by West Point father, 1058; Dean Academy in Franklin, 1059; need of normal schools, 1060; birth of a new idea in educa- cation, 1061; the Quincy system of education, 1062; "Palladium of our rational joys," 1062; catechisms, ballads and broadsides, 1064; The Fourth Estate, 1065-1070
Delusions of the forefathers-and ours, 956 Dennis honor roll. 885-886
Dennis, named in honor of the pastor of its first
church, 873
Dermer, Captain Thomas, 707
Dexter, Henry Martyn, concerning the Puri- tans, 906
Diagnosis by popular vote, 968
Diarists of the early colony, 976
Dighton Rock, 21
Dikes and canals, 339
District Medical Society, 970
Document of Revolutionary days, 1030
Domestic animals, when they were first legal tender, 985
Dorchester and Roxbury, early recollections of, 974
Dover has smallest population of any of the Norfolk County towns, 1087; an agricultural town; noted for its springs of pure water, 1088 Duties of inspectors of youth, 224
Duxbury clam, 561
Duxbury honor roll, 665
Duxbury, 557-561; Myles Standish lived here, 557; churches and schools, 559; ideal sum- mer homes, 561
Dwight, Dr., description of his Cape visit, 839- 840
Early appearance of Jews, 797
Early industries in Plymouth County, 5, 6 Early religious services, customs at, 244-245
Earthquakes, comets, thunder and lightning, 205-213
East Bridgewater, bought of the Indians, 561- 563
East Bridgewater honor roll, 665
East Bridgewater settlement, 526
Eastham, agricultural township, 873
Eccentric Indian writ, 808
Eddy, Rev. Mary Baker, 938
Edgartown soldier in foreign service, 895.
Education, birth of a new idea in, 1061
Education, Plymouth Colony's proud record in, 291
Education, the Quincy system of, 1062
Eliot, John, and Roger Williams, friends to the aborigines, 85-88
Eliot, Rev. John, at Nonantum, 86
Eliot, Rev. John, teaches and civilizes the In- dians, 918
Eliot's Indian Bible, 88
Enduring foundations and memorials, 1011
English Colony in Cuttyhunk before Virginia, attempt to plant, 25-27
English spoken by the Indians, 807-818; com- munication from King Philip, 810; early and recent Indians, 811; living descendant of Massasoit, 812; more "Indian English" by Tompson, 814; Massachusetts 1849, 816 Indians in
Episcopal Church in Dedham established, 942 Epitaphs, some interesting, 590
Ether, discovery and application of, 122 Evils in the "good old days," 803-805 Express companies, first of the, 799 Extermination, war of, precipitated, 924
Fairs, health, and a normal school, 485-505;
Brockton Agricultural Society, and the great Brockton Fair, 485-492; Plymouth County Ag-
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ricultural Society, 492; Hingham Agricultural and Horticultural Society, 493; Marshfield Ag- ricultural and Horticultural Society, 494; Mid- dleboro Agricultural Society, 495; Plymouth County Health Association, 495-497; first State Normal School Building in America, 497-505
Falmouth honor roll, 886
Falmouth, largest shipping point for strawber- ries, 874
Famous school, its beginning, 981
Farm Bureau, Plymouth County, 330
Feminist, martyrdom of an early, 906, et seq.
Fire observatories on the Cape, 825
First County Farm Agent, 329
First encounter with the Indians on Cape Cod, 12-14
Fashions, flings at, 791
First Liberal churches in Boston, 245-247
First offense in Plymouth, punishment for, 37
First sawmill in America, at Hanover, 572
First Soldiers' Monument in the State, at Hali- fax, 571
First tea-kettle made in Carver, 556
First town government organized, 935
First war vessel built at Kingston, 200
Fishermen and politics, opposition by, 340-341 Forefathers' Day, 401
Foreign-born Americans, 306, et seq .; notable assembly of new citizens, 309
Fore River plant, 1005
Forty-niner, typical, 259
Fought on land and sea, and in the air, 883-898 Fourth Estate, 399, et seq .; William Bradford, of the "Mayflower" the first reporter, 399- 401; May Alden Ward concerning Bradford, 401; no war correspondent for King Philip War, 404; Ben Franklin, Boston's first news- boy, 404; newspapers sold the idea of free- dom, 406-408; Franklin's "wicked paper" landed him in jail, 408; successors to the "Courant" and their ads, 411; some Plymouth County newspapers, 412-417; ยก some valued contributors, 417-419; beginning of the coun- ty dailies, 419-422; tributes to a publisher's first daily, 422; some old-timers of pleasant memory, 423-427; clever women in local journalism, 428-429; "Old Colony Memorial" and other veterans, 429-431; newspaper men as Rough Riders, 431-432; some district men and good fellows, 434-437; "Nothing but newspaper talk," 438-439; many owe their fame to reporters, 440-441; days of tramp printer nearly over, 442-444; "Brockton and South Shore Magazine," 444; secretaries to the great, 445-448
Foxboro honor list, 1158
Foxboro, one hundred and fifty years old as a separate municipality, 1088; iron ore beds and foundry; varied manufactures; Soldiers' Me- morial, 1089; unique Howe Monument, 1090 Franklin honor list, 1158-1161
Franklin, named for Benjamin Franklin; excel- lent school department; seat of Dean Acad- emy; printing press industry, 1091; early in- dustries, 1092
Free school, first public provision for, 977
"Free Schoole in Roxburie," its origin, 976 Free schools started at Plymouth, 51
Freydisa, first woman commander of armed forces in America, 19
Friction between the two colonies, 902 From days of '49 to Civil War, 345-363
Frothingham, Congressman, concerning Pil- grims and Puritans, 901
Fuller, Dr. Samuel, "Mayflower" Pilgrim, 117- 118
Fusion of Puritan and Pilgrim colonies, 906
Gangplanks to Cape Cod, 703-713; Aboriginal yarn about Marthas Vineyard, 705; Indians be- came incensed against English, 709; red skins returned good for evil, 710
Garrison, Phillips, and Sumner, speakers at Is- land Grove, 62
Gay Head honor roll, 894
Genesis of Norfolk County, 971-993; recollec- tions of old Dorchester and Roxbury, 974; the free school in Roxbury, 976; adoption of the Suffolk Resolves, 978; starting a famous school, 981; Quincy of Quincy and the Ad- ams family, 982; spirit of the founders still exists, 984; when domestic animals were legal tender, 985; municipalities in Norfolk Coun- ty, 987; old Fayerbankes house in Dedham, 989; replica of Lincoln log cabin, 990; So- ciety has sung a century and a half, 991; Society in Dedham for apprehension of horse thieves, 992; Weymouth Agricultural and In- dustrial Society, 992
Glassmaking an important industry, 841-843 Godly ministers, plentiful provision! of, 908 Goffe, Colonel, regicide judge, 69
"Good old days," interesting records of, 177-187 Gosnold honor roll, 895
Governors of the colonies, 931
Gravestone inscriptions, 1015
Hale, Edward Everett, story of Massachusetts, 767-768
Halifax Garden Company, 564
Halifax, 563-571; strong for education, and poultry, 564; early episode with English sol- diers, 565; Dunbar's ride a community af- fair, 568; military responses prompt in all wars, 569; Sturtevant murder in 1874, 570 Hanover honor roll, 666 and 668
Hanson, 574-576
Hanson honor roll, 666 and 668
Hanover, 571-574; town of the anchor and plough, 572
Harwich, noted for cranberry development, 875 Heale, Dr. Giles, also sailed on the "May- flower," 144-147
Heretics, popular banishments of, 912
Hingham, 576-581; dish timber and coopering, 577; physical characteristics, and early resi- dents, 578; old ship meeting-house still in use, 579
Hingham honor roll, 667-669
Historic trees at Marshfield, Pembroke, Old- ham Pond, Halifax, Island Grove, Plymouth, Kingston, Cohasset, Middleboro, 53-58
Hoar, Hon. George Frisbie, Reminiscences, 804
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Holbrook, shoe manufacturing town, 1093; its leap-year proposal, 1094
Holbrook honor list, 1161 Hotel keepers' plans for the Cape, 819
Hour-glasses and clocks, 174-175
Houses of worship, enactment for, 935
Hudson, Henry, at Cape Cod, 24 Hull, 581-582
Hull honor roll, 669
Hutchinson, Ann, called blasphemous, 907
Hyannis, restoration of; special trains to, 851
Hyannisport, an attractive village of Barnstable, 851
Immigration and emigration, 801-802
Incidents and anecdotes of negroes and slavery, 1023-1025
Incorporation of Plymouth County towns, 156 Indian and colonial deeds and grants, 923
Indian dreams and superstitions, 96-97 Indian English, more by Tompson 814-815 "Indian, Lo, the Poor," 85-105
Indian names in Plymouth County, 43-58
Indian nomenclature of places and people, 43, et seq.
Indian, Revolutionary, monument to, 594
Indians' belief in the Great I Am, 90-95 Indians, early and recent, 811
Indians hired by the English to scalp colonists, 103
Indians, last of the Dedham, 928
Indians, Massachusetts in 1849, 816-818
Indians on Massachusetts coast, 814
Indians, praying, early census of, 719 Indians share food with whites, 917
Indians sold as punishment for crime, 60
Indians, the praying, 86-87
Indians, translation of Old Testament for the, 87
Industrial rise and development, 995-1018; early in the cotton industry, 999; Revere Copper Works at Canton, 1000; first paper mill built in New England, 1001; part of a Bible not inspired, 1003; century and more of straw bon- nets, 1003; early President's prophecy ful- filled, 1004; gigantic Fore River plant, 1005; Victory plant at Squantum 1006; departure of "Lexington" plane carrier, 1007; first rail- road in America, 1007; building Minot's Ledge lighthouse, 1011; enduring foundations and memorials, 1011; sermons in stones, 1013
Industries, banks, and insurance companies, 322- 324
Infant damnation doctrine, 219 Insane, care of in other days, 1029
Intolerance rewarded by deliverance, 909 Inventory of Standish's effects, 909
Ironworks at Plympton, 627 Island counties, 891-898
Jews, early appearance of, 797 Jews in Plymouth County, 308 "Jolly Roger" often in the offing, 778
Jones, captain of the "Mayflower," a buccaneer, 780 Judges graduates of Harvard College, 370
Kidd, Blackbeard, and others, 781-784 King Philip chair, 75
King Philip, fate of his wife and child, 77-78
King Philip struggle precipitated by killing of Wausaman, 67
King Philip to Governor Prence, 810
King Philip War, half the Plymouth County towns destroyed therein, 82
King Philip's land-sale on a shirt, 920 King Philip's secretary, 925
King Philip's War, its cause, 105
King Philip's war of extermination, 65, et seq .; Alexander arrested at Monponsett, 69; Philip accused of conspiracy, 71: murder of Sassa- mon, 74; Philip's death, 74-75; queen and prince sold as slaves, 77-78; statement of Princess Wontonskanuske, 79-81; how the treaty of peace read, 81.
Kingston, 583-593; building of "Independence" and "Mars," 582; historic house moved to Duxbury, 584; Kingston much liked by first- comers, 585; the Bradfords prominent in the Old World, 587; Kingston furnished two Revolutionary War generals, 588; commander, inventors, author, scholars, 588; Whitefield caused change in ministers, 589; some inter- esting epitaphs, 590; boundaries, lakes, rivers, and hills, 591; deserved honor to Kingston nurse, 592; some works of progress in a half century, 592
Kingston honor roll, 670 Kingston nurse honored, 592
Labor movement and legislation, 356-360 Labor unions in the counties, 360
Lakeville honor roll, 670
Lakeville, 594-596; monument to a Revolution- ary Indian, 594
Land hunger brought out the colonists, 786-787 Lands restored to agricultural uses, 342
Latter-day Pilgrims, contributions by, 303-316 Law, early rules for practice of, 950
Lawyers held in light esteem in Plymouth, 949 Laws of the Colony first printed, 959 Laws, codifying of, 366
Lawyers, notable, of East Bridgewater, 381 Lawyers of distinction, 370-371
League of the two colonies, 946
LeBaron, Dr. Francis, early Plymouth medical practitioner, 119
LeBaron, Dr. Francis, his coming to Plymouth, 943
Lechford first lawyer in the Colony, 950
Lee, Jesse, establishes Methodist Episcopal Church on Puritan : soil, 937
Legal practice and practitioners, 365-397; early judges of probate court, 367-370; successful for practice elsewhere, 371-373; William Cul- len Bryant admitted to practice, 373; Daniel Webster believed his tongue mightier than his pen, 373-380; War Governor John A. Andrew, an attorney here, 380-381; Judge Robert O. Harris, "father of the new navy," judge of probate, 382-383; Hon. Simmons charged with treason, 383-384; succession of prominent practitioners, 386-388; recent Con- stitutional conventions, 389-397
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PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
Leif, the Lucky, at Nantucket, 21
"Lexington" plane carrier, 1007
Liberal-minded exponents, 945
Lightning visitations, 203-213
Lincoln Log Cabin, replica of, 990
Linden tree at Cole's Hill, 57
Liquor, its blighting effect on the Indians, 102 Literature, Oratory and Abolition started, 256- 258
Locomotives, naming of, an old custom, 1042
Lodge, Henry Cabot, on the Pilgrims, 695
Lord's Prayer in the Indian language, 48
Loyalists of the Revolution, 1050
Lyford made untruthful statements, 903
Manufacturing in early days, 996-999
Mariners, early, made fortunes, 773
Marion honor roll, 670
Marion, 596-599; Captain Church's important date with Awashonks, 597; conveyances from the Indians, 598
Maritime Massachusetts, 767-768
Marketing opportunities in Plymouth County, 164-166
Marshfield, 599-604; present view of the town, 599; something about early settlers, 600; first farms owned by non-residents, 602; contro-
versy over encouragement for ministers, 603 Marshfield honor roll, 671 and 688
"Mary and John" arrives in port, 924
Mashpee Indians, 813; 875
Massachusetts Bay colonists described, 974
Massachusetts Company, its formation, 929
Massachusetts Militia, reorganization of, 1054
Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Ag- riculture, organized, 787
Massachusetts State Board of Education, 1061 Massachusetts was free-born, 1023
Massasoit, a peaceful king, 94-95
Massasoit Memorial at Cole's Hill, 79
Matchlocks in Indian wars, 794
Mather, Rev. Cotton, various estimates of, 953 Mather's "Heaven's Alarm to the World," 207 Mattapoisett, 604-605
Mattapoisett honor roll, 671
"Mayflower" census and vital statistics, 32-35
"Mayflower" Compact, 693-697
"Mayflower" passengers, descent proved from fifty-four, 36
"Mayflower" said to have been in the slave trade, 1021
"Mayflower" was not filled with clocks, 167-175 Mayhew, Rev. Jonathan, 937
McCarthy, Dr., and the Wisconsin idea, 288- 291
McFingal, history amusingly related by, 189-195 McKay, Donald, greatest of clipper shipbuild- ers, 775
Medical educational work, benefits of, 139-143 Medical practice, Plymouth County progress, 134-136
Medical practitioners in Plymouth Colony of early days, 119, et seq.
Medical Society, Massachusetts, Plymouth County members of, 127
Medical Society, Plymouth District, 129-130 Medfield, forty-third town in the State to be
incorporated; witches and Indians, 1095; Dr. Saunders' Historical Sermon, 1096
Medfield honor list, 1161-1162
Medway, first white settler in, 923
Medway honor list, 1162
Medway, the sixty-ninth town in the Massachu- setts Colony; first mill in the town; church bell foundry, 1097
Megansett, origin of, 720
Meeting-house, In the beginning was the, 215-220
Middleboro honor roll, 671-673
Middleboro, 605-610; Middleboro prospers un- der a town manager, 609; Middleboro Memo- rial High School, 606; Agricultural Society, 607; Nemasket a place of fish, 607; Pond Thomas, and River Thomas, 609
Migrations of early settlers, 975
Military drills and weapons, 793
Militia company, oldest in the State at Hali- fax, 249
Militia engaged in watchful waiting, 1050 Millis honor list, 1162
Millis, where famous ginger-ale is, made; traces its ancestry to Dedham, 1098
Milton honor list, 1162-1167
Milton, incorporation of, 924
Milton, the weather-observatory town; parks, playgrounds, public institutions, 1099; has first paper mill built in New England, 1100; home of a royal governor, 1101
Minister also physician, 792
Minot's Ledge Lighthouse, 1011
Miontonimo, white people consented to his mur- der, 99-101
Missionary work among the Indians, reaction to, 87
Mitchell, Charlotte L., descendant of Massa- soit, 812
Mitchell, Charlotte, Indian princess, her out- spoken sentiment, 80-81
Moon, potent influence of the, 150-151
Morton, first appearance of, 928
Music in churches, Inharmony concerning, 939
Municipalities in Norfolk County, 987
Mystic, Fort, burning of Indians in, 101
Nantucket honor roll, 898
Nation, real strength of, 1054
Nautical items, distressing and unusual, 362
Nautical School founded, 776
Nautical training ship interests, 776-778
Needham, 1102-1104; formerly a part of Ded- ham; inland town with waterfront; indus- tries; educational matters, 1103
Needham honor list, 1167-1168
Needham soldiers in foreign service, 1190
Negro slaves admitted to church membership, 313
Negroes in America before Pilgrims, 311; 1019 New England's Conscience rampant, 285-301
New England's adaptability, 299-300
New England's population in 1673, 102
New Jerusalem, Boston Society, established, 938 Newport Mill, 20-21
Newspapers of Norfolk County, 1065-1070
Norfolk, formerly a part of Wrentham; New
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State prison there, 1104; State Cancer Hos- pital, 1105
Norfolk honor list, 1168
Norfolk incorporated, 973
Norfolk County in Puritan Colony, 901
Norfolk County, municipalities in, 987
Norfolk County Railroad opened, 1040
Norfolk County set off from Suffolk, 978
Norfolk County, variation in county lines, 973 Norfolk County's increase in population, 971
Norfolk County's twenty-eight towns, 1071
Normal schools, need of, 1060
Norwell, 610-612; most recently acquired name in the county, 611; demand for ships too big for North River, hurt local industry, 611
Norwood, a growing town, 1105-1106; Henry O. Peabody fund, 1106; some comparative figures; Public Library educational work; site for a State Armory, 1107; permanent chief of fire department; Neponset Valley Improve- ment; some recent town facts, 1108; indus- tries of the town, 1109
Norwood honor list, 1169-1170
Old Colony Railroad opened, 1038
Oldest militia company in State at Halifax, 262 Old Fayerbankes House in Dedham, 989
"Old Ironsides" wins a hat for Captain Hull, 349-350
Old-time customs, 785
Old-time hospitality, 1045
Old Waban a famous character, 809
"Only citizens because saints," 933-948; min- isterial material unsatisfactory, 935; "Morn- ing gun of Revolution," 936; first student of Christian Science, 938; inharmony concern- ing music in churches, 939; typical early pas- tor's long service, 941; end of sectarian domi- nation, 942; the Roman Catholic church, 944 Opechanganough and Metacomet, cruel plot- ters, 95-96
Ordinance for houses of worship, 935
"Ordeal by touch," 149-150
Ordination of a minister a gala day, 780-781 "Oregon" cruise of, 1898, 770
Orleans honor roll, 887
Orr, Hon. Hugh, industrialist, 563
Paine, Dr. A. Elliott, medical examiner nearly fifty years, 131-132
Painless surgery, discovery of, 970
Paper manufacture in Plymouth County, 7
Paper mill, first in New England, 1001
Paradise of lakes and streams, 819-833; saving the woods from the fire demon, 825; exit billboards and sandy roads, 818; seeing Cape Cod while standing on it, 831
Patriots, distinct types of, 1051
Peddlers, Yankee, 796-797
Pembroke, 612-616; defiance to the king, 612; purchase from Indians; garrison house erec- ted, 614
Pembroke honor roll, 673
Pequot War, the, 97, et seq. Pequots, last of the, 99
Piano frame manufacturing at Bridgewater, 7 Pierce family at Middleboro, 607
Pilgrim and Puritan atrocities, 910
Pilgrim and Puritan differences, 242-243 Pilgrim firearms, 794
Pilgrim Memorial Monument at Provincetown, 692
Pilgrim Society organized, 620
Pilgrims and Puritans welded by steam, 1041 Pilgrims' good will visit to Squantum, 915-931;
early mingling of the whites and the reds, 917; notable work of the Apostle to the In- dians, 919; Philip's land-sale on a shirt, 920; demands from the heirs of Chicataubut, 922; arrival of the "Mary and John," 924; war of extermination precipitated, 924; trouble caused by Weston and Morton, 928; Society for Puritan colonization, 929; Colonial gov- ernors, 931
Pilgrims' Landing Anniversary, 616-617
Pilgrims' land-trip up the coast, 915
Pilgrims, leaders of the, 29-30
Pilgrims more lenient in punishments, 902
Pilgrims more tolerant than the Puritans, 304- 305
Pioneers, Patriots and Practitioners, 107-151
Pirates' gold, search for, 639
Pirate treasures, 783
Piratical days, 779
Plainville honor list, 1170-1171
Plainville, youngest of the Norfolk County towns, 1109
Plow, The famed Daniel Webster, 186 Plows first imported, 986
Plymouth, 616-624; aside from historical glories, 616-618; some physical beauties, 619; first cele- bration of the Landing of the Pilgrims, 621; starting of Pilgrim Society, 622; Pilgrim Hall, 623; some old places of burial, 623
Plymouth Colony anticipated the initiative and referendum, 960
Plymouth Colony not touched with witchcraft, 952
Plymouth County Agricultural Society, 389
Plymouth County Farm Bureau, 330
Plymouth County honor roll, 653-688
Plymouth County officials, 157
Plymouth County shoe factories, 453
Plymouth County towns half destroyed in King Philip War, 82
Plymouth County towns, incorporation of, dates of, 156
Plymouth County towns' population in 1865, 319
Plymouth County Tuberculosis Hospital, 574 Plymouth honor roll, 674-677 and 688
Plymouth's part in Kansas colonization, 296-298 Plympton honor roll, 677-679
Plympton, 624-628; election held no contests, 625; two living George Washingtons, 626; some town statistics, 626; early settlers and industries, 627
Population in early times, 795
Population of New England in 1673, 102
Portuguese newcomers, 310
Post offices in Plymouth County, 158 Potential possibilities of this section, 300
Power loom first came to Waltham, 1000 Prevention of fire on the Cape, 826-827
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PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
Printing and its beginnings in the colonies, 1062 Priorities of Colonial times in this section, 36 Privateer fleet of Massachusetts, 769
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