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Young, Andrew J., 178
Eddy C., 298
Wright, Betsey J., 199 Catherine, 124 Charles I., 124 E. C., 282
Zahn, Crescentia, 251 Fred J., 251 Gertrude A., 251 Harry F., 251 :
HISTORICAL INDEX
Abington honor roll, 653-656 and 686
Abington, 508-521; town shod half an army, 508; local institutions and utilities, 509-510; Public Library, 510; town officers, 511; Vis- iting Nurse Association, 512; patriotism, 512- 515; churches in early times, 515; inventor of tack machine, 516; first pastor owned pious slaves, 517; casting of meeting-house bells, 518; ship outlived live-oak forests, 519; Ab- ington sliced to form other towns,'520; black- birds, wildcats and women, 520-521
Abolitionist activities, 64
Abolitionists, a county of, 261-284
Abolitionists who would be heard, 352-356
Aborigines, little journey to the, 89-90
Aborigines, Samuel Johnson concerning, 92
Academies, Famous, at their height, 321-322 Adams family of Quincy, 983
Adams family were abolitionists, 1023
Adventurers and Discoverers, Early, 22; Cap- tain John Smith, Bartholomew Gosnold, Pring, Weymouth, Dermer, Hudson, and oth- ers, 23-25
Agriculture and patriotic sacrifices, 846-864; "Good art is good business," 850; the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce; the Cape Cod Canal, 851; Cape Cod in the struggle for in- dependence, 854; Tories on Cape Cod especial- ly dangerous, 858; gave their lives and for- tunes, 860; inhumanity of the British, 862; re- sumption of fishing and extension of sea trade, 864
Agriculture in the Old Colony, 325-343
Agriculture, Massachusetts Society for Promo- tion of, organized, 787
Allin, Rev. John, his long service, 941
Ames, Hon. Fisher, native of Dedham, 980 Anchors, dragging for, 837-838
"Anne" and "Little James," newcomers on, 326 Anniversary of Pilgrims' Landing, 616-617
Anti-slavery agitation, 353
Anti-slavery song, 65
Apaumet, a Mohican scholar, 91
Aphrodite of American jurisprudence, 691-702; tributes to the Pilgrims by President Eliot and Senator Lodge, 695; famous witticisms founded on facts, 698; Pilgrim's house is still coming over, 701
Apostle to the Indians, 919
Apple trees planted by Peregrine White, 787
Apples, cranberries and poultry, an important trio, 158
Arbitrary seating regulations in the meeting- houses, 226-227
Aristocracy, an intellectual, 957 Arrival of the "Lion," 903
As Thoreau, Dwight and Webster saw it, 835- 846; dragging for anchors, 837; salt, houses, and furnishings described, 839; glassmaking an important industry, 841; fathers and moth- ers to be proud of, 845
Avon, Norfolk County, 1071-1704; incorporation, 1071; Avon Sole Company, a leading indus-
try, 1072; fine water supply, and public utili- ties, 1073
Avon's honor list, 1137-1138 Awashonks, squaw sachem, 72
"Baggage Wagons," no mad speed for, 232 Banks early in Plymouth County, 323
Barker family, tradition of, 614
Barnstable (Cotuit) honor roll, 883
Barnstable County, 690, et seq
Barnstable, county seat of Barnstable County, 872
Barrister, title of, first used, 950
Battle of Lexington Bell, disappearance of, 222- 223
Bay Psalm Book, used in Colonial churches, 940 Befo' th' war decade, 800-802
Belfries, stories rang out from, 227-228
Bellingham honor list, 1138
Bench and bar chronicles, 961
Bible not read in early churches, 241
Bible, part of one not inspired, 1003
Billington guilty of first offense, 39
Birth of Freedom in Plymouth County, 3
Birthplace of American Liberty, 1071-1136
Blackbeard, pirate, 782
Blueberry crop on the Cape, 848
Blue Laws purely imaginary, 961
Boundary line' dispute, 912-913
Bounties offered for extermination of crows and animals, 788
Bourne (Pocasset) honor roll, 883
Bourne (Sagamore) honor roll, 883
Bourne was Pilgrim trading-post, 872
Bradford, Governor and his history, 31
Bradford, William, Governor, 404-405; 699-700 Braided straw bonnet and hat industry at Lake- ville, 8
Braintree honor list, 1139
Braintree's incorporation; its ancient annals, its industries, 1074
Brewster honor roll, 884
Brewster, named in honor of Elder Brewster of the "Mayflower," 873
Bridgewater, first settlement in, 530
Bridgewater, 521-531; an iron town, 521; be- quest for a hospital, 523; public welfare, and water, 524; public library, 525-526; babies and other assets, 526; town officers, 527; early school days, 527; original deed from Massa- soit, 529; first meeting-house a fortress, 539; honor roll of the Civil War. 531
Bridgewater honor roll, 656-659 and 686
Brockton Agricultural Society, 485
Brockton, a pioneer city in community chest enterprise, 533
Brockton at first an iron-smelting and casting community, 468
Brockton, 531-553; county's only city, 531; pro- motion of the Brockton idea, 534-535; Cham- ber of Commerce, 536; community chest, 536; hospital, 537; shoe workers well paid, 540; million dollars for charity fund, 541;
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PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
Plymouth County Development Company, 542; other trust funds and donors, 543-545; city learning to drink more milk, 544; mu- nicipal housekeeping fund, 544; fire depart- ment, 545; since North Bridgewater became Brockton, 545; petition for city charter, 546- 548; how improvements came along, 548- 549; growth of the religious movement, 549-, 550; worst disaster that befell the city, 550; the wars, 551; list of municipal officers, 553
Brockton "Daily Enterprise," first newspaper in the county, 406
Brockton, first city in Massachusetts to estab- lish grade crossings, 533
Brockton first so named, 549
Brockton honor roll, 659-664 and 686
Brockton known for its low death rate, 533
Brockton, mayors of, 552
Brockton's chief place in shoe manufacturing, 453, et seq.
Brookline honor list, 1140-1152
Brookline, largest town in the State, 1074; town meeting appropriations, incorporation, public institutions, 1075; ancient description of the locality, 1076
Brookline men in foreign service, 1189-1190
Bryant, Dr. Philip, grandfather of William Cul- len Bryant, poet, 125
Burial Hill, Plymouth, 624
Buried treasure on Cape Cod, 783
Buttonwood trees, ancient, at Pembroke, 54
California voyagers, 775
Cannon on the "Mayflower," 794
Canton had first cotton factory, 1000
Canton honor list, 1152-1153
Canton men in foreign service, 1190
Canton, the town of John Eliot and of Paul Revere; investments in public properties; Blue Hills Reservation; World War Memorial, 1077; early manufacturing plants; Paul Re- vere and Company copper works; Neponset Manufacturing Company, 1078
Cape Cod as it is today, 871-881
Cape Cod Canal, 851
Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce, 851
Cape Cod in the struggle for independence, 854; 859
Cape Cod ponds, 821-824
Cape Cod Poultry Association, 850
Cape Cod Tories especially dangerous, 858
Cape Cod tourist attractions, 854
Capital punishment in old laws, 904
Carver cotton gin works at East Bridgewater, 7 Carver honor roll, 665
Carver, 553-556; town of the first tea kettle, 553; education and defense, 555
Castine, Baron de, assisted King Philip, 101-102 Catechisms, ballads and broadsides, 1064
Chantry House, 701
Characters in the drama of freedom, 723-734; first birth and death at Cape Cod, 726; Pil- grims and Puritans not the same, 727; re- markable group of survivors, 728; rocks, min- erals, animals and birds, 729-731; description of Barnstable County and neighbors, 731-734
Chatham, 873
Chatham honor roll, 884
Chicataubut, heirs of, make demands, 922 China, our inter-relations with, 315
Christian Science, first student of, 938
Christmas observance believed idolatrous, 785 Christmas observance neglected at first, 178-179 Christmas superstition in the Old World the cause of the non-observance of the holy day among the Pilgrims, 179
Church, Benjamin, activities of, 78, et seq. Churches, rise of more liberal, 235-247
Civil War, comparison at close of, 318-320
Civil War, decade before the, 360-362
Civil War, outbreak of, 262; oldest militia com- pany in the State responded from Halifax, 262; Standish Guards and its captain, 262; companies F and I leave for the front, 263; Abington sent more than a full regiment, 264; Pembroke lost seventy men in the serv- ice, 264; Kingston's Grand Army Post named for the patriotic nurse, Martha Sever, 264; Lakeville men in army and navy, 265; other towns fill their quotas, 266; Edward H. De- lano, naval constructor, 267; town meeting votes at war's beginning, 268; early regiments to leave the State, 271-272; War Governor John A. Andrew buried in Hingham, 272; Fletcher Webster Regiment, 272, et seq .; Old Colony Regiment, 275; Twenty-ninth and other regiments, 275, et seq .; Company I, First Massachusetts Cavalry, 278-280; Fourth Regiment of Cavalry, 280; First and Third Heavy Artillery, 280-281; Martland's Band, 281-282
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-
441
HISTORICAL INDEX
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 elin 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 Indians in 1849, 816
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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PLYMOUTH, NORFOLK AND BARNSTABLE
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; 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
443
HISTORICAL INDEX
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. Perez Simmons charged with treason, 383-384; succession of prominent practitioners, 386-388; recent Con- stitutional conventions, 389-397
444
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
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