History of Plymouth, Norfolk and Barnstable counties, Massachusetts, Vol. III, Part 113

Author: Thompson, Elroy Sherman, 1874-
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: New York, Lewis historical Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 642


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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;


440


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-


442


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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