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I did not come to speak as a minister. I want to lay off my black coat and white tie and be a boy again. I am more than pleased, I am honored, to meet again these grandsons and more distant descendants of the town. We are all honored. It is a real home festival to us to see the faces which we have so often seen in the past. This old soil is all familiar to us. I believe I could find my way around even now with my eyes blindfolded. Here we learned to use the oar and here we sailed the pond. In this old school-yard we learned to play ball and threw snow-balls; and we cut our names on the desks in that lower room. Here we heard the blue-bird sing. We used to have a blue-bird in a basket which we let out occasionally and we heard it sing. All these associations make this place dear, and especially, Mr. President, this opportunity of seeing old faces and grasping the hands we have grasped in the years past. In behalf of these loyal sons and daughters of Freetown who have come back, we want, Mr. President, to thank you for the welcome you have given usand for this opportunity of look- ing around and seeing again these familiar places and the old folks sitting here and the wanderers who have come back again. It has been no small labor, and in behalf of the returning sons we wish to thank you for what you have done. I do not know what more I can say. The New England disposition is very reticent.
We love this old place because it is our own. It is the place where we belong; and I love it because it has not gone backward and has not forgotten the past. As I have come back
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here in years past I have seen the improvement in this place, I have seen the old Four Corners changed and I have seen the sidewalk put in front of the door; I have seen the old houses painted and a public spirit that was not here when I was a boy. I love this town because of the men who stayed here and lived here and have given life to this town as boys and girls who have grown up here. Mr. Grime told us that Fall River was in- debted to us not only for the land but for the men we have sent to it. In this age we say that the city is the center of all things and is the holder of the key to the future; but the town some- times holds the destiny of the cities. What has made Fall River, Boston and New York ? What has made the professors, preach- ers and lawyers ? It is the country boy. We have had men and women who have gone forth and become powers in the cities of the world. We wish to express our affection for this old town and hope as we come from time to time we shall see the influence of this Old Home Week, producing still more power than we have seen produced in the past.
Before the concluding music, the following letter from the Honorable John Hay, Secretary of State, was listened to by the assembly with mingled feelings of pride in the town's illustrious grandson, and regret at his absence.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE,
DEAR SIR: - WASHINGTON, April 16, 1902.
I have received your letter of the 14th of April, enclosing a programme of the Old Home Festival of Freetown, and am greatly touched and flattered by your kind invitation.
It would be a great pleasure to me to be with you during the coming summer, but, as I have already explained to Senator Hoar, who kindly reinforced your invitation with his own authoritative and influential words, it is entirely beyond my power to make any such engagements. My time is fully oc- cupied, and what little strength I have is subject to greater drafts than I can honor. I can, therefore, only thank you most sincerely for your kindness, and express my profound regret that I cannot this year make the pious pilgrimage to which you invited me.
I am, with very many thanks,
Sincerely yours,
Rev. Leonard W. Bacon, (Signed) JOHN HAY. Assonet, Mass.
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Promptly after the conclusion of the Banquet in the Town Hall, served by Caterer Victor Gelb of Providence, R. I., and partaken of by 400 people, the Chair was again taken in the North Church by the President of the day. In a few apt words he introduced the Orator, Curtis Guild, Junior, of Boston, who was greeted with an enthusiastic welcome by the thronged assembly.
THE ORATION BY CURTIS GUILD, JR., OF BOSTON. The Puritan's Contribution to American Citizenship.
Like most strong nations, the United States is of mixed stock. Latin and Kelt and Teuton built up the Roman Em- pire; Phoenician and Roman and Gaul and Frank mingle in the Frenchman; Briton and Dane and Saxon bred the Englishman. To which of these can it be said that the Amer- ican owes nothing ?
CURTIS GUILD, JR.
Washington, Adams, Lafayette, Carroll, Schuyler, Pulaski, Von Steuben, Paul Jones; it needs but to name the men of the Revolution to remind us that the blood not of England, Scotland, and Ireland only, but of well-nigh every nation of Europe, flowed from the first in the veins of the young republic. The roots of the tree spread far asunder, the trunk is upright and one.
Romance has gilded the settlement of Florida and Canada. The glittering conquestador with [morion and arquebus, the brave coureur de bois in blanket and buskin, are romantic
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figures beside whom the settler of New England, the serious Puritan in sombre brown and gray, cuts an inconspicuous and perhaps unpleasing figure. Polite literature has been none too kind to him.
Shakespeare caricatured the Puritans in Malvolio; old Burton in his Anatomy of Melancholy could find no better terms for them than "rude, illiterate, capricious, base fellows." The one quotation by which Lord Macauley is best known is the smart sentence in which he declares that the Puritans "did not believe in bear-baiting; not because it gave pain to the bear but because it gave pleasure to the spectators." Even Charles Dickens speaks of them as "an uncomfortable people, who thought it highly meritorious to dress in a hideous manner."
Though the Puritans and the memory of them thus for generations afforded material for those who pander to the thoughtless with caricature, lampoon and idle jest, yet their work and their fame is safe, secured in that consciousness of right that the Latin proverb-maker declared to be a brazen wall against the shafts of slander. Song and play and ballad may chant the praises of the Cavalier, but history belongs to his conqueror.
The cavaliers who rode so bravely behind Prince Rupert and King Charles have left us a world of romance, but it was the stern faced followers of John Knox and John Hampden, the Scottish Covenanter and the English Puritan, who overthrew the tyranny of kings and left us no legacy, indeed, in the realm of fancy but sound, hard facts in the shape of the rights of the people, the very foundation of the structure of this Republic.
The gentlemen who sought a Western Golconda at James- town called themselves Adventurers. The plain people who first sought the shores of bleak New England we know as Pil- grims. The Adventurers came to the New World to seek their fortune; the Pilgrims and Puritans to earn it. No weak-hearted wail went up from bleak New England at her early sufferings. Hunger, cold and savages could not turn these brave hearts from their purpose. When the biting New England Winter found them without further supply of food, they gathered the acorns from the woods, the clams and mussels from the beaches, and glorified God, to use the old words, "who had given them
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to suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasure hid in the sands."
To understand the Puritan it is necessary to understand the times that gave him birth. He was not merely the follower of a religious creed that differed from the one originally accepted in Europe. Indeed, though the first few shiploads of New England settlers were agreed, the English Puritans as a body differed widely among themselves, both as to creed and church government. Some were Independents, or Congregationalists, some were Presbyterians, and John Milton was a Socinian or what would now be called a Unitarian. The bond that held these Englishmen most firmly together, indeed, was union in a rebellion, not so much against the religious creed of the Es- tablished Church of England as against the social and moral conditions of the day. The Hundred Years' War and the Wars of the Roses had utterly demoralized the English people. The rise of Parliament and popular government, which had grown to such a height under Richard II., had been not only checked but cut down. England was less free in the sixteenth century than she had been in the fourteenth. The Tudors were despots almost as truly as the Romanoffs. France had become a mere field for plunder and murder by Englishmen and their allies. When Shakespeare, even in his day, speaks of "infants quar- tered by the hands of war," he is not using his imagination. He is describing what ordinarily occurred at the sack of a city. The France that Joan of Arc freed from English rule was in- finitely more wretched than Cuba under Spanish rule.
Queen Elizabeth was personally a patron of bull-baiting and bear-baiting. So, in her day, were most people. The Maypole, a relic of the most depraved worship of all paganism, was no mere excuse for an innocent dance, but the centre of the vilest debauchery. The Merry Mount and its Maypole at Wol- laston was as vile as the so-called Merry Monarch who ruled England under the name of Charles II., and the world was the better when both were removed.
The Puritans turned to the Bible, not only because they loved its teachings, but because under Henry VIII., it was almost the only book a decent man could read. The foulest tales of debauchery, universally circulated, formed the only
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popular literature, and aided to debase popular morality. The Lord's Day was invaded not by sports alone, but by the wildest license. The laborer, moreover, could not legally enjoy even that day of rest unless his master chose. Public office went by favor; an ex-highwayman was made chief justice, and kings and queens fitted out the ships of pirates and shared their booty.
This was the social structure which the Puritan faced and to which he struck the first shattering blow. His faults were patent. He was intolerant in an intolerant age. He was, however, something more than a bigoted sectary who hanged witches and persecuted Quakers. He was a citizen, to whom the duty of citizenship was a second religion. The citizen who came late to the early New England town meetings, the citizen who neglected to attend, was regarded not only morally but legally as a criminal and was fined as such. The Puritan ac- cepted the privilege of liberty only as a responsibility, appre- ciating, as his descendants too often fail to appreciate, how hardly those privileges were won.
His was the cause of the plain man against the tyrant, the honest man against the rogue, the virtuous man against the rake, the patriot against the plunderer. Faults he had in com- mon with poor humanity of all ages, but it may at least be said that he was simple in an age of extravagance, austere in the midst of debauchery, honest though ruled by corruption, and sincere though subject to a succession of sovereigns constant in nothing but the pursuit of their own selfish desires.
Such were the makers of New England; such the men to whom we of New England owe more than our country. The greatest heritage they have left us is not the territory they took from the Indians, as the Indians had taken it from the Skrael- ings. They left us their greatest gifts, the New England town meeting and the New England conscience; popular government and the control of self that makes it possible.
The following is the Festival Poem, read, at the author's request, by the Secretary :
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OUR OLD HOME.
A FREETOWN BALLAD.
When this new world was wild and strange Beyond our skill in showing, To Puritan and Pilgrim bands It furnished room for growing.
Their proper sphere they found amid Its rude, ungoverned places, With freedom's air on every side And earth in ample spaces.
One trait in common they displayed- These sensible crusaders ; Soldiers and scholars, scribes, divines, All, were a race of traders.
A continent at market price Was here about them lying, And well their talents they employed In bartering and buying.
A few of them were hither sent, To make reports to others Concerning certain lands this way Possessed by Indian brothers.
They came and made their errand known, Debating long upon it With Weetamoe, a native queen, And sachems 'round Assonet.
At length the parties came to terms; And then our bargain-makers Gave "broadcloth, kettles, rugs and hoes" And took exchange in acres.
And thus "ye ancient freemen's lots" Were duly bought and granted, And soon the settlers of the soil Their fields had cleared and planted. And while beneath the sun and showers Their crops of grain were growing, They caught and trained the running brooks To set their mill-wheels going. Their homes they scattered up and down These hills and winding waters, Where they abode with thrifty wives And troops of sons and daughters.
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They venerated gospel rule, And young and old together Attended church each Sunday through In every phase of weather. The laws they held in high esteem, And kept the statutes truly, With stocks and whipping-post at hand To punish the unruly.
The schools were taught by men of zeal Their business well discerning, Who freely scourged the pupils up The rugged heights of learning.
And so the early people wrought- The men of common station Who helped to launch this ship of state And found a mighty nation.
And from our stalwart pioneers The hardy sons descending Through passing centuries here have dwelt, Their qniet fortunes tending.
And if at morn they followed forth Ambition's eager calling, They longed to turn their footsteps back, As evening's shades were falling.
And thus the village grew, and kept Its homes of love and duty, Where Nature with a liberal hand Dispensed her gifts of beauty.
As fair a spot it seems, to those With all its charms acquainted,
As that "sweet Auburn," known to fame, That English Goldsmith painted.
And, touched by years, its gentle scenes Are grown historic places, Where children of the age have come To seek the fathers' traces.
Then let the modern stage withdraw To hold its court hereafter, While old-time memories blend with all Our speech and song and laughter. And one in spirit, faith and works With those who went before us, A kindred clan, we hail the day, And join in heartfelt chorus.
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After the spirited singing of the Ode written by Mr. Herbert E. Hathaway, a grandson of Freetown, a brief time remained before the appointed hour of adjournment, which, it was felt by all, could not be better occupied than in listening to our representatives in the national Congress and in the Senate of Massachusetts. The first to be called on by the Chairman was the Honorable W. S. Greene, M. C., of Fall River.
ADDRESS OF HON. W. S. GREENE.
Ladies and Gentlemen: I cannot come to you as a citizen belonging to Freetown but I have lived so long with a daughter of Freetown that I must be acclimated. A few months ago I was called upon to speak at a meeting of the Loyal Legion held in Washington, and was called as a son of Rhode Island. I was a descendant of General Nathaniel Greene and was consequently at home with many members of the Loyal Legion. I could respond here as well as there, but not as a son of Rhode Island. My father was a native of Rhode Island, my mother a native of Ohio. They were married in Minnesota, and I was born in Illinois. But I have lived in Fall River since 1844 and I claim to be very near to the citizens of Fall River and this common- wealth.
Consider this country as it was at the time of my earliest recollections. I remember the first train of steam cars that went out of Fall River in 1845, the visit of James K. Polk on July 5th, 1842, and the men who went from this section in 1849 to California. I was calling upon a daughter of Freetown a few days ago, and she showed me a photograph of some of the men who went to California in 1849. I recognized three of them men-whom I knew very well, William C. Strobridge, James M. Strobridge and Dr. Hathaway. That old photograph brought back some very pleasant recollections. All my early associations were those who came from Freetown. I thought to myself as I rode through this beautiful town a few days ago what beautiful things surrounded it and how quiet it all was. I strolled by the shore and I found there the hum of in- dustry. I had never been interested in the gun-shop before, but it showed that you had the idea which has permeated all
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this section, -the creating of industry and the providing of em- ployment for the people. So I found this gun-shop where they make the implements not of warfare, but of peaceful sport.
In General Guild's remarks he told us of cases of heroism and my attention was called recently to such a case. You all recall the 17th of March when the great disaster occurred on Cape Cod, when the men of the Monomoy life-saving crew started to rescue men from the wreck of a vessel. Eight of them went out to rescue five, and took their lives in their hands. These duties come to men every day and they came to those eight men who went out to save five others. One daring in- trepid man saw another clinging to the boat in those treach- erous waters. He found a dory and threw it into the water but it had no oars. He improvised oars and found that there were no oar-locks. He improvised oar-locks and started out into the waters. Someone said to him, "Don't put that boat into the water; don't get into that boat. If you get in you will lose your life. It is dangerous for you to go; you will never come back." The answer came back, "I can go;" and go he did, and rescued the sole survivor of that terrible disaster. So heroes live today, even while we move about in our usual vocations. Heroes come and heroes take up the battle of life and when these duties come to them they do not hesitate. We speak sometimes, as our friend did of the work of the Pilgrims. We today are following out the lines which they followed. They came to this shore that they might find freedom; and when they found it they were not contented; they wanted someone else to enjoy what they possessed. Today we welcome to our shores people from all the world. We establish our public schools and we provide for their education. We teach them that they can come from other shores and enjoy the blessings of liberty under the laws and constitution of the United States. So our duty is to-day to hold up higher the privileges and op- portunities of an American citizen. We find today men in all walks of life who might make great successes in any line of business; many of whom sacrifice time, abilities and give up great incomes which they might enjoy, that they may serve you and me and all their fellow citizens. Look at the vast number in public life and in the cabinet of our country. And all around us we find those who have made the sacrifice and deprived
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themselves of enjoyment with their families that they may build up this great country and nation and strengthen the institutions for which the great sacrifice was made one hundred years ago. The sacrifices of that time are not the sacrifices of to-day. But the sacrifices of those who gave up their health, their strength and perhaps their lives, mean for us great blessings, great priv- ileges and great enjoyment. (Applause.)
The few minutes remaining before the appointed hour of closing were gladly conceded to the Honorable Rufus A. Soule, of New Bedford, President of the Massachusetts Senate.
ADDRESS OF HON. RUFUS A. SOULE.
Mr. President: I heard you say a few minutes ago that you wanted to close at 4 o'clock. I feel somewhat as an orator on a certain occasion might have felt. When he arose to speak he asked, "What shall I speak about ?" "About two minutes," came the answer from the audience.
I am glad to be here today. It has been an enjoyable day because I have met many friends and have learned (what I knew before) that Freetown is one of the grandest towns in this com- monwealth of ours. I knew that it was a beautiful village and had done wonderful things, but I never realized that the neigh- boring city owed its entire being to its being built up by the good people of Freetown. Every one here today is proud of this grand old town. We are told sometimes that when dis- tinguished men visit our cities the mayor or the chairman of the day rises and says, "We extend to you the freedom of the city." In this case the very name of the town extends it without any mayor or board of selectmen. It is a grand good name. For the last seven years men have come down from this town to my city, men sent by the party to which I have the honor to belong and have voted for me as a candidate for senator. If this is such a grand town, how proud the men should be whom the citizens have selected to represent them in the general court. I am proud of the fact that men of this town went into the voting places and voted for me without regard to their political affiliations. In my army days I followed the colonel of the regiment who rode a black horse, but I went on
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foot aad carried a musket. I remember good men in that regiment from Freetown. I remember Captain Marble and his stirring words, and I am glad to remember him and to come to his town and join with you in this celebration.
My friends, my time is up. I am going to stop. But I will tell you what my text would be if I were to talk longer. It would be the first four lines of the ode which has been sung and which commences 'How shall we best the work complete?' To you much has been given and of you much shall be required. See to it that the generations which are to come have the same reason to look back and point with pride to their ancestors as we have to ours.
At the brief Concert in the evening, the old church was, if possible, even more densely thronged than during the day. Sustained by the organ, the Festival Chorus was in excellent voice and heart in the two choruses from Bishop. And it is safe to say that few who heard Mr. Howland's charming sympathetic singing of that "old- home" song, The Old Oaken Bucket, and the brilliant violin playing of Miss Purrington, will easily forget the performance, or will remember it otherwise than with delight. The generous assistance of these accomplished musicians filled up the debt of obligation which they had already laid upon our town by their former kindness.
At the close of this hour of music, the sky was already dark enough for the display of fireworks. The hill-top in the rear of the church was an excellent point of vantage from which they could be seen in almost every part of the village ; and for an hour, in rapid succession, without in- terruption or accident or delay, a brilliant suite of pieces was fired.
Altogether, a more completely successful popular celebration than this it is difficult to imagine. And in no part of it had the town better reason to be proud, than in the perfect orderliness and dignity of the great concourse in attendance through the entire day. Not a single in- cident occurred in the whole of it, to be remembered with
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regret. Not long after nine o'clock in the evening, the last rocket had burst in the sky, and the last Catherine- wheel had fizzed and sputtered and exploded ; and except for the happy gatherings in many a home, the village had settled down into its customary quiet.
At a meeting of the Freetown Old Home Festival Executive Committee, held at Assonet Village, Tuesday evening August 12, 1902, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, The Freetown Old Home Festival held at As- sonet Village July 30, 1902 proved to be an enjoyable occasion ; and one that will be long and very pleasantly remembered by all who attended the same; and
Whereas, Much of the pleasure of the day centered in the afternoon exercises at the Old North Church where Mr. Curtis Guild, Jr. of Boston delivered the oration; and
Whereas, His ready flow of instructive and highly enter- taining language contributed so largely to the happiness of the occasion; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Committee for itself, for the Town of Freetown, and in behalf of all in attendance most heartily thanks Mr. Guild for his valued assistance.
Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mr. Guild, and that they be published in the Historical Souvenir Volume.
JOHN M. DEANE, Chairman.
LEONARD W. BACON,
Secretary.
Also at this meeting, it was unanimously voted that the thanks of the Committee be extended to each person who rendered valuable services in connection with the Old Home Day, July 30, 1902.
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INDEX.
PAGE
Address - Maj. John M. Deane
261
Hon. George Grime
263
Hon. Henry K. Braley
265
Hon. A. J. Jennings
266
Rev. John Nichols
269
Hon. W. S. Greene
277
Hon. Rufus A. Soule
279
Ashley, Capt. Albert B.
82
Assessors, List of
144
ASSONET RIVER
206 204
Bacon, Rufus
118
Battelle, Hezekiah
118
Battle of Freetown
216
Bosworth, Lieut. Charles G.
83
Braley, Dr. Bradford
129
Braley, Judge Henry K.
121
Briggs, Dr. Charles A.
131
Briggs, Capt. Chester W.
84
Bristol County
218
Bullock, Dr. Jesse
124
Bump, Dr. Thomas
126
Burbank, Rev. John
244
Burr, Capt. James W.
85
Carpenter, Dr. William
124
CHURCH HISTORY
29
Church, Christian
245
Clerks, List of Town
135
Cudworth, Capt. Darius A.
86
Cushman, Hercules
118
Deane, Major John M.
88
Deane, Mary Gray
96
Deed of Freemen's Purchase
212
Duffee, Lieut. George
113
East Freetown
221
282
243
Congregational
CLAMBAKE, THE ASSONET
50
Assonet River, Map of
Eddy, William H.
119
Fairs, Assonet
231
Fire Department
228 97
FREEMEN'S PURCHASE YE
3
Freemen's Purchase, Deed of
212
Freetown, Battle of
216
Freetown, Population
219
Valuation, 1831
219
1861
220
1902
220 11
FREETOWN, MASS , 1683-1780
General Notes
243
Gilbert's Letter, Col. Thomas
215
Gold Fever
237
Governor
155
Governor's Council, List of Members
155
Gun Manufactory
165
Haskins, Sergeant Charles R.
97
Haskins, Lieut. Urial M.
99
Haskins, Lieut. Ephraim H.
113
Hathaway, Washington
117
Hathaway, Joseph
119
Hatheway, Elnathan P.
120
Hatheway, Nicholas
120
Hatheway, Dr. Nicholas
125
Hatheway, Dr. Edmund V.
129
Hatheway, Dr. Joseph C.
129
Holmes George B. N.
117
INDENTURE, AN
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INDUSTRIES
158
Lawton, Chief Engineer Elbridge
100
Lawton, Chief Engineer Andrew
101
LAWYERS
117
Leonard, William A.
117
LIBRARY, GUILFORD H. HATHAWAY
69
Livermore, Harriet
28
Map of Assonet River
2 34
Marble, Capt. John W.
102
Mariners
196
Masters of Vessels
202
Mathewson, Capt. James R.
113
MILITARY HISTORY
72
Town Church
46
Assonet Baptist Church
46
Assonet Christian Church
46
Assonet North Church
48
283
Ministers, List of
Francis, Lieut. Humphrey A.
Morton, Judge James M.
122
Morton, Governor Marcus
157
Morton, Rev. Albert G.
157
Muster Ground
228
Ode, by Herbert E. Hathaway
258 250
Oration,-Curtis Guild, Jr.
271
Pastimes
226
Pickens, George W.
248
Pierce, Gen. Ebenezer W.
103
Poem,-"Our Old Home"
275
PHYSICIANS
123
Postmasters, List of
152
Railroad Accidents
224
Read, Capt. William
106
Representatives, List of
153
Resolutions of the Executive Committee
281
Richmond, Col. Silas P.
107
RECORD AND TRADITION
212
Roads, Good A
225
Sayles, Lieut. John A.
113
SCHOOL HISTORY
53
School Committee, List of
149
Selectmen, List of
135
Senators, List of
155
SHIPPING INDUSTRY
170
Shipping and Commerce
192
SLAVE TRADE IN FREETOWN
25
Soldiers' Graves, List of
114
Sproat, Dr. Henry H
130
Store, Old Corner
225
Temperance Societies
238
Tinkham, Ensign H. Elbridge
110
Town Records, From the
221
Transportation, Early Later
223
Treasurers, List of
135
Turner, Dr. John
124
Vessels Hailing from Freetown, List of
174
War Movement of Revolution, First
215
Wetherell, Capt. Hiram B.
114
Wilkinson, Ezra
119
Williams, Capt George D.
111
Winslow, Lieut. George H.
113
284
221
OLD HOME FESTIVAL
ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE
Barnaby Homestead
6
Barnaby, Residence of Mrs. Samuel S.
49
Briggs, Residence of Dr. C. A.
132
Burt, Residence of Dea. Benj.
37
Christian Church, E. Freetown
43
Christian Church and Parsonage
41
Clambake Grove
50
Congregational Church
44
Congregational Parsonage
41
Dean, Residence of William
68
Deane, Residence of Maj. John M.
93, 94, 95
East Bridge
158
Four Corners, Looking North
169
Four Corners, Looking South
169
Francis, Residence of Ralph H.
199
Freetown Records, Facsimile
222
Gilbert, Home of Col. Thomas
15
Grist Mill at Tisdale's Dam
161
Gun Manufactory
165
Hathaway, Homestead of Capt. Welcome
191
Library
69
Morton, Birthplace of Governor
156
Old Man of Joshua's Mountain
9
Pierce, Residence of Gen. E. W. PORTRAITS-
104
Aiken, B. F.
51
Allen, Capt. Granville S.
151
Ashley, Capt. Albert B.
82
Bacon, Rev. L. W.
29
Batchelor, Rev. Benjamin
33
Bosworth, Lieut. Chas. G.
83
Boynton, Rev. Francis H.
48
Braley, Charles
143
Briggs, Dr. Charles A.
131
Briggs. Lieut. Chester W.
84
Bump, Dr. Thomas
126
Burns, Paul M.
164
Burr, Capt. James W.
85
Burt, Dea. Benjamin
37
Burbank, Rev. John
244
285
PORTRAITS - Continued
Canada, Rev. P. A.
47
Crowell, Mrs. J. F.
71
Cudworth, Capt. Darius A.
86
Cudworth, George B.
143
Davis, N. R.
166
Davis, N. W.
167
Davis, W. A.
167
Deane, John M.
261
Deane, Lieut. John M.
88
Deane, Major John M.
89
Deane, Mary Gray
96
Duncan, Rev. A. G.
48
Evans, John H.
143
Evans, Philip H.
148
Francis, Lieut. Humphrey A.
97
Francis, Ralph H.
168
Guild, Curtis, Jr. .
271
Hall, George W.
151
Haskins, Lieut. Urial M.
99
Hathaway, Capt. Welcome
173
Hathaway, Alden, Jr.
151
Hathaway, Guilford H.
70
King, Sinia W.
37
Lawton, Chief Engineer Elbridge
100
Leeburn, Thomas
52
Marble, Capt. John W.
102
Morton, Rev. Albert G.
156
Morton, Gov. Marcus
156
Nichols, Dr. Thomas G.
128
Nichols, Gilbert M.
143
Pickens. George W,
248
Pierce, Gen. Ebenezer W.
103
Pierce, Palo Alto
134
Piummer, Rev. Frederic
33
Plummer, Rachael H.
33
Porter, Nathaniel,
227
Read, Capt. Washington,
198
Read, Capt. William
106
Richmond, Col. Silas P.
107
Sproat, Dr. Henry H.
130
Taylor Rev James
33
Taylor, Joseph S.
134
Tinkham, Ensign H Elbridge,
110
Washburn, Reuel.
151
Wilson, John D.
71
Williams, Capt George D.
111
Winslow, Lieut. George H.
113
286
Read, Residence of Capt. Washington
199
Richmond Residence
108
Richmond Landing
109
Saw Mill at Tisdale's Dam
160
South Main Street
3
South School House, Old
64
Taylor, Residence of J. S.
134
Town House, Old
61
Town Hall
133
Winslow House
19
287
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