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" Parnel Whitfield died Sept. 1, 1840, aged 85 years."
" Hon. Lemuel Williams, born in Taunton June 18, 1747, died in New Bedford Nov. 9th, 1828."
" Sylvia, wife of Mr. Samuel Wing, died Sept. 5, 1804, in her 33d year."
" Capt. Thomas Worth died Dec. ye 13, 1769, aged 27 years."
" Aron, son of Henery and Mary Wrightington, died March ye 23d, 1792, in his 21st year."
From the old graveyard at Long Plain, North Fairhaven.
BENNET.
" Edward Bennet died Oct. 4th, 1812, aged 73 years."
" Elizabeth, wife of Edward Bennet, died Dec. 24, 1826, in her 84th year."
" Jacob Bennet died May 27, 1832, Æ. 60."
MASON.
" Thankful, wife of Reuben Mason, died Aug. 19th, 1802, aged 46 years."
" Capt. Reuben Mason died Nov. 2, 1806, in his 50th year."
MENDELL.
" Hannah, wife of Ellis Mendell, died Sep. 1st, 1810, in her 41 year."
" Ellis Mendell, born March 20, 1763, died June 12, 1849, aged 86 years."
PERRY.
" Lydia, wife of Lemuel Perry, died March 10, 1827, aged 84 years."
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" Lemuel Perry died April 27, 1846, aged 90 years."
SAMPSON.
" Mary, wife of Edward Sampson, died Feb. ye 20, 1790, in her 42d year."
" Rualwy, daughter of Edward and Mary Sam- son, died May 28, 1791, aged 3 years."
"Joseph Sampson died June 27, 1808, in his 82 · year." .
" Edward Sampson died Feb. 25, 1816, in his 70th year."
SPOONER.
"Allathea, wife of Walter Spooner, Esq., died May 12th, 1789, in her 64th year."
" Elizabeth, daughter of Walter Spooner, Esq., and Allathea his wife, died Sept. 12th, 1793, in her 36th year."
" Mary, second wife of Honble Walter Spooner, Esq., died Jany 30th, 1796, in her 56th year."
"Honble Walter Spooner, Esq', died Oct. 26, 1803, in his 81 year."
" Nancy, wife of Mr. Walter Spooner, died Sept. 21, 1806, in her 26th year."
" Mr. Walter Spooner died July 26, 1808, aged 36 years."
" Elizabeth, wife of Hon. Alden Spooner, died Dec. 14, 1813, in her 64th year."
" Dr. Rounsevel Spooner died March 17, 1844, aged 66 years."
" Hon. Alden Spooner died Sept. 28th, 1844, aged 94 years 6 mos. and 15 days."
" Susan, wife of Dr. Rounsevel Spooner, died April 25, 1846, in her 67th year."
SPRAGUE.
" Keturah, wife of Samuel Sprague, Esq., and daughter of Rev. Thomas West and Drusilla his wife, died Oct. 29, 1706, in her 74th year."
" Samuel Sprague, Esq., died Feb. 5, 1825, in his 94th year. The following lines were penned by the deceased, and ordered to be placed on his gravestone :
In virtue's school, religion's cheerful voice Serves as a guide to the most noble choice;
And when God's glory is our chiefest end, He makes grim death to visit as a friend: Then welcome, death; I cannot be afraid,
But walk rejoicing through thy peaceful shade."
" Mary Sprague, widow of the late Samuel Sprague, Esq., born 29 Oct., 1758, died July 4,1835."
WHELDEN.
" Ruth, wife of Joseph Whelden, died March 10, 1821, in her 42 year."
" Capt. Joseph Whelden died Dec. 22, 1854, in his 86th year."
" Ann Gibbens died Sept. 23d, 1849, Æ. 70 years. The deceased was a native of Ireland, and came to America in the 20th year of her age. She lived in the family of Capt. Joseph Whelden many years, and also in other families, sustaining in each a character remarkable for industry, kindness, and in- tegrity. She made a profession of religion in early life, and died in the full enjoyment of the Christian Faith."
" Mary, widow of Leonard Hinds, died Sept. 3d, 1833, Æ. 72 years."
" Capt Ephraim Simmons died Feb. 21, 1836, in his 97th year.
The warfare is o'er, the soldier 's free,
The pensioner 's at rest, To enjoy a glorious liberty Among the happy blest."
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From the old burial-place, Coggeshall's Farm .*
COGGESHALL.
" Mary, wife of James Coggeshall, died May 26, 1805, aged 19 years 7 mos. and 11 days."
" Capt. James Coggeshall died in the Havanna 24 March, 1809, aged 29 ys."
" Josias Coggeshall, Esq", born Aug. 15, A. D. 1786, died Oct. 24th, A. D. 1817."
" Major John Coggeshall, a soldier of the Revo- lution, died July 19, 1830, aged 72 years. A lineal descendant of John Coggeshall, Esq., first President of the Colony of Rhode Island."
EAST.
" George East died June 3, 1818, aged 37 years,"
" Hannah, widow of George East, died Dec. 12, 1829, in the 72d year of her age."
" George Haydon, son of Theophilus R. and Julia A. C. Marvin, died in Boston May 15, 1842, aged 7 months."
" Eunice Madderson died March 8, 1837, aged 88 years."
" Benjamin Myrick died July 27, 1779, in the 36th year of his age."
" Caleh Peckum died March 20, 1819, aged 73 years."
I have not, except in a few instances, given every inscription of any family, my object being only to make a general record of some of the older names, those least familiar to the public. In some cases the stones are wanting, and in others members of families have died and been buried in distant places,
* Formerly owned by the Peckhams.
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so that anything like a full genealogy of any family could not be made. Yet I trust the record will prove interesting and valuable to some of my readers.
Letter from Jabez Delano, of Dartmouth, to his brother, Jonathan Delano,* of Tolland, Connec- ticut, from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1853.
"Louing brother :
We haue recª two letters lately from you, for which we thank you, wherin you haue giuen us an acont. of your Condition, & we are Comforted to hear it is better with you then we could expect, considering that diuers reports of sickness in ye Country, & in your person, & by your letter in your fammely, had caused us to fear. Brother, I was Moued to write to you before now, both with in my self & from mother, but I put her off becaus of the sickness (that was in my famely of which through Mercy we haue had a small share to what many of our Neighbours haue had) but especially becaus of ye dangerous condition yt brother Nat !! lay in for some time. I being greatly desierous that my letters might be ye messengers of Joy & not of sorrow to you. And now brother, as we haue Recª Comfort from your letter, we hope these lines may be so to you, & all our friends, & may find you in health & peace; and that our hearts may be drawn forth to thankfullness unto God for all his Mercies. And now I shall briefly touch on what is omitted in Brother Nat" Letter; and first, of ye sickness ; Concerning Brother Nat1 & his you haue an acont in his Letter. Our eldest has had a
* " Jonathan Delano and his wife Amy came from Dartmouth, in the county of Bristol, in his majestie's province of the Massachusetts Bay, and settled in Tolland, on ye Sth day of May, 1722. He died March 25, 1752, aged 72 years. He was Town Clerk from 1724 to 1736."
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long lingering Illness, but is pretty well recruted. I am but poorly on't, my self hauing bin Consid- erably ill, this 4 weeks, which makes me write with a trembling hand. the sickness has bin uery geuous in"our town, of which there are four grown persons dead in our uillage ; uiz. Jonathan Hathaway, Rose Spooner, Jemima Badcock, & Amos Taber's wife ; but people are generally pon recouery, & it looks like a time of health.
2ª. Of the season (we haue Indeferent good Crops.) We haue had a great drought which lasted from Inglish mowing till about ye Middle of Sept. since which we have had extrordinary groing weather, till within this 4 or 5 weeks.
3ª. Of an earthquake, which was a week yester- day, about ten att night, which shook both ye Land & water, the Islands & seas, at that degree that seueral doors were shook of ye Latch in our uillage, & 'tis said that at Nantuket ye harth stones grated one against another, and, that Car, ye boat builder, Run out of his house, got in to a boat for fear ye Island should sink.
Mother desiered me to acquaint you that she Greatly desires to se you, and so we doe all. My Loue to all our friend[s] farwell your Brother
Dart Nouemr 6th 1727 JABEZ DELANO."
It was my intention to have added a chapter upon the natural history of this vicinity, but as my work has already exceeded in quantity the bounds intended, I have only given a partial synopsis of a portion of this extensive subject.
QUADRUPEDS.
Foxes and raccoons, though occasionally found in this vicinity, are very scarce of late years, and will probably be entirely exterminated by sportsmen.
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'The fallow-deer were formerly abundant, but, ex- cepting an occasional stray one from the Plymouth woods, none are now seen hereabouts. In very early times there were wolves and wild-cats, for which twopence per head was offered by the Old Colony government. Otters, though scarce, are oc- casionally found; one has been killed in the neigh- boring town of Rochester during the present Sum- mer (1858.) The mink, musquash, skunk, wood- chuck and weazel are still numerous; also the hare, rabbit, and squirrels. Among the smaller animals are the meadow-mole, field mouse, and wood mouse. The native black rat has been exterminated by the Norway or common house and wharf rat, introduced here from Europe.
BIRDS.
The crow, blue-jay, quail, partridge, chickadee, meadow-lark, robin, owl and woodpecker (one or more species) remain here throughout the year. This is nearly the extreme northern limit on the seaboard of the quail, but the severe winter of 1856-57 almost exterminated them.
With the earliest opening of Spring come the blue-bird and song sparrow. I have seen blue- birds here as early as the middle of February, de- ceived as it would appear by a few warm days, so generally succeeded by severe storms and cold weather, when they necessarily suffer. It is a piti- ful sight to see them flying about as though be- wildered, still uttering their sweet warble, which has a singular pathos, heard amid the howling of the storm. As the Spring advances come the snipe
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and red-winged black-bird; wild geese pass over; soon after, arrive the brown thrush, cat-bird, purple finch or American linnet, ground robin, swamp thrush, wood thrush, white-bellied swallow, barn swallow, chimney swallow, bank swallow, cliff swallow, purple marten, yellow-bird or American goldfinch, golden robin, bobolink, cuckoo (yellow- billed and black-billed,) whippoorwill, wood pe- wee, golden-crowned thrush or over-bird, yellow- throated vireo, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, cow black-bird, bay-winged finch, tree sparrow, (this sparrow and the snow bunting are often seen together in the Winter,) field sparrow, swamp spar- row, chipping sparrow, pine warbler, the dove, night-hawk, king-bird, great crested fly-catcher, kingfisher, redstart, chickadee, parti-colored warbler or finch-creeper, blue yellow-backed warbler, hum- ming-birds, butcher-bird, shore lark, golden-winged, pileated, downy and hairy woodpeckers. The yel- low-rumped warbler is often seen in numbers dur- ing the Winter and early Spring.
The birds of prey are the eagle (bald-head,) fish- hawk or osprey, hen-hawk, pigeon-hawk, sparrow- hawk, screech-owl, hooting or cat-owl,* and white or barn owl.
Water-fowl: the loon (green-head, gray-back, and red-throat,) black duck, sheldrake, water-witch, red-head or pochard, canvas-back, (occasionally,) brant, teal, eider or Isle of Shoals duck, (wamps,)
* A large specimen of this owl was shot by Capt. Edward Howland from an elm tree near the corner of Spring and Sixth Streets, in this city, in the Fall of 1856.
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cormorant, coot (white-winged, yellow-billed, and gray,) widgeon, noddy, whistler, haglet, blue-bill, herring gull, white and gray gull, wild goose, wood duck.
Waders : great heron, night-heron, green heron, curlew, gray-back, yellow-legs, plover (green-head, black-breast, and ring-neck,) sandpiper, yellow- shanks, peet-weet, woodcock, snipe.
FISH.
Salt-water: smelt, tom-cod, herring, shad, men- haden, flat-fish, lump-sucker, whiting, chogset, bass, tautog or blackfish, scup, (scuppaug, pogies,) cod, mackerel, haddock, pollock, blue-fish, rock bass, sheep's-head, flounder, perch, eel, sculpin, scate, stingray, bellows-fish, rudder-fish, squetteagne, squid, swell-fish, toad-grunter, shark, dog-fish, frost- fish, skipjack.
Shell-fish : oysters, quahaugs, clams, lobsters, crabs, scallops, winkles, razors, muscles, star-fish or five-fingers, barnacles.
Fresh-water: trout, perch (white, red, yellow,) pickerel, chub, carp, silver-fish, minnow, hornpout, eel, clam.
FLORA.
In this department I have only given a few of the more common plants, such as generally come under the notice of the amateur. The earliest blooming plant we have is the epigæa, (the may- flower or trailing arbutus,) pussy willow, blue, white and yellow violet, the anemone or wind- flower, arethusa, (meadow pink,) uvularia, ginseng,
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saxifrage, columbine, marsh marigold or cowslip, convallaria, (Solomon's seal,) cinquefoil, chick- weed, painted-cup, speedwell, houstonia, lupine, gold-thread, blue-eyed grass, yellow Bethlehem star, chokeberry, shad-bush, witch-hazel, viburnum, azalea, (swamp honeysuckle, white and pink,) bugle-weed, butterfly-weed, water-lily, pickerel- weed, side-saddle flower, evening primrose, St. John's wort, indigo-weed, yarrow, orchis, cardinal flower, white and pink spiræa, (hard-hack,) marsh rosemary, samphire, potentilla, rhexia or meadow beauty, willow herb, Indian tobacco, Indian pipe, angelica, mallows, loosestrife, American .centaury, pigeon-berry, crow-corn, Indian hemp, hawk-weed, agrimony, pyrola, aster, everlasting, mullein, gold- en-rođ (several varieties,) fringed gentian.
FOREST TREES.
Ash, beech, birch, buttonwood, cedar, cherry, dogwood (flowering,) elm, hemlock, hickory, holly, hornbeam, locust, maple (several varieties,) oak (black, chestnut, red, white, swamp white, yellow- barked,) pine (pitch, white,) poplar (balm of gilead,) thorn, tupelo, walnut, willow (a number of varieties.)
SHRUBS, &C.
Alder, azalea (several varieties,) barberry, bay- berry, beach plum, blackberry, blueberry, bog wil- low, buckthorn, chokeberry, clamoun, cornel, dan- gleberry, dogwood, elder, fern, gooseberry, grape (several varieties,) hazel, holly, honeysuckle (sev- eral varieties,) juniper, kalmia, privet, raspberry (black, red,) rhododendron (several varieties,) rho-
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dora, smilax, spice-wood, stag's-horn, sumach, sweet-brier, sweet-gale, viburnum, Virginia creeper, whortleberry, wild black cherry, willow (several varieties,) witch-hazel.
Some of these are also included in my list of the flowering plants.
I have intentionally omitted a scientific nomen- clature, and have in every instance where it has been possible adopted the popular name. I have also given the name alone of many genera of which there are many species, my object being to adapt the subject to the general reader. It will be per- ceived that I have not even mentioned several im- portant and highly interesting branches of natural history.
AGRICULTURE.
I have said but little about the agricultural in- terest of the township, which, though compared with some parts of Massachusetts would not ap- pear to any great advantage, is nevertheless of no small importance to the inhabitants.
For more than one hundred years from the first settlement of this quarter by our ancestors, agricul- ture was almost the sole employment and means of livelihood, and the people were marked by a general thrift and comfort. Though naturally in many parts very stony, yet the soil, when once cleared and properly prepared, is strong, and well adapted to grass, Indian corn, potatoes, and other staple crops. Our ancestors unquestionably had to labor vigorously against the stones, rocks and for-
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est, but for several generations this soil sustained a substantial and independent body of yeomen.
Although commerce, the mechanic trades, and manufactures, have absorbed a large portion of the enterprise of our inhabitants, still the farming in- terest is of considerable importance. The interest in agriculture and the rearing of stock has greatly increased of late years, and in these. particulars, we may compare favorably with other parts of the ter- ritory that was formerly under the Old Colony jurisdiction. In former days nearly every farm had its flock of sheep and field of flax, and the loom and spinning-wheel were among the most impor- tant articles of household furniture. Very few sheep are now to be seen in the township, neither for many years probably has there been seen a field of flax. The old looms and spinning-wheels have been either broken up and destroyed, or lie stowed away among the rubbish of old garrets.
Agriculture and its attendant occupations are undoubtedly the chief reliance of mankind for a livelihood. Every occupation of human industry has its value; but the groundwork of all is and ever has been agriculture, and so it must remain.
Although New Bedford has taken her wealth legitimately from the ocean, still it may be worthy of consideration, whether, if a larger portion of the industry, enterprise and intelligence devoted to trade and commerce had been given to the cultiva- tion of the soil and to the agricultural interests gen- erally than has been the case, a much more general and substantial thrift among our inhabitants would
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not have been the consequence. Where the largest amount of any community are the consumers of the necessaries of life, there must always be sea- sons of great vicissitude, and a portion will suffer. Without intending any unjust disparity in the comparison between the occupation of the mer- chant and that of the farmer, it may be added, in conclusion, that there is much truth in the remark of the late Henry Coleman, -" The best bank is a bank of earth, and the best share a plough-share."
Agriculture becomes an elegant occupation in the hands of the intelligent and cultivated; and it certainly offers the greatest inducements and at- tractions to those who have become weary of the perplexities of commercial pursuits, and whose tastes lead them to a simpler and purer mode of life. Of course, a large portion of the fashionable customs must be dispensed with, and books and in- tellectual converse take the place of more exciting amusements. To the man or woman of taste, horticulture offers a constant source of pleasurable employment; and this department may also be made of importance in a pecuniary point of view, towards the support of a family. Let no young enthusiast or worn-out man of business, however, be deceived by any remarks herein contained. The occupation of the farmer and horticulturist has its cares and perplexities; it also has its valuable compensations, among which are health, and ex- emption from many of the temptations to evil connected with the more complicated pursuits of commerce. To those who would try the experi-
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ment I would recommend to begin in a small way, doing thoroughly whatever is done. A neat and tasteful rural home, though humble in its preten- sions, is far more desirable to the man of taste than the more ostentatious residence, with its multiplied care and expense. It is by no means necessary to leave our native soil for this end : moderation in expense, and industry, will render it quite within the reach of a family of small means to live com- fortably here.
In drawing my labors to a close, I am aware how imperfectly my task has been performed; yet, in a good degree, I feel the assurance of having done the best I could under the circumstances. The labor of collecting together from so many sources the material for this history has been by no means small, and has required an active attention to the subject for many years. Therefore, if the reader shall find a want of completeness and order of arrangement in some instances, I trust he will re- member that such must in a great measure be the case in all efforts of a like. nature in an original work. If I have succeeded in saving from oblivion a considerable portion of our history, which I have in many instances received from the lips of those now passed away and from old and scattered rec- ords, I shall feel that my time has not been mis- spent, or my labors in vain.
INDEX.
r
Acoaxet River,
270, 340|British taxation, act of Dart-
Acushnet Heights, view from, ...
... 93
mouth relative to.
.332
Acushnet, orthography of, .... 90, 365
British, three men killed by, . . 211, 290
Acushnet River,.
90, 94 Burg, Dr. Benjamin,.
.321
Acushnet road,.
.273|Burroughs, Peleg,.
315
Acushnet village,.
272, 275 Buzzard's Bay,. ..
129
fine view from,.
276
discovery of,
116
Agriculture,
405
Candle-house, first,.
77,158
Akin, Lemuel S., reminiscences of, 292, 294
Candles, spermaceti, manufacture
of,
158
Alden, John ; his team taken,
297 Castle, Joe,.
291
Allerton, Isaac,. .
386
Census,. .
107,287, 302, 372, 373
Andre, Captain, (Major,).
279, 288 Charter of old Dartmouth,.
.32
Angelica, . .
132
Cheever, Rev. Israel, 318
City Hall,
335
Claghorn, George,
. 60
252 Claghorn, Capt. William,.
366
Apponeganset village,.
.272
Architecture, criticisms
on
the
present,
former,
112
Baptist church of Tiverton and Dartmouth,. 315
Beaver, ship, of Nantucket,.
Bedford Bank.
80
Bedford Bank building,
83
Bedford Commercial Bank,.
82
Bedford Marine Insurance Com- pany,
Bedford, village of,. 70
Belville,
78 Cooke, John,.
45, 314
appointment of as Justice of
the Peace,.
.32
death of,.
314
401 Cotton, John, at Acushnet, .
.314
Boston Tea-Party,.
. 48 Court-House, .
115
Bounds of old Dartmouth,
18, 28, 343, 348
Crane, Benjamin, Dartmouth sur-
veyed by,.
34
Bowdoin, Elizabeth,.
353 Crow Island,
92
Bowdoin, James,
127, 349 Cuffee, John and Paul, obtain the
rights of citizenship from the
Legislature,
256
Bowdoin, James Temple,.
127, 349
Bownas, Samuel,
38
Brewer, John,.
327
Cuffee, Paul,.
253-262
Bridge, New Bedford and Fair- haven, .. 72,79
advertisement concerning,. . 365 Custom-House building, .335
British invasion, ....... 73, 78, 278-299 Cuttyhunk,
15, 25, 117, 122, 376
invasion, account of from
the New Bedford Mercury, 288
property destroyed by, 74, 200, 282
home of,.
255, 270
Cummings, John, farm of,
.271
Dartmouth,.
342,344
freemen in, 1670,
.32
freemen in, 1686,
.346
old township of,.
13, 152
S
Apponegansat River,
Climate,
334
Clinton, Sir Henry, letter of,.
279
113 Columbian Courier
146
contents of,.
147
Committee of Accounts, adver-
tisement of,
140
366 Congregationalist church, first in
Dartmouth, .
.316
ministers, neglect of Tiver-
ton and Dartmouth to
provide for,.
.315
.81 Continental currency, deprecia-
tion of,
.159
Bennett, Deliverance,.
213-226
Betsey, sloop, whaling-voyage of, .. 62
Bird Island,
132
Birds,.
.272 Clark's Point light-house,. 80
Ann Alexander, ship, loss of,.
.102
Anti-slavery character of the in- habitants,. ..
410
Davis, James,. .
.247 Grey, Gen. Charles, .278
testimony to the character
of,
De la Noye. Philip,
letters of, 278,280-282 250 Grinnell, Cornelius,. 61, 141, 142 386 Grist-mill, Joseph Russell's, . .. . .. 163 Harmony, ship, narrow escape of, .308 Haskins, William, narrow escape of, 313
Deed of old Dartmouth, from Woosamequin and Wamsutta to William Bradford and others, 16 Delano family,. 208 Hathaway, Arthur, .45
epitaplis of,. 208, 209, 386
Delano, Jabez, letter of,.
Devil's Bridge,. .353
lines by,.
384
Dialectic Society,.
322|Hathaway family,
185
epitaphs of,
387
Discovery of Dartmouth by Gos- nold,
13
Hawes, Mary,
176
Doty, Elihu, stanzas by,.
144 Health, .
.334
Duties collected at this port,
disappearance of,. .186 Dwight's account of the British invasion, . 284 Howland, George, 86, 234
Ecclesiastical reminiscences,. . 236, 314 Hunt, Rev. Samuel, 316
Egg Islands, ..
132 Impressment of soldiers,
347
Elizabeth Islands,
130, 132 Incorporation of Fairhaven,
363
discovery of, .14
New Bedford,. 360
Indian names of,.
134 Indian chiefs,.
.20
Indian testimony respecting, 133 rhymed list of, 378
relics,. .
.35
Elm-street Methodist society, new
meeting-house of,
.336
New Bedford,.
190-192
England, early intercourse with,. . 195 Intrepidity of a woman 75
Iron-works at Russell's Mills.
22
Epitaphs at the old Acushnet graveyard, ........ 85, 188, 204, Taunton, (Raynham.). 43 205, 206, 208, 209, 317, 320, 384 Joking Quakers,. 171
Coggeshall's farm, .. Long Plain graveyard, .395 from Dartmouth to Plymouth, . . . 45
Essex, ship, loss of,.
101 Journeys on horseback,
166-175
Explanation of Indian names,. 134 Kempton family, 203, 209
Extent of New Bedford,. 372
epitaphs of,
204, 388
Fairhaven,. general character of, 97
Falkland Islands, prosecution of
the whale-fishery from .. .
Fanshawe, Robert, letter of,
Fearing, Maj. Israel, defence of
King street, ..
23
Fairhaven by, ........ 74, 99, 285, 289|Landing of Gosnold, Wall's paint- Figure-head, funeral of a,. .60
Fish Island,
92 Last of the Wampanoags, the, ... .. 96
Fishes,. 403 Legal reminiscences,. .331, 332
Flora, 403 Library building,. .336
Fragment Society, 322 Light-houses in Buzzard's Bay, ... 365 Friends' Academy, teachers in, .. 325 Lindsey, Benjamin, Sen ... . ... 150, 151 327 Little Eyes a prisoner at Palmer's Island,. 92
Friends, burial custom of,. 266
divisions among, ..
dress of,.
249|Long Plain,.
276
early, .
.37
Friends' meeting-house, Russell's Mills,. .37, 39, 266
Loss of the Royal George, Cow- per's poem on the,. 177
41 Loudon, John, purchase of house- lot by .. .47
Friends, strictness of,.
38, 60 Lyceum, New Bedford.
324
283|Lyceums, remarks on1,.
323
Gardner, Edmund,.
101 Macadamizing recommended,
337
sketches by,
368| Main street, . .
23
Garrisons in old Dartmouth, 15, 35,270
Mansion of Governor Swain on Naushon, 127, 128, 356
Gosnold, Bartholomew, death of,. . 15 Maria, old ship, his voyage,. .117, 122-125 Marsh, Isle of,. 92
147, 304
Gosnold's Islet,.
119-122, 374, 375 Mary, brig, advertisement of,.
140
Graham, Michael,
244 Mashno,
132
Greene, Thomas A. 327 Massasoit, 15
345 Kempton, Jonathan, treatment of by the British,. 295
Kempton, Manasseh, lands of, .... 202 76 Kempton, Patience, longevity of,. . 47 283|Kempton, Thomas, .. 380
ing of,
17
40 Livery stables,.
305
Longevity, cases of,. 164
meetings, list of,.
quarterly meetings, .41
Gambier, Admiral,.
allowed to administer oaths, . 33
Hathaway, Dr. Daniel, 321
107 Houses, old,
.34, 160, 162, 198
communicants, 1698,.
315
Indians in Dartmouth,.
20,95
. 398 Journey of the
representative
411
Mayflower, sloop, advertisement of, . .
Pierce, Rev. Richard, 317
144 Plants,. . .403
Medical reminiscences,. . 321, 331|Plymouth records, extracts from,
16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 28, 31-33, 348
Pope, Judge Edward ..
.206, 332
of. .
139, 145 Pope family,.
205
epitaphs of,.
205, 206,390
homestead of,
208
Meeting-house, first, in Dart-
mouth,. .37, 39, 266 Pope, Nathaniel, naval expedi- tion of. 291, 293
Mercantile morals,. 227 Pope's Island,. .92
Merchants, noble-minded,
.229 Potter, Benjamin, farm of,.
.271
Mercury, New Bedford,.
149, 150 Prices current, New York, 1799,
Metcalf, Lieutenant,
mortally
.146
Progress of New Bedford,.
371
wounded,. .290, 295 Proprietors, early, 46
Mitchell, Jacob, appointment of as ensign-bearer,. .33
names of,
180
. of Dartmouth, 1694, .33
original, of New Bedford, .. 160
Muster-roll of Thomas Kempton's company, 1775,. . 378 Proprietors' Records ... 46,180 Name of Dartmouth, origin of, 22, 125 Providence, sloop, capture by, .... 302 New Bedford, origin of, ..... 23 Public buildings, .335
Narrow escapes,.
. 308, 313 Purchasers of Dartmouth,. 26,28
Natural history. 400
Naushon, Gosnold's visit to,.
125
natural characteristics of,
.355
Rebecca, ship,. 59-61
349 Records of Dartmouth, from old
surveys,.
179
354 Representatives to Old Colony Court, . 45
Newell, George,.
328 Revolution, reminiscences of,
48, 73, 78, 99, 133, 159. 211, 216-223, 226, 278- 298, 353, 357, 359, 378, 381, 883 soldiers of Dartmouth in,. . . 381
Noquochoke River,. .. 270, 341
North Congregational church,. .. 335 Ricketson, Joseph,. .86, 232
North street,.
.305
advertisement of, .148
Rotch family,
108
Rotch, Joseph,.
22, 108, 109
purchase of land by,.
98
.346 Rotch, William,. .... 108, 109, 143, 254
194 Rotch, William, Jr.,
108
advertisement of,. 140
Order of court for more compact settlements at Dartmouth, . 31 Royal George, loss of, 177
Russell, Abraham,.
.163,384
re ative to the support of the ministry, .... 21, 24, 315 Russell, Barnabas, 155, 196, 198
Origin of the whale-fishery, Wall's painting of, .66
Otis, James, residence of at Acushnet, . 276
Ouset, . .
Oxford village,. 79
Pacific Ocean, first whalers in, 59, 366 Russell, Gilbert,. 156, 169, 175
Padanaram, .
272
Palmer's Island,.
91 Russell, John,. ..
153, 154, 269
first representative to the Old Colony Court,. . .. . 44, 153
821 Russell, Joseph,.
154, 270
.291 Russell, Joseph, 2d,.
.154, 155
his horse killed,
321 Russell, Joseph, 3d,.
42, 155, 156
Perry, Dr. Samuel,. attempt of the British to burn his house,. 383
family of ...
155
journeys of,.
166, 167, 173
pioneer of the whale-fishery,.58 presence of mind of,. 157 whaling-vessels of,. .59
Philip, King, survey of Dart- mouth by order of, 18 343 Russell, Joseph & Sons, . . 159, 195, 196
Philip's War, incidents in, warning of,. 298|Russell, Ralph,. 22, 152
Phipps, Abner J.,
.330 Russell, Seth, 2d,
.141
Pickens, John, 85 Russell's Mills, 44, 265, 268
who settled in Dartmouth,. . 204 Quadrupeds, 400
Read, Dr. Alexander.
.331
127, 128 Read, Frederick, 305
old houses on,.
ownership of,.
recollections of, by Samuel Robinson, .
visit to by the author,.
126
Newspapers at the present time .. . 151 early,. 137-150
Nomquid, (Smith's Neck,). .185
Northmen in Buzzard's Bay, . 116, 359 Oath of fidelity. names of those who took the, 1684,. 45 1686,
Obadiah, Sarah,.
diary of,
197
letter of introduction given
to,
197
Russell, Caleb,.
155
132 Russell, Daniel, lines on the death
of,
.384
journeys of,
.166-175
Pensioner, an old, story of,. 214
Perry, Dr. Ebenezer,
Pascamanset River,.
.44, 97, 345
Perry, Dr. Samuel, Jr., 321
Medley, the,. . .. 137, 143
contents of the first number
the editor's salutatory. 138
Friends', on Spring street,. . 249
412
Sandwich Islands, first whalers at, 370|Thornton, Elisha .. 236-247
Sassamon, John,. .. 18 tribute to his memory, .. 247 Sassaquin's or Myles's Pond,. . . 44, 97 Tobey, Dr. Elisha .. . 321
Scenery around New Bedford,. . 88, 97 his house pillaged, 294
Sconticut, 131 Tobey, William ; his goods taken, 294
Scoresby, William, Jr. .57 Tompkins, Dr. Silas, 331
Separation of New Bedford and Fairhaven, 363
Town officers of old Dartmouth, . . 348 Trees,. 404
September gale,
308-313
Truxton, Thomas, 359
loss of lives in, . .312
Settlement of Dartmouth,.
152 Union street,, .23
Unitarian church,.
335
Vessels registered 1818 and 1819,. . 301 205 Villages in this vicinity, .265
Fairhaven,
Smith's and Slocum's Necks, 185
Shearman, Abraham, Jr., . 70, 146, 148
Shell-fish,.
403|West, Samuel, D. D.,
275, 276, 318
Ship, first,
48 Westport,. .
.270, 340
Shrubs,
404 Westport Point,
270
Simons, Martha,.
.95 Westport village,. 270
Slave-trade, lines on the,.
241 West's Island, 131, 343
Slocum, Capt. William,.
308 Whale, a large,.
Small-pox hospital, petition for,. . 322 Whale attacking a ship.
Smith, John, appointment of as Lieutenant, 33
Smith's Mills,. .271
Smith's Neck, (Nomquid,). 185
Spooner, Rebecca,. 165
Spooner, Hon. Walter, Esq.,.
Squin's brook, .. 91
Stage-coaches, first line of from
New Bedford to Boston,. . 163 Wheatley, Phillis, 263
advertisement concerning,. . 384 Stall, Samuel,.
Standish, Miles, purchase of land. from, . .153
Willis, Eliakim,.
192
Statistics of New Bedford, 71, 358, 373 Willis family, .. 187-194
Stone wall on King street, tax for, 162 Story, Thomas,. .38
Streets and roads, construction of, 336 Streets, change of name of,. 23
selling land to the Russells and Kemptons,. 190, 205
in New Bedford, 1795, 304 Willis, Jireh, 189
Suburbs of New Bedford,
. 273 Willis, Col. Samuel, Esq.
331
Swain, Robert, death of, .128
first ship-owner,.
188
Taber, Bartholomew,. .
295, 297 Willis, William,. .
189
Taber, William, a survivor of the loss of the Royal George, . .. 176 of,. 351
Tallman, Lydia,. ..... 159, 166-168, 175 Wonderful whalers, the,. 102
Tallman, William, anecdote by, . . 163|Wren, sloop:
62
ERRATA.
Page 24, line 26, for " exorcised " read exercised.
Page 28, line 16, for " Pritt " read Prill.
Page 75, line 35, for "20" read 22.
Page 230, line 2, for " as " read has.
Page 233, line 17, for " frustrated " read prostrated.
Page 263, line 11, for " then " read thou.
Page 263, line 17, for " His equal care " read This equal case.
Page 321, line 10, for " 1727" read 1772. Dr. Burg, and not Dr. Hatha-
way. was probably the earliest physician of Dartmouth.
Page 324, line 30, for " Robinson " read Rodman. Page 396, line 6, for " Rualwy " read Rualmy.
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early history of,. . . 54, 56, 105 of New Bedford, statistics of, 373
state of in 1830,.
302
331|Whalemen, bounties offered to by foreign powers,. 57
Whaling song,
68
lines by, ..
262
306 Wheldon, Joseph,
.60
Whitridge, Dr. William C.,
322
epitaphs of,
188, 393
houses of,
191
.67
Whale-fishery, ..... 53-69, 100-107, 302
101, 102
Settlers at Acushnet and Fair- haven, Dartmouth,.
.30
Votaries of mammon, a reminis-
98 cence of interest to,. .306 Wars with England, effect of,.57, 300 Water-fowl, .402
Settlements, first in Dartmouth, .. 185
Union, ship, loss of, 101
Winthrop. John, memorandums
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