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Shad bush (Alemanchier Canadensis) bears a profusion of white blossoms.
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THE FLORA OF WEARE.
Pigeon Cherry (Prunus Pennsylvanica) ; white as snow with flowers; scarlet with berries of gentle acid.
Mountain Ash (Pyrus Americana) flourishes by wild streams and in the crevices of rocks; white flowers, red berries, which, with its foliage, were food for moose and deer.
White and Red Hardhacks (Spiræa tomentosa and salicifolia) ; white and red flowers; common by roadsides and in pastures.
Blackberry (Rubus vilosus and Canadensis) ; two kinds: high and low ; along roads and on the borders of fields.
Raspberry (Rubus strigosus and occidentalis) in newly cleared fields.
Mulberry or Flowering Raspberry (Rubus odoratus) ; with broad leaves, handsome rose-like flowers, and delicious fruit.
Dogwood (Cornus florida and stolonifera) grows in moist soils ; white flowers in June, clusters of red, white, and blue fruit in autumn.
Viburnums include the arrow-wood, with pure-white flowers ; withe-rod ; hobble bush, with hydrangea-like blossoms in May, and cranberry bush, with bright-red fruit which ripens after frosts.
Heath family has the kalmias or American laurels, azalea with pink flowers, rhodora with purple flowers that come before the leaves, clethra and rarely the stately rhododendron or great rose bay.
Spoonwood or Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) forms dense thickets in swampy woods and has pink and white flowers and glossy leaves. The little sheep laurel (Kalmia angustifolia), over- running pastures, has a profusion of rose-red flowers.
Trailing Arbutus or May-flower (Epigæa repens) ; fragrant pink and white flowers, among the first of spring.
Creeping Snowberry (Chiogenes) grows on old logs and stumps, with snow-white berries half hidden by the leaves.
Clethra has sweet-scented white flowers in July and August.
Blueberry (Vacinium Pennsylvanicum and corymbosum). The dwarf has the greatest range, in fields and pastures and high up on mountains. The high is common to swamps and shores of ponds.
Huckleberry (Gaylussacia frondosa) flourishes on dry soils.
Cranberry (Oxycoccus macrocarpus) has the same range as the high blueberry.
Winterberry (Prinos verticillatus) is well known for its crimson berries, persistent long after its leaves have fallen.
Striped Maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum), with handsome leaves, grows in highland woods, and was a favorite food for the moose.
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Mountain Maple (Acer spicatum) grows along the banks of rocky streams.
Sumach (Rhus), three kinds, delights in rocky situations on southern slopes of hills, and in autumn has purple leaves and scarlet spikes of fruit.
Poison Ivy (Rhus toxicodendron).
Alder (Alnus incana) is common by sluggish streams, in pastures, and on mountain tops.
Willow (Salix), seven or eight species, grows in every variety of soil, and is the shrub found nearest the pole.
Labrador Tea (Sedum latifolium) is found in bogs and bears clusters of white flowers in June. In the time of the Revolution it was used as a substitute for tea.
Bayberry (myrica cerifera) yields tallow, and the first settlers made candles of it .*
The herbaceous plants are about the same as when the first clear- ings were made. We give a few of the most common.
Liverwort (Hepatica triloba), with downy, young leaves and white or sky-blue flowers, is the first to appear in early spring.
Yellow Violet or Pansy (Viola) and its blue cousins soon after peer through the brown carpet of fallen leaves in the woods; and then come:
Ginseng (trifolium and quinquefolium), with white flower;
Yellow Bell Wort (Uvularia), several species, with delicate yel- low flower;
Wake-robin (Trillium), several species, flower dark purple;
Solomon's Seal (Polygonatum biflorum), with flowering cupola, and Blood Root (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with its frail blossoms.
Clintonia borealis, with shining leaves and yellow bells, shows itself a little later beneath the shade of hemlocks and about the same time the little
Anemone, many species, or Wind Flower, nods in the open glades, and
* Other shrubs are Witch Hazel (Hamamelis Virginiana), Hornbeam (Carpinus Americana), Leverwood (Ostrya Virginica), Elder (Sambucus Canadensis and pubens), Snow Ball (Viburnum opulus), Button Bush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), Leatherwood or Wicopy (Dirca palustris), Sweet Fern (Comptonia asplenifolia), Bar- berry (Berberis vulgaris), Choke Cherry (Prunus Virginiana), Lilac (Syringa vul- garis, Currant (Ribes rubrum aureum), Skunk Currant (Ribes nigrum) Gooseberry (Ribes Cynosbati, hirtellum, uvaerispa), Dwarf Cherry (Prunus pumila), Rose (Rosa-), Fever Bush or Spice Bush (Benzoin odoriferum), Hazelnut (Corylus Americana), Sassafras officinale, Grape Vine (Vitis Lubrusea and cordifolia), Wood- bine or American Ivy (Ampelopsis quinquefolia), Andromeda, many species, Sweet Gale (Myrica Gale), Matrimony Vine (Lycium barbarum), Choke Berry (Pyrus arbutifolia), Diervilla.
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THE FLORA OF WEARE.
Bluets (Houstonia cœrulea), with white or pale-blue flowers soon follow them.
Saxifrage (Saxifraga Virginiensis), another early flower, comes up in the crevices of ledges, and its friend, the
Wild Columbine (Aquilegia Canadensis), called Honey Suckle, with its curiously formed flower, swings in every passing breeze.
Mitrewort (Mitella diphylla) shows its bright, white flower in all marshy places.
Sturdy Jack-in-the-pulpit (Arisæma triphyllum) stands up under the trees.
Twin Flower (Linnæa borealis), very fragrant, with its nodding, bell-shaped, roseate flowers, trails about the roots of moss-grown trees in upland woods.
Winter Green (Pyrola), four species, some with rose-colored flowers,
Prince's Pine or Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata),
Indian Pipe and Pine Sap (Monotropa uniflora and Hypoptiys) grow in evergreen woods.
Blazing Star (Chamælirium luteum) and Wild Lupine (Lupinus perennis) are common by hedges on the borders of fields.
Lady's Slippers (Cypripedium), several species, handsome and stemless, grow under pines.
Touch-me-not, or Jewel Weed (Impatiens fulva), or Wild Balsam,. occurs in rich, moist places.
Water Lily (Nymphæa odorata), sweetest of flowers, thrives in muddy ponds.
Yellow Lily (Nuphar advena) grows in all ponds.
Canada Lily (Lilium of many species) flourishes in meadows along the rivers, and
Red Lily is common in the pastures.
Cardinal Flower (Lobelia cardinalis) rears its flaming spikes along brooksides in August.
Willow Herb (Epilobium angustifolium) with showy, bright-purple flowers, springs up in great profusion in newly cleared lands.
Golden Rod (Solidago), many species, and Asters, in great abundance adorn our fields and pastures in late summer and early autumn
Little Pink Pogonia is found in wet places.
Round-leaved Orchis, with shining leaves, is spread flat upon the ground, and
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Lady's Tresses (Spiranthes), with little twisted spikes, are half hidden in the grass in late summer.
Gentians (Gentiana crinita and Andrewsii), greatly admired, are among the last flowers of fall, and are found in meadows and along moist hillsides.
Bitter Sweet or Staff Tree (Celastrus scandens). Its arilled seeds, bright scarlet, persist in winter, and
Winter Green, Checkerberry (Gaultheria procumbens) with scar- let berries in close bunches, blazes all winter long .*
The Sedges are a numerous family, more than fifty species, and grow in low, wet meadows.
* HERBACEOUS PLANTS.
A dash after the Latin name indicates many species.
Ancmone, or Wind Flower. Asters.
Agrimony (agrimonia eupatoria).
Angelica (archangelica atropurpurea).
Autumn dandelion (leontodon autuni- nalis).
Arrowhead (sagittaria variabalis).
Asparagus (asparagus officinalis).
Blood root (sanguinaria Canadensis).
Bluets (houstonia cornlea).
Blazing star (chamælirium luteum).
Bunch berry (cornus canadensis). Burr-marigold, beggar-ticks (bidens -). Burdock (lappa officinalis).
Balm (melissa officinalis).
Blue-curls (brunella vulgaris).
Bindweed (convolvulus arvensis).
Carrot (daucus carota).
Cinquefoil (potentilla -).
Crowfoot, or Buttercup (ranunculus-). Cat-tail (typha).
Clintonia borealis.
Canada lily (lilium).
Cardinal flower (lobelia cardinalis).
Cowslip, or Marslı marigold (caltha pal- ustris).
Celandine (cheledoneum majus).
Crane's bill (geranium maculatum).
Chickweed (stellaria media).
Chickweed (trientalis Americana).
Caraway (carum carvi).
Coriander (coriandrum sativum).
Cow wheat (melampyrum pratense).
Colt's foot (tussilago farfara).
Cudweed (gnaphalium -).
Catmint, or Ground ivy (nepeta cataria and N. glechoma).
Comfrey (symphytum officinale).
Deadly nightshade (atropa belladonna). Dandelion (taraxacum dens-leonis).
Day lily (hemerocallis fulva).
Dog's bane (apocynum and rosæmifoli- um),
Dock sorrel (rumex -).
Everlasting (antennaria).
Evening primrose (œnothera - ). Elecampane (inula helenum).
False Solomon's seal (smilacina racc- mosa).
Fireweed (erechtites hieracifolius).
Ginseng (trifolium and quinquefolium).
Golden-rod (solidago - ).
Gentians (crinita and Andrewsii).
Gold-thread (coptis trifolia).
Horse-radish (amoracia rusticana).
Horseweed, Hogweed (ambrosia artemisi- æfolia).
Hawkweed (hieracium -).
Harebell (campanula rotundifolia).
Hop (humulus lupulus).
Indian pipe (monotropa uniflora).
Indian tobacco (lobelia inflata).
Jack-in-the-pulpit (arisæma triphyllum).
Knot-grass (polygonum -).
Liverwort (hepatica-triloba).
Ladies' slippers (cypripedium - ).
Ladies' tresses (spiranthes - ).
Life of inan (aralia racemosa).
Larkspur (delphinium - ).
Live-forever (sempervivum tectorum ).
Lettuce (lactuca Canadensis).
Loose strife (lysimachia -).
Mallow (malva -).
Mitrewort (mitella diphylla).
Mountain Fringe (adlumia cirrhosa).
Mustard (brassica - ). Mullein (verbascum thapsus).
Milkweed (asclepias - ).
Mayweed (anthemis-).
Motherwort (leonurus cardiaca).
Morning glory (pharbitis purpurea).
Nettle (urtica-).
Orchis. Oxeye (heliopsis -).
Prince's pine, or Pipsissewa (chimaphila umbellata).
Pine sap (nionotropa -). Pogonia.
Partridge berry (mitchella repens).
Poke, or Gargetwecd (phytolacca decan- dra).
Pitcher plant (sarracenia - ).
Poppy (papaver -). Pepper grass (lepidum virginicnin).
Plantain (plantago -).
Pennyroyal (hedeoma -).
Potato (salanın tuberosmin).
Pigweed, or Goosefoot (chenopodium-).
Pickercl weed (pontederia cordata).
Purslane (portulaca oleracea).
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There are twenty-five, or more, kinds of grass, including the white-top and the blue-joint .*
Of the ferns there are about forty species. Among these the coarse fronds of the bracken, the plume-like ostrich fern, the maiden- hair fern with delicate fronds, and the fragrant wood fern, are common.t
The trailing evergreen (club moss) is found in deep woods and on cold, bleak hillsides.
Mosses and lichens are abundant, and there are many kinds.
The Indians did not modify the natural vegetation, and there is no evidence that they were preceded by an agricultural race. They planted maize, beans, and pumpkins, -exotic plants derived from a southern clime.
The Europeans introduced many new species; expelled none. Some native species have become rare; none are extinct. The influx of European plants was rapid, and it still goes on, new- comers being noticed every year, and the whole number is reckoned by hundreds and perhaps thousands. Some are pests, some are ornamental and useful.
Peavine (amphicarpæ monoica). Periwinkle (vinca minor). Parsnip (peucedanum sativum). Rhubarb (rheum rhaponticum). Red lily (lilium -).
Rutland beauty (calystegia sepium).
Rock rose (helianthemum - ). Soapwort (saponaria officinalis). Star grass (hypoxis erecta).
Skull-cap (scutellaria -).
Solomon's seal (polygonatum biflorum). Saxifrage (saxifraga -).
Sarsaparilla (aralia nudicaulis).
Winter green (pyrola - ).
Wild lupine (lupinus perennis).
Water lily (nymphæa odorata).
Willow herb (epilobium angustifolium).
Winter green, or Checkerberry (gaulthe- ria grocumbens).
Water-cress (nasturtium -).
Wood sorrel (oxalis acetosella).
Wormwood (artemisia - ).
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Twin flower (linnæa borealis).
Touch-me-not, or Jewel weed (impatiens fulva).
Toad-flax, Butter-and-eggs (linaria vul- garis).
Tansy (tanacetum vulgare).
Thoroughwort, boneset (eupatorium -). Thistle (cirsium lanceolatum and ar- · vense).
Thorn apple (datura stramonium).
Two-leaved Solomon's seal ( majantlie- mum bifolium).
Virgin's bower (clematis - ).
Vervain (verbena -- ). Violet pansy (viola - ). Wake-robin (trillium - ). Wild columbine (aquilegia Canadensis).
Skunk cabbage (symplocarpus fœtidus). Sweet flag (acorus calamus).
Strawberry (fragaria virginiana).
Shepherd's purse (capsella bursa pastoris). Snake head (chelone glabra).
Sow thistle (sonchus arvensis). St. John's-wort (hypericum - ).
Sunflower (helianthus - ).
Spearmint - peppermint-horsemint (mintha -).
Whiteweed ( erigeron - and leucanthe- mum -). Wild pink (dianthus -).
Yellow violet (viola - ). Yellow bell-wort (uvularia -).
Yellow lily (nuphar advena ). Yarrow (achillea millefolium ).
* The following are some of the grasses: Herd's grass, Red top, White top, June grass, Fowl Meadow grass, Orchard grass, Twitch grass, Hassock grass, Creep- ing Soft grass, Sweet-scented Vernal grass, Cut grass, Broad-leaved Panic grass, Barn grass, Manna grass, Hair-Stocked Panic grass, Bearded Darnel grass, Tickle grass, Fresh-water Cord grass, Purple Wood grass, Rabbit-foot clover, Hair grass, Burr grass, Beard grass, Cotton grass, Blue-joint grass.
t Some of the ferns: Common brake, Common polypody, Ostrich fern, Swamp fern, Beech fern, Fragrant Wood fern, Fragile Bladder fern, Marsh Shield fern, Oak fern, Lady fern, Cinnamon fern, Maiden Hair fern, Royal or Buck's Horn fern, Sensi- tive fern.
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CHAPTER IV.
FAUNA.
BEFORE the glacial epoch Weare had, living on her hills and in her valleys, the mastodon, mammoth, rhinoceros, hippopotamus, the four-toed horse, and many other animals not now inhabiting the country. Some of these are extinct, and others have migrated to the torrid zone. The mastodon and mammoth, like the dodo, have only died out within a few hundred years. These were animals of the tertiary period.
When the ice sheet was slowly coming down from the pole, the white bear, musk ox, reindeer, arctic fox, arctic rabbit, lemming, and some other animals, kept front of it, living for a time in Weare, and thousands of years afterwards retreated with it as it melted. Without doubt the Esquimaux came and went with then.
Moose were the largest animals that hunters and the first settlers found in Weare, and many of them were killed. Their flesh was the farmer's beef. A fat one would weigh twelve hundred pounds ; the upper lip and tongue were esteemed rare delicacies. There is a tradition that Capt. John Lovewell and his party of Indian fighters killed a black one in Weare, when he marched to Mount Lovell. The Indians made moccasins and snow-shoes from their skins.
The deer, cousin to the moose, were very plenty in town. The first settlers often feasted on venison. An old man of Goffstown, in 1850, said he could remember when there were more deer in Weare than sheep.
The caribou, another cousin, was a rare animal, a few stragglers only coming down from the north. It had broad hoofs which an- swered for snow-shoes in the winter wilderness.
The panther, other names lion, cougar, painter, catamount, was the fiercest and most dreaded animal the settlers saw. Still it was an arrant coward in the presence of man, never being known to at- tack him. It was a night prowler, and had a weird, unearthly cry, at which dogs and wild animals slunk away. It has been known to kill fifty sheep in a night. Its color is a tawny yellow, and some have been caught eleven feet three inches long.
The wolves came down from the north in packs, and at times would make night hideous with their howling. They were very de- structive to the deer. When famishing they would attack any ani-
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mal they could find, horses and men not excepted. They have been known to make a meal of raw-hide, eat up an old harness, or devour their wounded companions. Mothers in old times took their chil- dren to the door at night to hear the wolves howl on the hills ; and occasionally the wolves themselves put their noses on the small win- dow panes and looked in at the family around the kitchen fire.
The black bear was abundant in Weare; two to three feet tall, four to six feet long, and would weigh from three to four hundred pounds. Being a fruit-eater, its flesh made dainty steaks upon which the settlers regaled themselves. It was very fond of honey, would hunt out wild swarms, climb the tree, gnaw into them, and eat honey, comb, bees, and all. It hibernated three to four months during the winter, in caverns, hollow trees, and under great logs. Its skin made a royal robe for the Indian.
The wolverine, or glutton, was sometimes found. It was thirty inches long, fifteen inches high, of a brownish color, and could eat thirteen pounds of meat a day. It killed small animals, and deer, beaver and bears, dropping upon them from the trees. Hunters hated it, for it ate their provision, and would follow their sable lines even when fifty miles long, destroying their traps and devouring their game.
The bay lynx or wild cat, the Canada lynx or loupcervier, the fisher cat or Pennant's marten, and the sable or pine marten were all much sought after by hunters for their furs, and a great many were captured.
The beaver, next to the ant and the Indian, was the most intelli- gent animal the settlers met with in Weare. They lived in com- munities, had laws and executed them even to inflicting the death penalty. They were once very plenty, and their old dams and meadows, where their ponds were, are still to be seen.
These animals have all disappeared from town, but occasionally a straggler of the cat and deer species may appear, straying down from the northern woods and mountains.
The following animals are found in Weare at the present time : otter; musquash ; mink, inhabiting the streans and ponds; hedge- hog or porcupine, with its sharp quills ; raccoon, with its cunning, half-human face ; northern hare and gray rabbit, changing their colors to white in winter ; the sly, red fox and the black fox, glittering like silver in the bright sun ; skunk, sweet-smelling at a distance ; wood- chuck, delighting to burrow in clover fields ; stoat, or ermine, with
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tail jet black at the tip; beautiful, tawny weasel, small weasel, little nimble weasel; gray squirrel, black squirrel, red squirrel, or the chickaree, as the Indians called it, flying squirrel, striped squirrel, or chip-munk ; deer-mouse, that can jump twelve feet at a leap; little, brown, star-nose mole, shrew-mole, Say's least shrew-mole, Brewer's shrew-mole; bat, we have but one kind ; black rat, Nor- way rat, which drives out the black ; field mouse, which makes such a cunning nest for its young ; jumping mouse, European mouse, white-footed mouse, and meadow mouse.
We give no description of these, for most of them are plenty, and the good people of Weare, and others, can easily find and examine them for themselves.
Weare's birds are mostly the same as when the town was first settled. Only one, the wild turkey, has wholly disappeared. It was the largest bird of the New England forest, was very beautiful when in full plumage, and was remarkably shy and wary. A full- grown gobbler would weigh between thirty and forty pounds. They were once plenty in Weare.
At the beginning of the present century wild pigeons were abundant. They went in vast flocks, many millions, that seemingly had no beginning nor ending, making as they flew a great cloud across the sky, miles wide and so dense it darkened the sun for hours together. When killed and dressed these pigeons were often found to have in their crops undigested rice from the swamps of Georgia and the Carolinas.
The following birds are found in town during the winter, some coming from the north at the beginning of cold weather, and some remaining the year round. They are the crow, pine grosbeak, butch- er bird, chickadee, ruffed grouse, snow-bunting, blue jay, white- bellied nuthatch, downy woodpecker, hairy woodpecker, Canada sparrow, English sparrow, lesser redpoll, crossbill, cedar bird, Bohemian waxwing, Lapland longspur, snowy and other owls.
The blue-bird, robin, song sparrow and blue snow-bird are the first to return from the South in spring, often making their appearance early in March. Then comes the red-wing blackbird, goldfinch, fox-colored finch, phebe, winter wren, and clape. Following them come a great throng, almost always arriving in the night ; sparrows, thrushes, blackbirds, orioles, swallows, warblers, flycatchers, wrens, vireos, snipe, woodcock, birds of the swamp, various water birds, and the ruby-throated humming bird. Along with them are owls,
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hawks and eagles, to kill and destroy, and in the spring and fall the farmer in his field hears wild geese honking from the sky.
Reptiles are numerous : several kinds of turtles, or tortoise ; rattle- snake, the only kind poisonous ; black, striped, green and brown snakes ; house and water adders; the blue-tailed skink or lizard ; twelve kinds of salamanders ; toads and frogs of many varieties, and hylodes that sing in the spring.
Crickets and katydids sing in late summer and early autumn and make the fields and woods vocal when the birds are silent.
Eleven kinds of fish live in the streams and ponds : trout, pickerel, black bass, dace, perch, chub, shiners, sunfish, suckers, horn-pout and the silver eel; the last migrate to the sea, and if, in returning, they meet an obstruction in the stream they can not surmount, they crawl on shore and glide like snakes to the water above.
There are one hundred and twenty-six kinds of spiders, some with four, some with six and some with eight eyes.
Insects are a numerous family. Many of them are a great nuisance and pest, like the louse, bed-bug and Colorado potato beetle, and some are useful and beautiful like the honey-bee and butterfly.
And then there are the vibreos, bacterii, bacillii, animalculæ, without end or number, and that other great swarm of microscopic life, the protista, but whether the last are animals or plants it is im- possible to tell.
CHAPTER V.
MASONIAN TITLE.
WE shall try to show, in a brief way, how the title to the land in Weare came to its citizens. To do this clearly it will be necessary to tell of the voyages, discoveries, land grants, long lawsuits, and a great line-fight of the early times.
Martin Pring was the first white man known to have come to our state. He set out from the old world April 10, 1603, and in June, the month of roses, came to the Piscataqua. He calls it "the best river" he had met, and sailed upon its bright, swift tide to the Great bay. His ship was the Speedwell, fifty tons, with a crew of thirty men and boys. With him came Capt. William Brown, in
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[1605.
the barque Discoverer, with thirteen men and a boy. They then went to the south, took in a load of sassafras, and got home at the end of six months.
Samuel de Champlain, a noted man in the annals of Canada, came in his ship, from France, to the Isles of Shoals; made the mouth of the Piscataqua river July 15, 1605, went on shore the next day at the " Cape of the Islands," now known as Odiorne Point in the town of Rye, and there met a few Indians. He gave them knives and beads. They drew for him with a coal a map of the coast to the south, and July 17th, he found " a very wide stream," to which he gave the name "Riviere du Gas," now known as the Merrimack. Champlain, no doubt, was the first white man to set foot on our soil and to find our chief river .*
Capt. John Smith in 1614 came by good luck to the Isles of Shoals ; gave them the name of Smith's Isles, and sailed up the Piscataqua which he found to be " a safe harbor with a rocky shore." He went back to England, put in print " A Tale of his Trip " to the new world, made a rough map of the coast, and gave it to Prince Charles, who called the land New England.
Hundreds of other bold navigators had explored the North Amer- ican coast as the centuries rolled by, but these are the only recorded ones who had come to the mouth of the Piscataqua.
King James saw the advantage to be derived from the new country and to promote its settlement, made a grant Nov. 3, 1620, of the whole of New England to the Plymouth Company which was made up of dukes, earls, lords, and knights, forty men in all. This was the first link in our chain of title.
Sir Ferdinando Gorges was one of the company's head men. He was smart, full of life, and would put through any job he took in hand. He had been in the navy, was a friend of Sir Walter Raleigh of whose high spirit he had a large share. Some one had brought him three Indians from the new world. He took them into his house, learned their speech, and found out all he could about the land from whence they came. He fell in love with it, filled it with the brightest air-castles, thought there was a fortune to be made out of it, and was the chief man to get the grant from the king; the company made him their president, and he did most of their work.
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