Old Naumkeag: An Historical Sketch of the City of Salem, and the Towns of Marblehead, Peabody, Beverly, Danvers, Wenham, Manchester, Topsfield, and Middleton |
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... Indians . The desire to remove was heightened by the pro- posal of Mr. Lyford that they follow him to Vir- ginia , whither he was to go at once . Several announced a determination to accept the offer . Had Conant consented to go with ...
... Indians . The desire to remove was heightened by the pro- posal of Mr. Lyford that they follow him to Vir- ginia , whither he was to go at once . Several announced a determination to accept the offer . Had Conant consented to go with ...
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... Indians , whose good we desire to promote , and soe to converse , as wee may avoyd the verrye appearance of evill . 7. Wee hearby promise to carrye our selves in all law- ful obedience to those that are over us , in church or com- mon ...
... Indians , whose good we desire to promote , and soe to converse , as wee may avoyd the verrye appearance of evill . 7. Wee hearby promise to carrye our selves in all law- ful obedience to those that are over us , in church or com- mon ...
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... Indian depredations , or wars , or social revolutions . Only once , on the occasion of the terrible witchcraft delusion , has Salem's peace been disturbed , and then it was short and sharp like some horrid nightmare . The territory ...
... Indian depredations , or wars , or social revolutions . Only once , on the occasion of the terrible witchcraft delusion , has Salem's peace been disturbed , and then it was short and sharp like some horrid nightmare . The territory ...
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... Indians and had greatly depopu- lated this region , so that the planters had little to fear from the few remaining Indians whose lives had been spared . They , therefore , as their numbers increased , spread out over the vast territory ...
... Indians and had greatly depopu- lated this region , so that the planters had little to fear from the few remaining Indians whose lives had been spared . They , therefore , as their numbers increased , spread out over the vast territory ...
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... Indians , here provided . Both North and South rivers , as well as the before - mentioned creek , could be easily guarded from this point , as also the eighth of a mile of land between the creek and North river . Our reader visitors in ...
... Indians , here provided . Both North and South rivers , as well as the before - mentioned creek , could be easily guarded from this point , as also the eighth of a mile of land between the creek and North river . Our reader visitors in ...
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Athenæum beautiful Benjamin Beverly brick Browne building built called Cape Ann Capt Central street colony corner of Essex corner of Washington Court House Danvers depot early east Endicott England erected Essex county Essex Institute Essex street farm Federal street feet formerly Francis Francis Higginson front George Giles Corey Governor harbor Hawthorne Higginson hill Hugh Peters hundred Indians John Joseph known land large number lived Lynde mansion Marblehead Massachusetts meeting-house ment merchant miles mills Nathaniel Naumkeag Neck North occupied original Palfray Peabody Peabody Institute Pickering Plummer Hall pond portion present pastor Quakers residence road Roger Conant Roger Williams Sagamore Salem Neck Samuel school-house settlement settlers ship shore Skelton society South river South Salem stands stood story summer Tarrantines tavern Thomas tion Topsfield town Upham vessels village Washington street watch-house Wenham wharf Winter Island witch witchcraft worship
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Page 260 - WE sat within the farmhouse old, Whose windows, looking o'er the bay, Gave to the sea-breeze, damp and cold, An easy entrance, night and day. Not far away we saw the port, — The strange, old-fashioned, silent town, — The lighthouse, — the dismantled fort, — The wooden houses, quaint and brown. We sat and talked until the night, Descending, filled the little room; Our faces faded from the sight, Our voices only broke the gloom. We spake of many a vanished scene, Of what we once had thought...
Page 294 - At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, A fisherman stood aghast, To see the form of a maiden fair, Lashed close to a drifting mast. The salt sea was frozen on her breast, The salt tears in her eyes; And he saw her hair, like the brown seaweed, On the billows fall and rise. Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!
Page 294 - And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand.
Page 67 - There was one very strange thing more, with which the court was newly entertained. As this woman was under a guard, passing by the great and spacious meetinghouse of Salem, she gave a look towards the house. And immediately a demon invisibly entering the meetinghouse, tore down a part of it; so that though there...
Page 12 - Wee whose names are underwritten, members of the present Church of Christ in Salem, having found by sad experience how dangerous it is to...
Page 29 - We generally reached our resting place for the night, if no accident intervened, at ten o'clock and after a frugal supper went to bed with a notice that we should be called at three the next morning, which generally proved to be half past two.
Page 294 - Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the masts went by the board ; Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank, Ho! ho!
Page 13 - In public or private, we will willingly do nothing to the offence of the church ; but will be willing to take advice for ourselves and ours, as occasion shall be presented.