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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... corner of the world , crossing a tempestuous and dangerous ocean and landing on the shores of a wilderness , leaving everything however dear and valuable behind , came to have a country and a social system for themselves and of ...
... corner of the world , crossing a tempestuous and dangerous ocean and landing on the shores of a wilderness , leaving everything however dear and valuable behind , came to have a country and a social system for themselves and of ...
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... corner of Summer and Chestnut streets . It was early known as Sweet's cove , subsequently as Ruck's creek , taking its name from the owners of the land upon the north of it . To the south of this creek and south - west of the depot are ...
... corner of Summer and Chestnut streets . It was early known as Sweet's cove , subsequently as Ruck's creek , taking its name from the owners of the land upon the north of it . To the south of this creek and south - west of the depot are ...
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... corner of Gedney court , was built in 1645 and suc- ceeded the " Port House . " It is said to have been occupied as a Custom House for thirty - four years . Felt says : " For a long period , it was usual for col- lectors of the customs ...
... corner of Gedney court , was built in 1645 and suc- ceeded the " Port House . " It is said to have been occupied as a Custom House for thirty - four years . Felt says : " For a long period , it was usual for col- lectors of the customs ...
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... corner of the depot to Front street , about on a line with the outer edge of the present brick walk , on the eastern side of the depot . These buildings were moved back to their present position , when Washington street was ex- tended ...
... corner of the depot to Front street , about on a line with the outer edge of the present brick walk , on the eastern side of the depot . These buildings were moved back to their present position , when Washington street was ex- tended ...
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... corners at the junction of Essex and Washington streets . They never formed a perfect square , as Essex street above and below this point was formerly two dis- tinct streets . Washington street was originally four rods in width its ...
... corners at the junction of Essex and Washington streets . They never formed a perfect square , as Essex street above and below this point was formerly two dis- tinct streets . Washington street was originally four rods in width its ...
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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.