1875 NEW ENGLAND SEA COAST TOWNS ISLANDS HISTORY LEGEND

First published in 1875, it is the finest book ever written about coastal New England history and lore.

Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast.

By Samuel Adams Drake

Condition: Good Condition. General surface wear and at corners and spine ends. Small splits in cloth along sides of spine. 1” scratch in cloth on back cover. Front inner hinge cracked. Text block is solid and firmly bound. Text is clean and complete. No torn, loose or missing pages. No dampstains, no musty smells. A nice example of this 134-year-old New England title, sure to bring readers joy for years to come.

Description:

Samuel Adams Drake was one of America's most enduring 19th-century New England historians and folklorists. In NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST, Drake focuses all of his experience and powers of observation on the coastal villages, seaports and islands of old New England, which he personally visited in 1875.

From Bar Harbor to Old Saybrook, Drake takes the reader on a guided tour of everything that was worth seeing 127 years ago. He mingles prosaic descriptions of oceanside scenery with local history, folklore and anecdotes about the people he encounters along the way. Drake is never stingy with praise, but he has no qualms about being critical either. One moment he's rhapsodizing over the majestic beauty of an ocean cliff, the next lamenting ancient houses blighted by time and poverty. If an innkeeper or a fisherman rubs him the wrong way, he writes about it. Touches like that keep his narrative interesting, unpredictable, and true to New England's moody temperament.

For example, here he describes The Neck at Marblehead:

A run over the Neck revealed many points of interest. There are rock cavities of glassy smoothness, worn by the action of pebbles, chasms that receive the coming wave and derisively toss it high in air; and there are precipitous cliffs which the old stone-cutter and lapidary can never blunt, though he may fret and fume at their base. Looking off to sea, the eye is everywhere interrupted by islands or sunken ledges belted with surf.. They have such names as Satan, Roaring Bull, Great and Little Misery, Great and Little Haste, Cut-throat Ledge, the Brimbles, Cat Island and the like. Each would have a story, if it were challenged, how it came by its name. The number of these islands is something surprising. In fact they appear like a system, connecting the craggy promontory of Marblehead with the cape side. At some time the sea must have burst through this rocky barrier, carrying all before its resistless onset. The channels are intricate among these islands, and must be hit with the nicest precision, or a strong vessel would go to pieces at the first blow on the sharp rocks ...

Less glowing is his recollection of a visit to a venerable old house at Kittery Point, Maine (the Lady Pepperell House). Yet even in disagreeable surroundings the author senses a forlorn beauty:

... a sombre old mansion, having, in despite of some relics of a former splendor, an unmistakable air of neglect and decay. The massive entrance door hung by a single fastening, the fluted pilasters on either side were rotting away, window panes were shattered, chimney tops in ruins, the fences prostrate. It was nothing but a wreck ashore. This was the house built by Lady Pepperell, after the death of Sir William. Report said it was haunted; indeed, I found it so, and by a living phantom ... Repeated and long-continued knocking was at length answered by a tremulous effort from within to open the door, which required the help of my companion and myself to effect. I shall never forget the figure that appeared to us. Poor Sally Cutts, a harmless maniac, was the sole inhabitant of the old house; she and it were fallen into hopeless ruin together. Her appearance was weird and witchlike, and betokened squalid poverty. An old calash almost concealed her features from observation, except when she raised her head and glanced at us in a scared, furtive sort of way. Yet beneath this wreck, and what touched us keenly to see, was the instinct of a lady of gentle breeding that seemed the last and only link between her and the world. With the air and manner of the drawing-room of fifty years ago she led the way from room to room ...

Our hostess, after conducting us to her own apartment, relapsed into imbecility, and seemed little conscious of our presence. Some antiquated furniture, doubtless family heirlooms, a small stove, and a bed, constituted all her worldly goods. As she crooned over a scanty fire of two or three wet sticks, muttering to herself, and striving to warm her withered hands, I thought I beheld in her the impersonation of Want and Despair ...

NOOKS AND CORNERS OF THE NEW ENGLAND COAST is a beautiful and sometimes bittersweet portrait of life along the New England shore in 1875. In its pages the romance and reality of coastal living collide, yielding an unforgettable memoir of a world and way of life that no longer exist. It's as though Drake embarked upon his pilgrimage with the knowledge that New England was changing, that the older, genteel traditions of the 18th and 19th centuries were on the brink of extinction. Perhaps that is why he strived to include as much local history, genealogy and legend in this book as possible -- to preserve the past before it became lost forever.

He devotes a good deal of attention to locales associated with early New England exploration, the Pilgrims and Puritans, English settlement and of course the American Revolution, particularly the old fort sites along the coast -- in fact, he spends an entire chapter on the French at Newport during the Revolutionary War. But he also invests himself deeply in topics such as coastal geography, whaling, the New England fisheries, lighthouses and lightships, shipwrecks, witchcraft, piracy, Indian antiquities and lore, and much more.

In order to give you the most accurate description of this rare and valuable book, I have provided an expanded Table of Contents below, along with a summary of the book's illustrations. For the benefit of bidders who are historians, genealogists, antiquarians, etc. -- and who routinely use books like this for specific research -- I have personally prepared a summary of the places, names, and topics referenced in the text. At the bottom of this page you'll find some of the beautiful illustrations from this book.

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Contents Are: (1) New England of the Ancients: Norumbega River and City * Norumbega the earliest name applied to New England * Mavoshen another early name for New England * Early Discoverers, and Maps of New England * Capt. John Smith not first to give Christian name to New England * Traditions associated with spotting land first * Mode of taking possession of new countries * Acadia and Pentagoet * Cruel usage of intruders by the English * Penobscot Bay * Character of first Emigrants to New England * Is Friday unlucky? (2) Mount Desert Island: About Islands * Champlain's discovery * Mount Desert Range * Author gets to Mount Desert Island after arriving at Bucksport by steamboat from Boston and making his way via Ellsworth to Somesville * Somesville chosen as central point for author's excursions * The Somesville Road in winter * Somesville, and the neighborhood * Old Uncle Daniel Somes, host of the village tavern * Dog Mountain * Colony of Madame de Guercheville * Descent of Sir S. Argall * Treasure-trove of Captain Kidd * Shell-heaps and Indian implements found at Fernald's Point and Sand Point * South-west Harbor * Fog, the bane of Mount Desert * The natural sea wall * Islands off Somes' Sound (3) Christmas on Mount Desert: Excursion to Bar Harbor * The village at Bar Harbor * Green Mountain * Eagle Lake * Island Nomenclature * Porcupine Islands * Short jaunts by the shore * Schooner Head * Spouting Caves * Sea Aquaria * Audubon and Agassiz at Mount Desert * David Wasgatt Clark * F.E. Church and the artists * Great Head * Bay Francoise * Mount Desert Rock * Value of natural sea-marks * Newport Mountain, and the way to Otter Creek * The Islemen * North-east Harbor * The Ovens * The Gregoires * Henrietta d'Orleans * Yankee curiosity (4) Castine: Pentagoet * The author aboard a steamer on the Penobscot * A Fog in Penobscot Bay * Rockland * The Waldo Family * The Muscongus Grant * Colonial Society * General Knox and Lincoln * The steamer approaches Camden Hills * Lunch and a stop at Camden * Belfast and the River Penobscot * Brigadier's Island * Disappearance of the Salmon * From Isleboro to Castine * Approach to Castine * A dubious dinner at the tavern in Castine * Fort George * Penobscot Expedition * Sir John Moore * Capture of General Wadsworth * His remarkable escape * Rochambeau's Proposal * La Peyrouse (5) Castine - continued: Old Fort Pentagoet * Stephen Grindle's windfall * Cob money * The Pilgrims at Penobscot * Isaac de Razilly * D'Aulnay Charnisay * La Tour * Descent of Sedgwick and Leverett * Capture of Pentagoet and Imprisonment of Chambly * Colbert * Baron Castin * The younger Castin kidnaped * Capuchins and Jesuits * Intrigues of De Maintenon and Pere Lachaise * Burial ground of Castine * About the Lobster: The author pays a visit to a Castine lobster-canning factory * Lobster laws * Where is Down East? (6) Pemaquid Point: The author takes a stagecoach bound for Pemaquid, trades it for a "beach-wagon" at Bristol Mills, and arrives at New Harbor by sunset * The beach-wagon driver * New Harbor * Wayside Manners * British repulse at New Harbor * The menhaden shortage * Porgee factory * Process of converting the fish into oil * Habits of the mackerel * Weymouth's visit to Pemaquid * Champlain again * Popham Colony * Cotton Mather on new settlements * English vs. French endurance * L'Ordre de Bon Temps * Samoset * Fort Frederick * Resume of the English settlement and Forts * John Nelson * Capture of Fort William Henry * D'Iberville, the knowing One * Colonel Dunbar at Pemaquid * Shell-heaps of Damariscotta * Disappearance of the native Oyster in New England (7) Monhegan Island: Scenes on a Penobscot Steamer in a winter sea * The Islanders * Weymouth's Anchorage * Monhegan described * Combat between the "Enterprise" and "Boxer" * Lieutenant Burrows (8) From Wells to Old York: A walk through Wells * John Wheelwright * George Burroughs * On the beach * Shiftings of the sands * The stranding of the "Clotilde" * What they produce * Ingenuity of the crow in eating mussels * The beach as abcxs high-road * Popular superstitions and the June "healing waters" of Saco Beach * The author pauses for a picnic lunch in York * Ogunquit * The view from Bald Head Cliff * Kennebunkport * Tragic wreck of the Isidore and the cries in the night * The Langtrea under sail * Huckleberry harvest at Kennebunkport * Cape Neddock or Neddick * The Nubble * Captains Gosnold and Pring * The author "put up" at the old Freeman Tavern in Cape Neddock * Moonlight on the beach (9) Agamenticus, the Ancient City: Mount Agamenticus * Basque Fishermen * Sassafras * The author leaves Cape Neddock and makes for Old York on foot * The Long Sands * Sea-weed and Shellfish * Foot-prints * The author spends the night at a hotel on Stage Neck * Old York Annals * Sir Ferdinando Gorges * York Meeting-house * Handkerchief Moody * Parson Moody * David Sewall * Old Jail * Garrison houses, Scotland Parish (10) At Kittery Point, Maine: York Bridge * A visit to the "haunted" house of poor Sally Cutts * Captain Joseph Cutts * Fort McClary * Sir William Pepperell * Louisburg and Fontenoy * Gerrish's Island * Francis Champernowne * Islands belonging to Kittery * John Langdon * Jacob Sheaffe * Washington at Kittery (11) The Isles of Shoals: De Monts sees them * Smith's and Levett's account * Cod fishery in the sixteenth century * The author in "Porchmouth" * Sail down the Piscataqua to the Isles of Shoals* * A rude night on Star Island * The Isles * Derivation of the name * Jeffrey's Ledge * Little Meeting-house * Meetinghouse on Star Island overwhelmed by new hotel * Pasturage on Star Island * The British steal Mrs. Pulsey's cows on Star Island, 1775 * Character of the Islemen * Island grave- yards * Betty Moody's Hole on Star Island and the chilling legend associated with it * Natural gorges * Under the cliffs * Death of Miss Underhill, swept away by a giant wave in 1848 * Story of her life * Boon Island * Wreck of the "Nottingham" in 1710 * Nottingham survivors resort to cannibalism on Boon Island * Fish and fishermen (12) The Isles of the Shoals - continued: Excursion to Smutty Nose * Piracy in New England waters * Buccaneers Thomas Hawkins and Thomas Pound cruise the coast of New England, 1869 * Captain Samuel Pease dispatched to capture Hawkins and Pound * Pease captures the pirates off Wood's Hole but is mortally wounded in the battle * The story of the "Dolphin" of Cape Ann, taken captive by pirates in 1723 * The "Dolphin" liberated by John Fillmore of Ipswich, who killed the pirates * Shoals men captured by the pirate Low * "Old Bab," the pirate's ghost of Appledore, said to be one of Captain Kidd's men * Rear admiral Benbow lying at Piscataqua with nine of Kidd's pirates on board for transport to England in 1700 * The pirate William Fly * Blackbeard * Blackbeard's treasure on the Isles of Shoals * The ghost of the pirate's mistress on White Island * The author rows to Smutty Nose in a wherry * Thomas Morton and Merrymount * Thomas Morton's banishment * Religious liberty vs. license * Custom of the May-pole * Samuel Haley * The Jopado * Spanish wreck on Smutty Nose * Graves of the Spanish wreck's unknown * Terrible tragedy on the island: Louis Wagner murders Annethe Christensen in 1873 * The author visits the house where the murder was committed * The author explores Appledore * Its ancient settlement * Smith's cairn * Duck Island * Londoner's * Thomas B. Laighton * Mrs. Thaxter * Lighthouses in 1793 * Tom Leha and his arrival at Star Island * The author rows to White Island * The White Island lighthouse * Story of a wreck -- and a valiant rescue (13) Newcastle and Neighborhood: The way to the island * Author finds Newcastle youngsters "noisy and ill bred" * The Pool * Ancient ships * Old house * Town charter and records * Influence of the Navy Yard * Fort Constitution * Little Harbor * Captain John Mason * The Wentworth House * The Portraits * The Governors Wentworth and their Wives * Baron Steuben (14) Salem Village and '92: The Witch-ground * Ruins of the Ministry House, where the witch hysteria began * Antiquity of witchcraft * First witchcraft case in New England at Boston in 1648 * Curiosities of Witchcraft * Rebecca Nurse * Beginning of Terrorism at Salem Village * Humors of the apparitions * General Israel Putnam birthplace * What may be see in Danvers (15) A Walk to Witch Hill: Salem in 1692 * Birthplace of Hawthorne * Old Witch House * William Stoughton, Governor * Witch Hill * The hangings * A Leaf from History (16) Marblehead: The Rock of Marblehead * The Harbor and Neck * Chat with the Light-Keeper * Oil to becalm abcxs the sea around a ship * Decline of the Fisheries * Fishery in the olden time * Early annals of Marblehead * The author walks about the town * The shoe factories * Crooked lanes and antique houses * The Water-side * The Fishermen * How the town looked in the past * Plain-spoken clergymen and lawless parishioners * Anecdotes * Jeremiah Lee and his mansion * The town-house * Chief Justice Story * St. Michael's Church * Elbridge Gerry * The old Ironsides of the sea * General John Glover * Flood Ireson's, Oakum Bay * Fort Sewall * Escape of the "Constitution" frigate * Duel of the "Chesapeake" and "Shannon" * Old burial-ground * A chat with the grave-digger * Perils of the fishery (17) Plymouth: At the American Mecca * Court Street * Pilgrim Hall and Pilgrim Memorial * Sargent's Picture of the "Landing" * Relics of the Mayflower * First duel in New England * Old Colony Seal * The "Compact" * First execution in Plymouth * Old "Body of Laws" * Pilgrim Chronicles * View from Burial Hill * The Harbor * Names of Plymouth * Plymouth, England * Lord Nelson's generosity * Plymouth the temporary choice of the Pilgrims * The Indian plague * Indian superstition * Who was first at Plymouth? * De Monts and Champlain * Champlain's voyage in New England * French pilgrims make the first landing * Why the natives were hostile to the Pilgrims of 1620 * Confusion among old writers about Plymouth * Among the tombstones of Burial Hill * The Pilgrims' church-fortress * What a Dutchman saw here in 1627 * Military procession to meeting * Ancient church customs * Puritans, Separatists and Brownists * Flight and political ostracism of the Pilgrims * Their form of worship * First Church of Salem * Plymouth founded on a principle (18) Plymouth, Clark's Island and Duxbury: Let us walk in Leyden Street * The way Plymouth was built * Governor Bradford's Corner * Fragments of family history * How marriage became a civil act * The Common-house * John Oldham's punishment * The Allyne House * James Otis and his Sister Mercy * James Warren * Cole's Hill, and its obliterated graves * Plymouth Rock * True Date of the "Landing" * Christmas in Plymouth, and Bradford's joke * Pilgrim Toleration * Samoset surprises Plymouth * The entry of Massasoit * First American Congress * The author sails to Clark's Island * Seals glimpsed along the way * Watson's House * Election Rock * The Party of Discovery * Duxbury * Captains Hill and Miles Standish * John Alden * "Why don't you speak for yourself?" * Historical iconoclasts * Celebrities of Duxbury * Winslow and Acadia * Colonel Church * The Dartmouth Indians (19) Provincetown: The author arrives in Provincetown by train on a cold July evening * Cape Cod a Terra incognita * Appearance of its surface * Historical fragments * The Pilgrim's frist landing * New England washing-day * De Poutrincourt's fight with natives * Provincetown described * Cape names * Portuguese colony * Cod and mackerel fishery * Cod-fish aristocracy * Matt Prior and Lent * Beginning of whaling * Mad Montague * The Desert * Shank Painter Pond * Cranberry culture * Doherty's description * The moving sand-hills * Disappearance of ancient forests * The beach * Race Point * Huts of refuge * Drowning of Mrs. Robinson in 1722 * Ice blockage of 1874-1875 * Wreck of the "Giovanni" * Physical aspects of the Cape shore * Old wreck at Orleans (20) Nantucket: The old Voyagers again * "Nautican" one of the earliest names of Nantucket * Derivation of the name of Nantucket * The author sails from Wood's Hole to the Island * Vineyard Sound * Arriving at the Nantucket wharfs * Walks in Nantucket Streets * Whales, ships and whaling * The author observes a whaling crew at work from the deck of a steamer * Nantucket in the Revolution * Cruising for whales * The camels * Nantucket sailors * Loss of ship "Essex" * Town crier * Island history * Quaker sailors * Thomas Mayhew * Spermaceti * Macy, Folger, Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin (21) Nantucket - continued: Taking blackfish * The author goes fishing for blue-fish at the Opening * Walk to Coatue * Onquoia * The scallop shell * Structure of the island * Indian legends * Shepherd life * Absolutism of Indian Sagamores * Wasting of the Shores of the Island * Siasconet * Nantucket carts * Fishing-stages * The Great South Shoal * Sankoty or Sankaty Light * Surfside (22) Newport of Aquidneck: General view of Newport * Sail up the harbor * Commercial decadence * Street rambles * William Coddington * Anne Hutchinson * The Wantons * Newport artillery * State-house notes * Tristram Burgess * Jewish cemetery and synagogue * Judah Touro * Redwood Library * The Old Stone Mill (23) Picturesque Newport: The author strolls the Cliff Walk * Newport Cottages and cottage life * Charlotte Cushman * Fort Day and Fort Adams * Bernard, the Engineer * Dumplings Fort * Canonicut * Hessians * Newport Drives * The Beaches * Purgatory * Dean Berkeley (24) The French At Newport: Behavior of the Troops * Monarchy aiding democracy * D'Estaing * Jourdan * French Camps * Rochambeau, De Ternay, De Noailles * Efforts of England to break the Alliance * Frederick's remark * Malmesbury and Potemkin * Lord North and Yorktown * George III * Biron, Duc de Lauzun * Chastellux, De Castries, Viomenil, Lameth, Dumas, La Peyrouse, Berthier and Deux-Ponts * The Regiment Auvergne * Latour d'Auvergne * French diplomacy (25) Newport Cemeteries: Rhode Island Cemetery * Curious Inscriptions * William Ellery * Oliver Hazard Perry * The Quakers * George Fox * Quaker persecution * Other grave-yards * Lee and the Rhode Island Tories * Coddington and Gorton * John Coggeshall * Trinity Churchyard * Dr. Samuel Hopkins * Gilbert Stuart (26) To Mount Hope, and Beyond: Walk up the island * Tonomy Hill * The Malbones * Capture of General Prescott * Talbot's Exploit * Ancient stages * Windmills * About fish * Lawton's Valley * Battle of 1778 * Island History * Mount Hope * The author climbs to the summit of Mount Hope, where "every town in Rhode Island is said to be visible" * Death of King Philip * Dighton Rock * Indian antiquities (27) New London and Norwich: Entrance to the Thames * Fisher's Island * Block Island * New London * Light-ships and Light-houses * Hempstead House * Bishop Seabury * Old burial ground * New London harbor * The little ship-destroyer * Groton and monument * Arnold * British attack on Groton * Fort Griswold * The Pequots * John Mason * Silas Deane * Beaumarchais * John Ledyard * Decatur and Hardy * Norwich City * The Yantic picturesque * Uncas, the Mohegan chieftain * Norwich Town * Fine old trees * The Huntingtons (28) Saybrook: Old Saybrook * Disappearance of the Yankee * Old girls * Isaac Hull * The Harts * Connecticut River * Old Fortress * Dutch Courage * The Pilgrims' experiences * Nacone * Cromwell, Hampden and Pym * Lady Fenwick * George Fenwick * Lion Gardiner * Old Burial ground * Yale College * The Shore, and the End.

Illustrations Include: Pigeon Cove, Cape Ann * Map * Head-piece * Jacques Cartier * Captain John Smith * Pierre du Guast, Sieur de Monts * Sir Humphrey Gilbert * Fac-simile of first map engraved in New England * Tail-piece * Mount Desert, from Blue Hill Bay * Map of Mount Desert Island * Samuel Champlain * Head of Somes's Sound * Echo Lake * Cliffs, Dog Mountain, Somes's Sound * The Stone Wall * Entrance to Somes' Sound * Professor Agassiz * View of Eagle Lake and the Sea from Green Mountain * Cliffs on Bald Porcupine * Southerly end of Newport Mountain, near the Sand Beach * Cave of the Sea, Schooner Head * Cliffs at Schooner Head * Devil's Den and Schooner Head * Great Head * The Ovens, Salisbury's Cove * Tail-piece * Castine, approaching from Isleboro * General Henry Knox * General Benjamin Lincoln * Fort Point * View from Fort George * Sir John Moore * Fort Griffith * Fort George * Ruins of Fort Pentagoet * Pine-tree shilling * Colbert * Lobster pot * Old Fort Frederick, Pemaquid Point * "The land-breeze" of evening * Cotton Mather * Ancient Pemaquid * Charlevoix * French frigate, 17th-century * Hutchinson * Monhegan Island * Thatcher's Island Light and fog signals, Cape Ann * Graves of Burrows and Blythe, Portland * Gorge, Bald Head Cliff * Old wrecks on the beach * Neetmok * The morning round * What the sea can do * York meeting-house * Jail at Old York * Pillory * Stocks * Old Garrison House * Portsmouth, New Hampshire, from Kittery Bridge * Navy Yard, Kittery, Maine * Blockhouse abcxs and fort, Kittery Point * Sir William Pepperell's house, Kittery Point * Sir William Pepperell * Kittery Point * Governor Langdon's Mansion, Portsmouth * nacone1 * Whalesback Light * Portsmouth and the Isle of Shoals * Shag and Mingo Rocks, Duck Island * Meetinghouse, Star Island * The Graves, with Capt. John Smith's monument, Star Island * Gorge, Star Island * Cliffs, White Island * Blackbeard the Pirate * Smutty Nose * Haley Dock and homestead * Ledge of Rocks, Smutty Nose * Southeast end of Appledore * Duck Island from Appledore * Laighton's Grave * Londoner's, from Star Island * Neetmok Rock * Covered way and lighthouse, White Island * White Island Light * Wentworth house, Little Harbor * Point of Graves * Old House, Great Island * Old Tower, Newcastle * Gateway, Old Fort Constitution * Sir Thomas Wentworth, Wentworth House, Little Harbor * Lady Hancock's portrait in the Wentworth House * Governor Benning Wentworth * Baron Steuben * Witch Hill, Salem * Custom House, Salem * Rebecca Nurse House * Procter House * Birthplace of Israel Putnam * Israel Putnam in British uniform * Endicott pear tree * Washington Street, Salem * Birthplace of Hawthorne * Shattuck House * Room in which Hawthorne was born * The old Witch House * Fragment of examination of Rebecca Nurse * Thomas Beadle Tavern, 1692 * Interior of First Church of Salem * Ireson's House, Oakum Bay, Marblehead * Great Head * "The Churn" * Drying fish, Little Harbor * Unloading fish * A group of antiques * Lee Street, Marblehead * Tucker's Wharf - the steps * Gregory Street, Marblehead * Lee House, Marblehead * Townhouse and square, Marblehead * St. Michael's, Marblehead * Elbridge Gerry * The Gerrymander * "Old North" Congregational Church * Samuel Tucker * General Glover * Fort Sewall * Powder house, 1755 * James Lawrence * Glimpse of the Seamen's Monument and old burial ground * Lone graves * The Hoe, English Plymouth * Map of Plymouth * Pilgrim Hall * Brewster's Chest, and Standish's Pot * Landing of the Pilgrims * Carver's and Brewster's chairs * Mincing knife * Peregrine White's cabinet * Standish's sword * The Old Colony Seal * Map of Plymouth Bay * Champlain's Map - Port Cape, St. Louis * The Pilgrims' first encounter * Building on the site of Bradford's mansion * Site of the Common House * The Allyne House * Joanna Davis House, Cole's Hill, Plymouth * Plymouth Rock in 1859 * The Gurnet * Watson's Island * Election Rock, Clark's Island * Church's Sword * Provincetown, from the hills * Cohasset Narrows * Highland Light, Cape Cod * Washing fish * Mackerel, a family group * Pond Village at Cape Cod * Picking and sorting cranberries at Cape Cod * Sandhills of Provincetown * Lifeboat station - Trial of the bomb and line * Nantucket, from the sea * Map of Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard * Approach to Martha's Vineyard * A bit of Nantucket - the housetops * Last of the whale-ships * Whaling in the olden time * Whale of the ancients * E. Johnson studio, Nantucket * Old windmill at Nantucket, looking oceanward * Captured porpoise and blackfish * The Blue-fish * Blue-fishing * Homes of the fishermen at Siasconset * Hauling a dory over the hills at Nantucket * Lighthouse at Sankoty or Sankaty Head, Nantucket * Newport as seen from Fort Adams * Old Fort, Dumpling Rocks * Old time houses at Newport * Residence of Governor Coddington at Newport, 1641 * Newport State-house * Commodore Perry House, Newport * Jewish Cemetery * Jews synagogue, Newport * Judah Touro * The Redwood Library in Newport * Abraham Redwood * The Old Stone Mill in Newport * The Perry Monument, Newport * Boat landing at Newport * The Beach at Newport * Cliffwalk at Newport * The Cliffs at Newport * A Newport Cottage * Charlotte Cushman residence at Newport * Spouting Rock, Newport * The Dumplings, Newport * Hessian Grenadier * Coast scene, Newport * The Drive at Newport * Purgatory Bluff at Middletown * Whitehall * Washington Park, Newport * D'Estaing * Earl Howe * Rochambeau * Rochambeau's Headquarters at Newport * Louis XVI * Military Map of Rhode Island in 1778 * Lafayette * Baron Viomenil * Trinity Church, Newport * Chastellux * Lauzun * Mathieu Dumas * Deux-Ponts * De Barras * Latour d'Auvergne * Graves on the Bluff, Fort Road, Newport * Tombstones at Newport Cemetery * Perry's Monument * Oliver Hazard Perry * Friends' Meeting House at Newport * George Fox * Charles Lee * Mount Hope * The Glen * A Rhode Island windmill * William Barton * Silas Talbot * Prescott's Headquarters * Agricultural prosperity * From Butt's Hill, looking north * Quaker Hill, from Butt's Hill, looking north * Battle ground of August 29, 1778 * King Philip, from an old print * Inscription on Dighton Rock * Old Leonard House, Raynham * New London in 1813 * New London Harbor, north view * New London Lighthouse * Map of New London in 1781 * Old Block-house, Fort Trumbull * A Light-ship on her station * Court-house, New London * Bishop Seabury's Monument * Groton Monument * Benedict Arnold * Storming of the Indian fortress * Silas Deane * Stephen Decatur * Rustic bridge at Norwich * Old mill at Norwich * Signatures of Uncas and his sons * Uncas's monument * Arnold's birthplace * Elm trees by the wayside * Mansion of Governor Huntington * Congregational Church * nacone2 * Peter Stuyvesant * Isaac Hull * A moss-grown memorial.

Names, Places & Topics Include: Acadia, New England * John Adams * Agamenticus * Louis Agassiz * John Alden * William Alexander * Jean Alfonse * Isaac Allerton * Appledore Island * Sir Samuel Argall * Governor Benedict Arnold * General Benedict Arnold * Thomas Aubert * John James Audubon * Latour de Auvergne * Badger's Island * Bald Head Cliff, York Maine * Bar Harbor * Colonel William Barton * Basques on the New England coast * Bay Francoise * John Beauchamp * Beaver Tail in Newport * Reverend George Beebe at the Shoals * Belfast Me * Jeremy Belknap * George Berkeley * General Simon Bernard * Pere Biard * John Billington * Duc de Lauzon Biron * Guillaume Blauw * Block Island * Blue-berries * Disappearance of blue-fish * Captain Samuel Blythe killed * Boon Island * Lady Anne Boteler * William Bradford * J. Carson Brevoort * Brigadier's Island * Reverend John Brock * John Romeyn Brodhead * Major Bromfield * Brother Jonathan * Nicholas Broughton * Dexter Brown * Robert Brown * Brown's Island, Plymouth * Governor Henry Bull * George Burroughs * Lieutenant William Barrows * Sebastian Cabot * Camden Mountains * Canonicut Island * Cape Ann * Cape Arundel * Cape Breton * Cape Cod * Cape Cod Harbor * Cape Neddock or Neddick * Capuchins at Pentagoet * Jacques Cartier * Nathaniel Carver * Castin the younger * Jean Vincent Castin * Castine * Cedar Island * M. de Chambly * Arthur Champernowne * Francis Champernowne * Samuel Champlain * William Ellery Channing * Marquis Chastellux * Mary Chilton * Chouaconet * Pasco Chubb * Colonel Benjamin Church * F.E. Church * D. Wasgatt Clark of Mount Desert * Clark's Island, Plymouth * Sir Henry Clinton * Cob-money * Cod-fish aristocracy * William Coddington * Sir Isaac Coffin * John Coggeshall * Captain Gamaliel Collins * Settlements on the Connecticut River * The frigate Constitution * Giles Corey * Jonathan Corwin * Governor Matthew Cradock * Cranberry * Charlotte Cushman of Newport * Robert Cushman * Thomas Cushman * Captain Joseph Cutts * Sarah Chauncy Cutts * Cuttyhunk * Damariscotta * Father Daniel * Dartmouth Indians sold as slaves * D'Aulnay Charnisay * John Ward Dean * John Deane * Silas Deane * Stephen Decatur * B.F. 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