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15 records

• A Ballad of the French Fleet — From the scanned text: OCTOBER, 1746. Me, Thoieas Pbisce {loquitur). A FLEET with fla^ arrayed Sailed from the port of Brest, And the Admiral's ship displayed The signal, '■ Steer southwest." For this Admiral d'Anville Had sworn by cross and crown To ravage with fire and steel Our helpless Boston…
• Due d'Anville's Descent — From the scanned text: 1746. "TTAVING regard, possibly, to the maxim that a dauger J — L escaped is a danger no longer, the historians have in general treated the descent of Admiral d'Anville with easy- indifference. Yet the startling fact remains that so long as his fleet rode the seas in safety,…
• Edward Randolph's Portrait — From the scanned text: Nothing is left of Province House, the old home of the royal governors, in Boston, but the gilded Indian that served as its weathercock and aimed his arrow at the winds from the cupola. The house itself was swept away long ago in the so-called march of improvement. In one of…
• Howe's Masquerade — From the scanned text: During the siege of Boston Sir William Howe undertook to show his contempt for the raw fellows who were disrespectfully tossing cannon-balls at him from the batteries in Cambridge and South Boston, by giving a masquerade. It was a brilliant affair, the belles and blades of the…
• Lady Eleanore's Mantle — From the scanned text: Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe, being orphaned, was admitted to the family of her distant relative, Governor Shute, of Massachusetts Bay, and came to America to take her home with him. She arrived at the gates of Province House, in Boston, in the governor's splendid coach, with…
• Mistress Anne Hutchinson — From the scanned text: 1634. THE biographies of Mrs. Anne Hutchinson have, so to speak, been written by her enemies. Modern authors, in writing of her, have rehearsed her story from the point of view of the seventeenth century, and we live in the nineteenth. But History accepts no verdict that is not…
• Nix's Mate — From the scanned text: The black, pyramidal beacon, called Nix's Mate, is well known to yachtsmen, sailors, and excursionists in Boston harbor. It rises above a shoal,--all that is left of a fair, green island which long ago disappeared in the sea. In 1636 it had an extent of twelve acres, and on its…
• Old Esther Dudley — From the scanned text: Boston had surrendered. Washington was advancing from the heights where he had trained his guns on the British works, and Sir William Howe lingered at the door of Province House,--last of the royal governors who would stand there,--and cursed and waved his hands and beat his…
• Paul Revere's Ride — From the scanned text: Green Dragon Tavern in Union Street. They were directed how to act for the interests of the common cause by Adams, Hancock, Warren, and one or two others of the acknowledged leaders. Between Warren and Eevere there grew up a sym- pathy so especially close and intimate, that…
• Peter Rugg, the Missing Man — From the scanned text: The idea of long wandering as a penalty, symbolized in “The Wandering Jew,” “The Flying Dutchman,” and the character of Kundry, in “Parsifal,” has application in the legend of Peter Rugg. This strange man, who lived in Middle Street, Boston, with his wife and daughter, was…
• The Devil and Tom Walker — From the scanned text: When Charles River was lined with groves and marshes there lived in a cabin, near Brighton, Massachusetts, an ill-fed rascal named Tom Walker. There was but one in the commonwealth who was more penurious, and that was his wife. They squabbled over the spending of a penny and…
• The Eliot Oak — From the scanned text: IN that part of Boston formerly constituting the town of Brighton, and still farther back forming a precinct of Cam- bridge, there is a pleasant locality called Oak Square. It was so named on account of the old oak-tree which stood there, and which is probably better known as…
• The Gray Champion — From the scanned text: It befell Sir Edmund Andros to make himself the most hated of the governors sent to represent the king in New England. A spirit of independence, born of a free soil, was already moving in the people's hearts, and the harsh edicts of this officer, as well as the oppressive…
• The King's Missive — From the scanned text: 1661. " Charles R. " Trusty and Wellbelpved, we greet you well. Having been informed that several of our Subjects among you, called Quakers, have been and are imprisoned by you, whereof some have been exe- cuted, and others (as hath been represented unto us) are in Danger to…
• The Quaker Prophetess — From the scanned text: 1677. THE Old South Church in Boston — not the present build- ing, but the one first erected upon the same spot — was the scene of an event without a parallel in the annals of our Puritan churches, in some of which, nevertheless, remarkable scenes had occurred. To the simple…