Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

"Dated on board H.M. ship Albemarle, 17th August, 1782."

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Governor Bradford's "History of Plymouth."

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Green's Harbor, perhaps.

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Followed as literally as possible, to preserve the style.

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Named by De Monts, and supposed to be Brant Point.

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"The south part of New England, as it is planted this yeare, 1634."

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"Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society."

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See Popham's settlement on the Kennebec; the Episcopal service was doubtless the first religious exercise in New England.

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Captain John Smith, speaking of the town in 1624, says of this fortress, there was "within a high mount a fort, with a watch-tower, well built of stone, lome, and wood, their ordnance well mounted."

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During some excavations made on the hill, remains of the watch-tower of brick came to light, indicating its position to have been in the vicinity of the Judson monument. There also existed on the hill, until about 1860, a powder-house of antique fashion, built in 1770. It had an oval slab of slate imbedded in the wall, with a Latin inscription; and there were also engraved upon it a powder-horn, cartridge, and a cannon. – "Pilgrim Memorial."

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Robert Brown, the founder of the sect, after thirty-two imprisonments, eventually conformed. Henry Penay, Henry Barrow, and other Brownists, were cruelly executed for alleged sedition, May 29th, 1593. Elizabeth's celebrated Act of 1593 visited a refusal to make a declaration of conformity with the Church of England with banishment and forfeiture of citizenship; death if the offender returned into the realm.

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Sir Matthew Hale used to say, "Those of the Separation were good men, but they had narrow souls, or they would not break the peace of the Church about such inconsiderable matters as the points of difference were." In this country the Independents took the name of Congregationalists. They held, among other things, that one church may advise or reprove another, but had no power to excommunicate. The churches outside of Plymouth did, however, practice excommunication.

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Governor Bradford's Letter-book.

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The teacher explained doctrines; the pastor enforced them by suitable exhortations.

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These trees are said to have been planted in 1783, by Thomas Davis.

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Wife of Samuel Fuller. She gave the church the lot of ground on which the parsonage stood. —Allen.

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See Appendix to Bradford's History.

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In 1741, when it was proposed to build a wharf near the rock, it was pointed out as the identical landing-place of the Pilgrims by Elder Thomas Faunce, who, having been born in 1646, had received the fact from the original settlers.

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This party consisted of eighteen persons – viz., Miles Standish, John Carver, William Bradford, Edward Winslow, John Tilley, Edward Tilley, John Howland, Richard Warren, Steven Hopkins, and Edward Doten. Besides these were two seamen, John Alderton and Thomas English. Of the ship's company were Clark and Coppin, two of the master's mates, the master-gunner, and three sailors. This little band of discoverers left the ship at anchor at Cape Cod Harbor on the 16th of December. Mourt calls Alderton and English "two of our seamen," in distinction from the ship's company proper, they having been sent over by the undertakers, in the service of the plantation.

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On her return voyage the Fortune was seized by a French man-of-war, Captain Frontenan de Pennart, who took Thomas Barton, master, and the rest prisoners to the Isle of Rhé, plundering the vessel of beaver worth five hundred pounds, belonging to the Pilgrims. The vessel and crew were discharged after a brief detention. – "British Archives."

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First spelled Swansea, and named from Swansea, in South Wales.

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Squanto was one of the Indians kidnaped by Hunt, and the last surviving native inhabitant of Plymouth. He had lived in London with John Slany, merchant, treasurer of the Newfoundland Company.

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Winsor, "History of Duxbury," p. 26, note.

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See ante, also "Massachusetts Historical Collections," vol. ii., p. 5. First light-house erected 1763; burned 1801.

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Saquish is the Indian for clams. They are of extraordinary size in Plymouth and Duxbury.

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