Cape Cod, the Right Arm of Massachusetts: An ...

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By Charles Francis Swift

Published 1897
Register Pub. Co.

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The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County, Including the District of Mashpee ...
by Frederick Freeman - 1862
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Barnstable - Page 204
And the committee having also reported that in their opinion all deficiencies of beef or men due from any of the towns in the county of Barnstable ...
more pages: 58 76 125 135 184 202 254 257 259 265

Harwich - Page 292
A meeting of those interested in the fisheries met in Harwich in December, and appointed delegates to go to "Washington, to oppose the ratification of ...
more pages: 136 142 216 219 262 347 352 356 358 382

Plymouth - Page 76
This was the first public highway legally laid out from Sandwich to Plymouth, and was substantially the one used for more than two centuries in going ...
more pages: 27 32 35 53 78 118 125 265 318

Boston - Page 244
All intercourse with Boston from the Cape was attended with extreme risk. Fishing and coasting vessels were closely watched and confined to their ...
more pages: 78 129 165 166 170 245 263 265 287

Middleboro - Page 83
His entire parish embraced the region from Middleboro to Provincetown.
more pages: 176

Halifax - Page 244
by warning the sailing master of his dangerous proximity to the shoals ; and he received therefor an order on the governor at Halifax for his vessel, ...
more pages: 207 211 251

New York - Page 245
and Boston harbor was so thoroughly blockaded, that intercourse by water was more frequent with New York than with the former city. ...
more pages: 129 136 166 186 206 223 265 266 354

Malaga - Page 17
Malaga, where they were sold into slavery, at twenty pounds per head. It was many years before the Indians forgot this ...
more pages: 321

Bristol - Page 243
privateer Yankee, from a cruise, arrived at Hyannis Wednesday, landed upwards of a hundred packages of dry goods, and would proceed on to Bristol. ...
more pages: 133 309

Algiers - Page 230
was enabled to send Commodore Decatur to Algiers, who effectually chastised these piratical collectors of tribute and put an end to their extortions. ...

Paris - Page 159
IJy the treaty of Paris, concluded in 1763, Canada, Nova Scotia and Cape Breton were conceded to the British. Glorious as were the results of the long ...
more pages: 164 228 229

Savannah - Page 244
Alexander, 14 days from Savannah, with a full load of cotton and rice. It was chased by an English privateer schooner, which fired several shots at ...

Charleston - Page 276
The capture of Charleston and Richmond occasioned great rejoicing and patriotic demonstrations everywhere throughout the county, which were followed ...

London - Page 101
Samuel Shattuck, who had been banished from Massachusetts on pain of death, returned from London in November, 1661, with the King's missive, ...
more pages: 33 49 90

North Kingstown, Rhode Island - Page 110
The place where the Xarragansetts were encamped for the winter was in the present town of North Kingstown, Rhode Island. ...

Whittier - Page 94
In the language of the poet Whittier, applied to another, he could say: "My life is hunted: evil men Are following on my track; ...

Brockton - Page 356
establishment to North Bridgewater (now Brockton), where he founded the Gazette of that town. A monthly newspaper, called the Cape Cod News, ...

Biddeford, Me - Page 262
George Thacher, a native of this county, died April 6, 1824, at Biddeford, Me., having been born in Yarmouth, April 12, 1754. ...

Berlin - Page 346
the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery, and Berlin; a Stud}- of German Municipal Government; both of them published by the Essex Institute, Salem. ...

Slidell - Page 276
In 1862, January 1, Mason and Slidell, the two emissaries of the so-called Southern Confederacy, who had been captured by Capt. ...
more pages: 273

Brussels - Page 71
white sand from the l>each spread evenly over the floor and "herrin" boned,"* occupying the place now assigned to tapestry and Brussels. ...

Hamburg - Page 230
He was some time a resident at Hamburg, and during the succeeding war was captured and imprisoned by a British frigute. ...

Munich - Page 259
It was cast, apparently, in Munich, and bears the inscription, "Si Devs pron bvs qvis contra nos 1673." "If God be with us who can be against? ...

Charleston, SC - Page 257
The upper towns of the county, particularljr Falmouth and Sandwich, were, in 1828, saddened by the loss of a vessel returning from Charleston, SC, ...

Milwaukee - Page 300
settled in Milwaukee, "Wisconsin, and was several years US district attorney for that state. In 1872, having returned to Massachusetts, he was elected ...

Lexington, Mass - Page 266
Underwood was a native of Lexington, Mass., and was early a student, while yet an apprentice to a carpenter. He was prevented by a severe cut in the ...

Warwick - Page 117
but of its two towns on the mainland, Warwick was destroyed, and a large portion of Providence, notwith-.

Trenton - Page 266
and privations in camp on the succeeding winter, was M'irh Washington in the crossing of the Delaware, and in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. ...

Cambridge - Page 49
Lothrop was a man distinguished for his piety and talents. lie was educated at Christ college, Cambridge, took holy orders and settled in the ministry ...
more pages: 286 306 307

Haverhill, Mass - Page 299
John BD Cogswell died in Haverhill, Mass. He was the son of Rev. Nathaniel Cogswell of Yarmouth, where he was born June 6, 1829. ...

Princeton - Page 266
and privations in camp on the succeeding winter, was M'irh Washington in the crossing of the Delaware, and in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. ...

Gloucester - Page 244
Two Friends, of Provincctown, was taken off Gloucester by British privateer Shannon, and sent to Nova Scotia. The sch. Victory, of Yarmouth, Capt. ...

Dover - Page 53
removed to Dover. Mr. Lothrop was in full control of the church and .society, until the end of his useful and successful career, in Ifij. ...

Madison - Page 235
government had no desire, but which was forced upon the reluctant Madison by the younger element of his supporters, led by Clay, Calhoun and Lowudes. ...
more pages: 266

Sumter - Page 273
HE opening guns of Sumter caused a remark-able uprising of patriotism in all the. communities of the Cape. Meetings of ...

Brest - Page 228
His vessel had been seized and its cargo appropriated by the French authorities, at Brest, and, after a struggle, he had extracted from the French ...

Freetown - Page 147
Esq., •of Eastharn, for his aid in securing the shipwrecked property, and recommended the arrest of Caleb Hopkins, (of Freetown, as he writes,) for ...

Baltimore - Page 254
Kenrick, Baker, Crocker, and many •others, merchants and master-mariners of renown in Boston, New York and Baltimore, to emphasize this assertion. ...
more pages: 6 306

Boston, New York - Page 254
Kenrick, Baker, Crocker, and many •others, merchants and master-mariners of renown in Boston, New York and Baltimore, to emphasize this assertion. ...

Milan - Page 231
The British Orders in Council, on one hand, and the French Berlin and Milan decrees on the other, came rear extinguishing our commerce. ...

Dartmouth, Mass - Page 226
24, 1807, died in Dartmouth, Mass., Kev. Samuel West, DD He was born in Yarmouth, March 3, 1730, in the southeasterly part of the town, near Swan Pond ...

Andover - Page 210
James Otis, Jr., standing in his doorway in Andover, was struck by a flash of lightning and died from its effects May 23, 1783. ...

Brooklyn - Page 209
It was moved about three-quarters of a mile to the eastward of Brooklyn ferry, near a tide mill on the Long Island shore. ...
more pages: 309

Detroit, Michigan - Page 299
North Congregational church, New Bedford, from 1847 to 185C, and over the Fort-street Congregational church, in Detroit, Michigan, from 1858 to 18(55. ...

Watertown - Page 307
EC Howard of Bourne died in Watertown, aged 54. He was representative from Sandwich, and senator from the Island district, two years each. 188C. Jan. ...

Philadelphia - Page 310
Luther Crowell, a prominent steamboat captain of Boston aud Philadelphia line, died in West Dennis.—Sept. 6, death of Judge James Hughes Hopkins of ...
more pages: 309

Greenwich - Page 130
Greenwich, iu the County of Kent, by fealty only in free and common soccage,"— a tenure the importance of which the students of the laws will properly ...

Petersburg, Va - Page 277
Charles Chipman, a native of Sandwich, of the 20th Massachusetts regiment, who was killed at Petersburg, Va., August 8th, 18G4, was an officer of ...

Chicago - Page 350
Ryder, a native of Provincctown, who deceased in Chicago, where he settled in 1888, was a pulpit orator of eloquence and power, and wrote some able ...

Liverpool - Page 305
John Eldridge, Yarmouth, former Liverpool packet commander, died, aged 75.— March 25, Rev. Nathaniel Cogswell, Yarmouth, died, aged 80. ...

Norfolk, Conn - Page 305
Joseph Eldridge, DD, a native of Yarmouth, died at Norfolk, Conn.—July 5, Capt. Allen H. Knowles of Yarmouth died.— Nov. 27, Capt. ...

Wellesley Hills, Mass - Page 309
Thacher of Yarmouth died at Wellesley Hills, Mass.—14, Hon. David Fisk, ex-stunt or, representative and selectman, died in West Dennis.—Feb. ...

Portland, Me - Page 309
Simmons of Hyauuis, ex- represemative, etc., died iu Portland, Me., aged 90.—June 28, Capt. Bailey Foster died iu Brewster, aged 62. ...

Singapore - Page 292
28, 1872, by which the ship Peruvian, from Singapore for Boston, was stranded on that graveyard of shipping, Peaked Hill bars, off Provincetown, ...

Calcutta - Page 302
British ship Jason, from Calcutta for Boston, with a valuable cargo, was stranded on the shoals and went to pieces, and all the crew but one man, ...

Surinam - Page 231
The captain communicated with the owners, a packet was manned and the prize was boarded, retaken, and sailed for Surinam. ...