Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast

Her grandfather, Hon. Richard Hilton, of Newmarket, was grandson of Edward, the original settler of Dover, New Hampshire, and had been a justice of the Superior Court of the Province. – John Wentworth.

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Frances Deering Wentworth married John just two weeks after the decease of her first husband, Theodore Atkinson, also her cousin, and in the same church from which he had been buried – matter for such condolence and reproof as Talleyrand's celebrated "Ah, madame," and "Oh, madame." Benning Wentworth's widow married Colonel Michael Wentworth, said to have been a retired British officer. He was a great horseman and a free liver. Once he rode from Boston to Portsmouth between sunrise and sunset. Having run through a handsome estate, he died under suspicion of suicide, leaving his own epitaph, "I have eaten my cake." Colonel Michael was the host, at the Hall, of Washington. In 1817, the house at Little Harbor was purchased by Charles Cushing, whose widow was a daughter of Jacob Sheaffe.

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"Paul Jones shall equip his Bonne Homme Richard; weapons, military stores can be smuggled over (if the English do not seize them); wherein, once more Beaumarchais, dimly as the Giant Smuggler, becomes visible – filling his own lank pocket withal." – Carlyle, "French Revolution," vol. i., p. 43.

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Mather and Hutchinson deal largely with it. Upham and Drake have compiled, arranged, and analyzed it.

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Exod. xxii., 18 (1491 b. c.): "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."

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Abigail Williams, eleven; Mary Walcut, seventeen; Ann Putnam, twelve; Mercy Lewis, seventeen; Mary Warren, twenty; Elizabeth Booth, eighteen; Sarah Churchill, twenty; Susannah Sheldon, age not known.

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Account of Thomas Brattle.

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See his life, page 80.

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Endicott had a grant of three hundred acres on the tongue of land between Cow-house and Duck rivers. The site does justice to his discernment.

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Raised in 1837 to the memory of soldiers of Danvers killed in the battle of Lexington.

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The Queen's portrait by Tilt, the gold box and medal presented by the city of London and by Congress to Mr. Peabody.

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Considerable changes were necessary so long ago as 1674-'75, when it became the property of Jonathan Corwin, of witchcraft notoriety. In 1745, and again about 1772, it underwent other repairs, leaving it as now seen.

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A scene from life in the old Copp's Hill burial-ground at Boston.

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She approved Governor Phips's conduct, but advised the utmost moderation and circumspection in all proceedings for witchcraft. – "Manuscript Files."

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Samuel Sewall, afterward chief-justice of the Supreme Court of the province.

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Some of the pins said to have been thrust by witches into the bodies of their victims are still preserved in Salem.

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This incident appears in Hawthorne's "Seven Gables." The tradition is that Noyes was choked with blood – dying by a hemorrhage.

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Captain Goelet calls it an island.

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Treville was the man thought most worthy by Napoleon to lead his fleet in the long-meditated descent on England.

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"Address to the Electors of Bristol."

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"Philosophical Transactions," vol. lxiv., part ii.

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A headland of Boston Harbor is named for him, Point Allerton.

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"Moses Maverick testifieth that in the yeare 1640 or 41 the toune of Salem granted unto the inhabitants of Marblehead the land we now injoy, with one of Salem, to act with us, w

acordingly was acordingly attended unto the yeare 1648, in which yeare Marblehead was confirmed a toune, and to that time y

never knew or understood he desented from what was acted in layeing out land or stinting the Comons, and have beene accounted a Toune, and payd dutyes accordingly as it hath been required. Taken vpon oath; 19: 1mo 73/4.

"(Original Document.)

Wm. Hathorne, Affit.

Vera Copia, taken the 25 of May, 1674,