Curiosities of
Curiosities of History: Boston, September Seventeenth, 1630-1880
作者：Wheildon, William W. (William Willder), 1805-1892
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共 96 题- BY WILLIAM W. WHEILDON.
- WILLIAM W. WHEILDON.
- INTRODUCTION.
- TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- CONCLUSION.
- I.
- TOPOGRAPHY OF BOSTON.
- THE ORIGINAL PENINSULA.
- CURIOUS EARLY DESCRIPTIONS.
- THE SOUTH COVE.
- THE NORTH COVE.
- THE MILL CREEK.
- THE MILL POND.
- CONCLUSION.
- II.
- THE PUBLIC FERRIES.
- THE GREAT FERRY.
- WINNISIMMET FERRY.
- GRANT TO HARVARD COLLEGE.
- COMPLAINTS OF THE FERRYMEN.
- PEAG, OR INDIAN MONEY.
- PENNY FERRY.
- CHARLESTOWN FERRY.
- III.
- THE BOSTON CORNFIELDS.
- IV.
- PURITAN GOVERNMENT.
- V.
- THE NARRAGANSETT INDIANS.
- VISIT TO BOSTON.
- INDIAN ART.--CURIOUS MARRIAGE.
- INTERMARRIAGE AMONG THE EGYPTIANS.
- MURDER OF MIANTONOMO.
- VI.
- NAMES OF PLACES, STREETS, ETC.
- LANES AND ALLEYS.
- NAMES OF CORNERS.
- NAMES OF STREETS, ETC.
- LISTS OF STREETS, COURTS, ETC.
- NAMES OF TAVERNS.
- BUSINESS NAMES.
- NAMES OF PERSONS.
- VII.
- PERSECUTION OF THE QUAKERS.
- VIII.
- FIRST NEWSPAPER IN AMERICA.
- It was entitled as follows:--
- THE BOSTON NEWS-LETTER.
- IX.
- CURIOUS BOSTON LECTURES.
- BOSTONIAN EBENEZER.
- The remainder of the page is occupied with this preface:--
- At the head of the next page we have the text,--
- I SAM. VII. 12.
- The preacher proceeds,--
- X.
- REMARKABLE PROCLAMATIONS.
- FAST DAY.
- FAST DAY.
- RIOT IN BRISTOL COUNTY.
- WAR AGAINST THE INDIANS.
- THANKSGIVING.
- BLOODY PROCLAMATION AGAINST THE INDIANS.
- BY HIS EXCELLENCY
- A PROCLAMATION
- W. SHIRLEY.
- FAST DAY.
- ANOTHER FAST.
- THANKSGIVING REJOICING.
- GOV. PHIPS'S PROCLAMATIONS.
- XI.
- POPULAR PURITAN LITERATURE.
- AN EARTHQUAKE IN BOSTON.
- DEBORAH: A BEE.
- PROPOSED POPISH INVASION.
- This is followed by a long anonymous poem, beginning,--
- And so on through three columns, and then comes the
- CONCLUSION.
- THE SCOTTISH REBELLION.
- The people joining the Duke, the enemy was pursued, when--
- XII.
- REVOLUTIONARY PROCLAMATIONS.
- MASSACHUSETTS BAY.
- XIII.
- CURIOSITIES OF THE MARKET.
- ANIMALS, BIRDS, AND FISHES.
- WHAT BEFELL A HUNTER.
- KINDS OF SHELL-FISH.
- MARKET SUPPLIES.
- FAMILY BILL OF FARE.
- SEARCHING FOR PROVISIONS.
- CONCLUSION.
- FOOTNOTES:
- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
- EXTRACTS FROM SOME PRIVATE LETTERS.
- End of Project Gutenberg's Curiosities of History, by William W. Wheildon