The habits of our people in the use of tobacco have been somewhat
changeable. The use outside of medicine and surgery has been confined
to smoking, chewing, snuffing and dipping. The last is practiced by
applying moistened snuff with a brush to the gums, and has never
been resorted to in New England to any considerable extent. I am
inclined to think that it has been chiefly confined to the poor
whites in the South. Snuff taking is a habit introduced into New
England at a comparatively recent period, and of course was unknown
to the aborigines. Its use had, however, a rapid growth, when once
introduced, and in my youth was common among our people of both
sexes, though I am inclined to think more so among women than men.
In every grocery store there always stood on the counter two jars of
snuff, and this fact alone shows its extensive use. I cannot recall
more than thirty persons who were in the habit of carrying snuff
boxes, and these did not belong to any special class or occupation.
I remember that during the sessions of the Supreme and Common Pleas
Courts an open box of snuff always lay on the clerk’s desk, and was
frequently visited by the members of the bar, as well as by the
judges on the bench.
It is said that of all the tobacco habits that of snuff taking is
the most difficult to abandon. The story is told of Charles Lamb and
Thomas Hone, both inveterate snuffers, walking one day on Hamstead
Heath, and coming to the resolution to give up the habit, threw their
snuff boxes away. The next morning Lamb visited the Heath to recover
his box, and there encountered Hone hunting in the shrubbery for his.
The practice of smoking is ancient. While the use of cigars in
England and the United States cannot be traced to a period earlier
than 1700, pipes were used by the aborigines, and have been found in
the ancient mounds of the West. Whether tobacco was smoked before
the days of the Pilgrims, so far as New England was concerned, is
doubtful, while at an earlier period the natives of the South and
West undoubtedly both used and cultivated it. It is certain that as
late as King Phillip’s War in 1676, the New England Indian, while
smoking tobacco when he could get it, used various substitutes. On
this point we have the testimony of Mrs. Rowlandson, the wife of the
minister of Lancaster, Mass., who was captured by the Indians and
confined in the Camp of King Phillip. When a messenger was sent to
King Phillip to negotiate for her release, she sent back word asking
her husband to send her some tobacco for Phillip. She stated in a
later narrative that when she saw Phillip, “he bade me come in and
sit down, and asked me whether I would smoke it, but this no way
suited me. For though I had formerly used tobacco, yet I had left
it ever since I was first taken. It seems to be a bait the devil
lays to make men loose their precious time. I remember with shame
how formerly when I had taken two or three pipes I was presently
ready for another, such a bewitching ‘thing’ it is, but I thank God
he has now given me power over it; surely there are many who may be
better employed than to lie sucking a stinking ‘tobacco pipe.’” She
further said that the Indians for want of tobacco smoked hemlock and
ground ivy. From the above statement it will be seen that smoking was
common to both sexes. The laws, however, from a very early period,
were rigid in their provisions against smoking in public places. In
1638 the General Court ordered “that no man shall take any tobacco
within twenty poles of any house, or so near as may endanger the
same.” One of the latest statutes on the subject was passed in
1798, which “forbade carrying fire through the streets, except in a
covered vessel, as well as smoking or having in one’s possession any
lighted pipe or cigar in the streets or on the wharves.” This law
remained in force many years. In 1835 a by-law was adopted by the
town of Plymouth, which I believe has never been repealed, forbidding
smoking in any street, lane, public square or wharf within the town.
I do not remember to have seen in all my boyhood any person smoking
about the streets, or at his work. No ship carpenter in his yard,
no rigger on the mast, no blacksmith at the forge, no digger in the
garden or street, ever held a pipe in his mouth, wasting the time of
his employer, in cutting tobacco, and filling his pipe. It was not
because the practice was an expensive one, but because the fashion
of the day was opposed to it. The mechanic and the farmer smoked in
a leisure hour, or after his meal, but no woman was seen at home or
in the field, or anywhere else smoking at all. Doctors and lawyers
smoked occasionally in their offices, business men rarely behind
their counters, while a minister who used tobacco in any form was
unknown. In later years, however, smoking has become a frequent
practice among the clergy, but so far as my observation has gone,
chiefly among those of the Episcopalian and Unitarian denominations.
I once detected in the cheek of an eminent divine a suspicious
swelling, and when I spoke of it, he said that it was his invariable
habit to preach with a cud of tobacco in his mouth. Since the early
days of which I speak, pipe smoking has largely taken the place of
cigar smoking, and the use of both cigars and pipes has found its
way into times and places where forty years ago it would not have
been tolerated. Several causes have contributed to this change. In
the first place cigars were much cheaper in 1840 and 1850, and their
higher cost has led to the more economical use of the pipe. When I
began to smoke in 1838, Havana cigars sold at retail at five dollars
a quarter box of two hundred and fifty. The same cigars today would
cost twenty dollars. In the second place the coming in of foreigners
largely increased the use of the pipe, and lastly the Civil War
taught the use of the pipe to soldiers in the camp, who under normal
conditions would not have taken it up. Now we are seeing, to say
nothing of smelling, either the cigar or the pipe everywhere, in
the street, in the office, in court houses, in the state house,
between the lips of the mechanic at his work, the provision dealer
on his cart, and indeed almost in every place except the pulpit and
school, from which it is a matter of congratulation that they are yet
excluded. Being a smoker myself, I cannot be charged with prejudice
when I express the opinion that this excessive and ill-timed use of
tobacco not only violates rules of good taste and propriety, but is
well nigh a nuisance.
The habit of using tooth picks is of recent origin. In Boston on any
day between twelve and two o’clock, nearly every third woman met in
the vicinity of Winter and West streets, has a tooth pick between her
lips. This practice is made more vulgar when at table the hand is
held over the mouth, for thus its vulgarity is acknowledged by those
who persist in it.
The changing fashions in dress have been so constant that it is
futile to attempt to trace them. The greatest change in the United
States occurred at the close of the revolution, when what was called
republican simplicity took the place of the dress which characterized
the first three-quarters of the 18th century of which such fine
illustrations may be found in the works of Smybert, Blackburn and
Copley. There is something absurd about this so-called republican
simplicity, which compels a representative of our government to
appear at foreign courts in the garb of an American citizen, while
he has his residence in one of the most lordly houses in London, and
makes it the vogue for a bridegroom to appear at his wedding with
nothing but the color of his skin to distinguish him from the colored
waiter, while he sets up a livery and hunts through Herald’s college
for a coat of arms to have painted on the door of his carriage. I am
inclined to think that a false pride in the supposed possession of
aristocratic blood has more to do with the formation of so-called
patriotic societies than a true patriotic spirit.
In speaking of dress let me begin with the young. In my school days
I wore a blue jacket with brass buttons and a stiff linen collar
buttoned to it on the inside, and turned over the collar of the
jacket. I never wore an overcoat, or even owned one, and when I
entered college, the first thing I did was to go to John Earle,
the tailor, and get measured for a long tail broadcloth coat, and
buy a camlet cloak. The frock coat was unknown, and the cloak was
indispensable in attending prayers when hastily jumping out of bed
I hurried to chapel often with nothing under it but a night gown
and trousers and boots. During the summer months many boys went
barefooted, not on account of poverty, but simply for economy. A
writer in the _Old Colony Memorial_ in 1837 misrepresented this
custom in the statement that “old men had a great coat and a pair of
boots, the boots generally lasting for life. Shoes and stockings were
not worn by the young men, and by but few men in farming business,
and young women in their ordinary work did not wear stockings and
shoes.” I suppose that during the school season there are fewer
barefooted boys then formerly, but at other times I do not think
that there has been any change as to footwear. As to overcoats I
have known many persons who went without them from preference in the
coldest weather. Nathaniel Ingersoll Bowditch of Boston never wore
one, and my old schoolmate, George Sampson, the late proprietor of
the Boston directory, never did. I met the latter one afternoon in
Boston when the thermometer was about zero, and I said, “George, I
suspect that on such a day as this you wear a thicker undershirt?” To
my surprise he said that he had never worn an undershirt in his life.
I propose in speaking of dress to confine myself to those articles
worn at various times which would strike the present generation as
strange. About the year 1840, gentlemen’s boots were two inches
longer than the foot, and turned up like the dasher of a sleigh. At
about the same time, or a little earlier, trousers skin tight, put
on necessarily with the boots already in them, were worn, and then
immediately after loose trousers with plaits. For many years after
the revolution, and continuing into my own days, the woolen cloths,
of which dresses were made, were often spun and woven at home. During
the 18th century in the small towns and country districts, nearly
every family made a coarse cloth called lindsy-woolsy, with the warp
of linen and the woof of wool. It is a mistake to suppose that in
the earliest colonial times spinning wheels were much used until
fulling mills were built in the last half of the 17th century, and
it is not probable that Priscilla Alden ever used one until she was
forty years of age. The small wheels known as flax wheels were first
brought to Boston by the Scotch Irish in the first quarter of the
18th century. Of all articles of dress there is none in my opinion
which so unerringly stamps the lady as a neat, tidy footgear. I say
it with fear and trembling, but here goes, there must also be a white
stocking. The contour of the foot is destroyed by a shoe, especially
one without a heel, and the outlines of the ankle and limb are lost
on any other color than white. The hat comes next, not set on the
head like a liberty cap on a pole, but one whether large or small,
as much belonging to the figure as the lily to its stem. Then comes
the glove, never white in the street, a well fitting dress, not
necessarily of expensive material, and withall as few ornaments as
possible, and you have so far as flesh and blood are concerned, a
faultless woman. A eulogist of the late Susan B. Anthony, herself a
noble woman, said that she never was afraid to see her friend mount
a table or platform to speak, because she knew that her boots and
stockings were immaculate.
Ear-rings, concerning which I find many interesting items in the
work of Alice Morse Earle on costumes, have come down to us from a
period as early as the 16th century. They were, however, in their
early days, worn by men more than by women, and in many cases only in
one ear. Charles the First, on going to execution, wore a pearl pear
shaped ear-ring, about five-eighths of an inch long, which is now
owned by the Duke of Portland; and Shakespeare and Sir Walter Raleigh
wore them. In my youth their use among women was almost universal,
and I can recall many men who wore plain gold rings, and every young
lady on leaving school had her ears bored as a matter of course.
Among the bonnets at various times in fashion I shall refer alone
to the poke bonnet because its etymology is a little confused.
This bonnet had plaits around its crown and sides. One of the many
definitions of the word poke given in the Century dictionary, which
no library is complete without, is, “to poke plaits in a ruff,” and
I have no doubt that “poke bonnet” meant merely a bonnet with plaits
poked in the ruff. I must omit the scarlet cloak with its black silk
quilted hood, worn by elderly women in my youth, the busks worn in
the corsets, made of whalebone, steel or wood, the bustles below
the waist behind, the quilted mandarins for cold weather, the India
shawls now packed away in cedar closets awaiting their return in the
revolving wheel of fashion, turbans, lace caps, night caps, hoops and
other female paraphernalia, forming a sea without a shore, and speak
lastly of pattens, which in my early boyhood were giving place to the
overshoe and rubbers.
I remember a pair of pattens in an old closet where they had been
consigned to an undeserved exile after many centuries of faithful
service. The patten consisted of a wooden stock like the stock of a
skate, with an oval iron ring attached to its under side, and with
toe and heel pieces fastened by straps to the foot and ankle, its
purpose being to protect the foot from mud and slush. It can be
traced back to the 14th century, when it was called the galoe-shoe
or galoshe. After its introduction into France, where it was called
patin, the English galoshe became patten, but as if to revenge itself
against the usurper, it has had a resurrection, and now lives in its
legitimate successor, the galoshe of the present day.
I shall devote a portion of this chapter to a mention of those words
and phrases which have made their appearance at various times, and
have become incorporated for a longer or shorter time in the language
of our people. Only a few of these are peculiar to Plymouth. Some
have come down to us from our English ancestors, some owe their
origin to the different languages of continental Europe, some are
slang, which have found their way through unknown channels into the
speech of men, and a few through ignorance of orthography have found
a place in colloquial use. My reference to these must be restricted
by necessarily limited space.
Some of my readers may be surprised at the number of words and names
which have come to us from foreign tongues, and have made themselves
as much at home as if they were to the manor born. We have the word
wharf from the Swedish hworf, and the word dock from the Gothic dok,
lane from the Dutch laan, alley from the French allee, derived from
the verb aller, to go. The verb tedder meaning to ted or spread hay
was introduced by the Irish when they began to work on our farms.
Fishermen in Gloucester, Provincetown and Plymouth and other places,
after drying codfish on flakes, yaffle them up and carry them into
the fish house. The word yaffle is old English, and means an armful
and the word stadle is the Scotch stathel, and means the stakes
driven into a salt meadow, on which salt hay is to be piled. Scuttle
comes from the French escoutelle, and the word kench, which means the
bin in which salt codfish are piled, is old English. The word kid
not only stands for an animal, but is also the name of the square
bin on the deck of a fishing vessel by the side of each fisherman,
in which he throws his fish. Sailors got into the way of calling any
box without a cover a kid. I remember a story told by my mother when
I was a boy of her going to church and finding a strange man in her
pew, who jumped over the rail into the next pew, saying, I beg your
pardon, Madam, I got into the wrong kid. The word coverlid, often
called coverlet, is French derived from the French word couvrelit,
cover bed. The word sass applied to vegetables, and also meaning
impudence, is not as many suppose, a Yankee slang word, but has an
English origin, and is still used in the county of Essex, in England.
The word cabbage, as applied to the vegetable, came from Holland,
and was introduced into England by Sir Anthony Ashley. He was accused
of securing much loot, while holding a command in Spain, and he was
so closely associated with the vegetable in the public mind, that on
his monument at Wimbourne the head of a cabbage was sculptured, and
in consequence of his looting the word became applied to looting in
general, and finally to the odds and ends saved by tailors in their
trade. The word arter, for after, came down to us from England, and
if I remember right, was used by Governor Bradford in his history.
The word fetch is an old Saxon word, used by Bacon, Shakespeare and
many other old writers, and is worthy of respect, and continued use,
though at present excluded from elegant speech. The word fetching
expressing attractiveness in beauty or dress is a comparatively
recent half slang innovation. The origin of the word contraptions,
meaning new notions, I do not know, but I have heard it many times
in my day. Arey or airey came from England, where it was sometimes
called arrow or narrow. Hearth in two syllables, with emphasis on
the e is a word I have never heard out of Plymouth. As long as I can
remember it has been used by the deer hunters in Plymouth woods. Once
Branch Pierce, the famous hunter, put Daniel Webster on a stand, and
later in the day called out to him that the dogs had been out of
hearth an hour, and that the hunt was up. The word dike as applied to
a sloping grassy bank or terrace, is universal in Plymouth, and as
far as I know, never used in that sense anywhere except in Plymouth,
and its vicinity. Crojeck or crotchet, is a common corruption of
cross jack in Plymouth and elsewhere as applied to the lower yard on
the mizzen mast of a ship. Chimley for chimney, has been common in
Scotland, and may be found in Scott’s Rob Roy. In the United States
it is usually spelled chimbley, but it is rarely heard in Plymouth.
James Russell Lowell has these lines:
“Ag’in the chimbley crooknecks hung,
An’ in amongs ’em, rusted,
The ole queen’s arm that granther Young
Fetched back from Concord, busted.”
Sun-up for sunrise, I do not remember to have heard in Plymouth more
than once, but I have heard it often in other Plymouth county towns.
As the opposite of sun-down, which is English, it seems as correct
as sunset or sunrise, and may be properly used. Bile is often used
for boil, and has been thought by some of the best writers to be
more correct. It is, however, going out of use. Brewis is an English
word meaning bread covered with broth, but when introduced into New
England, it was applied to rye and Indian crusts boiled with milk and
butter.
The word sleigh comes from the Dutch sluy; squash came down from the
aborigines, by whom it was called estata, or vine apple; carrots came
from Holland, and some growing wild bore a flower which the English
called Queen Anne’s lace. The cochroach was the Dutch kackenlack;
potatoes, which have been said to have been introduced by the Irish,
were raised by the Dutch in New York as early as 1654, and were
called pataddes. It is not unlikely that as they were called Irish
potatoes, the slang word paddies applied to the Irish, came from
pataddes.
The word “certain” a few years ago came into use in answer to
certain questions as for instance—are you going to Boston tomorrow?
“Certain;” but it seems to have given place to the word “sure.”
For a time, “you bet,” was used in the same way, as for instance
to the statement, “that was a good dinner,” the answer was, “you
bet.” Chores probably comes from the old English “char,” as does
also the word “charwomen.” The word cow pronounced kyou, has been
said to be peculiar to New England country towns, but there can be
no greater mistake, for I have heard it so pronounced by natives of
South Carolina, and it is so pronounced today in the shires of Essex
and Sussex, in England. Fornent or fornenst was originally a Scotch
word meaning opposite to, as for instance his house was fornent the
church. It was carried to Ireland, and by the Irish introduced here.
I heard it for the first time about 1854. “Gab,” now common, was used
by Chaucer as we use it. The English laugh at the word “guess,” and
call it a vulgar Americanism, but it was used by Locke, Milton and
Chaucer.
“Her yellow hair was braided in a tress,
Behind her back a yard long I guess.”
“Poke” in one of its many meanings is a pocket or bag, as in the
words, to buy a pig in a poke, that is without seeing it. “Streak
it,” to run fast, was heard by me for the first time when hunting
in the Plymouth woods. Branch Pierce, the hunter, after placing
his party on their stands would take his son Tom and take short
cuts through the woods to head off the deer. When a good chance
occurred the old man could be heard calling out, Streak it, Tommy.
There was another Thomas Pierce living in the neighborhood, so in
order to distinguish them one was called Squire Tom, and the other
Streak it Tommy. I have never heard the word “seen” in the sense
of saw in Plymouth, but I have heard it frequently in Boston among
Englishmen and immigrants from the Dominion. Muckrakes is a word
recently rescued from oblivion, but with a wrong understanding of
its meaning. According to Professor DeVere, now or late Professor
of modern languages in the University of Virginia, and author of
“Studies in English” muckrakes are those who rake for the purpose of
finding something valuable and worthy of preservation. Rag pickers
are in one sense muckrakes. There are two offensive words which have
recently found a lodgement in our vocabulary, chiefly, however,
among inexperienced writers. One of these words, “one,” taken out of
its legitimate meaning, seems to be due either to a lack of taste
or to a mistaken notion that it is elegant. The following sentence
explains what I mean. “When one writes a letter one must be careful
how one expresses oneself, lest one finds that one makes a mistake
in using too many ones.” The other is the word “gotten,” which to me
always suggests a writer who fancies himself an accurate scholar,
and would call aisle of a church “oil,” and one of its pillars, a
“pillow.” There are two other words not offensive, but objectionable,
which I find constantly in new novels, “peering,” for looking, and
“perturbed” for disturbed, or agitated, or “annoyed.” As for instance
“in peering out of the window I was perturbed by an unusual sight.”
The use of exaggerations and superlatives is every day becoming more
common. Newspaper reporters and associated press men are responsible
for many of these. With them it never rains, but it pours, every
snow spit is a blizzard, every fresh breeze a gale, every gale a
hurricane, every wave is mountain high, every collision is a crash,
and every crowd a surging mob. New newspaper words are constantly
creeping into our vocabulary. Among the most recent are “defi” for
“defiance,” and “confer” for “conference.” There is another class
of words and phrases having their origin in athletics and games of
various kinds, which are constantly found in the newspapers, and even
in congressional and other speeches. “Stand pat,” “win out,” “flush,”
and “full deck” are some of those which are unworthy of the press
or the speech of a legislator. There is still another class quite
frequently used which are really nothing but veiled oaths with the
spirit if not the letter of profanity behind them. Among them are
by-jingo, land-sakes, by-George, by-gum, by-thunder, good-gracious,
dern it, thunder and Mars, heavens and earth, all fired for hell
fired, gol darn it, darnation, Lord-a-mussy, mercy sakes alive, great
Scott, by the eternal, and lastly, tarnation, as in the lines of John
Noakes and May Styles:
“Poor honest John ’tis plain he knows
But little of life’s range.
Or he’d a know’d gals oft at fust
Have ways tarnation strange.”
In the above selections of words and phrases I have of course omitted
a large number, the origin and etomology of which it would be
interesting to trace. I must, however, in order to finish my memories
in this chapter, proceed to the record of streets laid out since
1825, as proposed in the beginning of the chapter.
LeBaron alley, leading from Leyden street to Middle street, was laid
out as a townway Sept. 7 and 10, 1832.
The way around Cole’s Hill from Leyden street was laid out Nov. 27,
1827, and May 14, 1829.
Pleasant street was laid out and altered at various times, June 5,
1820, May 12, 1825, Nov. 5, 1845, March 25, 1867, and January 4, 1887.
Russell street was laid out April 20, 1833.
Union street was laid out August 4, 1841, and Nov. 5, 1865.
Samoset street was laid out from Court street to the South Meadow
Road, Dec. 8, 1854.
Cedarville Road was laid out Nov. 15, 1855.
The Manomet House Road was laid out September 23, 1851.
The way from Harvey Bartlett’s to the Pine Hills was laid out July
13, 1848.
Warren Avenue was laid out Nov. 5, 1849, and August, 1850.
Robinson street was laid out April 6, 1859 and September 10, 1859.
Road from Chiltonville to the Manomet Road was laid out July 9, 1851,
and April 9, 1866.
Cushman street was laid out Oct. 4, 1856.
Allerton street in part was laid out Oct. 4, 1856.
Allerton street in part was laid out March 26, 1877.
Chilton street was laid out April 3, 1882.
Cedar Village Road was laid out January 4, 1876.
Bradford street was laid out Sept. 10, 1859.
Cliff street was laid out March 20, 1876.
Oak street was laid out March 9, 1874, and March 1, 1875.
Davis street was laid out January 3, 1882.
Federal Road was laid out January 5, 1869.
Franklin street was laid out April 6, 1857, and July 6, 1865.
Fremont street was laid out Sept. 10, 1859.
Fremont street was extended June 22, 1895.
North Green street was laid out Oct. 4, 1856.
High street was widened June 24, 1870.
Corner of Court and North streets was laid out in 1892.
Main street was widened Aug. 3, 1886.
Jefferson street was laid out June 25, 1870.
Lothrop Place, laid out September 10, 1859, and Oct. 14, 1872.
Rocky Hill Road was laid out January 6, 1874.
Court Square, south side, laid out April 6, 1857.
South Russell street was laid out January 7, 1868.
Sagamore street was laid out June 25, 1870.
Street from Court street at Seaside to the railroad, was laid out
January 6, 1874.
Sandy Gutter street laid out Oct. 21, 1871.
Stafford street laid out June 17, 1882.
Road from Manomet to Sandwich, January 2, 1872.
Road from Manomet to Fresh Pond, January 6, 1874.
Manomet Road, south of the bridge, February 7, 1857.
Manomet Road at the dam, January 1, 1884.
Market street, widened from the bake house, south, December 31, 1873.
Market street, widened at the corner of Leyden street, November 5,
1883.
Market street, widened at Spring Hill, January 1, 1890.
Massasoit street, laid out June 25, 1870.
Mayflower street, laid out April 6, 1857, and Sept. 10, 1859.
Mt. Pleasant street, laid out April 6, 1857.
Water street, extended April 4, 1881, Dec. 9, 1893, and June 22, 1895.
Thomas alley, discontinued March 28, 1885.
Waverly street, laid out October 4, 1856.
White Horse Road, laid out March 5, 1883.
Whiting street, laid out March 28, 1885.
Willard Place, laid out March 2, 1863.
Winslow street (Ocean Place), laid out April 3, 1882.
Spooner street at Seaside, laid out March 6, 1893.
Standish Avenue, laid out April 14, 1896, and March 6, 1899.
Vallerville road, laid out January 3, 1893, and March 19, 1901.
Washington street, laid out July 6, 1865.
Forest avenue, laid out February 20, 1904.
Billington street, laid out August 12, 1902.
Pump station Road, laid out August 12, 1902.
Road from Russell Mills to Long Pond Road, was laid out March 14,
1898.
Sever street was laid out January 26, 1901.
South Park Avenue, laid out January 26, 1901.
Clyfton street was laid out September 27, 1890.
Carver street was laid out March 28, 1854, February 12, 1884, and
February 10, 1885.
Centre Hill Pond road was laid out August 6, 1895.
Cherry street was laid out March 6, 1899.
Alden street was laid out March 9, 1891, and April 6, 1891.
Atlantic street was laid out April 6, 1891.
Bartlett street was laid out March 13, 1886.
Brewster street was laid out December 1, 1884.
N. Wood & Co. Factory road at Chiltonville was laid out April 9, 1866.
Darby station entrance was laid out March 6, 1893.
Hall town road was laid out December 9, 1893.
Hamilton street was laid out June 5, 1897.
Highland Place was laid out April 2, 1888.
Howes Lane was laid out March 9, 1891, and March 7, 1892.
Leyden and Water street corner was widened March 9, 1891.
Lincoln street was laid out March 9, 1891.
Murray street was laid out March 5, 1883, and March 3, 1902.
Bay View avenue was laid out March 3, 1902.
Road from Manomet to Vallerville was laid out March 19, 1901.
Nelson street was laid out January 6, 1896.
Newfields street was laid out July 1, 1890, February 23, 1901.
Middle street was widened March 6, 1899.
Towns street was laid out February 10, 1906.
Main street was widened at the corner of Town Square, March 12, 1906.
Russell street was widened from Court street to the Registry,
December 1, 1905.
Town Square was widened at corner of Main street, November 1, 1905.
Here, my readers, these memories must close. Any pleasure which you
may have received in reading them has been more than equalled by my
own in writing them. They present a meagre record of the memories of
a long life whose beginning and end are mysteries.
Helpless I lay upon the shore
Of a world unknown to me;
How, I wonder, came I o’er
The dark mysterious sea.
Tell me, oh tell me, whence I came;
Is there another shore?
This sun, these skies, are they the same
That I have seen before?
Now, life’s journey nearly o’er,
The land beyond the sea,
As when I lay upon the shore,
Is still unknown to me.
Another shore before me lies,
Bounding another sea;
May I there find the sun and skies
Before unknown to me.
Errata and Addenda
On page 26, 3rd line, “Contry” should be “country.”
On page 28, 7th line, celebration of 1794 was private.
On page 41, “Hollinguer” should be “Hottinger.”
On page 109, 11th line, “to” should be “so.”
On page 233, 17th line, “Davee” should be “Davie.”
On page 238, 17th line, “Longwood” should be “La Grange.”
On page 319, 17th line, “Wooster” should be “Worcester.”
On page 330, 25th line, “Nathan” should be “Nathaniel.”
On page 399, 10th line from bottom, “Tuesday” should be “Monday.”
* * * * *
To the blacksmiths on page 52, are to be added Nathan Delano and
Moses Nichols. Mr. Delano lived on Middle street, and had his shop
in the brick basement of the house, which once stood on Cole’s Hill,
with its rear on the way leading from Middle street to Water street.
Mr. Nichols came to Plymouth from Freetown, and building a shop in
Chiltonville on the southwest corner of the Russell Mills road,
worked on a vessel building on Eel River, a little below the Hayden
factory. He later built a shop where the George Fuller shop now
stands, and lived in the house in Wellingsley, lately occupied by
John Bartlett. Still later he built a shop in what is now called
Dublin, and built and occupied the house on the upper corner of
Summer and Edes streets, where he died about 1809. After his death,
his son Otis Nichols, born in the Bartlett house, occupied the Summer
street house until he moved to Manomet, and established the farm now
owned and occupied by his son Otis.
Among the whaling vessels mentioned on page 64, was the schooner
Mercury. She sailed Nov. 12, 1842, and on the 2d of May, 1843,
capsized in a gale, and Wm. H. Godfrey, Henry Missard, George L.
Jones, Wm. Pierce and Wm. Hatch were lost. The remainder of the crew,
consisting of John Winslow of Provincetown, Thomas D. Barnes, Lemuel
Hall, Wm. H. Carver, Richard Pierce and Isaac Cole of Plymouth, and
Robert Gardner and George Williams were taken off. When the vessel
capsized Richard Pierce was in the cabin, and was taken out with a
broken leg through a hole cut in the deck. I remember him well a
cripple through life.
INDEX
Adams, George, 148
Adams, George, family, 149
Adams, Thomas, 148
Adams, John Quincy, 294
Adams and Liberty, 475
Adulterations, 487
Alderman and Gooding, 152
Alexander, Wm. B., 408
Allen & S. D. Ballard, 195
Alleys, 441
Allyne, Joseph, 113
Allyne house, 112
Anasthesia, 274
Ancient legend, 270
Ancient papers, 262
Andrew, John A., 389
Annapolis, 393
Antietam, 410
Anti-masons, 263
Anti-slavery, 241
Anti-slavery rooms, 180
Anti-slavery Society, 332
Apples, 486, 493
Appointments to office, 407
Aqueduct, 182
Aqueduct water, 114
Arctic (steamship), 285
Armories, 453
Articles of food, 485
Artillery Company, 453
Ashore on Hog Island, 398
Atwood, Anthony, 32
Atwood, Wm., 54
Author’s house, 281
Author’s trip to Washington, 398
Avery, Joseph, 181
Bachelder, John, 312
Back bay land, 444
Baked beans, 19
Balm of Gilead, 511
Bananas, 509
Bancroft, Elizabeth, 133
Bank robbery, 232
Banks, 404
Baptist Church, 124, 127
Barbers, 515
Barbers’ pole, 516
Barbers’ shops, 149
Bark Charles Bartlett, 96
Bark Espindola, 41
Bark Fortune, 61
Bark Griffin, 40
Bark Truman, 40
Bark Iconium, 42
Bark Mary and Martha, 63
Bark Triton, 63
Barks in Plymouth, 44
Barnes, John C., 57
Barnes, Levi, 34
Barnes, Southworth, 18, 179
Barnes’ wharf, 34
Baron of beef, 364
Barrett, John, 62
Barrett, Wm., 62
Barron, James, 405
Bartlett, Andrew, 296
Bartlett, Elkanah, 33
Bartlett, Isaac, 140
Bartlett, James, 22, 32, 65, 116, 121
Bartlett, James, Jr., 60, 64
Bartlett, John, 155, 199, 200
Bartlett, Joseph, 199
Bartlett, Robert, 140, 342
Bartlett, Truman family, 295
Bartlett, Wm., 101, 197, 199
Bartlett, Wm. S., 148
Bartlett, Zacheus family, 181
Bates, Clement, 143, 260
Bates, John Blaney, 16
Bates, Ozen, 62
Baths, 487
Battle of Fredericksburg, 416
Baxter, Geo. L., 344
Beards, 515
Bedsteads, 514
Beech tree, 512
Bees of various kinds, 489
Bell ringing, 448
Bells, 339
Bennett, John C., 312
Big Bethel, 401
Billings, Hammatt, 27
Binding twine, 240
Birch, 513
Birth place of author, 16, 281
Bishop Cheverus, 433
Bishop, Wm., 178
Bishop, Eastburn, 451
Blacksmiths, 52
Black walnut, 471
Black and White Club, 187
Blagden, George W., 361
Blair, Frank P., Jr., 375
Bliss, Alexander, 134
Bliss, Leonard, 341
Blockmakers, 52
Boat harbor, 110
Bonnets, 522
Bootblacks, 449
Boots, 144, 521
Boston, 440, 454
Boston bridges, 443
Boston common, 510
Boston harbor, 463
Boston marine, 462
Boston Neck, 443
Boston shipping, 464
Boston ships, 462
Boston streets, 442
Boston theatres, 455
Boston wharves, 462
Bouncing betts, 282
Boutelle, Ann, 172
Bowling, 206
Boys’ dress, 520
Boys’ Military Company, 152
Bradford, George P., 147
Bradford, John H., 124
Bradford, Lemuel, 234
Bradford’s tavern, 124
Bramhall, Charles, 35
Bramhall, Wm., 35
Breckinridge, W. C. P., 383
Brewer, Francis B., 311
Brewster, Elder, 325
Brewster, Isaac, 32
Brewster, Wm. W., 65
Brig Emerald, 297
Brig George Little, 224
Brig Hannah, 140
Brig Hope, 82
Brig James Monroe, 64
Brig John R. Rhodes, 222
Brig Regulator, 220
Brig Sally Ann, 219
Brig Yeoman, 63
Brigs in Plymouth, 44
Briggs, George W., 318
Brigham, Antipas, 139
Brigham, Peter B., 457
Brighton, Artillery, 460
Brook farm, 307
Brown, Joseph P., 299
Brown, Lemuel, 299
Brown, Wm., 145
Bryant, Danville, 13, 158
Bryant’s tavern, 13
Buckingham, Jos. T., 465
Buckingham, Wm. A., 374
Buggies, 206, 437
Bunch of Grapes, 181
Burglar alarms, 231
Burgoyne, General, 122
Burial Hill, 324
Burlingame, Anson, 374
Burton, Charles, 344
Busks, 160
Butler, B. F., 399
Button pears, 186
Buttonwood, 511
Cabbage, 524
Cabs, 437
California emigration, 102
Call to arms, 390
Calls for men, 417
Cambria ashore, 463
Camp Hospitals, 412
Canal trip, 467
Candles, 481
Canopy, 27
Capen, Robert, 310
Captains, 50
Carlyle, Thomas, 135
Carriage fares, 440
Carriages, 436
Carriole, 437
Carver’s wharf, 33
Casco yacht, 108
Catholic church, 433
Celebration, 1820, 357, 359
Celebration of 1824, 360
Celebration, July 4, 1825, 385
Celebration, July 4, 1826, 385
Celebration, July 4, 1828, 385
Celebration of 1829, 361
Celebration of 1835, 362
Celebration of 1841, 363
Celebration of 1845, 364
Celebration of 1853, 365
Celebration, 1855, 370
Celebration, 1859, 372
Celebration, July 9, 1865, 385, 386
Celebration, 1870, 375
Celebration of 1880, 380
Celebration of 1885, 380
Celebration, 1889, 380
Celebration, 1895, 384
Celebrations, 356
Central House, 195
Centre of population, 234
Chaise, 206, 437
Chaise house, 206
Chandler, Joseph R., 363
Change of Shire, 308
Channel, 77
Charles River, 444
Chase, Salmon P., 374
Chess player, 457
Chewing, 517
Choate, Rufus, 441
Choir of church, 118
Chowder, 18
Christmas, 491
Churchill, Charles O., 284
Churchill, George, 144
Churchill, John, 27, 185
Churchill, John D., 33
Churchill, Lemuel B., 34
Churchill, Otis, 32
Churchill, Solomon, 151
Churchill, Wm., 31
Church street, 66
Cigars, 519
Circus, 157
Civil War, 389
Clark, Joseph S., 315
Cloak, 520
Coach, 438
Coal barges, 463
Cobb, Howell, 396
Cobb, Isaac Eames, 298
Codfish, 18, 486
Cod fishery, 86
Coffee, 486
Cold Spring, 12
Cole, James, 121
Cole’s Hill, 16, 31, 112, 320
College education, 345
College professors, 345
College punishments, 347
Collier, Ezra, 148
Collingwood family, 22
Collingwood, Joseph W., 407, 415
Collingwood, George, 62
Collins, James, 38
Columbia steamer, 22
Common house, 322
Concert Hall, 457
Condition of Gov. Finances, 396
Conflagration of Moscow, 457
Confederate plan, 397
Constables, 7, 447
Contribution of Plymouth Bank, 391
Cooking, 485
Coopers, 57
Cooper’s Alley, 65
Cooper, James, 65
Cornerstone of canopy, 372
Cornerstone of Monument, 372
Cotton, Charles, 30, 258
Cotton house, 258
Cotton, John, 117
Cotton, Rossiter, 258
Cotton, Rowland Edwin, 259
Countings out, 207
Country teams, 458
Country trade, 458
Court Square, 199
Court street, 10
Covington, Jacob, 14, 62
Covington, Jacob family, 264
Cows, 55
Cox, James, 303
Cox, Wm. R., 303
Cranberry, 509
Crocker and Warren, 171
Cults, 492
Cunard line, 462
Curfew, 448
Currency, 189
Currier, John, Jr., 48
Cushing, Joshua, 216
Cushing school, 133
Cushman, Charlotte, 197
Cushman, Joseph, 151
Cushman, Susan, 198
Custom House, 136
Customs, 447
Daisies, 472
Damsons, 510
Dancing schools, 160
Danforth, Allen, 167, 168
Davie, Ezra J., 233
Davie, Johnson, 233
Davis Building, 188
Davis, John, 28
Davis, John R., 193
Davis house, 131, 136
Davis, Nathaniel M., 136
Davis wharf, 33, 52
Davis, Wm., 33, 313, 314
Davis, Wm. family, 131
Davis & Russell, 153
Dawes, James H., 219
Debating Societies, 331
Decatur, Stephen, 405
Dermer, Thomas, 6
Dewey, Laura, 53
Diaz, Abigail, 307
Dipping, 517
Division of the town, 308
Doten, Charles C., 408
Doten, Samuel, 80, 222, 224, 227
Doten, Samuel H., 395
Double trucks, 465
Draft, 416
Dress coat, 520
Dress of a lady, 521
Drew, Atwood L., 34
Drew, Benjamin, 230, 291
Drew, Charles H., 408, 410
Drew, David, 57, 59
Drew, Deborah, 21
Drew, Ebenezer, 21
Drew, Edward Bangs, 293
Drew, George, 137, 230
Drew, Malachi, 21
Drew, Thomas, 230, 343
Drew, Wm. R., 146
Drury Lane theatre, 134
Duel, 405
Duke of Cambridge, 135
Duke of Wellington, 135
Dunfish, 10
Dunham, Robert, 17, 120
Duxbury ship building, 47
Dyer, Gustavus G., 257
Ear rings, 522
Earthquake, 11
East Boston, 446
East Boston ship building, 48
Edes, Oliver, 174, 282
Education, 307
Eighteenth Regiment, 407, 422
Eldridge, John, 41
Election Day, 33
Ellis, Bartlett, 156, 185
Ellis, Nathaniel, 352
Elm trees, 512
Embargo, 49, 79
Embargo, avoidance of, 81
Emergency fund, 391
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 25
Engine House, 162
English trees, 512
Enlistment, 406
Entertainments, 330
Episcopacy, 491
Escape from quarantine, 260
Europa steamer, 96
Evarts, Wm. M., 313, 374
Everett, Edward, 360, 364
Express, 68
Expresses, 155
Family names, 302
Family traits, 57
Farms, 436
Farris, Jeremiah, 174
Fashions in dress, 519
Faunce, Daniel W., 319
Faunce, John, 402
Faunce, Wm., 318
Fernside, 14
Fifth Massachusetts, 403
Finney, Ezra, 295
Finney, Ezra family, 295
Fire Department, 477, 478
Fire Department Celebration, 384
Fire Engines, 474, 476
Fire engine steam, 478
Fire pans, 483
Fire place, 484
Fire in School Street, 138
Fire Insurance, 475
Fires, 473, 492
Fires in Plymouth, 475
First coal grate, 282
First Meeting House, 322
Fish, 514
Fish duties, 88
Fishing, 436
Fishing bounty, 87
Fishing ledges, 18
Fishing vessels, 88, 95
Fishing vessels lost, 91
Flagg stones, 441
Flowers, 508
Floyd, John B., 396
Football, 205
Foot stoves, 483
Foreign trade, 49
Forests, 471
Fornenst, 525
Fortress Monroe, 396, 398, 399
Fort Andrew, 414, 417
Fort Hill, 442
Fort McHenry, 404
Fort Standish, 417
Forts in Plymouth harbor, 414
Forster, Wm. E., 236
Fox, Gustavus V., 406
Fragment Society, 334
Francis, Ebenezer, 163
Franklin street, 441
Frederick, 411
Freeman, Frederick, 14, 265
Freeman, Frederick family, 266
Frigate Constitution, 393
Frost, Daniel, 36
Fruits, 508
Fuel, 482
Fuller, Hiram, 146, 369
Fuller house, 116
Fuller, Josiah C., 408
Funeral customs, 479
Funerals, 479
Gab, 525
Gages, 510
Galoshe, 522
Gaiters, 161
Gale, Daniel, 150, 180
Gale’s cabbage, 180
Games, 204
Gaylord, John Flavel, 312
Germans, 435
Gilbert, Gustavus, 164
Gingko tree, 442
Girard college, 55
Girard, Stephen, 55
Glass, Mr., 14
Gleason, James G., 157
Gloves of ministers, 118
Goddard, Daniel, 27, 54
Goddard, Daniel F., 319
Goddard, Grace H., 166
Goddard, John, 166
Gold discovery, 102
Gooding family, 183
Gooding, John, 183
Gooding, John, family, 183
Goodwin, Ezra S., 317
Goodwin, Hersey B., 317
Goodwin, Isaac, 315
Goodwin, Nathaniel, 121, 122, 257
Goodwin, Nathaniel, family, 257
Goodwin, Timothy, 188
Goodwin, Wm., 256
Gordon, Solomon J., 269
Gordon, Timothy, 269
Gorges, 7
Government treasury, 396
Grand Banks, 95
Gravestones, 324
Grave yards, 320
Great western steamship, 465
Greenwood, Wm. Pitt, 182
Grog time, 448
Guests, 1820, 358
Gurnard, 514
Guzzle, 74
Habits and Customs, 433
Hacks, 437
Hale, John P., 369
Hall, John, 18
Hall, Robert B., 246, 363
Hall, Samuel, 216
Hannah, vessel, 81
Hanover street, 12
Harlow, Bradford, 302
Harlow, David, family, 404
Harlow, Ephraim, family, 303
Harlow family, 302
Harlow, George, family, 404
Harlow, Jesse, 404
Harlow, Nathaniel E., 33
Harper’s Ferry, 413
Harriet Lane, 402
Harrison, Peter, 203
Hart, Jason, 154, 239
Hathaway, B. A., 15
Hathaway, Benj., 17, 174, 176
Hayward, Beza, 115
Hayward House, 162, 164
Hayward, Jedediah K., 315
Hayward, John S., 154
Hayward, Nathan, 162
Hearses, 480
Heating, 483
Hedge, Barnabas, 119
Hedge House, 119
Hedge, Isaac L., 113
Hedge, I. L. & T., 32, 60
Hedge, Nathaniel L., 62
Hedge’s wharf, 31, 74
Herring story, 300
Hibernia steamer, 22
Hicks, Robert, 113
High duties, 30
High School, 338, 340
High street, 145
Highways, 10
Hillard, George S., 379
Hobart, John Sloss, 193
Hobart, Noah, 192
Hodge, James Thacher, family, 280, 281
Hodgkins, Jos. W., 154
Hogreeves, 187
Hogs, 187
Hollis, Abigail, 125
Holmes, Amasa, 459
Holmes, Charles T., 145
Holmes, Doctor, 26
Holmes, Edward, 219
Holmes, John Calderwood, 144
Holmes, Joseph, 40, 216, 218
Holmes, Lewis, 318
Holmes, Peter, 235
Holmes, Richard, 27, 32
Holmes, Richard W., 32
Holmes, Sylvester, 318
Holmes, Wm., family, 114
Holmes and Scudder, 27
Holmes and Brewster, 27
Home, 482
Home customs, 481
Home Guard, 395
Hornbeam, 511
Horse hire, 206
Horse races, 347
Horse thieves, 332
Hospitals, 413
Hotels, 458
Hotel prices, 460
Howard, Oliver O., 378
Howland, Henry, 14
Howland street, 12
Hubbard, Benjamin, 153, 312
Hubbard, Levi, 180
Hunt, James L., 311
Hunt, Thomas Sterry, 378
Husking, 489
Hymns, 499
Immigrants, 434
Irish, 433
Irish famine, 134
India rubber shoes, 156
Indian burial ground, 321
Indian games, 207
Inscriptions, 325
Inspection, 450
Iron and coal duties, 299
Jackson, Abraham, 343
Jackson, Alexander, 187
Jackson, Alexander, family, 267
Jackson, Andrew, 294
Jackson apples, 186
Jackson brothers, 36
Jackson, Charles, 25
Jackson, Charles, family, 273
Jackson, Daniel, 36, 267
Jackson, Daniel L., 41
Jackson, D. and A., 37
Jackson, Henry, 52
Jackson, Henry F., 52
Jackson, Isaac C., 36
Jackson, Isaac M., 15
Jackson, Louisa S., 54
Jackson, Mercy B., 310
Jackson, Salisbury, 120, 173
Jackson, Thomas, 185
Jackson vessels, 38
Jackson, Wm., 185
Jackson, Wm., family, 186
Jenkins, Osmore, 144
Jews rafts, 48
Jones, Joseph D., 141
Judson, Abigail B., 305
Judson, Adoniram, family, 305
June eatings, 186
Kendall, James, 117
Kendall, James A., 317
Kent, Edward, 374
King street, 13
Kingston captains, 219
Kissing bridge, 11
Kitchen, 484
Know Nothings, 54
Kossuth celebration, 386
Lafayette steamboat, 75
LaGrange, 276
Lamps, 482
Lap tea, 330
Lawrence, Abbott, 23
LeBaron’s alley, 65, 112, 116
LeBaron, Francis, 124
LeBaron, Isaac, 172, 311
LeBaron, Lazarus, 116, 124
Lectures, 331
Legal votes, 355
Leo, privateer, 224
Leonard, James E., 137
Letters, 190
Letter writing, 190
Letters of marque, 223
Leyden Hall, 151
Leyden street, 110
Light Guard of New York, 119
Lightning struck, 55
Linden tree, 15, 513
Lindsy-woolsy, 521
Livery, 437
Lobsters, 75
Locomotives, 464
Long, John D., 380, 382
Long, Thomas, 17
Long wharf, 73, 77
Lord, Arthur, 384
Lord Surrey, 126
Lord, Wm. H., 230, 259, 342
Lothrop estate, 261
Lothrop, Isaac, 192
Lothrop, Nathaniel, 262, 310
Loud, Jacob H., 115
Lovell, Leander, 35
Loyalists, 9
Lucas, Joseph, 298
Mackie, Andrew, 311
Macomber, John, 140
Madan Society, 331
Main street, 12, 146
Mansion house, 157, 260
Marcy House, 115, 264
Market, 350
Market street, 137
Marine Insurance, 475
Marriage, 496
Marriage laws, 496
Marston, John, 401
Mason, Albert, 174
Mason, Jeremiah, 438
Masonic building, 161
Massachusetts Fire Society, 474
Massachusetts in the War, 389, 397
Massachusetts troops at front, 396
Masters of vessels, 30
Matches, 492
Mayflower Lodge, 54
Mayflower relics, 496
Maynard, Francis L., 176
Maynard, Mrs., school, 177
McKay, Donald, 48
McKay, Nathaniel White, 48
McKay’s ships, 447
McPherson, James B., 415
Medford ship building, 48
Meeting houses, 118, 322, 445
Merrimac ship building, 48
Merritt, Samuel, 106, 161, 185
Middle street, 13
Migration to Nova Scotia, 303
Militia, 450, 452
Militia law, 450
Milk carts, 55
Mill dam, 443
Milman, Henry H., 134
Moderator, 352
Modes of travel, 437
Monteth, 507
Morey, Wm., family, 144
Morse, Anthony, 156, 272
Morton, Ichabod, family, 307
Morton, James, 304
Morton, Nathaniel, 6
Moustaches, 516
Musters, 451
Mysterious stranger, 126
Nancy and Eliza, 139
Nantasket Steamboat Co., 78
Natural History Society, 187
Naverino bonnets, 120
Navy, 429
Navy enlistments, 418
Nelson, Wm., 297
Nelson, Wm., family, 298
Nelson, Wm. H., 301
New Guinea, 130
Newport News, 401
New streets, Boston, 444
Nicolson, Samuel, 58
Nicolson, Thomas, 82
Nine months’ men, 409
North River ship building, 47
North street, 14, 17, 26, 264
Notes for prayers, 479
Nye, Wm., 33
O’Connell, Daniel, 135
Odd Fellows’ building, 173
Odd Fellows’ Hall, 178
Oehme, F. G., 310
Officers and sailors, total, 418
Old Bank house, 257
Old Colony Bank, 168, 257
Old Colony Club, 264
Old Colony Democrat, 156
Old Colony Hall, 146
Old Colony Hotel, 199
Old Colony House, 234
Old Colony Insurance Co., 154, 168
Old Colony Memorial, 149, 179, 292
Old Colony National Bank, 187
Old Colony Railroad, 239, 468, 470
Old tenor, 349
Olney, Zaben, 137
Omnibus, 439, 440
Optimists, 289
Oranges, 108
Oregon steamer, 24
Orphicleide, 175
Osgood, Samuel, 369
Otis Place, 441
Ovens, 484
Overcoats, 521
Ox-eyed Juno, 290
Packets, 67, 70
Paine, John S., 53
Paine’s Hall, 53
Painters, 53
Pall bearers, 480
Palmer, Wm., 323
Parker, Dr., 311
Parker, Ebenezer G., 15
Paper, wood, 471
Parties, 331
Passing bell, 480
Patchwork, 487
Patent windlass, 58
Pattens, 522
Payne, John Howard, 455
Peace, 333
Peace Society, 332
Peel, Sir Robert, 135
Pemberton Square, 442
Pens, 494
Perkins, John, 230, 231
Perry, N. M., 234
Pessimists, 289
Peterson, Reuben, 176
Pianos, 330
Pierce, Ebenezer W., 402
Pierce, Ignatius, 19
Pin in throat, 320
Pilgrim bones, 29
Pilgrim burials, 325
Pilgrim epidemic, 8
Pilgrim Hall, 17
Pilgrim House, 158, 161
Pilgrim name, 28
Pilgrim plates, etc., 153
Pilgrim Society, 16, 26, 27, 334, 357
Pilgrim wharf, 78
Pinkies in Plymouth, 45
Pipe smoking, 519
Plagiarisms, 504
Plague in Constantinople, 273
Plymouth Band, 175
Plymouth bounds, 7
Plymouth boys, 399
Plymouth Cordage Co., 239, 240, 241
Plymouth County loan, 163
Plymouth Hotel, 156
Plymouth incorporated, 7
Plymouth Rock, 27, 29
Plymouth Rock House, 15
Plymouth Rock Guards, 395
Plymouth Institution for Savings, 167, 263
Plymouth Savings Bank, 167, 168, 187
Plymouth Tavern, 188, 194
Plums, 510
Police, 447
Political parties, 293
Pompey, slave, 123
Pope, Richard, 67
Popular aid, 396
Porringers, 506
Porter, Eliphalet, 360
Portuguese, 435
Postage, 189
Post carriage, 439
Post office, 145, 188
Postmaster, 191
Post route, 188
Potomac River, 403
Potter, Richard, 457
Potter ventriloquist, 25
Powder house, 454
Practical jokes, 149
Preston, Amariah, 183, 184
Preston, Hervey, N. 176
Prince Albert, 135
Privateers, 58, 223
Professor Channing, 346
Professor Lovering, 347
Professor Pierce, 346
Provincetown, 435
Public schools, 345
Puddings, 484
Pudding before meat, 264, 497
Puget Sound ice, 108
Puget Sound piles, 108
Purchased recruits, 418, 426
Queen apples, 186
Queen Victoria, 135
Queen’s ware, 507
Quilting, 487
Quincy, Josiah, 347
Quota, 408
Railroad cars, 464
Railroad, Old Colony, 468
Railroads, 464, 466
Railroad ties, 470
Railroads in England, 467
Railroads in France, 467
Rainbow, schooner, 71
Raisings, 36, 489
Randall, Wm., 137
Rations, 399
Razors, 515
Rebel invasion, 231
Recruits, 416, 417
Reed, Nathan, 138
Relay House, 403
Reservoirs, 477
Rickard land, 112
Riggers, 57
Ripley, Wm. P., 17
Road at Eel River, 10
Roasting Jack, 506
Robbins, Chandler, 117
Robbins, Henry Howard, 175
Robbins, Josiah, 35, 265
Robbins, Leavitt Taylor, 244
Robbins lumber yard, 244
Robbins, Samuel, 145
Robbins, Thomas, 363
Roberts, Robert, 120
Robinson Iron Co., 263
Rodman, Wm. L., 409
Rogers, William, 15
Rope Walk lane, 136, 267
Rulings, 353
Russell, Bridgham, 143
Russell House, 199, 200, 203
Russell, John, family, 271
Russell, John, house, 270
Russell, John, J., 271
Russell, John J., family, 272
Russell, LeBaron, 342
Russell, Nathaniel, 201
Russell, Nathaniel, family, 202, 262
Russell, N. & Co., 263
Russell packet, 69
Russell, Thomas, 123, 287
Russell, Thomas, family, 123
Russell, Wm. G., 154, 287
Russell, Wm. S., 165
Sabbath, 488
Sail makers, 54
Sale of liquors, 307
Saltpetre, 171
Samoset House, 238, 469
Sampson, Schuyler, 294
Sampson, Simeon, 46
Sampson, Zabdiel, 293
Scallop, 28
Scarlet fever, 259
School bell, 339
School house, 338
School, school street, 230
Schools, 338
School teachers, 147, 243
Schooner Daniel Webster, 222
Schooner Exchange, 64
Schooner Maracaibo, 64
Schooner Mercury, 64
Schooners in Plymouth, 45
Schooner Welcome Return, 220
Schooner Vesper, 64
Scudder, Alonzo D., 32, 34
Second Brook, 11
Second Boston Church, 197
Sectarianism, 66
Selectmen, 352
Sever, Charles, 238
Sewage, 46
Sewall, Samuel, 6, 121
Seward, Wm. H., 370
Sexton, 260, 448
Seymour, Webster, 54
Sharpsburg, 413
Shaving, 515
Shaw’s Brook, 11
Shaw, Ichabod, 52
Shaw, Southworth, 52
Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 9
Sherley, James, 7
Sherman block, 179
Sherman, E. C., 173
Sherman, Edward L., 315
Sherman, Samuel, 143
Ship Arbella, 62
Ship builders, 446
Ship fever, 8
Ship heeling, 63
Ship Great Republic, 49
Ship Iconium, 42
Ship Levant, 63
Ship Massasoit, 46
Ship Mayflower, 61
Ship Ocean Monarch, 285
Ship Royal George, 63
Ships in Plymouth, 44
Ship yards, 46
Shipwrights, 57
Shoe business, 257, 258
Shooting Star schooner, 222
Shurtleff, Nathaniel B., 379
Shurtleff tavern, 139
Shurtleff, Wm., 137
Simeon, Sampson, 46
Simmons, Beulah, 55
Simmons, George, 56, 68
Simmons, Lemuel, 54, 235
Simmons, Wm. D., 33
Simmons, Wm. H., 53
Singing school, 54
Sirius steamship, 465
Skippers, 94
Slang phrases, 525
Slave return, 130
Slavery, 128
Slave story, 130
Slaves, 127
Slaves in Plymouth, 128, 129
Slave trade, 127, 359
Sleds, 206
Sliding, 205
Sloops in Plymouth, 45
Small clothes, 119
Smith, John, 6
Smoking, 517
Smoking laws, 518
Smoot, Wm. H., 156
Snake heads, 466
Snare drum, 176
Snuff, 517
Soil, 510
Soldiers, 427
Soldiers killed, 430
Soldiers total, 418
Soldiers wounded, 431
Sound of bells, 340
South Boston, 443
South Mountain, 410
Spear, Wm. F., 315
Spear, Wm. H., 315
Speedwell, steamer, 286
Spinning wheels, 521
Spooner, Allen Crocker, 284
Spooner, Bourne, 239
Spooner, James, 31
Spooner, James and Ephraim, 146
Spooner, Thomas, 242
Spooner, Wm., 33, 200
Sprague, Peleg, 362
Spring Hill, 143
Stables, 437
Stage drivers, 159
Stages, 76, 158, 438
Standish Guards, 143, 387, 390, 391, 407, 409, 418, 450
Standish, Joshua, 52
Stanton, E. M., 414
Star Spangled banner, 393
Steamboats, 72, 76, 498
Steamer Cambridge, 398
Steam navigation, 465
Steamer Savannah, 498
Steamer Vanderbilt, 401
Stephens, Lemuel, 55, 289
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 108
Stickney, J. Henry, 27
Stoddard, Isaac N., 259, 340
Stones, 510
Strap rails, 464, 466
Street lamps, 448
Streets, 454
Striped pig, 452
Strong, Benjamin O., 152
Sturtevant house, 267
Sturtevant, Wm., 267
Suffolk Bank system, 296
Sugar baker’s molasses, 172
Sullivan, Wm., 360
Summer street, Boston, 440
Sumner, Charles, 369
Sumner, George, 375
Sunday bell, 339
Sunflower, 508
Surplus revenue, 436
Talbot, Samuel, 144
Taylor Brothers, 17
Taylor, Edward, 16
Teachers’ marriages, 268
Telegraph, 274
Telegraph office, 185
Tellers, 354
Temperance Society, 36, 146
Thacher, James, 238, 276
Thacher, James, family, 279
Theatre alley, 441
Theft of peaches, 269
The old lilac tree, 282
Third Regiment, 395, 409, 419, 425
Thirty-eighth Regiment, 408, 424
Thirty-second Regiment, 408, 423
Thomas Gamaliel, 171
Thomas house, 13
Thomas, John, 32, 238
Thomas, Joshua, 194
Thomas, Joshua, family, 194
Thomas, Priscilla, 191
Thomas, Wm., 194
Thompson, Cephas G., 145
Thompson, Joseph P., 378
Thrasher, Joshua, 352
Tinder box, 493
Tinker’s Rock, 11
Three months men, 419
Thurber, James, 166
Thurber, James D., 425
Tobacco, 517
Tobey, Edward, S., 377
Toll bridges, 443
Tomato, 278, 508
Tomlinson, Russell, 318
Tontine block, 442
Toothpicks, 519
Torrey, Henry W., 288
Toucey, Isaac, 397
Town affairs, 351
Town bell, 448
Town house, 349, 350
Town meetings, 322, 349, 352, 417
Townsend, Samuel R., 340
Town Square trees, 513
Town trees, 513
Trees, 12, 508
Tremont theatre, 456
Tribble, Isaac, 53
Tribble, John, 53
Trombone, 176
Troops at Fortress Munroe, 400
Troops at Newport News, 401
Troops in Washington, 393, 394
Trousers, 521
Trousers, tight, 161
Trundle bed, 514
Tug boats, 463
Tulips, 508
Tureens, 506
Turner, David, 52, 166
Turner, E. S., 38
Turner, Madam Marie, 334
Turner, Misses, 54
Turner’s Hall, 53
Turnpikes, 439
Twenty-fourth, unattached, 427
Twenty-ninth Regiment, 420, 421
Twenty-third Regiment, 408, 422
Uncles, 235
Union building, 161
Universalist Society, 114
Upham, Charles W., 369
Varioloid, 260
Vaughn, Oliver C., 33
Vaults, 460
Velma Bark, 221
Ventilation, 461
Vessels of Edward Holmes, 219
Vessels of Ezra Weston & Sons, 214
Vessels of Joseph Holmes, 216
Voting restrictions, 356
Voyage in the Hibernia, 276
Waffles, 485
Wagons, 206, 437
Waite, Return, 116
Walker, John, 248
Walking-sides, 455
War appropriations, 395
War meeting, 392, 394
War of 1812, 223, 333
War preparation, 390
War ship Roanoke, 401
Warren, Charles H., 364
Warren, Henry, family, 169
Warren House, 169
Warren, Pelham W., 232
Warren, Winslow, 169
Washburn, John, 146
Washington, 392, 403, 413
Washington, celebration, 385
Washington street, 443
Washington treaty, 88
Watchmakers, 183, 184
Watchmen, 448
Water pipes, 233
Watering Place, 11
Water street, 26, 29, 30, 31, 52
Watson, Benjamin M., 291
Watson, Benjamin Marston, 196
Watson, Benjamin Marston, family, 196
Watson, Edward W., 235
Watson, Edward W., poem, 237
Watson, George, 15
Watson, Harriet L., 290
Watson, John, 191
Watson, Wm., 191
Watson, Winslow M., 290
Web fingers, 14
Webster celebration, 1849, 387
Webster, Daniel, 357
Webster, Ervin, 185, 310
Webster’s oration, 127
Wells, 114
Wells, Horace, 275
Wells, Phineas, 34, 35
Whale fishery associates, 60, 61
Wheeler, Charles S., 346
White Elizabeth C., 140
White, Gideon, 9
Whiting, Elisha, 33
Whiting, Wm., 147
Whitman, Wm. H., 314
Whitworth, Miles, 9
Whiskers, 515
Weston, Benjamin, 58
Weston, Coomer, family, 234
Weston, Ezra, 216
Weston, Ezra and Sons, 214
Weston, Lewis, 58
Weston, Patty, school, 9
Weston, Thomas, 317
Wilson, Henry, 379, 305
Wine, 66
Winslow, Edward, 7, 24
Winslow house, 25
Winslow, Joanna, 163
Winslow, Pelham, 163
Winslow street, 15, 273
Winter vegetables, 486
Winthrop Place, 441
Winthrop Place, Boston, 16
Winthrop, Robert C., 377
Winthrop, Theodore, 399
Whale fishery, 59
Wolff, Erick, 414, 425
Wood, Charles James, 312
Wood fuel, 470
Wood’s lane, 238
Wood, Nathaniel, 282
Word derivations, 523
Words and phrases, 523
Wrecks, 93, 219
Transcriber’s Notes
pg 23 Changed: to prevent excsses
to: to prevent excesses
pg 26 Changed: he had been in the contry
to: he had been in the country
pg 31 Changed: continued in active busines until 1873
to: continued in active business until 1873
pg 94 Changed: they battered down the hatches
to: they battened down the hatches
pg 122 Changed: a bonnet made of paper resemblng
to: a bonnet made of paper resembling
pg 125 Changed: no wordly influences could weaken
to: no worldly influences could weaken
pg 127 Changed: that town was taken from Massachusets
to: that town was taken from Massachusetts
pg 130 Changed: three yellaw marseilles waistcoats
to: three yellow marseilles waistcoats
pg 138 Changed: brick one has already been discribed
to: brick one has already been described
pg 144 Changed: by the Duke of Wellngton
to: by the Duke of Wellington
pg 147 Changed: like the teachers who had preceeded him
to: like the teachers who had preceded him
pg 148 Changed: Anthony Morse succeded Mr. Bartlett
to: Anthony Morse succeeded Mr. Bartlett
pg 158 Changed: my first dancng school
to: my first dancing school
pg 166 Changed: died at Gibralter
to: died at Gibraltar
pg 187 Changed: house came into the posession
to: house came into the possession
pg 206 Changed: With skating and its accompaniment hocky
to: With skating and its accompaniment hockey
pg 234 Changed: a native of either Norfork
to: a native of either Norfolk
pg 286 Changed: He succeded in reaching
to: He succeeded in reaching
pg 286 Changed: crossing the English channel from Queenboro
to: crossing the English channel from Queensboro
pg 289 Changed: was apointed collector
to: was appointed collector
pg 295 Changed: Bartlett lived on the notherly
to: Bartlett lived on the northerly
pg 307 Changed: vessels engaged in coatwise
to: vessels engaged in coastwise
pg 309 Changed: A similiar petition was sent
to: A similar petition was sent
pg 312 Changed: formerly professor of obsteric medicine
to: formerly professor of obstetric medicine
pg 318 Changed: pastor of the Unversalist church
to: pastor of the Universalist church
pg 319 Changed: pastor of the First Chuch
to: pastor of the First Church
pg 321 Changed: the conclusion that this impresssion
to: the conclusion that this impression
pg 334 Changed: imposed by bequests to the Soiety
to: imposed by bequests to the Society
pg 339 Changed: be falling into disuetude.
to: be falling into desuetude.
pg 372 Changed: various divisons had been forming
to: various divisions had been forming
pg 389 Changed: first relief to our beleagued capital
to: first relief to our beleaguered capital
pg 394 Changed: I had never so completed experienced
to: I had never so completely experienced
pg 415 Changed: his thoughful face and thoroughly
to: his thoughtful face and thoroughly
pg 415 Changed: When the Catpain came in
to: When the Captain came in
pg 416 Changed: killed at the battle of Spottsylvania
to: killed at the battle of Spotsylvania
pg 417 Changed: the men in the navy hertofore
to: the men in the navy heretofore
pg 425 Changed: and to Carrolton, near New Orleans
to: and to Carrollton, near New Orleans
pg 426 Changed: of Waterloo the people of Brussells
to: of Waterloo the people of Brussels
pg 458 Changed: Teamers put up their teams
to: Teamsters put up their teams
pg 460 Changed: retired a millionare.
to: retired a millionaire.
pg 461 Changed: vicinity of sleping room windows
to: vicinity of sleeping room windows
pg 463 Changed: changes it is thoughlessly said
to: changes it is thoughtlessly said
pg 467 Changed: Edenboro, Perth, Dunkeld, the Trosacks
to: Edinburgh, Perth, Dunkeld, the Trossachs
pg 472 Changed: as flexible as wood, as indistructible
to: as flexible as wood, as indestructible
pg 480 Changed: which has been discribed as
to: which has been described as
pg 485 Changed: waffles shows the intiquity
to: waffles shows the antiquity
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