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Block Island (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
the official paper of the province. In 1721 Franklin established the New England Courant. The Courant began in the midst of one of the greatest small pox epidemics Boston ever had. Doctors Increase and Cotton Mather were ardent advocates of inoculation, and strongly supported by Dr. Zabdiel Boylston. Franklin with great freedom of expression wrote of affairs which brought the wrath of the provincial officials upon him. Franklin printed an item regarding pirate vessels in the vicinity of Block Island, and that Captain Pete Papillion had raised a company and sailed against them. It was an impolitic item to print, but was a scoop on the part of an inexperienced printer. The following day he was brought before the governor on the Speakers' warrant, and spent a month in jail. His younger brother, Ben Franklin, only seventeen years old, became editor for a time, and for legal reasons his name continued as publisher for three or four years. The printshop of James Franklin was on the site
Cape Cod Harbor (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
, on a very stormy day, there comes a stranger, promptly called Oceanus, and the Hopkins family becomes of great interest, with its new baby for the women and children to delight in. One who kept a record of those days wrote: At anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. This day Mistress Dorothy Bradford, wife of Master Bradford, fell overboard and was drowned. At last, in a November dawn, land is in sight. With the episode following, the women had no actual part, but with some it was of great intereseks later we see Mistress Brewster in her kitchen distilling herbs for Dr. Fuller, when all are startled by the sound of a gun from the fort. Another shot. Every wise woman and child knows this is a signal for assembly. A ship has entered Cape Cod harbor, seen by the Indians, who brought word at once to Plymouth. They had been seven months without sight or sound of the world beyond their little settlement. The sails of the Fortune had brought them once again a touch of the outside world.
Kings Chapel (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
saw all of the life, with its chances and changes, of which we read. Through the years we may well believe that the womon of the Mayflower, who became the women of Plymouth, and their children, whether in newer homes or remaining in the old, looked back to the early days of their privation, when by their anxieties, their sorrows, their economies, their endeavors, their fearlessness and faith, the foundation of their colony was laid. Mary Chilton-Winslow lies beside her husband in King's Chapel Burying Ground, Boston. Their names are marked upon a slab at the gate on Tremont street. Descendants of the women of Plymouth colony are now estimated to number more than a million. We rejoice that we know as much as we do of the women. Recently a plan was made that a chime of bells should be placed in the tower of the Pilgrim monument at Provincetown, and dedicated to the Women of the Mayflower by their descendants. More recently still Henry H. Kitson has modeled a statue o
Rhode Island (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
nkruptcy followed, and in 1727 James Franklin removed to Newport, R. I., where he entered at once upon a more prosperous career. He obtained the printing of the plantation, and several volumes of Bishop Berkley, an annual Almanac, and conducted a short-lived newspaper. James Franklin died February 4, 1738, on his thirty-eighth birthday, leaving widow, a son, James, and at least three daughters. Ann Franklin, during her widowhood of twenty-nine years, conducted the official printing of Rhode Island, established the Newport Mercury, out-lived all her children, and died April 19, 1763. While James Franklin was in Boston, 1722, he established a library of nigh one hundred volumes, which people were free to visit and read. The library contained a set of The Spectator, by Addison, recently published, eminent histories, learned works of recent scholarship, and a copy of Shakespeare's works, said to be the first known copy in New England. This library was not a public or circulating l
Leydon (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
omen could not afford to be idle. This was the gayest winter Plymouth had yet known. Now we will observe some passing events which were of special interest to the women. In the early summer, into John and Priscilla Alden's home came Elizabeth, called the first-born daughter of the Pilgrims. Then came a wedding of special interest. All Plymouth rejoiced when Patience Brewster married Thomas Prence. Destiny had woven for her a beautiful pattern, with childhood in Scrooby, girlhood in Leyden, and womanhood in Plymouth. A bright, particular star in the galaxy of the women of Plymouth colony. Her young husband reached the important place of governor in a few years. Gray days and golden days passed over Plymouth, each one finding the women busy with the household duties, which did not end with the sunset gun, as the men's labor might. Let us look for a moment at the list of occupations which kept them busy. Candle making; pickling eggs; preserve and cordial making; distillin
Accomack (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
truggle for life and a home in the wilderness Plymouth grew, and this autumn saw one hundred and eig was gone, never to return to the fireside of Plymouth. And where the comforts of all the men had dScrooby, girlhood in Leyden, and womanhood in Plymouth. A bright, particular star in the galaxy of thers. If the arrival of the first cows into Plymouth was a neverto-be-forgotten joy to the women of the Mayflower, the entrance of horses into Plymouth life was elation. Remember Allerton married asekeepers not caring for the higher prices in Plymouth could send to Boston. One of the weddings ould not have seemed more strange to her than Plymouth had come to be to her. As the first death on mon of the Mayflower, who became the women of Plymouth, and their children, whether in newer homes oremont street. Descendants of the women of Plymouth colony are now estimated to number more than d a statue of a Pilgrim woman for erection at Plymouth in their memory. We may recall here the no[6 more...]
Glens Falls (New York, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
id, Why, that is where I work! My desk is at that window. My employer would like to see it, I know. She was allowed its use, and Mr. Ober had a local artist (Hans Schroff) copy it, and (framed) it hangs in his store. From it our cut was made. But ere that a young journalist secured it for a time, and a larger reproduction, with a breezy story of the famous school, appeared in the Medford Mercury, that to which Mrs. B. alluded in her opening sentence. Second.—While on a visit to Glens Falls, N. Y., we called upon Mr. George K. Hawley, who in 1864 lived in the Mystic Hall tenement, and boarded the bricklayers that built Medford's disused subway. We have heard he was time-keeper on that work. (See Vol. XX, p. 1.) During the interview he produced the first year book of the seminary as printed, containing the view entitled School for Young Ladies, which we had not before seen, and kindly allowed us its use. Thus, from unexpected sources, these views of Medford have come. We
Portsmouth (New Hampshire, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
or, Mrs. Jennie (Pierce) Brigham at our meeting of March 7, 1908, a careful reading of which we commend to our present readers. The acquirement and preservation of each was due to a chance occurrence prior to above date. Both represent the seminary buildings from different points of view, and were found at widely separated places, thus:— First.—During a summer vacation Miss Flora Lydston, bookkeeper for Joseph E. Ober (West Medford's veteran business man), was on her vacation in Portsmouth, N. H., where she met a lady who told of her attendance at the seminary, and added, I have a picture of it. As Miss L. understood it, it was of her drawing while at the school. On viewing it she at once noted the resemblance, and said, Why, that is where I work! My desk is at that window. My employer would like to see it, I know. She was allowed its use, and Mr. Ober had a local artist (Hans Schroff) copy it, and (framed) it hangs in his store. From it our cut was made. But ere that a
Scrooby (United Kingdom) (search for this): chapter 2
in recreation the women could not afford to be idle. This was the gayest winter Plymouth had yet known. Now we will observe some passing events which were of special interest to the women. In the early summer, into John and Priscilla Alden's home came Elizabeth, called the first-born daughter of the Pilgrims. Then came a wedding of special interest. All Plymouth rejoiced when Patience Brewster married Thomas Prence. Destiny had woven for her a beautiful pattern, with childhood in Scrooby, girlhood in Leyden, and womanhood in Plymouth. A bright, particular star in the galaxy of the women of Plymouth colony. Her young husband reached the important place of governor in a few years. Gray days and golden days passed over Plymouth, each one finding the women busy with the household duties, which did not end with the sunset gun, as the men's labor might. Let us look for a moment at the list of occupations which kept them busy. Candle making; pickling eggs; preserve and cord
Newport (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 2
s Mather. Franklin printed books of superior grade, which did not meet with a sale they deserved. Bankruptcy followed, and in 1727 James Franklin removed to Newport, R. I., where he entered at once upon a more prosperous career. He obtained the printing of the plantation, and several volumes of Bishop Berkley, an annual Almanacames Franklin was Samuel Hall, who, Isaiah Thomas says, married a daughter of the Franklin home. Samuel Hall entered at once upon the affairs of the printshop in Newport, and his obituary of Ann Franklin would show her to be among the queens of American womanhood. Samuel Hall afterwards established the Essex Gazette, Salem, and aanklin, Boston born and bred, whose wife, Ann Smith, was also Boston born and bred, had real success in Boston; but Boston failed to recognize it; transplanted to Newport, ever famed for its generous spirit, he not only gained success, but held it to the last, giving credit not only to the Franklin name, but to a generous and liber
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