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III.
notes to the Poems in this Volume.
Note 1, page 15. “O vine of Sibmah!
I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer!”
Jeremiah XLVIII. 32.
Note 2, page 19. August.
Soliloq. cap. XXXI. ‘
Interrogavi Terramn Zzz’ etc.
Note 3, page 79.
Dr. Withington, author of
The Puritan, under the name of
Jonathan Oldbug.
Note 4, page 79.
Thomas ä
Kempis in
De Imitatione Christi.
Note 5, page 236.
Goody Cole was brought before the
Quarter Sessions in 1680 to answer to the charge of being a witch.
The court could not find satisfactory evidence of witchcraft, but so strong was the feeling against her that
Major Waldron, the presiding magistrate, ordered her to be imprisoned, with ‘a lock kept on her leg’ at the pleasure of the
Court.
In such judicial action one can read the fear and vindictive spirit of the community at large.
Note 6, page 249. The reference is to
Bayard Taylor's poem,
The Song of the Camp.
Note 7, page 357. Mogg Megone, or Hegone, was a leader among the
Saco Indians, in the bloody war of 1677.
He attacked and captured the garrison at
Black Point, October 12th of that year; and cut off, at the same time, a party of Englishmen near
Saco River.
From a deed signed by this Indian in 1664, and from other circumstances, it seems that, previous to the war, he had mingled much with the colonists.
On this account, he was probably selected by the principal sachems as their agent in the treaty signed in November, 1676.
Note 8, page 358.
Baron de St. Castine came to
Canada in 1644.
Leaving his civilized companions, he plunged into the great wilderness, and settled among the
Penobscot Indians, near the mouth of their noble river.
He here took for his wives the daughters of the great
Modocawando,—the most powerful sachem of the
East.
His castle was plundered by
Governor Andros, during his reckless administration;