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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Chapter 1: childhood (search)
ed general court, for the pardon of Robert Pike, who had been heavily fined for speaking against the order prohibiting certain Quakers from exhorting on the Lord's Day, even in their own houses. Not only was this petition not granted, but the petitioners were threatened with loss of rights as freemen unless they withdrew their names. Sixteen refused to withdraw them, of whom two, Thomas Whittier and Christopher Hussey, were ancestors of the poet, as was one of the prohibited exhorters, Joseph Peasley. These were temporarily disfranchised, but the name of Thomas Whittier often appears with honour in the town records, even to mentioning the fact that when he came to dwell in Haverhill he brought with him a hive of bees which had been willed to him by his uncle, Henry Rolfe, a fellow passenger to this country. This hive of bees, as an emblem of industry and thrift, has been used by some of his descendants as the basis of a monogram. Pickard's Whittier, I. 5. In the house thus h
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Index. (search)
ss., 21, 41, 42, 107. Newport, R. I., 92, 98, 100, 121. Nicolini, Giovanni, 167. Norton, Professor C. E., 178. O. Oak Knoll, Danvers, 97, 180. Ohio, 108. Osgood, Dr., 81. Otway, Thomas, 24. P. Paine, Thomas, 57. Palfrey, J. G., 44. Palmer, Mrs., Alice Freeman, 91. Parkman, Francis, 93. Parliament of Religions, meets at Chicago, 162. Patmore, Coventry, 159. Paul, Jean. See Richter. Peabody, George, erects Memorial Church, 89; criticism of Memorial, 90. Peasley, Joseph, 5. Pedro II., Dom, his acquaintance with Whittier, 100, 101. Penn, William, 3, 119. Pennsylvania, 51, 52, 77. Pennsylvania Antislavery Society, 63. Pennsylvania Freeman, the, mentioned, 62, 65. Pennsylvania Hall, 115; burning of, 63, 64. Phelps, Amos A., 81. Phelps, William L., 137. Philadelphia, Penn., 6, 49-52, 62, 74, 77, 115, 121, 122, 139, 172, 181; burning of hall and church in, 63-65. Philadelphia Society, 76. Philanthropist, the, mentioned, 32, 33. Pick