Description |
192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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"Adapted, with additions, from A book of New England legends and folk lore, by Samuel Adams Drake ... 1884." |
Contents |
Legends of Salem --- Salem witchcraft tragedy -- Escape of Philip English -- Robert Calef, the man who defied witchcraft and Cotton Mather -- Mary Dyer, a Quaker among Puritans -- Boston's judgment on Ann Hibbins -- King Charles II intercedes for the persecuted Quakers -- Cape Ann: Spectre Leaguers of Cape Ann; Old Meg, the Witch of Gloucester -- Ipswich legends -- Marblehead one hundred years ago: Skipper Ireson's ride; Marblehead love story -- Swampscott -- Newburyport legends: Lord Timothy Dexter of Newburyport -- Moll Pitcher, fortune teller of Lynn -- Pirates off the New England coast -- Legends of old Portsmouth: Royal governor and his lady -- Old literary circles of Nahant -- Cape Cod towns -- Peter Rugg, the eternal wanderer of New England -- Nantucket legends: Thomas Macy, the exile of Nantucket -- Tragedy at Block Island -- Ancient relics in New England. |
Subject |
Legends -- New England.
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Added Author |
Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
Book of New England legends and folk lore in prose and poetry.
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Chamberlain, Samuel, 1895-1975, illustrator.
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Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977, editor.
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